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Hi,
New to the hobby. :-) I see a lot of books on eBay with the preface "Eaton Press" and "Franklin Library." Are these the modern day version of the Reader's Digest books? Cheers, Mike |
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"mdobson" wrote in message ... Hi, New to the hobby. :-) I see a lot of books on eBay with the preface "Eaton Press" and "Franklin Library." Are these the modern day version of the Reader's Digest books? Cheers, Mike .... Nope. Readers Digest Books are usually condensed versions of popular books - the editorial content has been changed. Both Eaton Press and Franklin Library publish standard editions of mainly classic works - in other words not just current bestsellers - in modern day "deluxe" leather bindings. Some of the editions may have additional introductions, or other editorial matter, by reputable authorities. Some people buy these books for their content, as the easiest way of purchasing a favourite text in a nice binding - especially if the book has been out of print for years, and pristine second-hand copies are very scarce, or prohibitively expensive. Some buyers commit to buying extensive collections of these books. There is a secondhand and collectors' market in these books, but as with all items deliberately pitched at a collectors market - as opposed to material people decide to start collecting years after it was made simply for use - such as antique furniture - there can be a very large mark-up when buying new directly from the publisher. Although the leather binding used isn't done using the traditional methods, and so doesn't necessarily have the same quality or durability as traditional leather bindings, these books would probably be quite acceptable for someone wanting a nice copy of a text. As the basis for a collection of a particular authors' works for instance. As an investment, even buying pristine second-hand copies at a 75% discount on new - provided you could find them - it's doubtful if they'd work out very profitable in the long run as many purchasers will have kept them in pristine condition themselves, wrongly believing them to be an "investment". Also a lot of these books can be marketed as sets - as with the author collection mentioned above, and so this is possibly something to be aware of when buying single titles. Whether its part of a set or not, and whether this is stated inside of the book itself. michael adams .... |
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Franklin goes to a writer - Nelson DeMille or Gore Vidal, and offers them
some cash if they allow their next book to be put out in a "limited edition". Franklin then sells "memberships" so that members can or must buy the next books to be released. These are artificial "first editions", nicely bound in leather and tooled in gold. But, they are not the limited boxed and signed books put out for favourite writers by publishers (normally 250 or so)and the number of books published is not released. Like trinkets at the mall, these are manufactured collectibles and unworthy of any true collector, who always goes for the first trade edition. Some Franklins can be had for half the original price. Many at only the original price at retail. I have yet to see one that has been read and suspect that those who buy them also buy tooled books by the yard. Eaton pRESS DOES THE TOOLED BOUND BOOKS, NOT TO THE SAME POSH DEGREE, AND NORMALLY CLASSICS WHERE NOT RIGHTS ARE INVOLVED. aNOTEHR ONE IS heRON, FORMERLY PUBLISHED IN THE uk, THAT DID BOUND MATCHED SETS OF aGATHA cHRISTIE, wILBER sMITH AND CLASSICS AS WELL. Willow "michael adams" wrote in message ... "mdobson" wrote in message ... Hi, New to the hobby. :-) I see a lot of books on eBay with the preface "Eaton Press" and "Franklin Library." Are these the modern day version of the Reader's Digest books? Cheers, Mike ... Nope. Readers Digest Books are usually condensed versions of popular books - the editorial content has been changed. Both Eaton Press and Franklin Library publish standard editions of mainly classic works - in other words not just current bestsellers - in modern day "deluxe" leather bindings. Some of the editions may have additional introductions, or other editorial matter, by reputable authorities. Some people buy these books for their content, as the easiest way of purchasing a favourite text in a nice binding - especially if the book has been out of print for years, and pristine second-hand copies are very scarce, or prohibitively expensive. Some buyers commit to buying extensive collections of these books. There is a secondhand and collectors' market in these books, but as with all items deliberately pitched at a collectors market - as opposed to material people decide to start collecting years after it was made simply for use - such as antique furniture - there can be a very large mark-up when buying new directly from the publisher. Although the leather binding used isn't done using the traditional methods, and so doesn't necessarily have the same quality or durability as traditional leather bindings, these books would probably be quite acceptable for someone wanting a nice copy of a text. As the basis for a collection of a particular authors' works for instance. As an investment, even buying pristine second-hand copies at a 75% discount on new - provided you could find them - it's doubtful if they'd work out very profitable in the long run as many purchasers will have kept them in pristine condition themselves, wrongly believing them to be an "investment". Also a lot of these books can be marketed as sets - as with the author collection mentioned above, and so this is possibly something to be aware of when buying single titles. Whether its part of a set or not, and whether this is stated inside of the book itself. michael adams ... |
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"Willow Arune" wrote in message news:FD2wf.41013$tl.24142@pd7tw3no... Franklin goes to a writer - Nelson DeMille or Gore Vidal, That's rather a bizarre sample set of authors; it runs the gamut from Gay to B list. and offers them some cash if they allow their next book to be put out in a "limited edition". Franklin then sells "memberships" so that members can or must buy the next books to be released. These are artificial "first editions", nicely bound in leather and tooled in gold. But, they are not the limited boxed and signed books put out for favourite writers by publishers (normally 250 or so)and the number of books published is not released. Like trinkets at the mall, these are manufactured collectibles and unworthy of any true collector, who always goes for the first trade edition. Some Franklins can be had for half the original price. Many at only the original price at retail. I have yet to see one that has been read and suspect that those who buy them also buy tooled books by the yard. Eaton pRESS DOES THE TOOLED BOUND BOOKS, NOT TO THE SAME POSH DEGREE, AND NORMALLY CLASSICS WHERE NOT RIGHTS ARE INVOLVED. aNOTEHR ONE IS heRON, FORMERLY PUBLISHED IN THE uk, THAT DID BOUND MATCHED SETS OF aGATHA cHRISTIE, wILBER sMITH AND CLASSICS AS WELL. Willow "michael adams" wrote in message ... "mdobson" wrote in message ... Hi, New to the hobby. :-) I see a lot of books on eBay with the preface "Eaton Press" and "Franklin Library." Are these the modern day version of the Reader's Digest books? Cheers, Mike ... Nope. Readers Digest Books are usually condensed versions of popular books - the editorial content has been changed. Both Eaton Press and Franklin Library publish standard editions of mainly classic works - in other words not just current bestsellers - in modern day "deluxe" leather bindings. Some of the editions may have additional introductions, or other editorial matter, by reputable authorities. Some people buy these books for their content, as the easiest way of purchasing a favourite text in a nice binding - especially if the book has been out of print for years, and pristine second-hand copies are very scarce, or prohibitively expensive. Some buyers commit to buying extensive collections of these books. There is a secondhand and collectors' market in these books, but as with all items deliberately pitched at a collectors market - as opposed to material people decide to start collecting years after it was made simply for use - such as antique furniture - there can be a very large mark-up when buying new directly from the publisher. Although the leather binding used isn't done using the traditional methods, and so doesn't necessarily have the same quality or durability as traditional leather bindings, these books would probably be quite acceptable for someone wanting a nice copy of a text. As the basis for a collection of a particular authors' works for instance. As an investment, even buying pristine second-hand copies at a 75% discount on new - provided you could find them - it's doubtful if they'd work out very profitable in the long run as many purchasers will have kept them in pristine condition themselves, wrongly believing them to be an "investment". Also a lot of these books can be marketed as sets - as with the author collection mentioned above, and so this is possibly something to be aware of when buying single titles. Whether its part of a set or not, and whether this is stated inside of the book itself. michael adams ... |
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on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:51:17 GMT, Willow Arune stated:
Some Franklins can be had for half the original price. Many at only the original price at retail. I have yet to see one that has been read and suspect that those who buy them also buy tooled books by the yard. Hey! I resemble that remark! I was very amused several years ago on this topic; I'd been browsing through old Victorian literature for a time, looking for those books that would look nice on my shelves but not quite admitting to myself that I was so shallow as to buy books for my living room for their looks, rather than their content. Then I found out that my mother has a complete set of Shakespeare, nicely bound in red leather with gilt titles, etc., with my great-grandfather's name also stamped on the spines in gilt. IIRC, at this point only two of the volumes have had their pages cut - one that my mother read many years ago, and one that I read more recently. Great-grandad bought books by the yard. Whaddya know. We also have a photo of him with an impressive mustache; my sister thinks of him as incurably vain - he apparently grew the mustache for the picture, and then shaved it off. Mind you, he was actually an impressive person. They still talk about him in some South American high-mountain town where he put the only railroad access in, and he also put railroads throughout much of Western Canada. But I was pretty amused that he'd been collecting books by the yard, and haven't hesitated since to do so myself. Well, I won't exactly spend a lot of money on it, mind, and I'd like the books to have some sort of content that I might want to read someday. I've bought, over the years, 11 volumes of Gryphon Edition Classics of Medicine library, most at the bottom end of the price range so that I might even be able to sell them again without a loss (including the postage I paid). I don't think of them as brilliant investments, but they might be tolerable. Mostly they look nice on the shelf, and might be useful. Two of them, in fact, are books I very much want in my collection, and which I'd never be able to afford as originals (Withering's _An Account of the Foxglove_ and Cullen's _Materia Medica_, both of which are classics for those of us studying/teaching/ etc. botanical medicine). I see various volumes from CoM on eBay a lot, for prices ranging from ~$10 to ~$50 or more, and I'll buy them at the bottom end of the range if someone else doesn't outbid me. I don't know what their price new was; does anyone else? Mostly, though, I prefer the originals. What is it about the new leather bindings from these "collector" editions makes them inferior to a well-bound older leather book? -Allison |
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Willow Arune wrote:
"michael adams" wrote... "mdobson" wrote... I see a lot of books on eBay with the preface "Eaton Press"... Both Eaton Press and Franklin Library publish standard editions... Eaton pRESS DOES THE TOOLED BOUND BOOKS... Easton --Jon Meyers |
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Well, some sell snake oil at a massive profit too. .. Bridges too...
With one born every minute, Easton and others like yourself will profit. But the poor fool that buys from you will not. In fact, I believe several well known bookstore types have written of the lack of collectablity of these books. They are ego books, much as the "by the yard" books mentioned by another post. To get to the point, assume you bought one for $79 and sold it for $1000. What happens then? I would bet the real first edition, the trade edition, would go up and up. The one you sold to the sucker would have to be sold for less than half the price you sold it for. Certainly the signatures have value - if they are signatures and not "writing machine" prepared. But to me, any "made to be a collectible" simply is not. Willow "bookstore" wrote in message ... As an investment, even buying pristine second-hand copies at a 75%discount on new - provided you could find them - it's doubtful if they'd work out very profitable in the long run as many purchasers will have kept them in pristine condition themselves, wrongly believing them to be an "investment". Spoken like a true novice. I laughed all the way to the bank after I paid $79 apiece for a bunch of Easton Press editions signed by Mandela and Reagan and then sold them for thousands apiece. The Easton Press put my son through Harvard. |
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No need to hesitate. Do as you like, and do what keeps you happy. But
buying books for how they look is not the way I wish to go... TTFN, Willow "Allison Turner-" wrote in message ... on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:51:17 GMT, Willow Arune stated: Some Franklins can be had for half the original price. Many at only the original price at retail. I have yet to see one that has been read and suspect that those who buy them also buy tooled books by the yard. Hey! I resemble that remark! I was very amused several years ago on this topic; I'd been browsing through old Victorian literature for a time, looking for those books that would look nice on my shelves but not quite admitting to myself that I was so shallow as to buy books for my living room for their looks, rather than their content. Then I found out that my mother has a complete set of Shakespeare, nicely bound in red leather with gilt titles, etc., with my great-grandfather's name also stamped on the spines in gilt. IIRC, at this point only two of the volumes have had their pages cut - one that my mother read many years ago, and one that I read more recently. Great-grandad bought books by the yard. Whaddya know. We also have a photo of him with an impressive mustache; my sister thinks of him as incurably vain - he apparently grew the mustache for the picture, and then shaved it off. Mind you, he was actually an impressive person. They still talk about him in some South American high-mountain town where he put the only railroad access in, and he also put railroads throughout much of Western Canada. But I was pretty amused that he'd been collecting books by the yard, and haven't hesitated since to do so myself. Well, I won't exactly spend a lot of money on it, mind, and I'd like the books to have some sort of content that I might want to read someday. I've bought, over the years, 11 volumes of Gryphon Edition Classics of Medicine library, most at the bottom end of the price range so that I might even be able to sell them again without a loss (including the postage I paid). I don't think of them as brilliant investments, but they might be tolerable. Mostly they look nice on the shelf, and might be useful. Two of them, in fact, are books I very much want in my collection, and which I'd never be able to afford as originals (Withering's _An Account of the Foxglove_ and Cullen's _Materia Medica_, both of which are classics for those of us studying/teaching/ etc. botanical medicine). I see various volumes from CoM on eBay a lot, for prices ranging from ~$10 to ~$50 or more, and I'll buy them at the bottom end of the range if someone else doesn't outbid me. I don't know what their price new was; does anyone else? Mostly, though, I prefer the originals. What is it about the new leather bindings from these "collector" editions makes them inferior to a well-bound older leather book? -Allison |
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on Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:18:54 -0800, bookstore stated:
As an investment, even buying pristine second-hand copies at a 75%discount on new - provided you could find them - it's doubtful if they'd work out very profitable in the long run as many purchasers will have kept them in pristine condition themselves, wrongly believing them to be an "investment". Spoken like a true novice. I laughed all the way to the bank after I paid $79 apiece for a bunch of Easton Press editions signed by Mandela and Reagan and then sold them for thousands apiece. The Easton Press put my son through Harvard. Well, perhaps it was the signatures, rather than the books themselves. Or you found some astoundingly gullible buyers. I have a copy of Jane Eyre on my shelf, Easton Press, that I got several years back at a bookstore in trade for probably 30 or so books I didn't want (I was moving; better to move one book than 30). I like the way it looks, and I've read it (or perhaps I read a cheap paperback edition), but I don't think it's worth any thousand bucks. Looking at ebay, there are currently a handful for sale, and of ended listings there are four in the last week: $16 to $41. The high-end one is "mint" according to the seller; the $16 one is damaged. Doesn't look like they're anywhere near worth $79 each, let alone any more than that. Who are you trying to kid? -at |
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Allison Turner- wrote:
bookstore stated: Willow Arune wrote... As an investment, even buying pristine second-hand copies at a 75%discount on new - provided you could find them - it's doubtful if they'd work out very profitable in the long run... Spoken like a true novice. I laughed all the way to the bank after I paid $79 apiece for a bunch of Easton Press editions signed by Mandela and Reagan and then sold them for thousands apiece. The Easton Press put my son through Harvard. Well, perhaps it was the signatures, rather than the books themselves. Exactly: Guaranteed specimens of the signatures of world leaders. I would guess that the Mandela is genuine & a particularly tough find, but the Reagan is probably an AutoPen sig. --Jon Meyers |
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