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Non-Fiction Book Trade
In all the books I have read about book collecting and the book trade
they have all dealt with fiction. I read allot of non-fiction and would like to specialize in it but I am wondering what the market place is like for it. I would think for many books newer editions of modern non-fiction would be more valuable as it has more up to date knowledge and corrections. |
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Non-Fiction Book Trade
BookFriend wrote:
In all the books I have read about book collecting and the book trade they have all dealt with fiction. I read allot of non-fiction and would like to specialize in it but I am wondering what the market place is like for it. I would think for many books newer editions of modern non-fiction would be more valuable as it has more up to date knowledge and corrections. (I'm not a book trader, and not even a collector in the sense used here, so take this as the opinion of an average person who likes books.) Yes, newer editions have more up-to-date knowledge and corrections. This means that people will want to buy the new editions in the store, not the old editions in the used book market. For example, old editions of the Physician's Desk Reference are probably not much sought after. Even if the book doesn't change, it seems unlikely that a first edition will be that valuable unless it is a very small run of a book that hits big--and this happens much less with non-fiction than with fiction, I think. The collectible books, I suspect, are those for which there are no newer editions, or for those which are more "literary" (e.g., travel essays), or for the more popular categories (e.g. Civil War). -- Evelyn C. Leeper Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. --Jonathan Swift |
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Non-Fiction Book Trade
I would think for many books newer editions of modern non-fiction
would be more valuable as it has more up to date knowledge and corrections. Yes, newer editions have more up-to-date knowledge and corrections. This means that people will want to buy the new editions in the store, not the old editions in the used book market. That is NOT how it works for Mrs Beeton's cookbook. Or for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, where the 11th edition (pre-WW1) is the most valuable, thanks to its exceptional illustrations and in-depth articles. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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Non-Fiction Book Trade
Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
I would think for many books newer editions of modern non-fiction would be more valuable as it has more up to date knowledge and corrections. Yes, newer editions have more up-to-date knowledge and corrections. This means that people will want to buy the new editions in the store, not the old editions in the used book market. That is NOT how it works for Mrs Beeton's cookbook. Or for the Encyclopaedia Britannica, where the 11th edition (pre-WW1) is the most valuable, thanks to its exceptional illustrations and in-depth articles. There are, of course, exceptions. (And the newer editions of the Britannica have a lot *less* information on history than the older ones.) -- Evelyn C. Leeper Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. --Jonathan Swift |
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Non-Fiction Book Trade
"BookFriend" wrote in message oups.com... In all the books I have read about book collecting and the book trade they have all dealt with fiction. I read allot of non-fiction and would like to specialize in it but I am wondering what the market place is like for it. I would think for many books newer editions of modern non-fiction would be more valuable as it has more up to date knowledge and corrections. Ian Fleming the originator of James Bond popularised non-fiction collecting and his collection was a centre piece of the "Printing and the Mind of Man" exhibition held in London in 1963. His collection is now in the Lilly Library Indiana University. More info on here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming First editions of works such as Isaac Newton's "Principia Mathematica" and Einstein's General (or maybe Special) Theory always command good prices. Nowadays at least. All works which first announce scientific discoveries of any kind can fetch a premium. Newton's "Optics", Robert Boyles "Sceptical Chymist" etc. While on the other hand, ISTR reading some early barbed wire catalogues can fetch extraordinary sums of money. Both from barbed wire collectors and early technology/US history book collectors. michael adams |
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Michael Adams wrote:
ISTR reading some early barbed wire catalogues can fetch extraordinary sums of money. Both from barbed wire collectors and early technology/US history book collectors. Over the last couple of years I've sold books on subjects as wide-ranging as zeppelins and carnivorous plants, from early editions of Darwin to multi-volume encyclopedias of artwork - and all in Japanese - a language the buyers couldn't read and didn't understand! John http://rarebooksinjapan.org |
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