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Collectible Childrens Books on eBay

As per cc's suggestion, a thread for relatively higher dollar children's books sold on eBay and the ensuing discussions.

A book that looks like nothing.

There are quite a few books that don't look like anything special. Here's one: Security Analysis

Dolly Parton aka "The Book Lady"

Dolly Parton, who likes to give away books, just donated her 100 millionthCountry music legend Dolly Parton has been called a lot of things over the course of her five-decade career: singer, songwriter, actress and cartoon character (her words). But ...

Resolved! Help with a book The world almanac first edition

Any help would be great i found a lot of reprodution stuff but nothing like this . i want to sell but not sure where to start condition ok i guess for being 100+ yrs old. Thanks

First - for me at least

When you have two eBay IDs I guess strange things are possible but I have never seen this before. I am browsing news stories on Chrome this a.m. and I am reading a story about Mercedes and I look and the ad breaking up the middle of the copy is an fo...

eBay Search: An Idle Observation

When I do a new listing, of course I check the sold items for comparables and usually select something around the highest sold price in the last two days or whatever the current period of sold items covers, as well as across the interwebz through Via...

Help dating Dante's Inferno

This beautiful book has no copyright date, and I'm trying to sell it for a friend. I found a few that sold on ebay, but the dates vary that they give. Can anyone tell me when this was published? Thank you so much!!!

Resolved! How to Sell and Value of a Private Published Book (1872)

I'm an only child who received the estates of my mother, grandmother, two uncles and their wives. I really don't want to do this to a distant relative. I have a book private published in New York in 1872 and the title is In Memoriam Selected Poems of...

Need help in describing a book's defects

Hi y'all I have been selling off most of my personal collection for the last 18 months or so. And still have some books that are very collectible that I have decided it is really time to unload. I bought most of them on eBay and plan to sell them the...

Resolved! Arthur Hailey "Hotel" first edition - but no publisher is shown

I have a hardcover edition of Arthur Hailey's Hotel with all the attributes of Doubleday's edition but nowhere does it say "Doubleday" outside or inside (nor any other publisher, for that matter). Even has the photo of Mr. Hailey and his daughter on ...

Known illustrator for this fabric?

I picked up this fabric the other day and the print is rather unusual. I wondered if it might be done by a particular illustrator / artist. I would appreciate any ideas.

JFK Signature Found At Book Fair Turns $1 Find Into Windfall (2014)

Rare JFK Signature Found At A Book Fair Turns A $1 Find Into Huge Windfall!When Minnesota resident Deb Tungland decided to check out her local book sale, all she wanted to do was spend time with her two daughters and then go out to eat. It’s been a f...

Book warp (I think) to book/text block of First edition, 1st printing, listed asFine in fine DJ HCDJ

Hello,I recently purchased a first edition / first printing of a book. The book was published in 1979. It was listed as fine in fine DJ, but there is, what I believe to be warp to the book/text block. Should this book have been listed as fine or this...

Question on possible value (if any) of a book

I have a very old copy of Heidi by Johanna Spyri. The problem is either the first few pages with the copyright information fell out, or they were never there. I'm guessing the former as the condition of the binding is horrible as my pictures will sho...

Resolved! Seeking advice on a photograph WWII militaria

I will soon be listing a German language book issued by the Democratic Socialists who hosted the 1936 Olympiad. Cool book, with pasted down silver pictures of various events.Laid into the book were a number of personal affects of the previous owner w...

Resolved! new guidelines and unique book listings

Where do you see book sales going with the new catalog requirements?If search terms no longer yield your individual listings, how will your one of a kind book be found by buyers? Is it time to seek out other venues for these books? Has anyone had pos...

What's it called??? Author's self published book with pasted down typed thank you.

The marks on the right are from a local bookstore who's stock was liquidated at auction. Lots of boxed books went for $5-20 per four box lot... If anybody knows what UDL 1 5561 is, that would be extremely cool. It looks like a bibliography citation.T...