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Old January 4th 05, 04:47 PM
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Hi, It seems that The Peter Pauper Press books now have some higher values. I
had a hunch about five years ago this would happen and tried to buy them when I
saw them. I can definitely understand why, they are always good titles and
sometimes have good art.
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Old January 4th 05, 09:30 PM
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"Telicalbook" wrote...
Hi, It seems that The Peter Pauper Press books now have some higher

values. I
had a hunch about five years ago this would happen and tried to buy them

when I
saw them. I can definitely understand why, they are always good titles

and
sometimes have good art.


Could you be more specific? The older PP books, from the '20s & '30s and
earlier, when they were doing fine-press limiteds, have long had significant
value. But since the '50s, as I'm sure you know, they've been issuing
mostly inexpensive, pocket-sized "gift books"--a few of which were, I think,
reprints of the nicer editions they'd done previously. These generally sell
in the $1-$5 range, used. I haven't noticed any big change in those prices
recently--I just picked up 5 or 6 myself for a buck apiece. PP has also
done some (relatively) larger, slipcased editions, and these sell for a
little more.

Which PP books are you seeing increase in value?


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Old January 6th 05, 05:36 PM
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I once had a set of Peter Pauper WONDERLAND, and THROUGH THE LOOKING
GLASS in a half leather binding that looked suspiciously like a
publisher's special binding... sold them before I could really discover
anything abou them...anybody here ever had leatherbound PPP's?

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Old January 8th 05, 03:33 AM
telicalbook
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For some reason, the aol's newsgroup reader has been broken for two
days.

The PPP's I'm referring to are varied. Just do a search in bookfinder
with
"peter pauper" in the keywords and look at the classic authors or such
things
as "BEN FRANKLIN'S WIT AND WISDOM" or "Laundered Limericks from Wicked
Pens." The prices I'm talking about are in the $15 to $50 range,
nothing that expensive.
I seemed to have randomly selected the more expensive ones on my first
browse,
but now I do see there are also a lot of cheap ones.


wrote:
I once had a set of Peter Pauper WONDERLAND, and THROUGH THE LOOKING
GLASS in a half leather binding that looked suspiciously like a
publisher's special binding... sold them before I could really

discover
anything abou them...anybody here ever had leatherbound PPP's?


 




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