Stripper in the bar? Interesting!

Wallpaper stripper in the bar? Significantly less so.

I doubt any library wants a collection of old mildewed books. If books are clean and in decent condition, they usually get added to our fundraiser sale instead of the stacks, although there are occasional exceptions if we get something especially nice or which fills a gap in our collection. "Old" rarely equals "valuable," though, and you might be surprised how little most "first editions" fetch when that is often the only edition for crap literature.