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Book Value?
I have a number of art books that I would like to attempt to sell. Can anyone tell me the best way to determine the current value? Some are signed first editions and others have tipped in colour plates.
If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated. Thanks Rob |
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On Friday, November 1, 2013 5:23:10 PM UTC-4, Robert James wrote:
I have a number of art books that I would like to attempt to sell. Can anyone tell me the best way to determine the current value? Some are signed first editions and others have tipped in colour plates. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated. Delusional bookseller prices: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchEntry What the market bears: http://www.ebay.com |
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On Saturday, November 2, 2013 12:31:57 PM UTC-4, wrote:
Delusional bookseller prices: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchEntry What the market bears: http://www.ebay.com Amusingly oversimplified. You can, in fact, find very good prices by reading ABEbooks carefully, and you will find outlandish figures at eBay. It's not easy to tell if a given book sells via ABE, but you *can* put an item into your watch list at eBay, and see how the seller made out. |
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On Saturday, November 2, 2013 5:36:43 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Saturday, November 2, 2013 12:31:57 PM UTC-4, wrote: Delusional bookseller prices: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchEntry What the market bears: http://www.ebay.com Amusingly oversimplified. You can, in fact, find very good prices by reading ABEbooks carefully, and you will find outlandish figures at eBay. Thanks for the replies and the links. I will give them a try after I learn what the specific "condition" descriptors really mean. Rob. |
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On Saturday, November 2, 2013 5:36:43 PM UTC-4, wrote:
Amusingly oversimplified. You can, in fact, find very good prices by reading ABEbooks carefully, and you will find outlandish figures at eBay. It's not easy to tell if a given book sells via ABE, but you *can* put an item into your watch list at eBay, and see how the seller made out. Well yes. I was going to favor Mr James with an extended essay ** on the dead hobby of book collecting in the dead medium of usenet, but as usual went for the cheap laughs instead. I use ABE solely as a reference to determine whether a particular book or edition is scarce or might be valuable for other reasons. I have neither the time nor inclination to sort through 100s of individual listings and dealers to determine which of them are insane and which pricing their items rationally. Based on his posting I suspect Mr James of the same lassitude. On ebay you can sort searches by completed listings and sold items. There's no need to resort to a watch list. ** With footnotes |
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wrote in message ... On Saturday, November 2, 2013 5:36:43 PM UTC-4, wrote: Amusingly oversimplified. You can, in fact, find very good prices by reading ABEbooks carefully, and you will find outlandish figures at eBay. It's not easy to tell if a given book sells via ABE, but you *can* put an item into your watch list at eBay, and see how the seller made out. Well yes. I was going to favor Mr James with an extended essay ** on the dead hobby of book collecting in the dead medium of usenet, but as usual went for the cheap laughs instead. The used book business was fundamentally changed with the advent of wide Internet use and, of course, eBay. Gone are the days of the misanthropic crotchety old book dealer demanding exorbitant prices for his not-so-rare book. Used book shop dropped like flies over the last 15-20 years. I miss browsing thru them but I like the low prices on the net more. |
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"Tom Swift Home Page" wrote:
wrote in message ... On Saturday, November 2, 2013 5:36:43 PM UTC-4, wrote: Amusingly oversimplified. You can, in fact, find very good prices by reading ABEbooks carefully, and you will find outlandish figures at eBay. It's not easy to tell if a given book sells via ABE, but you *can* put an item into your watch list at eBay, and see how the seller made out. Well yes. I was going to favor Mr James with an extended essay ** on the dead hobby of book collecting in the dead medium of usenet, but as usual went for the cheap laughs instead. The used book business was fundamentally changed with the advent of wide Internet use and, of course, eBay. Gone are the days of the misanthropic crotchety old book dealer demanding exorbitant prices for his not-so-rare book. Used book shop dropped like flies over the last 15-20 years. I miss browsing thru them but I like the low prices on the net more. Low prices aren't caused by closing of bookstores but the opposite, by reducing competition: it is trivial to find a used unloved book in a bookstore cheaper than on the internet. The internet means I buy books that I wouldn't have bought before because I didn't know they existed or were available. |
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"weary flake" wrote in message
... Low prices aren't caused by closing of bookstores but the opposite, by reducing competition: it is trivial to find a used unloved book in a bookstore cheaper than on the internet. The internet means I buy books that I wouldn't have bought before because I didn't know they existed or were available. I never claimed that low prices are caused by closing bookstores. I stated the opposite: that brick and mortar bookstores are closing because of low prices on the internet. |
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