Whitman to publish 1947 Redbook repro in December

Whitman is going to release an exact page for page picture for picture
reproduction Edition of the 1947 (first) Redbook in December. There's a full
page ad about it in the 16 October, 2006 Coin World. I think it's $17.95,
with a special 6"x9" oversized leather bound signed version for about five
times as much. They're taking pre-orders for both. Oddly, I couldn't find a
damn word about it on their site, http://www.whitmanbooks.com.

Meanwhile, if you feel giddy and want the real thing and have $1500.00
burning a hole in your pocket:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=8336067405

(not my auction.. do I even need to say that?)..

The oldest Redbook I have is the 1957 Edition and it's a trip to flip
through it and look at the prices. I can only imagine how much lower the
listed prices are in the 1947 Edition. Will be pre-ordering one of the
reproductions

Harv

"Harv" wrote in message
...
Whitman is going to release an exact page for page picture for picture
reproduction Edition of the 1947 (first) Redbook in December. There's a
full
page ad about it in the 16 October, 2006 Coin World. I think it's $17.95,
with a special 6"x9" oversized leather bound signed version for about five
times as much. They're taking pre-orders for both. Oddly, I couldn't find
a
damn word about it on their site, http://www.whitmanbooks.com.

Meanwhile, if you feel giddy and want the real thing and have $1500.00
burning a hole in your pocket:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=8336067405

(not my auction.. do I even need to say that?)..

The oldest Redbook I have is the 1957 Edition and it's a trip to flip
through it and look at the prices. I can only imagine how much lower the
listed prices are in the 1947 Edition. Will be pre-ordering one of the
reproductions

Harv

According to the 2007 Redbook, a "Fine" copy of its 1947 edition should sell
for $500.

Mr. Jaggers

"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
...

According to the 2007 Redbook, a "Fine" copy of its 1947 edition should
sell
for $500.

Mr. Jaggers



Well since the guy selling it is a coin dealer, he should know that, so why
he's asking so much for it perhaps he's casting out a line into a lake full
of trout and trying to catch a marlin. From his pictures of the book from
every angle, it's obviously no better than a "fine." I've bought and sold a
lot of rare books and know that most dealers wildly overprice them. They'll
look at abebooks.com and do a sort by price, find a dealer with the highest
price for a given title / Edition / printing / impression and then try to
get that much for it. I can also show you some rare books that have been
listed on abebooks.com for well over five years and have never found a
buyer. Maybe he'll get his wildly optimistic price for it, maybe he won't.
If it's a store listing, he can just keep on re-listing it for about a dime
a month forever.

Harv

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:22:39 GMT, "Harv" wrote:


"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
...

According to the 2007 Redbook, a "Fine" copy of its 1947 edition should
sell
for $500.

Mr. Jaggers



Well since the guy selling it is a coin dealer, he should know that, so why
he's asking so much for it perhaps he's casting out a line into a lake full
of trout and trying to catch a marlin. From his pictures of the book from
every angle, it's obviously no better than a "fine." I've bought and sold a
lot of rare books and know that most dealers wildly overprice them. They'll
look at abebooks.com and do a sort by price, find a dealer with the highest
price for a given title / Edition / printing / impression and then try to
get that much for it. I can also show you some rare books that have been
listed on abebooks.com for well over five years and have never found a
buyer. Maybe he'll get his wildly optimistic price for it, maybe he won't.
If it's a store listing, he can just keep on re-listing it for about a dime
a month forever.

Sure, it looks like a fine, but you know it would slab VF-20...

take care,
Scott
"By the book before the coin"

"Scott Stevenson" wrote in message
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 04:22:39 GMT, "Harv" wrote:


"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
...

According to the 2007 Redbook, a "Fine" copy of its 1947 edition should
sell
for $500.

Mr. Jaggers



Well since the guy selling it is a coin dealer, he should know that, so
why
he's asking so much for it perhaps he's casting out a line into a lake
full
of trout and trying to catch a marlin. From his pictures of the book from
every angle, it's obviously no better than a "fine." I've bought and sold
a
lot of rare books and know that most dealers wildly overprice them.
They'll
look at abebooks.com and do a sort by price, find a dealer with the
highest
price for a given title / Edition / printing / impression and then try to
get that much for it. I can also show you some rare books that have been
listed on abebooks.com for well over five years and have never found a
buyer. Maybe he'll get his wildly optimistic price for it, maybe he won't.
If it's a store listing, he can just keep on re-listing it for about a
dime
a month forever.

Sure, it looks like a fine, but you know it would slab VF-20...

take care,
Scott
"By the book before the coin"

Good lick!

I like my rare books slabbed. Keeps those nasty peanut-butter-and-jelly
fingerprints off the pages.

Mr. Jaggers

Harv wrote:

Well since the guy selling it is a coin dealer, he should know that, so why
he's asking so much for it perhaps he's casting out a line into a lake full
of trout and trying to catch a marlin.
Harv

Mebbe he figures the imminent publication of a reproduction will goose
demand?

Regards, Tom

"e" wrote in message
...
you can find 10 honest coin dealers for every one book
dealer. i'm giving my rare books to libraries. let them take
the hit.

I learned my lesson when I sold some of my rare Art monographs to a book
dealer about ten years ago. I was in a situation where I needed some fast
cash. Huge mistake, and I won't deny it was a mistake. Talk about getting
boned up the ass. Never again. I wish I still had those books. They sell for
10x what I got for them back then and a few sell for 20x for what I
originally paid for them in the late 1960s. Slowly, over the years, I have
bought back a few of them on eBay, but a few have escalated far out of the
price range I'm willing to pay for them just to own them again. (One art
monograph I bought brand new in 1970 for about $50.00 you can't touch these
days for under $600.00 and believe me, I've tried..) ..

My late Dad was a University Dean and an English professor his entire
working life. He had a huge library at home. When I decided to dispose of
some of it last year to make more room in my Storage locker, I donated about
six hundred books to the library of the University at which he was Dean of
Humanities for many years. (After I cherry-picked through them for first
Editions and such, of course..) .. It was a very bittersweet experience as I
went through those boxes, looking at books that had been in our homes pretty
much my whole life. I chose that route to put the books into the hands of
students and other Universities the library shares with, rather than trying
to make a few hundred bucks by letting a used book dealer screw me again.
And eBaying six hundred books? Fahget about it. Sure, I could have made a
profit, but (a) hauling about six hundred books to a store would have been
an arduous task since I don't own a truck and (2) renting a truck would have
cost as much as I would have gotten for the books and I didn't have room for
them at home. So I decided to do something charitable with about half his
collection, rather than try to profit from it and let some dealer get rich
re-selling them.

I was not about to dispose of his entire library. I still have hundreds of
his books, mostly in Storage. I'll never read them.. English literature is
not my thing like it was his, but I think he would have wanted me to donate
them back to the University he slaved for so many years to make what it is
today. It just seemed like the right thing to do

Harv

"winwin" wrote in message
oups.com...

Harv wrote:

Well since the guy selling it is a coin dealer, he should know that, so
why
he's asking so much for it perhaps he's casting out a line into a lake
full
of trout and trying to catch a marlin.
Harv

Mebbe he figures the imminent publication of a reproduction will goose
demand?

Regards, Tom

If anything it will diminish it. People won't have to consider spending a
few hundred now to get their nostalgia hit (like I did on eBay about three
years ago).

Mr. Jaggers

"Harv" wrote in message
...

"e" wrote in message
...
you can find 10 honest coin dealers for every one book
dealer. i'm giving my rare books to libraries. let them take
the hit.

I learned my lesson when I sold some of my rare Art monographs to a book
dealer about ten years ago. I was in a situation where I needed some fast
cash. Huge mistake, and I won't deny it was a mistake. Talk about getting
boned up the ass. Never again. I wish I still had those books. They sell
for
10x what I got for them back then and a few sell for 20x for what I
originally paid for them in the late 1960s. Slowly, over the years, I have
bought back a few of them on eBay, but a few have escalated far out of the
price range I'm willing to pay for them just to own them again. (One art
monograph I bought brand new in 1970 for about $50.00 you can't touch
these
days for under $600.00 and believe me, I've tried..) ..

My late Dad was a University Dean and an English professor his entire
working life. He had a huge library at home. When I decided to dispose of
some of it last year to make more room in my Storage locker, I donated
about
six hundred books to the library of the University at which he was Dean of
Humanities for many years. (After I cherry-picked through them for first
Editions and such, of course..) .. It was a very bittersweet experience as
I
went through those boxes, looking at books that had been in our homes
pretty
much my whole life. I chose that route to put the books into the hands of
students and other Universities the library shares with, rather than
trying
to make a few hundred bucks by letting a used book dealer screw me again.
And eBaying six hundred books? Fahget about it. Sure, I could have made a
profit, but (a) hauling about six hundred books to a store would have been
an arduous task since I don't own a truck and (2) renting a truck would
have
cost as much as I would have gotten for the books and I didn't have room
for
them at home. So I decided to do something charitable with about half his
collection, rather than try to profit from it and let some dealer get rich
re-selling them.

I was not about to dispose of his entire library. I still have hundreds of
his books, mostly in Storage. I'll never read them.. English literature is
not my thing like it was his, but I think he would have wanted me to
donate
them back to the University he slaved for so many years to make what it is
today. It just seemed like the right thing to do

Harv

Spoken like a true bibliophile! Your impassioned story makes me a bit
misty-eyed.

I often think about the ultimate disposition of my library, too, sometimes
more so than my coins. Books are heavy and bulky, require bibliographic
workup in order to sell, and often are somewhat dated. That may be why the
antiquarians don't pay much for them. I've bought quite a few things myself
off eBay, and some I had to pay pretty well to get them. I'd advise you to
at least consider that route. You just never know. If you don't care to
put up with the messiness of setting up your own auctions, there are a lot
of places that will do it for you, usually for about 25% or so of the
hammer.

Good luck!

Mr. Jaggers

"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
...

"Harv" wrote in message
...

"e" wrote in message
...
you can find 10 honest coin dealers for every one book
dealer. i'm giving my rare books to libraries. let them take
the hit.

I learned my lesson when I sold some of my rare Art monographs to a book
dealer about ten years ago. I was in a situation where I needed some fast
cash. Huge mistake, and I won't deny it was a mistake. Talk about getting
boned up the ass. Never again. I wish I still had those books. They sell
for
10x what I got for them back then and a few sell for 20x for what I
originally paid for them in the late 1960s. Slowly, over the years, I
have
bought back a few of them on eBay, but a few have escalated far out of
the
price range I'm willing to pay for them just to own them again. (One art
monograph I bought brand new in 1970 for about $50.00 you can't touch
these
days for under $600.00 and believe me, I've tried..) ..

My late Dad was a University Dean and an English professor his entire
working life. He had a huge library at home. When I decided to dispose of
some of it last year to make more room in my Storage locker, I donated
about
six hundred books to the library of the University at which he was Dean
of
Humanities for many years. (After I cherry-picked through them for first
Editions and such, of course..) .. It was a very bittersweet experience
as I
went through those boxes, looking at books that had been in our homes
pretty
much my whole life. I chose that route to put the books into the hands of
students and other Universities the library shares with, rather than
trying
to make a few hundred bucks by letting a used book dealer screw me again.
And eBaying six hundred books? Fahget about it. Sure, I could have made a
profit, but (a) hauling about six hundred books to a store would have
been
an arduous task since I don't own a truck and (2) renting a truck would
have
cost as much as I would have gotten for the books and I didn't have room
for
them at home. So I decided to do something charitable with about half his
collection, rather than try to profit from it and let some dealer get
rich
re-selling them.

I was not about to dispose of his entire library. I still have hundreds
of
his books, mostly in Storage. I'll never read them.. English literature
is
not my thing like it was his, but I think he would have wanted me to
donate
them back to the University he slaved for so many years to make what it
is
today. It just seemed like the right thing to do

Harv

Spoken like a true bibliophile! Your impassioned story makes me a bit
misty-eyed.

I often think about the ultimate disposition of my library, too, sometimes
more so than my coins. Books are heavy and bulky, require bibliographic
workup in order to sell, and often are somewhat dated. That may be why
the antiquarians don't pay much for them. I've bought quite a few things
myself off eBay, and some I had to pay pretty well to get them. I'd
advise you to at least consider that route. You just never know. If you
don't care to put up with the messiness of setting up your own auctions,
there are a lot of places that will do it for you, usually for about 25%
or so of the hammer.

Good luck!

Mr. Jaggers


I still have every coin book and magazine that I've ever bought, except for
some duplicates that I sold. Some of the magazines are now over 40 years
old.

I even bought some old coin magazines off ebay for issues that I didn't
have.

A book is for life and not just for Christmas, or is that a dog? Billy