Thank you all so much for your ideas! (And for the protestations, too.) There's a lot to think about there.
Alas, I think I'm going to have to pass on Gumtree and Ebay and all the rest of it, if only because I don't really have the time to go through all that malarkey. I did check out the prospects for the more obscure stuff - for example, the 1960s East German poet whose first editions only fetch £1.24p at Abe Books.
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And most of the rest of it was in rubbishy mass-market paperbacks anyway, so not worth too much to anybody either. But hmmm, I've got a 1960s guide to the East Berllin Pergamon Museum Island, which was practically a smoking ruin at the time I visited it, and which is now a world-famous heritage site. It's bound to be of scholarly interest to somebody?
Hmmm, so do I strip, rip and pulp the rest, or do I let it sit in my garage for a few years before stripping, ripping and pulping it?
First editions, AC? I should be so lucky. I did find one from a charity bookshop, which was Kingsley Amis's "hilariously funny"
Stanley and the Women - not his best story, and pretty flawed (and also rather unkind to women! - a devious, insensitive and ultimately immoral little coven of conspirators, whereas all the men in the story are affable whisky-drinking good old chaps). It's worth a couple of quid even in first edition, so it's going back to the charity shop. Might as well let it shock and disappoint somebody else as much as it shocked and disappointed me.
Thanks again to all. Think I'll let it sit for a while. But oh dear, isn't that prevarication, and isn't it what we're supposed to be not doing?
BJ