@2013grot
Yeah, you're right. Ah, I am kinda under the understanding that if a book has a library inked stamp on it, that pretty much devalues it. And also it's kinda my understanding, book collectors like for the books to be in pristine condition, unless the book is really rare...
I do have some books that "supposedly" have a pretty good value to them, like the first edition of "Gone with the Wind;" "To kill a Mockingbird," just to name a couple of them. But I have many more, they're the only books that I keep in my office, 2 large bookcases... I doubt the wife and I will ever try to sell them...
Ah, you mentioned sporting type stuff, that reminded me of a past pack away in the shed; I had actually forgotten about it, so your response made me go out and look at them, (see picture below) about 15 or so years ago, another give away of stuff that came to our back porch, 4 large boxes of basketball and football cards. In the picture there's only 3 boxes pictured, but there's another in there somewhere... I have no knowledge about basketball and football cards... So they are bound in the shed... I don't really see them as having any true value, but I don't know... I figure the kids when that day arrives will have to deal with the shed, I kinda feel bad about the mess of stuff, but it'll give 'em headaches, for when they were teenagers, they sure gave me headaches: just kidding, I have the greatest kids on earth, and all 3 of them are very successful. I'm very proud of them.
Anyway, please feel free to give me a bit of knowledge concerning the boxes of cards... we're planning on having a yard sale towards the later parts of this coming month... If they have any value, I guess the wife and I could dig them out of the shed. They are of the late 80's and early 90's era... But I really just don't see them as being very sellable, and when we have yard sales, we don't care very much for packing things back up. Right now they're really out of sight and out of mind, in which is kinda good.
 
