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Old December 21st 04, 08:42 PM
Linoleum Blownapart
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I live in a small town. I have some Grabhorn Press books (1930's) I'm trying
to get rid of on ebay. I looked up similar books at Abe Books and priced
them below those prices, for the most part. There doesn't seem to be much
interest, though. I'm wondering if I should have, perhaps, went through a
book store to sell on consignment, sold to a book store outright, or....

What is the best way to sell old books in a reasonable (say, a month or two)
amount of time, and get a halfway decent price?


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Old December 22nd 04, 12:11 AM
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On 2004-12-21, Linoleum Blownapart wrote:
I live in a small town. I have some Grabhorn Press books (1930's) I'm trying
to get rid of on ebay. I looked up similar books at Abe Books and priced
them below those prices, for the most part. There doesn't seem to be much
interest, though. I'm wondering if I should have, perhaps, went through a
book store to sell on consignment, sold to a book store outright, or....

What is the best way to sell old books in a reasonable (say, a month or two)
amount of time, and get a halfway decent price?


You might find a dealer on ABE who specializes in them and sell to him.
But either this way or selling on eBay you will be lucky to get half the
retail ABE prices. Every general dealer would like to know the answer to
this question. Probably only the specialist dealer who has some Grabhorn
collectors would be successful at what you want to do.

If you are willing to wait you can put them on Alibris (commission only)
and wait.

There may be some mailing lists/websites for Grabhorn collectors (or
somewhat more general) you might advertise on.

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Old December 22nd 04, 01:07 AM
William M. Klimon
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Jonathan Grobe wrote:

What is the best way to sell old books in a reasonable (say, a

month or two)
amount of time, and get a halfway decent price?


You might find a dealer on ABE who specializes in them and sell to

him.
But either this way or selling on eBay you will be lucky to get half

the
retail ABE prices. Every general dealer would like to know the answer

to
this question. Probably only the specialist dealer who has some

Grabhorn
collectors would be successful at what you want to do.




Exactly right. Don't expect to get retail for your
deaccessions--unless you are willing to become a bookseller with a
stock in trade that may linger longer than you'd like.

I recently sold a rather rare late-19/c American Indian prayerbook to a
top Americana dealer. Given that the last copy to sell at auction
(which he bought) didn't even make its low estimate, he suggested that
I shouldn't expect a giant windfall. I offered a price that was a
modest improvement over the last auction price and he snapped it up.

In fact, I got 4x what I paid for it on eBay. Of course, I was a
little surprised when I saw that the dealer then listed the book for 5x
what he paid me! But, you know what, it's going to take even this top
dealer some time to sell that book (he's still got it--for the time
being), and I didn't care to become a big-time Americana dealer, so it
all worked out and everyone is happy.

It's the circle of biblio-life. (Forgive me, but I did see THE LION
KING on Broadway this past summer.)
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..
..
William M. Klimon
http://www.catholicbookcollector.com

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Old January 24th 05, 10:05 PM
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I'm looking to buy
Designing and Painting for the Theatre



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Old January 24th 05, 10:21 PM
Kris Baker
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"Happydog" wrote in message
ups.com...
I'm looking to buy
Designing and Painting for the Theatre



There's this big online auction place (I'm sure you've heard of it).....
where a copy was listed and went unsold, just last week.

Kris


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Old January 25th 05, 12:15 AM
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On 2005-01-24, Happydog wrote:
I'm looking to buy

....
Buy and sell posts are not allowed on rec.collecting.books

Try:
http://www.abebooks.com
http://www.bookfinder.com

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