"michael adams" wrote:


"John E. Golden" wrote in message
6.1...
DeMaupassant, Complete Works, 17 Volumes
Copyright 1910, In General: Pages Good, Nice Hard Covers.

This applies to all your sets.

Check out -

http://www.bookfinder.com/

http://www.abebooks.com/

for equivalent sets. If you find a near exact match in terms of
edition and condition, then you might get between 30% and 10%
of the price being asked there.

In general, such sets were produced for a different market
than exists today. With certain exceptions these sets are
nowadays sole as "book furniture" and as such they - or at
least the spines and externals, will need to be in pristine
condition. No-one will want to take on the cost of rebinding
as there are enough good sets still on the market. Even to the
extent of matching odd volumes.

Just looking at the Conrad - I think you're in for a massive
disappointment. Think about it. Nowadays few people are interested
in boasting of owning a full set of Conrad - and those that might
be, are already being catered for by contemporary publishers who
tap into that market with quarter leather editions etc.

The only exception would be if any of the sets were of textual
significance in this edition. To discover this you would need to
do your own time consuming research. Your detailed descriptions
are probably more suited to a single volume work. Any bookseller
would probably first look at the set as a whole - its bulk in the
eyes of a customer and how well it would look on a shelf. Interior
blemishes would probably come strictly secondary.

Anyway, you can get a better idea for yourself by checking out
similar sets on the above sites. Paying particular attention
to the condition of the sets booksellers themselves regard as
being worth listing in the first place.


michael adams

Thanks, Mr. Adams, for your kind advice.

Regards,
John E. Golden