I would like to know if any Ebay Book sellers are doing a class action law suit against Ebay? Ebay Indeed, will SELF-DESTRUCT it will! It is not only one of the greediest companies, it is FASCISTIC to the point of behaving UNLAWFULLY, denying Sellers their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS to accept...

Bloody Bill would like to cordially invite one and all to the Grand Opening of the Hitler 'Complete Symphonies' website. http://hitler-symphonies.co.uk Click on the skulls. Be part of the most exciting event to occur in the supernatural horror genre during 2005.

Has the time come--or is the time long past--to stop using the shortcut "first edition" as the iconic term for the object of most collectors' desires? Book collecting & used bookselling no longer operate like closed communities, and, whereas using "first edition" when one really means "first...

In the last few days, I've posted a couple of "FS: Books for sale" listings to this newsgroup thinking, inaccurately, that commercial postings were acceptable. Please accept my unreserved apologies. Michael Cole, York, UK.

Today I acquired very inexpensively a first edition of Arnold Zweig, "Erziehung vor Verdun" (Querido Verlag, Amsterdam, 1935) in very good condition. I already have the english language translation - "Education Before Verdun". Francis A. Miniter

In my youth, I collected those Penguins with the numbers on the spine. I'm now trying to get rid of them on ebay and my other half suggested I try and promote it on a discussion group. This feels really cheeky as it looks like you lot are having serious discussions, but if anyone does fancy taking...

What would cause an intelligent person to list a very common edition of a common book (let's say a blue spine non-1st of the Hardy Boys "The Tower Treasure") for $10.00 when a) there are a couple of hundred other auctions of the exact same edition currently listed for as little as $.50 , b) it's...

I have searched and searched and searched - Googled till my eyes dropped out and still can find no info on this book. Can someone help me? "Home is the Hunter" Henry Toke Munn and Elizabeth Sprigge - 1930 John Lane - The Bodely Head Very good - No dj - Grren cloth with gold embossed lettering. D....

A rare possible FE of the Hardy Bots "While The Clock Ticked" is setting a record on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220189682055

Say a book is so rare that it is not listed for sale anywhere (AddAll, Amazon, etc.), and it only brings up one or two web sites when searching google.com. (Those web sites being lists of books held by private collections.) I assume that the book would be worth more because it is so rare? How...

Almost everytim I list a book there are no other sellers, then suddently there are six or seven all $1 lower. And when I lower my price, those six or seven all lower it again to $1 under me. I appreciate the need for competition in the free market place, but I wonder is there a bot or something...

The only way to resolve the problems in this newsgroup is for someone to set up a new forum (I suggest http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Book-Collecting or something similar) and then hold a vote to nominate a site owner. Each candidate could briefly spell out their proposed policies and...

That was one the blackest days in my collecting life. Sounds like a major catastrophe. Right up there with 9/11

The ebay seller Parnassum03 has a lot of interesting signed books for sale. Among his gems are two signed books by Thomas Pynchon and two signed books by DH Lawrence - all with a no reserve starting bid of about $20. The bargain of the millenium, it sounds like. *** But there is one thing which...

I moved from the San Francisco area to Chicago in August, and I'm puzzled by Chicago's apparent lack of good book sales. This weekend I attended the Co-op book sale, the first one advertised since my arrival that seemed worth a trip. I'm glad I went because I found some good books to read, but I...

Please help me resolve an inquiry over whether a book is a first or second edition: The book is "Point of Impact" by Stephen Hunter, published by Bantam books in 1993. I have seen two "editions" of this book: One has a printing line 987654321 with no reference on copywrite page as to "First...

I continue to be amazed how many people bid higher than the value of a first edition listed on ebay. Twice recently, I have bid on a near fine copy of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth. I set my upper bidding limit at $26.00, which I thought was approximately what I could purchase a similar...

Hello: I just subscribed to this newsgroup. A few months ago, I have finally decided to donate my book collection (1000+ titles mostly computer science and non-fiction) to the New York Public Library Division of Science and Industries. I chose this one because I am a frequent visitor and I know...

One of the lots in a forthcoming Christies auction is the 'lost' four voume autograph manuscript of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel. The description informs us: "Conan Doyle was to confess in later years that 'my shock at its disappearance would be as nothing to my horror if it were suddenly...

I started out collecting first edition mysteries, preferably signed. I still don't know why. But I had this empty bedroom I could put bookcases in, I've read mysteries since I can't remember when (seems to be a personal challenge to figure it out before the author spills the beans) so I began. At...