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Over 500 That Sell for $50-$5000

Making Big Bucks off Books on eBay

Copyright 2002-2007 by Julia L. Wilkinson

All rights reserved.

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Contents

Introduction

I. Prices from eBay, $5 - $85,000 8 Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > 16 Books > Catalogs 16 Books > Children's Books 18 Books > Fiction 25 Books > Magazine Back Issues 31 Books > Magazine Subscriptions 40 Books > Nonfiction Books 40 Books > , Education 50

II. Articles about Selling Books 57

Why One Man Says Half.com Is Better than eBay for Book Sales More on the Book Biz: Amazon Reselling: Can It Be Any Easier? How My Friend Made $400 in 2 weeks with Amazon

III. Where to Find Books 63 Rules of Thumb about Finding High-Priced Books Internet Resources Statistics Bookselling Newsletters:

IV. Books that Sell for $50-$100: 2004-5 Prices 76 Fiction/Literature Nonfiction Children’s Action & Adventure Other Categories: Golf Books Gardening Books Railroad/Train Books Comic Books Art Books

V. 2005-6 Book Sales Prices - Price Data with High, Medium and Low Sales 111 3

High-Priced But Not Necessarily $50 or More 129

Appendix A: “A Book that Looks Like Nothing”: Valuable Books You

Might Otherwise Pass Up 131

Appendix B: The 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century 131

Appendix C: Top 10 US Out of Print Books of 2006 136

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Introduction

Congratulations on buying this book! My goal is for you to make many times your investment in this and reap big rewards, and to maybe even enjoy some to boot. (We might even Google the phrase “to boot” and see where it originated. Perhaps it had something to do with pirates?).

Although this ebook is packed with information – eBay auction closing data such as titles, number of bids, and of course, prices, prices, prices… I wanted to give it a personal (and visual) touch as well…hence, this introduction.

Here I will share with you my personal stories and photos of the eBay auctions I‟ve and the books I‟ve sold and flipped for good money. (I may even throw in a couple duds just to laugh at them..heck, you have to laugh sometimes because you are bound to make a few mistakes, but if you do it the right way your mistakes will cost very little and your profits will more than make up for them).

In addition to all these great prices, I‟ve included resources such as forums and discussion threads where you can learn much more. One of them alone, I think, is worth the price of this ebook, if you didn‟t already know it was there.

So let‟s get to my story.

“I wanna talk about me.” -

I‟ve always loved books…first reading them, later, trying to write them, and now; both writing and selling them. Sure, I sell and all that cyber stuff, but I love to poke around an old thrift shop (preferably one undiscovered by the teeming masses, trolling for hidden gems. If I‟m lucky, I find something for a dollar and flip it for a hundred; other times I at least come away with a good read.

One of my first good book sales was on eBay, and this one came as a big surprise. I had found an old copy of Fast Times at Ridgemont High at some yard sale. (I remembered reading excerpts of the book in a magazine when I was a teenager in the 80s..it really captured high school life at that time). This one looked good because I knew it was pre- movie…it had a generic cheerleader on the cover, not one of the film‟s stars. And it featured the “Soon to be a Motion Picture” burst. Well, here it is:

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I listed it starting around $9.99; it sold for something around $90. I think some guy in California bought it; to this day I wonder if it was Cameron Crowe himself.

That was a cool and unexpected profit, and it helped me learn one of my first “rules of thumb” in buying books to resell: look for copies that pre-date any movie tie-in. (These may not always pay off big, but for fifty cents to a dollar at a yard sale, I‟d say it‟s worth the risk).

In fact, here‟s another example from the 2007 version of my flagship ebook, What Sells on eBay for What:

Fight Club - - First rare 1 $149.99

Other nice finds:

Winston Churchill‟s “Second World War” history set, as well as his “History of the English-Speaking Peoples” set. I have found these sets several times lurking at both estate and yard sales, so it is not too hard to find. The below picture of one of the sets I found (plus one of the books from the other set) will give you an idea of what they look like both with and without dust jackets:

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(The book to the right of the picture, of course, is the one with the .). The stack of red-and-black books to the left is the History of the English-Speaking Peoples without dust jackets; to its right is one of the Second World War series, in its dust jacket, which I threw in as a bonus. The paper on top of the stack is a leaflet that came with one of the sets. (If you can add anything extra you find in the books, such as clippings, brochures, or press sheets, those are of course nice bonuses to offer and can add to your bottom line).

These Churchill sets are not difficult to find, and I come across them regularly at estate and church sales. I find them less often at garden-variety yard sales, but sometimes they‟re there. (The price can be better at such casual sales, not surprisingly).

Books by Winston Churchill, in general, are lucrative finds and highly collectible. One eBay seller told me he makes $300,00 a year selling Churchill books alone!

Speaking of history and book sets, another good one to look out for that is not hard to find is the Story of Civilization 11- set by Will & Ariel Durant. There dust jackets are very colorful so these are not hard to spot at a sale if they are there. Because there are 11 of them, they‟re not easy to lug away, but if you find a nice set in good condition, especially still in dust jackets, I think you‟ll find it‟s worth your while. Here is a picture of my own set on my bookshelf (I have not been able to bring myself to part with it):

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So those are just a few visuals to get you started. As I update this ebook (this is the second revision, and I aim to revise it every year), I will be adding more photos and illustrations. Meantime, if, as you read this book, you want to know more about any of the books which sold, you can always look up the title on eBay to get a visual. I find that when I‟m book scouting, it‟s all well and good to have knowledge of prices, but if you know what particular valuable book spine looks like, and someone is hovering next to you at the sale, you have an edge over them to grab it first. The Quarterly Market Report of Common, Profitable Booksat Bookthink.com now provides links to photos, as well.

Now, without further ado, let‟s get to the prices!

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I. Book Prices from eBay, $6 - $85,000

Books & Magazines

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Americana

2007 High Ultimate Signed Book - Rare Autographed LOWERED RESERVE - 3rd times a charm 30 $60,100.00

Nathaniel Ames Almanack 1727-1771, 39 items, almanac A substantial collection of this early American almanac 1 $3,500.00

Smoke from this Altar....Louis L'Amour's 1st Book, 1939 Buy It Now $1,500.00

2007 Median 1840s Early History of New England, Captured By Indians 1 $9.99

US Commemorative Stamps BIRDS FLOWERS 50 STATES 1982 1 $9.99

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Art & Photography

2007 High 1960 CHAGALL Dessins pour la Bible. Orig. LITHOGRAPHS Chagall BIBLE with 24 lithos. SELLING WITH NO RESERVE 27 $4,050.00

(STIEGLITZ, Alfred, Ed.)-CAMERA WORK-DE MAYER NUMBER XL COMPLETE WITH FOURTEEN PHOTOGRAVURES 1912 1 $2,450.00

EVERY BUILDING ON THE SUNSET STRIP Ed Ruscha 1 $2,000.00

2007 Median SAGA OF LAKE TAHOE~E.B.SCOTT~1957 1ST REVISED 3 $24.75

DURER, THE COMPLETE ENGRAVINGS, ETCHINGS AND WOODCUTS 1 $24.75 9

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Biography & Memoir

2007 High Dreams From My Father Barack Obama 1st Edition + Bonus Buy It Now $2,200.00

Easton Press COMPLETE WORKS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 39 vols Buy It Now $1,695.00

Easton Press LONG WALK TO FREEDOM signed MANDELA! 19 $1,626.99

2007 Median LIFE OF CATHERINE OF ARAGON 1941 w/dj 1st Ed HENRY VIII 5 $11.65

DRACULA & VAMPIRE FLIM HISTORY 1975 FULL of PHOTOS 2 $11.62

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Children’s

2007 High MEGGENDORFER movable MILITARY BOOK circa 1890 RARE!! 16 $2,320.16

EXTREMELY rare MEGGENDORFER: Aufgepasst! 1900 – MOVABLE 19 $2,317.14

Fantastic MEGGENDORFER: MONKEY THEATRE 1901 - STUNNING! 16 $2,277.00

2007 Median Childrens Book The Real Mother Goose 1 $7.99

1892 Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances H Burnett – Book Buy It Now $7.99

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Cooking, Wine

2007 High

Recipes of The Lady & Her Friends by Paula Deen (1997) 24 $880.00

RECIPES FOR SUCCESSFUL DINING ~ 1ST ED ELSIE DE WOLFE Rare HTF ~ Signed ~ True First Edition 1934 Buy It Now $699.95

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Housekeeping in Old Virginia Buy It Now $560.00

2007 Median VINTAGE JOYS OF JELLO BOOK PERFECT ENDINGS LOT 1 $5.99

1971 Randall's Ask your neighbor cookbook Elvis photos 1 $5.99

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Exploration & Travel

2007 High Discovery of America 1621 Colombus Gorgeous 19 plates One of the most idiosyncratic books published 1 $4,750.00

REPORT OF EXPLORATIONS & RAILROAD SURVEYS - 1855 - 1861 COMPLETE 12 VOLUME SET- COMPLETELY ORIGINAL CONDITION ! 1 $2,900.00

Jules Verne Voyages Extraordinaires ~PORTRAIT~ Hetzel Tribulations & Cinq Cents 1890-95 French book +Revoltes 21 $1,892.00

2007 Median

Black's Tourist's Guide to Ireland ~ 1891~ colored maps 2 $17.03

1906 1st ed Moon Face Jack London Macmillan 8 $17.02

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Fraternal, Social Organizations

2007 High History of Freemasonry Leather Set Masonry Masonic 35 $460.00

20 volume set-Masonic-Masons-Freemasonry- -1924 33 $280.00

Freemasons Library Samuel Cole 1817 1st Ed Masonic Book 13 $177.50

2007 Median MASONS New Ritual Order of Eastern Star 1940 w/letter 14 $12.50

Vintage Boy Scout Archery book 3188 1929 3 $12.50

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Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > History

2007 High Book Collection 119v, Japan, History, Travel, Japanese Perry's Expedition, Oriental Series, Many Rare, Look! 2 $3,750.00

AMERICAN ARCHIVES 9 Vol. Complete! FORCE 1837-53 RARE!! 100% Intact w/ ALL fold-outs DEC OF INDEPENDENCE! 72 lb Buy It Now $3,500.00

EXCEPTIONAL , IUSTINUS, , 1477. Magnificent wide-margined copy!!! 18 $3,350.00

2007 Median EDISON - BENEFACTOR OF MANKIND: 1931 1st., HC, Superb! 1 $12.25

PEEPS AT MANY LANDS - AUSTRALIA - FRANK FOX – 1928 3 $12.24

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Illustrated

2007 High 1689 Dilich Krieges-Schule, 2 vols, 100s of ills. illustrated, vellum, military, volumes, folding plates, Buy It Now $4,000.00

OVID POST-INCUNABULA 1519 GORGEOUS Metamorphoses Look to my other rare books 1 $1,750.00

ARCHITECTURE FRANCOISE/JACQUES-FRANCOIS BLONDEL/4 VOLS. 500 ARCHITECTURAL PLTS./FINE LEATHER BND/ELEPHANT FOLIO 31 $1,580.55

2007 Median 1941 LATIN AMERICAN COSTUMES 16 Color Plates 11x15 in. 1 $14.50

Vintage1904 Good Housekeeping Magazine Arts and Crafts 4 $14.50

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Law & Government

2007 High 1861 Montgomery Alabama orig. CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION both CSA constitutions; Alabama ordinances CONSTITUTION Buy It Now $2,250.00

1634 Libre Dels Quatre Senyals Del General Cathalunya 24 $1,775.00 12

1674 Machiavelli's Discourses & The Prince -Very Rare Early English Translation by Dacres - Leatherbound 12 $1,000.00

2007 Median China's Legal System 2400 BC to 1960 AD 1 $14.95

SIGNED -MUDER BY MAIL & OTHER POSTAL INVESTIGATIONS-1st 1 $14.95

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Literature

2007 High Bram Stoker First Edition /2-page letter SIGNED by BRAM STOKER. w/Prov. of BARON ATHLUMNEY Ireland NR 38 $7,000.00

HIGHLY IMPORTANT set on Japan and China- 12 vols. 1 of 26 copes, PRINTED ON VELLUM, original watercolors 19 $6,708.00

Pope Homer Iliad & Odyssey 11 Volumes 1715-26 1st Ed. VERY RARE SUBSCRIBERS COPIES Uniform 18th Cent Calf 4TO 1 $4,999.00

2007 Median BRILLIANTS FROM SHAKESPEARE Color Illustrated 2 $12.50

AND THE DARKNESS FALLS - EDITED BY BORIS KARLOFF - 1ST 4 $12.50

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Military & War

2007 High 1942/43 SPEECHES OF WINSTON CHURCHILL--SIGNED -2 VOL. IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION-2 VOLUMES-SIGNED FIRST EDTIONS 21 $4,238.88

Killer Angels - 1st Edition - SIGNED - Michael Shaara! Letter of Authenticity from 's son, Jeff Shaara! Buy It Now $2,000.00

U S Grant Personal Memoirs Civil War TRUE 1st ed1885 "Only 1 worldwide Very RARE" Errata Stated 1st Ed Buy It Now $1,750.00

2007 Median Pictorial History Of The World War Duncan-Clark 1919 7 $15.15

History of the Civil War Lossing 15 Soft Cover Books 2 $15.06

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Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Natural History

2007 High Hunting Wild Turkey Tom Turpin Original Edition C. 1920 15 $7,713.00

UNICORNS DRAGONS SEA MONSTERS; 250 PLATES; 1657 RARE!!! JONSTON; NATURAL HISTORY; AMSTERDAM 1657-65; 6 BOOKS!!! 23 $4,449.99

1567 Garcia ab Horto Aromatum, et simplicium..... very rare, complete, 1st latin edition with woodcuts 27 $3,550.00

2007 Median 1907-MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA-MUIR-PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED 1 $13.99

2 - FRESHWATER WETLANDS OF THE NORTHEAST - Larson UMASS 4 $13.94

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Philosophy

2007 High Albert Einstein, Signed, Sidelights On Relativity, w/DJ 25 $2,138.00

1763 Copy 's Republic or The Republic of Plato in- 12 $1,283.88

Messiah the Prince 1884 first U.S. Edition Buy It Now $1,000.00

2007 Median

Socialism in the Test-Tube/ Socialism Exposed. 1921 Socialism / Communism 1 of10 similar items concurrently 2 $13.50

Rare Book Sir Thomas More and Other Verse Carol Wight Kottabos Club Johns Hopkins University Goucher College 2 $13.49

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Pulps

2007 High WEIRD TALES Dec. 1932, 1st , Robert E. Howard Buy It Now $500.00

WEIRD TALES 11 1931 HOWARD SMITH KLINE VF CONDITION Buy It Now $450.00

TARZAN & THE GOLDEN LION PHOTOPLAY 7 $332.89 2007 Median 14

Dyke Haven 1966 Lesbiana Sleaze Pulp EXTREMELY RARE! 1 $9.95

SEX SWAP by Manly X Morgan Vintage Sleaze 1964 2 $8.26

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Reference

2007 High Margin of Safety by Seth A. Klarman (1991) 3 $1,112.87

10th Edition Encyclopedia Britannica – 1902 Buy It Now $1,058.00

Antique Property Atlas of Chester County 26+ Maps of the Philadelphia Main Line & Chester County 12 $837.00

2007 Median

White Latin Dictionary, 1958 Giving Works Item 1 $9.99

1938 telephone book Waterbury,Conn. and area 1 $9.99

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Religion

2007 High VERY RARE 1830 FIRST EDITION BOOK OF MORMON ANTIQUE ! GORGEOUS ACTUAL 1830 MUSEUM QUALITY 1ST EDITION BOOK!! 2 $85,000.00

15TH CENTURY MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS /BRABANT Fully illuminated and gilded manuscript on parchment 33 $21,500.00

Medieval Dutch Manuscript Book of Hours c1425 - 1450. 162 leaves forming 324 pages in an 18th century binding 15 $9,500.00

2007 Median 1898 RARE SWEDISH BOOK BY CARL SWENSSON ATERI I SVERIGE 1 $9.99

Jerry Falwell autographed book The New American Family 2 $9.99

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Science & Medicine

2007 High Vesalius Icones Anatomicae Bremer Press 1934 ltd ed. 18 $3,161.00

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OFFPRINT "THEORY RELATIVITY OF 1916 BY ALBERT EINSTEIN OLD OFFPRINT IN German of EINSTEINS GREAT THEORY 24 $2,628.99

1531 RINGELBERG on GEOMANCY, ASTROLOGY, ARITHMETICS 1ST EDITION, 2 PARTS in ONE, NUMEROUS WOODCUTS 687+29pp 16 $2,405.00 2007 Median MOUNTAIN WAVES ON JET ROUTES NORTHWEST AIRLINES BOOK! 1 $9.99

1923 Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Maurice Burke, MD 1 $9.99

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Sports

2007 High Falconry in the British Isles, 1873 Fauconnerie Luff Meredith Copy Buy It Now $2,500.00

1902 "CASEY AT THE BAT" Thayer Knowles, 1ST ED. RARE!! for more than $1,000 in rare book stores. Buy It Now $1,200.00

Rare Book Golf Life of Tom Morris British Open Gift Services 3 $1,076.00

2007 Median JAPANESE GARDEN GARDENING BAMBOO FENCE MAKING BUILDING 1 $9.99

POLE BUILDING BARN HOUSE HOME FRAME CABIN TIMBER LOG 1 $9.99

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Vintage

2007 High BEAUTIFUL MIDWOOD GGA SLEAZE COLLECTION Buy It Now $495.00

Side Saddles Book + Collection of Sidesaddle Literature 10 $401.96

Raise the Titanic ARC proof Cussler signed custom case Unique and high quality custom case & Cussler artwork 8 $299.00

2007 Median Mapback Banbury Bog Phoebe Taylor Asey Mayo 1938 VG+ 1 $4.99 16

LAND OF THE GIANTS-#2-RARE-TV SERIES TIE IN-1969-1-VG++ 1 $4.99

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible Books > Other

2007 High RARE French ATLAS - LE PETIT ATLAS MARITIME Vol II 1763 CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA 89 Maps 3 Folding Rivers Ports 25 $2,849.99

Franklin Library Complete Collection 100 Leather books 100 Greatest Books of All Time 22K Gold Accents VGC 24 $2,300.00

Comic collection about 900 comics Avengers Spideman etc earliest comic from 1975 and #1 issues Buy It Now $2,200.00

2007 Median THE SUFI MESSAGE OF HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN Vol.IV 1972 HCDJ 1 $9.75 15 Rare Old LOUIS L'AMOUR Western PB Books 1 $9.75

Books > Audiobooks > General

2007 High 1270: Ross Wilson ARUA (b.1957) Live Auctions! 2 $2,016.00 L A Soldiers: Marathon Rising Buy It Now $500.00

PIMSLEUR Learn to Speak CHINESE MANDARIN 1,2,3 CDs NEW Free Lessons! No illegal poor quality copy! Original Buy It Now $479.97

2007 Median The End of Reincarnation by Gary Renard - CDs - NEW! Giving Works Item Buy It Now $8.95

Fire Ice by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos (2002)(NEW) Buy It Now $8.95

Books > Catalogs > Agriculture

2007 High Antique Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Co. Catalog D 1927 5 $123.50 Goat Medicine Book ~ 620 Pages 10 $76.00 Gorgeous 1904 Peter Henderson & Co. GARDENING CATALOG 5 $59.56

2007 Median Murray Co Honesdale PA Farm Catalog 1931 Plows Asbestos 4 $9.50 Old Antique 1888 Garden Seed Catalog Cover..Pink Roses 3 $9.45

Books > Catalogs > Auction 17

2007 High RARE CARD COLLECTORS MANUSCRIPTS 1965 Topps 1952 Mantle Buy It Now $1,995.00

4D: CHESS AUCTION CATALOGUES AND MAGAZINES (Qty) 7 $435.69 5D: CHESS REFERENCE BOOKS AND AUCTION CATALOGUES Live Auctions! 14 $356.47

2007 Median Sotheby's Japanese Korean Art Ojime '2003' 1 $9.99 Phillips 20TH C. Furniture/Design Art '2002' 1 $9.99

Books > Catalogs > Art & Exhibitions

2007 High MARK RYDEN QUADRATUM MICRO PORTFOLIO II * SEALED * Buy It Now $185.00 Robert Kipniss "The Graphic Work" Signed First Edition Giving Works Item 9 $173.50 Warren Mackenzie - American Potter - New book. 2007 Buy It Now $125.00

2007 Median Jim Dine Some Greeks Some romans Show Catalog 1996 NYC Buy It Now $12.88 Coming Home American Art 1930-1950 Lg Exhib Catalog NEW 4 $12.50

Books > Catalogs > Clothing, Fashion

2007 High DIANA VREERLAND IMMODERATE STYLE Martin&Koda '93 FINE Buy It Now $1,150.00 Art Gout Beaute Paris Fashions Deco Design - July 1932 9 $270.00 Fortuny Exhibition Catalog & Schedule Fashion 16 $227.50

2007 Median 4 New catalog Lida Baday Eskandar Anne Fontaine MaxMara 1 $9.99 4 New catalog Missoni Rivamonti WWD Calvin Klein 1 $9.99

Books > Catalogs > Department Stores

2007 High Vintage Sears Roebuck Consumers Guide Catalog No 102 7 $212.50 1968 SEARS CHRISTMAS WISH BOOK CATALOG IN WRAPPER ! 17 $177.50 1910 NOUVEAU LIBERTY & CO LONDON JEWELRY CATALOGUE

FILLED WITH TURQUOISE AND PEARL JEWELS + CARPETS 12 $150.50 18

2007 Median 1966 EATONS CHRISTMAS WISHBOOK CATALOG CANADA 1 $9.99 1970s EATONS CHRISTMAS CATALOG CANADA PUNKINHEAD COVER 1 $9.99

Books > Catalogs > Other

2007 High 523: 1 piece. (Magritte, Rene.) Motion Picture Poster. Live Auctions! 4 $450.00 Original 1909 READING STANDARD MOTOR BICYCLE CATALOG NR 5 $412.70 Original 1909 READING STANDARD MOTORCYCLE CATALOG NR 5 $392.00

2007 Median S & H Green Stamps Ideabook Catalog Lot 1960s 1 $9.99 SOTHEBY'S FINE CHINESE PAINTINGS ART 4/2007 1 $9.99

Books > Children's Books > ABCs & Numbers

2007 High COMPLETE SET A-Z SWEET PICKLES LARGE 8X10 BOOKS #555-1 Buy It Now $159.99 Tuck ABC of Birds - Dean Ad on Back 5 $88.00 My First Steps to Reading A-Z JANE BELK MONCURE- NEW COMPLETE SET- GREAT GIFT!! Buy It Now $75.00

2007 Median The Charlie Brown Dictionary by Charles M. Schulz 8 vol 2 $4.25 123 by Anne Geddes (1995) 9 $4.23

Books > Children's Books > Bedtime

2007 High LOT OF 106 LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS--85 "A" EDITIONS 1ST 22 $458.53 UCLE ARTHUR BEDTIME STORIES COMPLETE SET 1-20 NEW 18 $407.00 The Tall Book of Make Believe 1950 Jane Werner HB/DJ 18 $223.50

2007 Median Fire Dog Whitman Tell-A-Tale Book**Clement** 1 $3.99 Whitman Tell-A-Tale Book*Lynn/Myers* 1 $3.99

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Books > Children's Books > Biography

2007 High Huge lot ValueTales ~ Value Tales ~ 39 books ~ Johnson 39 $315.00 Lot 26 A ValueTale Value Tale Books by Ann Johnson-HC 25 $118.27 Lot 27 Valuetales Value Tales Johnson 1st Ed. MINT 32 $102.50

2007 Median Who Was Anne Frank? by Ann Abramson (2007) Buy It Now $3.95 Landmark W-52 Lawrence of Arabia/Alistair MacLean illus 2 $3.84

Books > Children's Books > Classics

2007 High Tasha Tudor Amanda and the Bear First Edition, Signed Buy It Now $950.00 1952 CHARLOTTE'S WEB EB White 1st/1st HCDJ True first printing with unclipped dust jacket Buy It Now $600.00 Signed L. M. Montgomery Book Anne of Ingleside 1939 11 $500

2007 Median LOT 4 copies Whipping Boy FREE SHIPPING KIDS NEW BOOKS 1 $4.99 THUMBELINA Hans Christian Anderson Adrienne Adams Book 1 $4.99

Books > Children's Books > Fiction

2007 High

PHILOSOPHER'S STONE DELUXE SIGNED 1ST 1ST UK HB EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING AND SIGNED 3 $1,450.00

TRUE 1ST US! Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone HBDJ '98 3 $1,280.38 HARDY BOYS MYSTERY BOOKS COMPLETE SET EX-MINT CONDITION DETECTIVE BOOK INCLUDED RARE FIND MATTE Buy It Now $950.00

3 - Indian in the Cupboard sequels by Lynne Reid Banks 3 $3.50 LOVELY THAILAND children book TWO RICE BIRDS myth SIAM 2 $3.50

Books > Children's Books > Foreign Language

2007 High FRENCH children book M. SASEK - CAP KENNEDY - 1964 7 $61.00 20

New LOT 23 Children's Books Spanish Scholastic Espanol 14 $51.00 Japanese Children's Books/Shimajiro Books,Videos,Toys! 8 $43.50

2007 Median LOT OF 3!!FRENCH-MARTINE/CAROLINE..GIRLS .... L@@K! 3 $7.16 La Grande Traversee by Goscinny, Uderzo (1984) Comic FR 3 $7.09

Books > Children's Books > Geography

2007 High Lot of 17: HORRIBLE HISTORIES Series by Terry Deary Buy It Now $79.99 NEW Horrible Geography Set ~for Horrible Histories fans A $100 value - hard to find in the USA! 14 $71.00 8 Highlights for Children Top Secret Adventures!!!!!!!! Buy It Now $69.99

2007 Median

Indiana - Celebrate the States (1997) 1 $2.49 Alaska by Kathleen Thompson (1996) 1 $2.49

Books > Children's Books > History

2007 High Lot 13 American Girl Library Oops Care You Friends Feel 16 $35.99

BE A FROG~RACHEL CARR~YOGA EXCERCISES FOR CHILDREN~1973 1 $29.95

LOT OF 28 JOY BERRY "TEACH ME ABOUT" CHILDREN'S BOOKS 8 $17.50

2007 Median The Care & Keeping of You by Valorie Schaefer (1998) 8 $3.50 hard to find Kids Klutz Braid Braiding Book 3 $3.45

Books > Children's Books > Humor

2007 High Lot Katie Kazoo Switcheroo 1-25 + 5 Super Special Books 29 $65.99

ROGER HARGREAVES MR MEN SET of 4 ROUNDY SQUARY RARE NR, DO YOU HAVE THESE IN YOUR MR MEN COLLECTION? WOW...RARE 8 $53

Lot of 28 Garfield Books Nice Condition! Buy It Now $49.99 21

2007 Median The 2000 Year Old Man Goes To School Book & CD NEW HCD 3 $3.25 THE BEAR THAT WASN'T Frank Tashlin 1962 FUN + UNIQUE! 2 $3.24

Books > Children's Books > Learning to Read

2007 High 121 ACCELERATED READER SCHOLASTIC CHILDRENS BOOKS LOT ALL EUC-NEW! BONUS I SPY SET! HELLO READER, I CAN READ 38 $341.77 Lot 214 Accelerated Reader 2nd 3rd Grade Level AR Book, Magic Tree~Junie B~Jigsaw Jones~A to Z~Horrible Harry~+ 25 $256.00 Little Golden Book Little Black Sambo 1948 "A" Little Golden Book Little Black Sambo 1948 "A" Edition 14 $205.49

2007 Median Scholastic...Phonics Reading Program with Extras 1 $4.99 Lot of 29 Disney Books, Grolier EUC Princesses and More 1 $4.99

Books > Children's Books > Nursery Rhymes

2007 High Lot Of 26 Dr. Seuss Books In Like New Shape 20 $71.01 HUGE LOT OF 100 LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS NO RESERVE (3) 17 $68.87 1950 BETTER HOMES & GARDENS STORYBOOK Remus/Sambo 1st Buy It Now $65.00

2007 Median The Owl and the Pussy Cat & Other Nonsense Rhymes- 1932 1 $4.99 TREASURE CHEST OF BOOKS 20 MINATURE BOOKS 1 $4.99

Books > Children's Books > Performing Arts

2007 High Lot of 29 Animorphs K. A Applegate books book 2 $12.49 Lot 6 How Learn Draw Children Art Books Drawing Animals 5 $11.00 GO IN AND OUT THE WINDOW CHILDRENS ILLUSTRATED SONGBOOK 4 $10.00

2007 Median Finding Nemo: Essential Guide Ocean Animals kids book 5 $1.58 Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman, Stephen Gammel HC 1 $0.99

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Books > Children's Books > Picture Books

2007 High Pierre Probst. CAROLINE AND HER FRIENDS. 1961. Scarce! 23 $485.99 LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE Laura Ingalls Wilder 1st Ed 8 $430.01 High in the Clouds by Paul McCartney first ed. Signed 4 $362.69

2007 Median Vintage Cardboard Childrens Picture Book 1956 Great Art 1 $4.99 Nice lot of 12 Picture Books~Clifford~Berenstain Bears+ 1 $4.99

Books > Children's Books > Poetry

2007 High Set of 16 The Childrens Hour, Best Loved Poems Bks 1953 10 $61.00 Baby's Friends by Saalfield's Muslin Cloth Book 1904 3 $57.99 5 SHEL SILVERSTEIN LOT HB NEW-Runny Babbit – Falling up Buy It Now $49.99

2007 Median Family of Poems by Caroline Kennedy (2005) 1 $5.50 Shel Silverstein Falling Up Poetry Book 4 $5.50

Books > Children's Books > Pop-Up, Movable

2007 High Meggendorfer LEBENDE THIERBILDER Hc 1800's Pull Tabs as Buy It Now $799.99 POP-UP PINOCCHIO-1932-HAROLD LENTZ-BLUE RIBBON BOOKS 1 $499.95 Robert Sabuda MEGA-BEASTS Signed LIMITED EDITION Buy It Now $350.00

2007 Median THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS POP UP BOOK 6 $5.56 Lot 4 The Wind In The Willows Pop Up Book The Wild Wood 2 $5.50

Books > Children's Books > Reference

2007 High New Book of Knowledge 2007 24 Volumes Complete 5 $114.50 LOT 23 DK EYEWITNESS Books Children's Reference NICE! 24 $102.61 CHILDCRAFT ENCYCLOPEDIAS 15 vol COMPLETE SET 1954 MINT! 9 $63.00

2007 Median Once upon a Potty by Alona Frankel (1999) 4 $4.06 What Your Third Grader Needs to Know (2002) 2 $4.03 23

Books > Children's Books > Religion

2007 High NEW! Arch Books Set of 101 Books! Buy It Now $128.63 ILLUSTRATED STORIES FROM THE BOOK OF MORMON – BRAND NEW Buy It Now $119.95 SET The Bible Story MAXWELL & My Bible Friends DEGERING 2 Complete 10 Volume Sets Beautiful Illustrations Buy It Now $110.00

2007 Median My Book of Mormon Storybook(2003) By Laura Lee Rostrom 1 $3.99 Jacob's Gift by Max Lucado (1998) Buy It Now $3.99

Books > Children's Books > School Books

2007 High Dick and Jane Big Book-Catholic Version Buy It Now $500.00 Sonlight Core 3 homeschool curr. with LA3 advanced 1 $289.00 Oak Meadow Waldorf Second Grade Curriculum 1 $150.00

2007 Median A GLOW IN THE DARK FASCINATING FIREFLY 6 $5.50 DICK AND JANE PRIMER "FUN WITH OUR FRIENDS" 1 $5.49

Books > Children's Books > Science & Nature

2007 High Animal books - Homeschool - Science Buy It Now $1,000.00 Scholastic a First Discovery Book 23 $193.49 NEW- 20 Horrible Science Books, Nick Arnold -Homeschool This set is valued at over $190, hard to find in USA!!! 16 $142.50

2007 Median Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Mar... 4 $2.75 If I Ran the Rainforest by Bonnie Worth (2003) 3 $2.69

Books > Children's Books > Scouting

2007 High RARE set of 12 HERE COME THE BROWNIES Girl Scout books12 $76.00 Lot of Brownie Girl Scout clothes & 2 book set, current 15 $36.00 Ben Hunt Camp & Indian Lore Book Rare 1945 HC edition 3 $27.00

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2007 Median CUB SCOUT- TIGER CUB HANDBOOK/Boy Scouts Of America/Ex 2 $2.75 The Story of Juliette Low/Who is a Daisy Girl Scout 2 $2.75

Books > Children's Books > Series

2007 High HENTY, G.A.-THE QUEENS'S CUP-1ST ED. 6 $305.00 HARDY BOYS #1-40! DESERT GIANT DEVIL'S PAW 39 have djs! 1 $295.00 #1-38 HBDJ! FIRE DRAGON GOLDEN PAVILION+++ 1 $295.00

2007 Median NANCY DREW RINGMASTER'S SECRET Carolyn Keene HB # 31 1 $5.99 GOOSEBUMPS Books & Special Editons R.L. Stine Lot of 16 1 $5.99

Books > Children's Books > Social Situations

2007 High MR. MEN Complete LOT x 46 BOOKS! BRAND NEW! Hargreaves BRAND NEW*****BONUS BOOK***** MR. BIRTHDAY W/ PURCHASE! Buy It Now $179.00

LITTLE MISS LIBRARY BUS X 33 Hargreaves Mr. Men NEW LAST BONUS BOOK-LITTLE MISS BIRTHDAY-BRAND NEW! Buy It Now $148.00

LITTLE MISS LIBRARY BUS X 33 Hargreaves Mr. Men NEW Buy It Now $146.00

Divorce 2 book lot American Girl/Max's Logbook NEW Buy It Now $2.99 First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg (2000) HC/DJ Exc.! 1 $2.99

Books > Children's Books > Sports

2007 High BEAUTY 1944 Tunis Rookie of the Year w/ DJ, NOT ex-lib! 4 $60.85 ROSE BOWL ALL-AMERICAN, JACKSON, 1949, SIGNED + LETTERS 6 $50.85 Cal Ripken Jr SIGNED The Longest Season 1st PICS +MORE 1 $49.99 3 SPORTS SERIES COACH CLAIR BEE

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BOOKS 1-3 1 $2.99 Lot/2 USBORNE BOOKS STARTING SOCCER & GOALKEEPING NEW Buy It Now $2.99

Books > Children's Books > Television Shows

2007 High ADVENTURES OF TINTIN By HERGE / 18 Title Set/ English 3 $103.50 tele vision news 3/1951 howdy doody cover 9 $89.50 Lot of 26 THE BERENSTAIN BEARS Books Berenstein EUC! 24 $47.01

A LOT OF 5 SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS BOOKS 1 $3.99 A LOT OF 5 DORA THE EXPLORER BOOKS 2 $3.99

BOOKS > FICTION

Books > Fiction Books > Action, Adventure

2007 High Complete set of paperbacks--vg+ or better Buy It Now $800.00 Clive Cussler - ICEBERG - Dodd Mead HB True 1st SIGNED Buy It Now $650.00 Original art Island in the Sky by Gann 5 $417.00

2007 Median BLACK NOTICE BY PATRICIA CORNWELL HARDCOVER BOOK Buy It Now $1.97 Cross by James Patterson (2006) 3 $1.97

Books > Fiction Books > Classics

2007 High LONESOME DOVE,Larry McMurtry,1st,SIGNED,1985,Texas 1 $475.00 7 1st Editions Ed Harry Potter J.K. Rowling Sorcerer's Gift Services 5 1st print +Sorcerer's Stone 1/13 SIGNED & SS 1/7 MINT 1 $350.00 Galapegos Kurt Vonnegut Delacorte Press 1985 signed and limited #302/500 slipjacketed 3 $180.27

2007 Median The Scarlet Pimpernel Great Reads edition 1 $3.00 The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (1998) Buy It Now $3.00 26

Books > Fiction Books >

2007 High ERAGON Book Christopher Paolini Int. Signed First Ed. PRISTINE MINT Cond. Book Never Opened!!! First Edition 24 $1,111.00 Stephen Donaldson - The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant TRUE FIRST TRADE EDITIONS MINT & SIGNED!!!! Buy It Now $799.99 Terry Goodkind WIZARD'S FIRST RULE Signed Leatherbound Buy It Now $600.00

2007 Median SWORDS OF THE IRON LEGION Dungeons & Dragons Game Book 4 $6.25 The Icebound Land by John Flanagan (2007) ARC/PROOF new 5 $6.25

Books > Fiction Books > Folklore, Mythology

2007 High Eragon by Christopher Paolini (2001) 8 $760.75 c1896 Myths Legends Ghosts Treasure Witchcraft Indians MA RI CT MD VA GA SC OH IL MI TN CO NM AZ estate find 16 $142.50 The Lord of the Rings 1 $129.95

2007 Median Faeries (1996)*HARDCOVER*COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS* GLOSSY + 1 $4.00 My Very Own Tooth Fairy Pillow by Sheila Black (1996) GREAT GIFT FOR ANY BOY OR GIRL LOSING THEIR BABY TEETH Buy It Now $4.00

Books > Fiction Books > Historical

2007 High IN AMBER, DIANA GABALDON, 1ST/1ST/ SIGNED,1992 12 $147.27 26 TRAILBLAZER BOOKS JACKSON 13 $115.71 Lot of 19 Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin 17 $113.09

2007 Median Lust for Life Van Gogh Irving Stone Modern Library 4 $3.28 27

The Stars for a Light by Gilbert Morris, Lynn Morris... 3 $3.27

Books > Fiction Books > Horror

2007 High - Dark Tower IV - VII Signed Limited #642 1 $2,400.00 The Talisman and The Black House By Stephen King Set Buy It Now $1,500.00 20th Century Ghosts Joe Hill PS Deluxe Slipcased LTD Long Sold Out OOP #89 of 200 Son of Stephen King 23 $790.00

2007 Median Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore (2004) SC 5 $3.25 GHOST! MAGAZINE FOR THE GHOST HUNTER!!! 2 $3.25

Books > Fiction Books > Humor

2007 High Zoomar by Ernie Kovacs - signed 1st edition 1 $125.00 Signed Rare First Edition Forrest Gump Winston Groom 1 $120.00 Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut signed Easton Pres unopened Buy It Now $120.00

2007 Median Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella (2005) 1 $2.00 Silent Bob Speaks, Kevin Smith; Psycho Ex Game, Markoe 1 $2.00

Books > Fiction Books > Literary Collections

2007 High Louis L'Amour LAmour Leatherette Entire Collection 124 16 $1,325.15 1st Edition signed Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 13 $610.00 The HARVARD CLASSICS - Complete Set 52VOL 1930 BLUE 11 $330.00

2007 Median Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Sha... 1 $4.00 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1 $4.00

Books > Fiction Books > Literary Criticism

2007 High Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (1974) The Lord of the Rings 1 $49.99 Lord Of The Rings: Collector's Edition HC, BRAND NEW!!! red leatherbound , shrinkwrapped, $75 Value!!!! Buy It Now $39.99 Lord Of The Rings: Collector's Edition HC, BRAND NEW!!! red leatherbound slipcase, shrinkwrapped, $75 Value!!!! 9 $30.83

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2007 Median This World and Nearer Ones by Brian W. Aldiss - 1st HB 1 $7.99 THE FUTURE AS NIGHTMARE(H.G.WELLS & ANTI-UTOPIAS) HC/OP Buy It Now $7.99

Books > Fiction Books > Literature, Ancient

2007 High World's Greatest Literature ancient,recent,20 vols,1900 1 $24.98 Norton Anthology of English Literature Vol 1 - HC / DJ 12 $15.50 The Fall of Rome by Michael Curtis Ford (2007) NEW HB 4 $13.49

2007 Median Alexander's Tomb by Nicholas Saunders (2006) 4 $5.87 THE AENEID by VIRGIL translated by ROBERT FITZGERALD 1 $3.99

Books > Fiction Books > Literature, Classic

2007 High Gone With the Wind First May printing edition Mitchell True first printing, great price, no reserve 20 $670.00 GLENARVON Gothic by Caroline Lamb LORD BYRON 1816 2 $339.69 novels of anthony trollope 20 volumes uniform 1997 2 $199.99

2007 Median J. D. Salinger THE CATCHER IN THE RYE pb book 7 $4.75 2004 B&N Classics PB 6 $4.75

Books > Fiction Books > Literature, Modern

2007 High SHANTARAM True Australia ( Scribe ) Ed HCDJ 1st/1st Signed and inscribed by Gregory David Roberts. Rare. Buy It Now $989.00 EAST OF EDEN, , HB/DW/1ST Buy It Now $598.00 Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea True First Ed 13 $517.13

2007 Median Family Linen by Lee Smith (1996) 1 $4.00 HOCUS POCUS by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1990)-H/C IN D/J-NICE 1 $4.00

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Books > Fiction Books > Military

2007 High Tom Clancy collection of SIGNED "Jack Ryan's escapades" Buy It Now $750.00 Tom Clancy: The Hunt For Red October "1st Printing" Signed - 1984 Naval Institute Press "1st Edition" Buy It Now $375.00 THE RAT PATROL Based on TV series Six pocketbooks, all read but still n good condition 13 $108.50

2007 Median Settling Accounts - Drive to the East - H. Turtledove 1 $2.00 The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw (1998) 1 $2.00

Books > Fiction Books > Mystery, Thriller

2007 High Robert B Parker - SURROGATE - Signed Limited Ed #42/300 Buy It Now $999.00 James Patterson THE THOMAS BERRYMAN NUMBER 1st Edition! Author's First Book! NF/VG! VERY Uncommon True 1st Ed! 32 $520.00 Advanced Uncorrected Proof ARC Blaze - Richard Bachman Foreward by Stephen King 1 Day Only! Buy It Now $499.99

2007 Median 1st to Die by James Patterson (2002) 5 $2.00 Daddy's Girl by Lisa Scottoline 1 $2.00

Books > Fiction Books > Plays, Screenplays

2007 High Shakespeare 24Vols Mini Leather Box 1900 BeautifulCondn 1 $125.00 SIGNED! Fences by TPB 1986 Buy It Now $79.95 RARE! Firesign Theatre's Big Book of Plays TPB 1972 4P 1 $54.95

2007 Median Death Of A Salesman By Arthur Miller (1971) Drama Buy It Now $4.00 Tennessee Williams - 5 Softcover Plays from 1940-50's 2 $4.00

Books > Fiction Books > Poetry

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2007 High W B Yeats LATER POEMS (1924) nice1st US ed, SIGNED! 5 $477.75 LOUIS ZUKOFSKY{signed} & CELIA ZUKOFSKY{signed} BOTTOM: ON SHAKESPEARE {2 VOLUMES BOTH SIGNED} 1963 scarce! 1 $200.00 TED KOOSER Twenty Poems 1st Edition Poetry Book 1 $174.99

2007 Median apalache by paul metcalf turtle pub berkeley cal 1976 1 $7.99 Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman (1957) 1 $7.99

Books > Fiction Books > Pulps

2007 High Fight Club - Hardcover - First Printing rare 1 $149.99 LOT OF 18 PULP FICTION SLEAZE BOOKS Buy It Now $75.00 OPERATOR 5 by Curtis Steele 7 pocketbook re-prints of 1930s pulps 10 $73.77

2007 Median POCKET SONIC SLAVE PAUL KENYON PULPS BOOK PB 1974 1 $7.99 Dark Shadows, at Collins House 1 $7.99

Books > Fiction Books > Religious, Inspirational

2007 High 21 Tales from Grace Chapel Inn set of 21 NR 10 $154.49 Tales Grace Chapel Inn/Guideposts/Lot 14 HB NICE! 23 $112.50 JENKINS LEFT BEHIND FULL SERIES HB 16 KINGDOM COME NEW 29 $111.89

2007 Median The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (2... Buy It Now $2.50 Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (1973) 1 $2.50

Books > Fiction Books > Romance

2007 High The Children of Hurin J.R.R. Tolkien SIGNED US 5 $520.00 Children of Hurin J.R.R. Tolkien Alan Lee SIGNED 12 $510.00 Signed Giles, Janice Holt THE LAND BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS Buy It Now $500.00

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2007 Median Tempted in the Night by T. Popp (2007) Great Read Buy It Now $1.50 4 Romances by Linda Lael Miller/Vampires/Rom. Susp. 1 $1.50

Books > Fiction Books >

2007 High SHARP NF COPY BRADBURY`S "SOMETHING WICKED.." SIGNED! 1 $850.00 Kurt Vonnegut Jr BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS 1st ed HB SIGND Buy It Now $599.99 TIMOTHY ZAHN LIMITED EDITION THRAWN TRILOGY SIGNED SET Buy It Now $599.99

2007 Median : Dark Force Rising - Thrawn Trilogy Volume 2 1 $4.00 Maximum Ride-Schools Out Forever by James Patterson Buy It Now $4.00

Books > Fiction Books > Westerns

2007 High LOT OF 73 LOUIS L'AMOUR LEATHERETTE HARDCOVER BOOKS! PLUS BEAUTIFUL REVOLVING !!!! 18 $404.00 Louis L'amour Hard Back Collection 91 Books in Excellent Condition 9 $325.00 lot of 103 Louis L'amour westerns and a calender 9 $200.00

2007 Median Three Western Action/Adventure Novels by Ralph Cotton 2 $4.26 WAGONS WEST Series of paperbacks by Dana Fuller Ross 1 $4.25

Books > Magazine Back Issues > Animals & Nature

2007 High REVUE 1995 World's Championship issue Saddlebred 24 $381.00 LOT OF 54 ISSUES ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINES 10 $166.27 Over 40 Years of National Geographic Magazines-300+!!! Vintage Collection at Bargain Price...Great Condition 1 $129.99

2007 Median PA Pennsylvania Game News Dec. 1971 NED SMITH Cover Art 2 $4.80 Boxer Review March 2002 Champion Boxer Dogs NEW!!! 2 $4.75

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Books > Magazine Back Issues > & Collect.

2007 High Hali Magazine of Oriental Carpets Complete set of volume four (4) , issues 1 through 4 Buy It Now $200.00 Style 1900 Arts & Crafts Quarterly 53 issues 1993-2007 7 $167.89 Firsts Magazine Book First Editions 75 lot Sold As Best Offer $140.00

2007 Median RELICS Magazine Aug '75 Saws, Owls, Sears, U.S. Cavalry 1 $5.00 Philip Goodwin Man at Arms magazine 1 $5.00

Books > Magazine Back Issues > Architecture & Design

2007 High Vintage Original PORTFOLIO Magazine 1950 Charles Eames 9 $200.05 NEST MAGAZINE #1 keith haring barbie interior design 13 $133.50 American Homes and Gardens 1913 complete Munn Vol 10 1 $99.00

2007 Median

Fall 2001 Nest Quarterly Magazine #14 DJ Spooky CD 2 $9.49 lot 5 Architectural FORUM MAGAZINES 1950s 1960s 2 $9.26

Books > Magazine Back Issues > Art & Photography

2007 High TEEN ANGELS MAGAZINE LOT LOWRIDER CHICANO TATTOO ART Buy It Now $1,595.00 Minotaure 1936 Surrealism Breton Dali Vallotin Matisse 16 $300.00 MAGAZINE VOL. 1 # 2 JANUARY 1954 20 $294.00

2007 Median NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 BEST PICS SPECIAL MEM ED VOL 1 1 $9.99 Oct 1919 Printing Art magazine Cambridge Univ Press 1 $9.99

Magazine Back Issues > Automobile

2007 High Vintage Car Magazine Collection 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's 3 $1,525.01 33

HOT ROD MAGAZINE issue one vol. one 1948 NOT A REPRINT ORIGINAL 9X12.25 3 $1,090.00 Rodders Journal - Complete Set - Issues 1 thru 34 13 $1,074.00

2007 Median 1958 Hot Rod Annual Magazine - Lot #6 Selling From Estate~100s Vintage Car Magazines 1950-60 1 $5.00 1957 Custom Cars Annual Magazine - Lot #9 Selling From Estate~100s Vintage Car Magazines 1950-60 1 $5.00

Magazine Back Issues > Business & Econ.

2007 High Berkshire Hathaway and Wesco Annual Reports The wit and wisdom of Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger 35 $335.00 1929-30 THE MAGAZINE OF WALL STREET BOUND MONEY OUTLOOK 4 $178.05 1993 Forbes 400 Richest People, Warren Buffett Auto!!!! 25 $167.50

2007 Median AMERICAN CAN COMPANY Canner Journal 26 Iss BOUND 1923 2 $9.50 Four 1923 Magazines Of Wall Street Issues On Money Buy It Now $9.00

Magazine Back Issues > Celebrity

2007 High 37 TEEN MAGAZINES - TIGER BEAT, 16, BEATLES, STAR TREK! 24 $295.99 March 1946 Douglas Airview, Marilyn Monroe Rear CoveR 1 $200.00 Rare MARILYN MONROE ON COVER 1950's Pocket Magazines 21 $139.12

2007 Median GQ Jessica Alba - June 2007 Magazine FACTORY SEALED Buy It Now $5.00 1978 FARRAH FAWCETT PLAYBOY 1st bid wins of $5.00! Buy It Now $5.00

Magazine Back Issues > Children

2007 High Huge Lot of 17 Martha Stewart Kids and Baby Magazines 15 $152.50 MARTHA STEWART KIDS MAGAZINE 11 ISSUES 2002 2003 2004 8 $110.00 Huge Lot Martha Stewart Kids Magazine & 1 Baby Mag. 13 $80.99

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2007 Median Highlights High Five Magazines (2007) + Bonus Gifts 5 $7.01 1971 Sesame Street Magazine issues 3 & 4 unused 1 $7.00

Magazine Back Issues > Computers & Internet

2007 High BYTE Magazine - 1975 - 1976, First Sixteen (16) Issues 6 $92.99 Vintage BYTE Magazine, Volume 2 (1977), complete 12 iss 6 $78.99 Large lot Vintage Popular Electronics MAGAZINES 1972-75 10 $78.00

2007 Median 2004 COMPLETE SET PC GAMER PLUS HOLIDAY EDITION 1 $3.99 ELECTRONIC GAMING MONTHLY EGM MAY 2007 SPECIAL ISSUE 2 $2.99

Magazine Back Issues > Cooking, Food, Wine

2007 High 8 cooks illustrated yearbooks 1993-2000 w 4 $143.17 46 back issues of American Cake Decorating Magazine Buy It Now $92.00 CUISINE AT HOME MAGAZINE - 18 Issues, 12/03 - 4/07 9 $61.00

2007 Median Bon Appetit Magazines- 1984/85- Lot of 15- BONUS Index! 2 $4.35 Cooking Light March 2007 (Braille) Recipes Food Tips Giving Works Item 3 $4.26

Magazine Back Issues > Fashion

2007 High Gazette du Bon Ton 1924 Pochoirs Lepape Barbier Thayaht 13 $750.00 Vintage 's Harpers Bazaar December 1959 Magazine 6 $202.50 Lot 2 1957 L'OFFICIEL Couture Magazine October December 13 $171.49

2007 Median Vogue Aug 1959- College Fashion 2 $8.00 VINTAGE MADEMOISELLE MAGAZINE 5/1963 – BEACH WEAR 3 $8.00

Magazine Back Issues > & Crafts

2007 High HOME SHOP MACHINIST - HUGE LOT - 1982 – 2006 plus special issues included!! 6 $312.84 35

7 1936 "Aero Modeller" RC Airplane Mags 18 $305.50 FINE WOODWORKING Magazine '78-00; 141 issues incl. 1st Featuring Master Craftsmen, patterns, techniques, tools 9 $242.50

2007 Median Magic Patch Patchwork and Quilting No. 33 Magazine NEW 1 $4.77 Lot of 25 FIBERARTS MAGAZINES 1980-1984 Buy It Now $4.55

Magazine Back Issues > Home & Garden

2007 High Arts and Decoration Magazine Full Year Art Deco 1929-30 5 $130.25 1915 BOUND MAGAZINES MAY-OCT. COUNTRY

LIFE IN AMERICA TIMELY ARTICLES FOR 1910'S + 100s LEADING ADVERTISERS 15 $120.49 Arts and Decoration Magazine Full Year Art Deco 1927-28 1 $115.39

2007 Median Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion 2000-2001 Nancy Drew! 1 $4.00 Herb Companion Lot 6 Issues 1997-1998: Mt. Vernon Herbs 1 $4.00

Magazine Back Issues > Horror & Monster

2007 High Monsters From The Vault # 2 - 22 All in MINT condition 1 $250.00 SPICY MYSTERY FEBRUARY 1936 H.J.Ward RARE& DESIRABLE ISS 6 $208.50 Mad Monsters famous horror movie magazine dracula house complete set #1-10 of nice mid to high-grade copies 6 $179.50 Castle of Magazine #9 1966

2007 Median Cesar Romero Batman Back Cover VF condition 1 $9.95 Vintage HORROR Magazines: Fangoria Mixed Lot #2 1 $9.95

Magazine Back Issues > Humor

2007 High National Lampoon Magazine '73 - 80's Entire Collection 9 $227.61 National Lampoon, 37 Vintage Copies from 1970's 9 $142.49 A Coups de Baionnette (Vol 1) 13 issues 1915 1 $100.00

2007 Median ZIFFS MARCH 1925 GEO. HERRIMAN KRAZY KAT PHOTO/FEATURE 3 $7.23 36

1985-4 Mad Magazines-Reagan-Eddie Murphy 6 $7.07

Magazine Back Issues > Literary

2007 High SCARCE 1930 NEW YORKER MAGAZINE ADVERTISING ISSUE Dec 13, 1930 Full Issue (Ralph Barton) Plus Sales Pages 1 $230.22 The Sun Magazine - 99 Back Issues Sold As Best Offer $150.00 REDBOOK*1919*CREAM O WHEAT* STORY* REVOLVER AD*WOW 9 $141.45

2007 Median 1914 COLLIERS~HG Wells story~Zeppelin cvr~H Dunn~G Rice 1 $9.99 1932 COSMOPOLITAN~ cv~Z Grey~A Christie 1 $9.99

Magazine Back Issues > Medicine

2007 High House Bulletin Vol 1 No 1 1975 1 $24.99 JUBILEE - 1958-59 MAGAZINE OF CATHOLIC CHURCH'S PEOPLE 2 $15.00 NURSING MADE INCREDIBLY EASY 1 YR BACK ISSUES 2005 8 $8.31

2007 Median Lot of 6 PHYCHOLOGY TODAY magazines 2003 to 2004 1 $0.99 GREY'S ANATOMY RARE* ON THE COVER VIM & VIGOUR MAGAZINE 1 $0.99

Magazine Back Issues > Men

2007 High Playboy Magazine Collection Mar55-Present 52+ Years...... 628 Issues in 40 Playboy Vinyl Cases Buy It Now $8,500.00 PLAYBOY COLLECTION 1956 COMPLETE w/ NM/MINT Copies! 3K Want Some 0f The BEST 50's Issues? ~~~ Here They Are! Buy It Now $999.00 COMPLETE 1956 YEAR PLAYBOY NO RESERVE ALL CENTERFOLDS ALL 12 ISSUES RARE COLLECTION 10 $370.00

2007 Median SCARLET VOL. 1 ISSUE 2 1962 VERY GOOD 1 $5.00 TRUE ADVENTURES Magazine December 1960 N593 Buy It Now $5.00

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Magazine Back Issues > Motorcycle

2007 High 63 issues CYCLE WORLD Magazine 1962-1968. Fair Cond.NR 12 $110.55 Lot of 10 DIRT BIKE Magazines. 1976-78. Nice Shape 8 $57.05 12 ISSUES ~ EASYRIDERS~ MAGAZINES + BINDER 1978 MANN 9 $51.00

2007 Median Popular Cycling May 1977 Montesa and Can-Ams 1 $5.00 1991 Suzuki Katana Brochure Excellent Condition!! 2 $5.00

Magazine Back Issues > Movies & TV

2007 High Lot of 45 Screen Romances 1930's - 40's Magazines GD/VG 9 $736.50 Pre-National TV Guide Nov 13 - 19 1948 RANGERS K883zz 9 $475.00 Lot of 15 Screen Guide 1930's - 40's Magazines GD – VG 9 $315.00

2007 Median SCREEN FACTS #6- May, 1964 BELA LUGOSI, GLORIA GRAHAM 1 $5.00 SAT.EVE.POST 8/78 "50 Years @ the Movies" Thomas Alva EDISON, F. Scott FITZGERALD 1 $5.00

Magazine Back Issues > Music

2007 High DISCoveries MUSIC COLLECTORS MAG./213 ISSUES SINCE 1988 A COMPETITOR AND VERY SIMILIAR TO GOLDMINE MAGAZINE Buy It Now $399.00 9 Source Music of the Avant Garde Magazines w/ Records 13 $355.00 42 ISSUES KYA BEAT NEWSPAPERS FROM 1966!!! Buy It Now $335.00

2007 Median Tales of the Macabre Black Metal mag VENOM Decapitator 1 $5.00 4 ISSUES OF HULLABALOO MAGAZINE DATED 1967 1 $5.00

Magazine Back Issues > News, General Interest

2007 High National Geographic Magazine March, 1898 Very Good! 20 $596.33 The Dearborn Independent The Ford International Weekly 10 $429.99 38

Alcoholics Anonymous Saturday Evening Post March 1st 1941 9 $317.00

2007 Median Reader's Digest March 1958 Donald Douglas Jean Kerr +++ 1 $7.00 Reader's Digest October 1943 Stephen Vincent Benet +++ 2 $7.00

Magazine Back Issues > Pulps

2007 High Vintage Spicy Mystery Stories Magazine June 1935 Vol1 25 $555.00 SIZZLING STORIES Vol.1-1 (1934) * SCARCE SPICY PULP! 12 $321.00 pulp western TEXAS RANGERS BRITISH L Ron Hubbard RARE 7 $294.99

2007 Median TWO-FISTED DETECTIVE STORIES / MARCH 1960 (DIGEST) 4 $15.51 CRIME DETECTIVE FEB 1966 NURSE IN BONDAGE COVER RACY 2 $15.51

Magazine Back Issues > Science & Tech

2007 High THE SYSTEM TECHNICAL JOURNAL 1926-85 31 PC'S 3 $765.96 [828] issues , 550# [POPULAR SCIENCE] FROM 1924 3 $500.00 1913 ELECTRICAL WORLD MAGAZINE BOUND LOT! 4 $109.50

2007 Median 8 VINTAGE 1960 MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINES 5 $6.50 lot 8 Popular Mechanics magazines, 1948 & 1954 2 $6.50

Magazine Back Issues > Science Fiction

2007 High Amazing Stories 1927 - 1931 Pulp Huge Lot ! 30 ISSUES!! Scientifiction Pulp Science Fiction 1928 1929 1930 20 $537.65 PERFECT LOT (59) OFFICIAL STAR TREK Fan Club Magazines 1 $301.00 Astounding Science-Fiction microfiche 1930-49 w/viewer Check out the Golden Age of pulp's most astounding mag! 13 $300.00

2007 Median SATELLITE SCEINCE FICTION-12/1957-COVER ART FRANK PAUL 2 $6.75 39

Omni Magazines 1981 All 12 issues in near perfect cond 2 $6.70

Magazine Back Issues > Sports

2007 High SURF LONGBOARD MAGAZINE COLLECTION BRAND NEW Buy It Now $11,500.00 COMPLETE SET OF NAUTICAL QUARTERLY 50 ISSUES COMPLETE 33 $520.99 6 Black Belt Magazines July - Dec 1967 BRUCE LEE RARE!! 16 $361.00

2007 Median GREG LeMOND 1990 TOUR DE FRANCE SPORTS ILLUSTRATED NL 1 $4.98 9 issues PRECISION SHOOTING 1987 Extreme Accuracy 1 $4.95

Magazine Back Issues > Teen

2007 High 70's 80's 90's Teen Lot OF 432 MAGAZINES!!!!! Buy It Now $2,108.00 102 Teen Magazines Buy It Now $709.00 vintage tiger beat magazine teen lot leif cassidy 70s 20 $527.89

2007 Median FLIP TEEN MAGAZINE OCTOBER 1968 MINT 2 $8.50 SPEC 16 TEEN MAGAZINE FALL 1967 NEAR MINT 2 $8.50

Magazine Back Issues > Travel

2007 High Scarce Bucks County Traveler November 1957 Panorama NR Buy It Now $240.00 Desert Magazine December 1937 Vol. 1 No. 2 10 $127.50 Rare 1896 Physiography of the - Nat Geo 1st National Geographic Book 4 $114.17

2007 Median Motorhome Life Mag. March 1980 Vol. 17 No. 2 Sold As Best Offer $5.00 National Geographic July 1912 1 $5.00

Magazine Back Issues > True Crime

2007 High

December 2 1957 Life Magazine Ed Gein 11 $51.00 Lot of 3 True Detective Mysteries Magazines 1930 & 1932 18 $37.00 40

LOT/14 OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES/TRUE CRIME MAGAZINES2-1965/7-1966/5-1967/GREAT VINTAGE ADS -CIGARETTES&MORE 10 $32.00

2007 Median Best True Fact Detective Magazine - March 1970 1 $4.99 Lot of 5 Vintage Tabloids from 60s and 70s 1 $4.97

Magazine Back Issues > Women

2007 High FULL YEAR Ladies Home Journal 1904 EXC Beautiful condition COMPLETE Air Castles, COLGATE, etc 7 $380.00 MAGAZINE BOUND BOOK True Crime 1922 E178 vv 14 $202.50 LOT OF 12 VINTAGE EARLY 1900S LADIES MAGAZINES SEE LIST 16 $165.50

2007 Median 1932 McCALLS~N McMein cv~LaGatta~JK Hare~Hoople~ TON ADS 1 $4.99 JUL 21 1877 HARPER'S BAZAR~ETTIQUETTE~MANAGING SERVANTS 1 $4.99

Books > Magazine Subscriptions

2007 High 2 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION TO PEOPLE MAGAZINE NEW OR RENEWAL 31 $161.50 ONE YEAR PEOPLE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION!! (52 WEEKS) Gift Services 25 $107.50 1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEWSPAPER 24 $100.00

2007 Median BODY AND SOUL - 4 YR MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION - $8.99 Buy It Now $8.99 DETAILS - 3 YR MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION - $8.99 - FREE S/H Buy It Now $8.99

Books > Nonfiction Books

Nonfiction Books > Architecture & Design

2007 High " 1900 Metropolitan Architecture" 1st U.S. ed 10 $360.00 41

PN Nokia 8800 Gold, Black,Silver, Aston Martin, Sirocco nokia brand new in box with warranty unlocked Buy It Now $350.00 1929 DECORATIVE DRAPERIES 74 Color Plates DECO 1st Ed. Upholstery THEATER Shop HOME Hotel CLUB etc. SCARCE 8 $338.00 1946 House -of-the-Month BOOK OF SMALL HOUSES Plans 1 $9.99 The Arts & Crafts Cabin Interior Design Buy It Now $9.99

Nonfiction Books > Art & Photography

2007 High A History of Men's Fashion by Farid Chenoune (1993) Numbered Edition ~ Printed in France Buy It Now $1,000.00 LIMITED EDITION CHRISTO BOOK HAND SIGNED EXTREMELY RARE Buy It Now $1,000.00 Mary Cassatt by Adelyn Dohme Breeskin (1970) Buy It Now $850.00

2007 Median GLADYS ROCKMORE DAVIS book American Artists Group 1945 Buy It Now $9.99 Stanton MacDonald-Wright 1970 book Synchromy art RARE Buy It Now $9.99

Nonfiction Books > Biography & Memoir

2007 High stars and their cars-1973 great condition,rare piece- celebrity -movie star-actors books. Buy It Now $2,000.00 RAPHE ROBINSONS AND SIR THOMAS MORE'S UTOPIA Buy It Now $1,500.00 RARE!! 1st Ed. If I Did It - O. J. Simpson 2006 NO RES! Buy It Now $550.00

2007 Median The Bunny Years by Kathryn Leigh Scott (1998) 1 $4.95 Aubrey Beardsley by David Colvin (1998) 1 $4.95

Nonfiction Books > Books on Collecting

2007 High Russian Soviet Rare Encyclopedia 30 Books Collection! Buy It Now $5,000.00 RAPHE ROBINSONS AND SIR THOMAS MORE'S UTOPIA Buy It Now $1,500.00 JAR Paris:The jewels of JAR,Paris big 3 $621.00

2007 Median Collectible Costume Jewelry Full Color Photos/Pricing 2 $9.17 Collector's Encyclopedia Roseville Pottery Book 2003 2 $9.06 42

Nonfiction Books > Business & Econ.

2007 High Margin of Safety by Seth A. Klarman (1991) – Mint Buy It Now $1,500.00 Margin of Safety Seth A. Klarman (1991) Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor Buy It Now $1,500.00 Margin of Safety by Seth A. Klarman (1991) 1 $1,353.00

2007 Median The 8th Habit by Stephen R. Covey (2004) 1 $5.00 Start Late, Finish Rich by David Bach (2007) Buy It Now $5.00

Nonfiction Books > Computers & Internet

2007 High Microsoft Tech Ed 2007 Orlando -Free Full Registration Microsoft Conference Training & Education 17 $600.00 A+ Certification Cd's { Absolute Best } Lab's , Hand's On, Audio Video, 6 CD Set , Rated #1 Buy It Now $500.00 Solaris 10 SCSA SCNA Certifications Training CBT 6 CDs The Most Complete Master Training Suite for Solaris 10 Buy It Now $395.00

2007 Median Step by Step Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 by Online... 1 $5.00 The Codebreakers by David Kahn (1996) Buy It Now $5.00

Nonfiction Books > Cooking, Food, Wine

2007 High CROSS CREEK COOKERY SIGNED BY RAWLINGS 1942 1ST DJ FORMERLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BION BARNETT Buy It Now $399.95 EPICUREAN, RANHOFER,FILLIPINI,DELMONICOS,LATELY THOMAS COOKING, FOOD AND WINE, DELMONICO 27 $290.00 Time Life Foods of the World Complete 27 Hard Cover Set Buy It Now $175.00

2007 Median Cookbook Child IN JULIA'S KITCHEN w/MASTER CHEFS New! 2 $4.75 Rachael Ray 2,4,6,8 by Rachael Ray (2006) 2 $4.75

Nonfiction Books > Family, Relationship

2007 High Marriage Max Mort Fertel "Marriage Fitness Home-Flex" Buy It Now $299.99 The Total Transformation Program by James Lehman, MSW 12 $217.70 43

1894 GENEALOGY BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY OF UK 2 VOLS RARE! Family Genealogy - England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales 2 $122.50

2007 Median Lot of 3 Books BRAZELTON Baby Children Parenting Babies 1 $2.95 What to Expect the Toddler Years by Arlene Eisenberg... Buy It Now $2.95

Nonfiction Books > Health & Fitness

2007 High 1940S Hairstyles (2001) Out of Print!!!! 31 $177.50 1930's Milo Bar-Bell Weight Lifting Booklet 8 $162.49 1940s Hairstyles by Daniela Turudich Rare & OOP Must have to recreate that glam look 13 $160.37

2007 Median Diabetes for Dummies, A.Rubin,MD, Pocket Edition, NEW! 1 $3.95 The Brand Name Calorie Counter by Corinne T. Netzer... Buy It Now $3.95

Nonfiction Books > History

2007 High Frank Moore, Diary of The American Revolution Gift Services Giving Works Item From Newspapers and Original Documentation Buy It Now $4,500.00 Memorable American Speeches – Slavery Lakeside Press Classics 1909 6 $500.00 IDAHO Place and People HISTORY GEM STATE Defenbach 3 volumes + small softcover 1933 11 $450.00

2007 Median What So Proudly We Hail'd by Daughters of 1812 & UM 1 $7.50 Mulberry Trees & Silkworms ++ Virginia History 1957 mag 4 $7.50

Nonfiction Books > Hobbies & Crafts

2007 High Shortwave Receivers Past & Present by Fred Osterman Buy It Now $275.50 ALICE STARMORE CHARTS FOR COLOUR COLOR KNITTING 18 $249.99 MARTHA PULLEN'S "HEIRLOOM SEWING FOR JACK & JILL" MINT! PATTERNS INCLUDED!! SIGNED BOOK PLUS DUSTJACKET! MINT 16 $237.50

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2007 Median SEWING PROJECTS FOR THE HOME (1991)- GOOD CONDITION! 2 $5.00 NEW Knitting Bazaar Book Jo Sharp 1999 Buy It Now $5.00

Nonfiction Books > Home & Garden

2007 High HOME STAGING BUSINESS KIT & TRAINING MANUALS on CD-ROM More education than most costly seminars!!! Just $249. Buy It Now $249.95 1916 - 1956 complete AMERICAN ROSE ANNUAL 41 vols.!! Buy It Now $195.00 The Hosta Handbook by Mark R. Zilis (2001) – Mint 12 $169.99

2007 Median MOVABLE HARVESTS-CONTAINER GARDENS CRANDALL 1 $4.99 Dare to Repair by Julie Sussman, Stephanie Glakas-Te... 1 $4.99

Nonfiction Books > Humor

2007 High Cards As Weapons by Ricky Jay (1988) 18 $127.59 COMPLETE CALVIN AND HOBBES WATTERSON HC SET NEW SEALED 1 $77.00 Signed 1st Edition Umberto Eco Travel With A Salmon... 8 $41.75

2007 Median BUCK FEVER -- DEER HUNTER -- HUNTING CARTOON BOOK Buy It Now $2.99 2 GEORGE CARLIN books ... Recent 1 $2.99

Nonfiction Books > Law & Government

2007 High PLI -- Patent Bar Review Course Latest version 50 $1,528.00 Barbri 2007 MINT BRAND NEW California Bar Exam Review! 1 $1,025.00 Full Set of 2007 Barbri Bar Review (New York) Books 15 $750.00

2007 Median The Clinton Crack-up by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. (2007) 8 $5.52 Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity by 20 Stossel, ... 6 $5.52

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Nonfiction Books > Medicine

2007 High Latest Kaplan step 2 CK Lecture notes (2006-2007) Kaplan step 2 CK lecture notes 16 $520.00 usmle step 1 lecture notes 2006-2007 Gift Services Free Med essentials book summary book!! 25 $440.00 NEUROSURGERY LOT worth over $1500 13 $420.00

2007 Median PHYSICAL THERAPY, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY – FCE 1 $7.99 BASIC CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE, NEUROLOGY, BRAIN 1 $7.99

Nonfiction Books > Military & War

2007 High OXFORD Germany and the Second World War 6 Volumes w/Map ** 7,324 pages with a 27 page fold out spiral map book! Buy It Now $1,639.00 GERMAN LUGER BOOK COLLECTION (4 BOOKS) BY JAN C. STILL AXIS PISTOLS, THIRD REICH LUGERS, IMPERIAL LUGERS, ETC 1 $660.00 ADMIRAL HALSEY'S STORY (1947) - AUTOGRAPHED By William F. Halsey & J. Bryan III, Whittlesey House 9 $545.00

2007 Median Training Manual-Navy-AVIATION STRUCTURAL MECHANIC E 3&2 1 $9.95 1944:Offic.Guide, ARMY AIR FORCE 1st, 380p,Great Photos 1 $9.95

Nonfiction Books > Outdoor, Nature

2007 High North American Falconry & Hunting Hawks, 1st. signed numbered, Frank Lyman Beebe, Harold Melvin Webster 1 $125.00 20 Easton Press Leather Roger Tony Peterson Field Guide 21 $330.00 Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991 By T. Grazulis 1 $301.50

2007 Median BAY COUNTRY (MARYLAND/CHESAPEAKE BAY/ NATURE) NICE 1ST 1 $5.99 Simon and Schuster's Guide to Rocks and Minerals by ... 2 $5.99

Nonfiction Books > Paranormal, Meta.

2007 High 46

NOVUM TESTAMENTUM in Greek antiquarian book 1580 STEPHANUS (ESTIENNE) edited by Theodore Beza, Geneva 13 $571.00 Large Folio King James Bible antiquarian book 1751 printed by Thomas Baskett in London 1 $225.50 Gypsy Fortune Telling Tarot Kit Card Cards - Buckland NO RESERVE - VERY VERY Hard to Find 9 $200.00

2007 Median 85b 1983 UFO DYNAMICS BOOK II BERTHOLD SCHWARZ 1 $5.95 BOOK OF DREAMS NUMEROLOGY PROPHECY & CHINESE HOROSCOPE 1 $5.95

Nonfiction Books > Performing Arts

2007 High Encyclopedia Of The American Theatre Organ - 3 Volumes 14 $552.87 HARPO MARX signed Harpo Speaks 1st. ed. DJ Sold As Best Offer $550.00 Madonna Sex Book MINT Never Opened 5 $212.50

2007 Median 501 Must See Movies NEW SOFTCOVER BOOK PUBLISHED 2007 7 $7.00 NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC 2 Vol.; 3rd Ed 1 $7.00

Nonfiction Books > Pet, Animal Care

2007 High VETERINARY ANATOMY HORSE REAL PHOTOS AMAZING DETAIL HC 1 $175.00 The Official Book of the Neapolitan Mastiff by Sheri... 1 $150.00 WEIMARANER WAYS 13 $140.00

2007 Median 2 vintage 4-H Horse Program Horsemanship Science books 1 $5.00 The Standard Book of Dog Breeding by Alvin Grossman ... 1 $5.00

Nonfiction Books > Philosophy

2007 High 21 Volumes Loeb Classical Library. Greek Set 13 $256.00 18 Volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Latin Set 1 $209.49 OF THE WESTERN WORLD!! 54 volumes!!! 1952 BY ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA!! MINT TO NEAR MINT!! 7 $164.37

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2007 Median Renee Descartes Philosophy books buy 1 get 1 free 3 $5.51 Introduction to Philosophy (2004) 3 $5.50

Nonfiction Books > Psychology

2007 High 2006 AATBS EPPP STUDY MANUALS AND CDs Excellent condition - no marks, tears, or highlighing. 24 $202.50 Self Help: Midwest Center Anxiety & Depression Tape Kit 1 $138.50 Rorschach - Test Plates Buy It Now $90.00

2007 Median The Secret Language of Symbols by David Fontana,BR.NEW 1 $4.85 of Madness - Early Psychiatric Photography 1 $4.75

Nonfiction Books > Reference

2007 High NEW 2006 Complete World Book Encyclopedia +FREE 2007 CD Buy It Now $449.00 2006 NEW World Book Encyclopedia 22 V Set+FREE 2007 CD Buy It Now $448.44 NEW 2006 World Book Encyclopedia Complete+FREE 2007 CD Buy It Now $444.44

2007 Median Spencerian System of Practical Penmanship by P.R. Sp... 5 $8.55 The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker (2006) Buy It Now $8.54

Nonfiction Books > Religion

2007 High THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY - CONSERVATIVE SEMINARY- LEVEL Buy It Now $10,800.00 1854 LDS Mormon Hymnbook printed in Liverpool Amazing find! Buy It Now $2,000.00 NEW ARTSCROLL ENGLISH TALMUD GEMARA FULL SIZE SHAS SET ALL 73 VOLUMES!!!!! FREE SHIPPING 2 $1,625.00

2007 Median

SHY BOY by Dydyk, Roberts SPIRITUALITY HORSES MSRP$30 Find more great books in THE SOCK LADY store! 2 $4.99 PSYCHIATRY & CATHOLIC MORALITY 1st ed HC 48

1964 anthology 1 $4.99

Nonfiction Books > Science & Tech

2007 High FRANCIS CRICK - ASTONISHING HYPOTHESIS - SIGNED TO DR.! Buy It Now $400.00 Rare Gem Crystal Mining Book Bancroft Gold Silver Mine World Map Mine Locations - Make Your Best Offer! Buy It Now $385.00 RARE Publications of the Lick Observatory Vol VIII 1908 7 $292.77

2007 Median The Road To Reality by Roger Penrose (2005) - NEW HC DJ 9 $8.50 ECM & ECCM Techniques for Digital Communication Systems 4 $8.50

Nonfiction Books > Self-Help

2007 High AA- ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS BIG BOOK - 1948 1ST ED. 12TH 23 $855.99 aa big book first edition 14th printing 17 $555.00 Van Tharp Peak Performance Home Study Course 13 $516.00

2007 Median Lot 3 Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul, Woman's Soul+ 1 $2.99 Covered Bridges of the South by Richard Sanders Allen 1 $2.99

Nonfiction Books > Social Sciences

2007 High Rare book: 'Suicide mode d'emploi' 4 $285.00 John Grisham Signed Limited Edt. The Innocent Man #80 In Original Shrinkwrap Free Insured Priority Shipping Sold As Best Offer $240.00 Handbook of South American Indians Complete Set ~8 VOLS 19 $177.50

2007 Median Skinhead Poster - Recognizing Hate Symbols SKREWDRIVER 1 $5.75 Law of Attraction by Michael Losier 2004 NEW* FAST SHIP Buy It Now $5.75

Nonfiction Books > Sports, Recreation

2007 High HELMETS OF THE DEEP rare diving book by Lyons 9 $1,313.00 Zane Grey's Famous Fishing Library Derrydale Press 3 $660.00 Warren Duncan, Book Rare & Unusual Fly Tying Materials 49

46 of 250 Signed by Paul Schmookler & Ingrid Sils MINT 8 $535.00

2007 Median 2003 Champions Marlins Baseball 2 $0.99 LARGE,THINK ,HEAVY THE BASEBALL ENCYCLOPEDIA BOOK 1 $0.99

Nonfiction Books > Teaching, Education

2007 High PLI Patent Bar Review Complete Home Study Set 11 $744.65 A+ Certification Cd's { Absolute Best } Lab's , Hand's On, Audio Video, 6 CD Set , Rated #1 Buy It Now $500.00 Milady COSMETOLOGY DVDs - Exam prep or improve skills Very useful for students and licensed cosmetologists 30 $380.00

2007 Median Why Johnny Can't Write teacher homeschool writing 1 $5.99 Teaching Children Mentally Below Normal 1918 2 $5.50

Nonfiction Books > Transportation

2007 High Aston Martin The Compleat Car 10 $446.76 *** AUTO UNION 1934 - 1939 by Chris Nixon SIGNED 3 $425.09 *** Leather - WALTER GOTSCHKE MERCEDES-BENZ RACING CAR 1 $399.95

2007 Median History of the RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE in Canada 1 $9.95 Airplane and its Engine Chatfield 1st Ed. 1928 1 $9.95

Nonfiction Books > Travel, Geography, Exploration

2007 High THE SOUTH POLE-VINTAGE 1913 TWO VOLUME SET R.AMUNDSEN 9 $511.00 Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District Atlas of Grand Canyon with Stunning Lithographs (16x40) 1 $305.00 Lembrancas e Curiosidades do Valle do Amazonas 1873 1st 7 $212.50

2007 Median Stories of LAKE GEORGE FACT and FANCY by Thomas R Lords 1 $4.99 50

A LITTLE TOUR OF FRANCE (Henry James) First Ed. 2 $4.99

Nonfiction Books > True Crime

2007 High To Drop A Dime Paul Hoffman & Ira Pecznick 1 $295.00 John Grisham SIGNED The Innocent Man 1st Ed *VERY RARE* Buy It Now $125.00 Disco Bloodbath by James St James 1st Hardcover Edition Buy It Now $115.95

2007 Median Justice by Dominick Dunne-hbdj-first edition-true crime 1 $3.99 Hells Angels Into the Abyss - Yves Lavinge SC NEW 1 $3.99

Nonfiction Books > Other

2007 High Frank Moore, Diary of The American Revolution Gift Services Giving Works Item From Newspapers and Original Documentation Buy It Now $4,500.00 Narcotics Anonymous approved literature, New Condition Red Book Gift Edition, N.A. First Edition No. 725 24 $2,475.00 PLI -- Patent Bar Review Course Latest version 50 $1,528.00

2007 Median ROCK RIFFS FOR By MARK MICHAELS – Softcover 1 $3.95 WITCH A MAGICKAL JOURNEY Witchcraft Wicca NEW 1 $3.95

Books > Textbooks, Education

Textbooks, Education > Architecture & Design

2007 High 2006 SolidWorks 3D Design Software & Training Manuals 11 $280.00 Home Inspection Inspector Training Course w/Movies Probably the best training, surely the best price 14 $275.00 Home Inspection Inspector Training Course w/Movies Probably the best training, surely the best price 1 $199.00

2007 Median Textile Designs by Joost Elffers (2002) Buy It Now $19.99 Electrical Wiring Residential Buy It Now $19.99 51

Textbooks, Education > Arts & Photography

2007 High 1960's FAMOUS ARTISTS CARTOON COURSE Books, Magazines 20 $335.00 THE BAUHAUS art book 1 $126.00 Richard Schmid Paints Landscapes Oil HB/DJ/1st 16 $112.28

2007 Median Professional Techniques for Digital Wedding Photogra... 1 $9.99 Scott Foresman Art Textbook set, Grade 6 Homeschool 5 $9.99

Textbooks, Education > Business & Econ.

2007 High Becker CPA Exam 2006 books All 4 parts, CD's and Videos 12 $405.00 Home Inspection Training Course Inspector ITA 1 $400.00 Becker CPA Review 2006 Textbooks and CD's Buy It Now $350.00

2007 Median Screenprinting made easy - How To Silk Screen - T-Shirt View our silkscreen equipment in our other auctions Buy It Now $19.95 Operations Management for Competitive Advantage by F... Buy It Now $19.95

Textbooks, Education > Computers & Internet

2007 High A+ Certification Cd's { Absolute Best } Lab's , Hand's On, Audio Video, 6 CD Set , Rated #1 Buy It Now $500.00 CCIE R&S Practice Lab (New 4 Switches) with Answer Key Follow latest CCIE R&S Exam blueprint Buy It Now $250.00 C++ Xml by Fabio Arciniegas (2001) Buy It Now $200.00

2007 Median Essential Actionscript 2.0 by Colin Moock (2004) 1 $9.99 Computers and Technology in a Changing Society 2nd ed. 1 $9.99

Textbooks, Education > Education

2007 High PLI Patent Bar Review Complete Home Study Set 11 $744.65 2007 Washington Bar Review Books - Outline & Essays 20 $670.00 Texas BarBri Review Books - Complete Set Buy It Now $650.00

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2007 Median Sensory integration folder occupational therapy autism Buy It Now $8.99 Casino Gambling for Dummies by Kevin Blackwood, Max ... 1 $8.99

Textbooks, Education > Engineering

2007 High CWI 10 Day Preparation Course AWS NDT Welding Inspector All Workbooks from 10 Day Real Educational CWI Class 20 $406.00 The NEC 2005 (12) DVD set 16 $212.50 AISC STEEL Construction Manual, 13th Edition. NEW!!! 13 $202.50

2007 Median Environmental Statistics and Data Analysis by Wayne ... 6 $14.74 1945 Audels Power Plant Engineers Guide Frank D. Graham 10 $14.49

Textbooks, Education > English, Grammar

2007 High Ingles Sin barreras EL ORIGINAL, completamente NUEVO Totalmente Original 100% garantizado igual al de la TV Buy It Now $639.99 Ingles Sin barreras ORIGINAL, completamente NUEVO Totalmente Original 100% garantizado igual al de la TV Buy It Now $632.99 Ingles Sin barreras ORIGINAL, completamente NUEVO Totalmente Original 100% garantizado igual al de la TV 1 $610.00

2007 Median Keys for Writers by Ann Raimes (2004) 1 $9.99 Essential College English by Norwood Selby, Pamela S... 1 $9.99

Textbooks, Education > Geography

2007 High My Father's World Exploring Countries and Cultures 9 $202.87 Geography (1998) Buy It Now $110.00 Bob Jones BJU 9th grade Geography Complete Set 12 $91.00

2007 Median Galloping the Globe Geography Unit Study K-4th grade 5 $11.50 Lot of 26 Geography Geology Earth Ecology Text Books NR 3 $11.25

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Textbooks, Education > History

2007 High HILL CARNEGIE ZIGLAR ROHN TRACY COVEY WAITLEY BLANCHARD Buy It Now $1,307.00 Sonlight core 1 2 One Year Intro to World History Buy It Now $225.00 Story of America cards - over 2,000 with holder LOOK!!! 1 $204.27

2007 Median American Portraits by Stephen G. Weisner, William F.... 1 $9.99 Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600 by David Eng... Buy It Now $9.99

Textbooks, Education > Homeschooling

2007 High Sonlight Ultra Core K / 1 +Science, Art, PE, Phonics, History, Landuage Arts, Advanced Read, All read-alouds Buy It Now $499.99 Sonlight Core 5 Eastern Hemisphere Cultures Homeschool Curriculum, core 5 5 day 9 $405.00 World History, Part 2 for Sonlight (ages 10-15) 25 $404.00

2007 Median Alpha Omega 8thGradeScience Unit 3-10 w/Teacher's Guide 1 $8.00 BJU Bob Jones Math 4 Parent Book 2 $8.00

Textbooks, Education > Language Study

2007 High INGLES SIN BARRERAS - NUEVA EDICION - EDICION 2007 21 $520.00 Disney's WORLD OF ENGLISH Disneys Ingles sin Barreras 1 $201.51 1 2 3 Learn Spanish For The World - 6 CDs and 4 Books 1 $169.00

2007 Median Learning Language Arts Through Literature LLATL Yellow 7 $9.49 Paso a Paso by Addison Wesley Longman (1997) 1 $9.00

Textbooks, Education > Law & Government

2007 High PLI - Patent Bar Review Home Study Course (2006) 12 $1,575.00 PLI -- Patent Bar Review Course Latest version 50 $1,528.00 PLI - Patent Bar Review Home Study Course (2006) 18 $1,405.00

2007 Median BARBRI PA/NJ Lecture Handouts MBE Bar Exam Study Book 54

Pennsylvania / New Jersey BARBRI 2 $15.50 Street Smart Firefighting fire rescue firefighter RIT 2 $15.50

Textbooks, Education > Math

2007 High VideoText Algebra A-F 2yrs of Algebra on DVD 6 $357.88 VideoText Interactive Algebra Modules A-F DVD Format 9 $355.00 Videotext Algebra modules A B C D E & F Buy It Now $250.00

2007 Median Prealgebra by Aufmann, Joanne S. Lockwood, Vernon C.... 5 $14.59 Introductory And Intermediate Algebra by John Hornsb... 2 $14.59

Textbooks, Education > Medicine

2007 High Kaplan USMLE STEP 1 SET OF BOOKS 2006-2007 Edition 27 $510.00 College Network complete Nursing concepts + RN NCLEX New unopened with study guides!! 5 $510.00 USMLE step 1 lecture notes2006 /2007edition / brand new 13 $510.00

2007 Median Maternity Nursing by Deitra Leonard Lowdermilk Ph.D.... Buy It Now $12.25 Prehospital Emergency Pharmacology by Bryan E. Bleds... 3 $12.24

Textbooks, Education > Philosophy

2007 High The Oxford English Dictionary-J. A. Simpson (1989) 20 Volume Set 9 $638.00 Personal Trainer Cert material- NASM KIT-NEW 10 $86.00 Strayer History and Methods of Science HUM300 ISBN 0-470-07240-7 Buy It Now $70.00

2007 Median The Philosophical Quest by Gail M. Presbey, Richard ... 1 $10.00 Metaphysics by L. Nathan Oaklander, Ronald C. Hoy (2... 1 $10.00

Textbooks, Education > Political Science

2007 High Study Guide for the Florida Law Enforcement Officer'... 36 $161.50 Management And Supervision in Law Enforcement by Kar... 1 $74.99 The American Democracy by Thomas E. Patterson (2006)NEW 5 $68.00

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2007 Median The Managing of Police Organizations by R. Fred Ferg... 2 $11.50 America At Odds 5th Edition by Sidlow & Henschen (2005) 3 $11.50

Textbooks, Education > Psychology

2007 High Wechsler WAIS III Adult Intelligence Test and WAIS-R 38 $1,525.00 Cognitive Psychology the art of the mind Buy It Now $1,200.00 Wechsler WAIS III 3 Adult Intelligence Test Complete 25 $850.00

2007 Median Cognitive Psychology With Infotrac by Kathleen M. Ga... Buy It Now $15.00 Drugs & Society by Annette E. Fleckenstein, Glen Han... Buy It Now $15.00

Textbooks, Education > Science & Tech

2007 High Audio Systems Design and Installation, Philip Giddings Buy It Now $750.00 Mindstorm Robotics Invention System 2.5 Lego! A lot of extras!! ~ Great Robotics curriculum package! 1 $261.66 AISC Manual of Steel Construction (1989) 9th ASD NEW Brand NEW in shrink wrap!! Buy It Now $225.00

2007 Median Biology by George B. Johnson PLUS EXTRAS!!! 3 $15.50 Organic Chemistry Study Guide by Susan McMurry (2003) 2 $15.50

Textbooks, Education > Social Sciences

2007 High aatbs Social Work Study Guide 14 $96.50 Harcourt Social Studies Horizons Set Grade 5 5th 1 $89.00 Sociology-A Down to Earth Approach-8th Edition COLLEGE Buy It Now $80.00

2007 Median Critical Issues in Policing by Roger G. Dunham (2004) 1 $10.00 Sociology by Richard T. Schaefer (2005) 1 $10.00

Textbooks, Education > Test Prep, Study Aid

2007 High PLI -- Patent Bar Review Course Latest version 50 $1,528.00 PLI Patent Bar Review - 2007 DVD Home Study Course Buy It Now $1,500.00 Kaplan MCAT Online Course and Books Buy It Now $900.00

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2007 Median Kaplan GED 2007-2008 Edition – NEW 2 $14.50 Cracking the GMAT 2007 (2006) Study 14 $14.50

Textbooks, Education > Other

2007 High AWS D1.1/D1.1M:2006 Structural Welding Code Steel 20 ed Buy It No $310.00 AWS D1.1/D1.1M:2006 Structural Welding Code Steel 20 ed 1 $299.00 Sonlight Core 3 homeschool curr. with LA3 advanced 1 $289.00

2007 Median SUMMER VACATION, 3RD GRADE, ACTIVITY BOOK, PBB Buy It Now $7.00 A Troubleshooting Guide for Writers by Barbara Fine ... 1 $7.00

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II. Articles about Selling Books

I‟ve covered the various venues for selling books in some detail in my free newsletter, Yard Salers and eBayers. Here are excerpts from some of them to help you make your decision as to the best place to sell yours, as well as some examples of what has done well for other sellers, and places to buy inventory:

Why One Man Says Half.com Is Better than eBay for Book Sales

[from Yard Salers newsletter, Issue 4]

Do you sell books at all? I came across this seller‟s reasons for why he thinks half.com is a better place to sell modern books than eBay (Please note he does say “modern” titles..if you have a rare or collectible book, you‟d be better off getting top dollar on eBay):

1. Once you get the hang of the most accurate way of listing (i.e. in book search, type in the ISBN or title, view the competition/prices in all categories and then click, "Sell Yours Now"), it is a BREEZE to list here. Huge time saver over an individual ebay listing.

2. Your books can sit there, for FREE, until the right buyer comes along. On Ebay, there is a good chance that within a 7 day auction window, your right buyer won't see your auction.

3. Often, with the right titles, you can actually make MORE on half.com than on ebay. Ex: audio books. I have frequently, as a buyer and seller, done the research and for individual audio books, I think Half.com gathers the higher prices. Or, VERY current bestsellers...they get snapped up almost as soon as you list them on half.com, many times higher than the ebay ending auction values. Further, individual cds, videos and dvds seems to do very well on half.com, and in my opinion, do not warrant the time spent on creating an ebay auction.

4. You don't have to send emails back and forth with buyers requesting payment, confirming shipping, etc. Half.com does this all for you. You list the book, buyer clicks "buy", they pay half.com, and twice a month half.com deposits your payments into your checking account.

5. You can access an itemized list of everything you sell, at what price, less what fees, for all your listings going back at least a year.

6. With a helpful invoice included, it is possible to guide half.com buyers to contact you directly should any problem arise. Because of the inherent lack of communications between buyers and sellers on half.com, the likelihood of hasty feedback is higher, and my feedback reflects this (my accounts are merged), but overall, nothing that I am overly worried about. In fact, I have a good amount of repeat half.com buyers. 58

I am missing some good points here, but just haven't had enough morning coffee to remember them all. This summer, when I did not feel like listing on ebay, I put almost my entire inventory on half.com, and was filling about 10+ orders a day. When Sept. came, I went through my half.com listings that hadn't sold, and put similar titles in groups and quickly sold them on ebay, many times for more money per book than they were individually listed on half.com, so there are no hard and fast rules.

No matter the issues or questions I may have about half.com, I would sorely miss half.com if I didn't have it to utilize. In fact, at least 75% of my inventory I would not take the time to list individually on ebay. Since March, 2002, our charity has made almost $4500 from our half.com listings, so that is a lot of money for so little listing time. (The other half of the $9000 we have made since 3/02 has come from eBay listings that generally represent large items other than books, or book lots).”

He goes on to say “Also, I just calculated, and my "average" half.com listing sells for $3.60. Again, I do not sell collectible books, so for $3.60 a listing, I do not want to invest the time listing these on ebay. The better sellers, i.e. audio books, dvds, cds, VERY current bestsellers, and textbooks help drive up my average away from the .75/$1.00 listings I have to make for other books. One other point, in my half.com "buying" experience, half.com appeals to the impatient or impulse buyer. I frequently research a title, and don't feel like waiting til auction end, so buy it on half.com. Or, I have made impulse buys on half.com, but find when I place an ebay auction on "watch", I resist the impulse and don't bid later. If other buyers are like me, then the nature of half.com helps us half.com sellers.”

Sounds like this guy has a half.com pretty well figured out! I would only add one caveat: I don‟t think I would bother listing a book for $.75, which he mentions is the low end on half.com. (This is a price you will see for very popular, mass-produced paperbacks, usually by blockbuster , etc.). To me, that is just not worth my time. (I think time-wise you‟d do better slingin‟ hash at McDonald‟s or similar franchise). But, I‟ve found that I‟ve broken down and paid top dollar for a nice, juicy hardback, hot off the press (e.g. “The Nanny Diaries” this past summer), I could make a good return on it if I wanted to unload it and acted quickly, before the title got into paperback and 100‟s of 1000‟s more titles were out there.

More on the Book Biz: Amazon Reselling: Can it Be Any Easier?

[from Yard Salers newsletter, www.yardsalers.net, Issue 5]

In the last newsletter, I wrote about how one man thought half.com, eBay‟s sister site, was much easier to sell books on than eBay. This time around I‟m going to write about using Amazon.com to sell books. In my personal experience so far, this site is not only the easiest but also the most lucrative place to sell books.

This is because:

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1) I believe more people who buy books shop at amazon first. I also bet that more and more people are buying used books there before they consider buying a new book (unless they need it as a gift). But even many of the used books are billed as “like new.”

1) listing books is even easier than selling on half.com. You don‟t even have to enter the ISBN #; you simply type in the name of the book you want to sell, find it in the search, then look for the “have one to sell?” button, click it, and enter the condition and price. That‟s it! (Of course, you first do need to set up a seller‟s account, but that‟s not hard).

As with half.com, as stated in the last issue of YAB:

- Your books can sit there, for FREE, until the right buyer comes along.

- You don't have to send emails back and forth with buyers requesting payment, confirming shipping, etc.

- You can access an itemized list of everything you sell, at what price, less what fees.

A friend of mine said she listed a bunch of her books on amazon and sold 4 within a couple days. Inspired, I listed a bunch of my books (another confession this issue: I do tend to buy a lot of books, both used and new) and I also sold 4 within the next few days. (In fact, last night I just got an email that I sold another book).

One of my friend‟s books sold for around $35 (it was an out-of-print writer‟s research book).

I‟ve talked about this before, but to reiterate, I think sites like amazon are best for relatively contemporary books, or not too contemporary books that may be hard to find but not necessarily super old or collectible. If you have a signed, first-edition Hemingway, I‟d look to eBay, abebooks or Sotheby‟s, etc.

Food for thought.

Books, Continued: How My Friend Made $400 in 2 weeks with Amazon

[from Yard Salers, Issue 6]

What types of books that (re)sell well on amazon? A friend of mine has had great success selling there.

Essentially what she is finding is there are two main categories of books that resell well: contemporary bestsellers that are still hot, such as, say, “I Don‟t Know How She Does It,” or “The Nanny Diaries.” Or say popular books by authors like Patricia Cornwell or Michael Crichton…but while that book is still fresh. After that, the problem becomes there are just too many cheap paperback copies of these bestsellers glutting the market. 60

In any event, my friend sticks to unusual and interesting nonfiction books, especially informational books for which there may be a strong niche market. Often these books are out-of-print and hard to find, so when someone really wants them, they are willing to pay more. I‟ll give you a couple quick examples:

“Unsafe at Any Speed” by Ralph Nader. This sells for up to $140 on amazon. Many copies are between $30-$100. I have to confess, I don‟t understand all the price variability of this title...maybe that‟s a column for another day.

My friend found that book at a library sale for about a buck.

“How I Made over $1,000,000 Playing Poker” by Doyle Brunson.

This hot little number goes for from between $50 - $150. She picked it up for about $1.

The final book she sold for @ $40. It was a writer‟s research guide book…the kind of book that helps a writer learn about a particular area or time period for research. Another out of print special.

Notice the strong benefits the first two titles offer…and the third is a niche title that can have strong demand.

More on books as I get more info. I picked up a on witchcraft the other day I am eager to see how it sells. Witchcraft is one of those niche areas that sells very well.

What Other Reading Material Sells on eBay?

Books aren't the only paper material you can make money selling on eBay. Let's not forget periodicals such as magazines -- whether current, recent, or old and collectible; and other items such as --- believe it or not -- catalogues!

Magazines

Magazines are popular on eBay…I think because it‟s the best place you can get cheap back issues of them these days. (How many times have you said to yourself "Darn, I missed that big piece on bird watching/Ricky Martin/Weight Loss through Thick Socks [insert your passion here]?") Well, chances are somebody's got it listed on eBay.

I have personally bought old Reader's Digests (these are great!), which have great collectible value. And I have sold Martha Stewart Living, People, and Wired magazines. The following magazines are especially popular:

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Martha Stewart Living -- perennial seasonal and craft appeal; try to sell a back issue related to that season; e.g. sell an old Halloween issue around September or early October. These sell very well; as I write this, two issues from 1991 are going for $40 or over; and most of the issues from all years have at least one bid.

LIFE - because the magazine goes back so far, and has such beautiful photographs, many issues -- esp. those with popular celebrities of days of yore and today -- are valuable. A signed Elizabeth Taylor 1964 LIFE is going for $455!! (Not that you can make that much on most of 'em..I'd say the typical selling price is between $2 - $10).

People, Us, etc. -- Selena, Billie Jean King, and Audrey Hepburn were on the covers of some recent higher-priced sales.

National Geographic - another "evergreen" seller, with so many interesting topics. Recent top sellers: Iran (1975): $45; Moon reprint, 1966 ($34.33); issue from 1914 ($10.50).

But just about any magazine will sell given someone on eBay wants its content. One strategy that is successful for sellers is to group magazines by a certain person or interest, e.g. three magazines with articles on Kim Basinger, etc. One guy is even selling "clippings" of Katie Holmes. Hmmmm…seems you don't even have to sell whole magazines to make money on eBay…you can just sell the articles!

The first issue of Sports Illustrated went for $127.00!

Catalogues

I mentioned that yes, even catalogues sell on eBay. Old catalogues can indeed be interesting period pieces of our culture. I stumbled across catalogue sales while shopping for Victoria's Secret clothing…under my "Victoria's" search popped up several vintage Victoria's Secret catalogues for sale! It seems some people collect them according to which models are featured in them. Hmm. In any event, they do sell.

An original featuring Geena Davis (1981) VS catalog is listed for $50! But most are selling in the $2-$5 range, depending on who is in them. (Who knew you could make money off your junk mail!).

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If you do get into certain niche categories such as books and magazines a lot, you may want to check into a price guide. (In fact, that is true for any type of item on eBay if you want to specialize in it). These are books that cover going rates for each specific category. Here are a few examples:

Price Guides

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The Price Guide 1994/1995 edition

This got 1 bid for $6.

(For around $6, you can get a sense of what those old comic books in your basement will bring in.) Here are a couple more examples:

Kovel's Antiques Price List, 14th edition, 1981

This had one bid for $6. Here‟s a tip for you: the above book, Kovel‟s antiques guide, is considered the book in the industry. So if antiques and furniture are your thing, you will definitely want to check this out!

Here‟s a good, cheap general-reference guide for memorabilia and collectibles:

1990 Lyle Guide to Collectibles and Memorabilia

The cover has a picture of Mickey Mouse, a Road to Oz book, an old gun, a lamp, an "I Like Ike" button, and a clock. This was listed for $4 but had no bids by just before the end of the auction.

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If you get seriously into eBay and want to make a living at it, then I recommend buying at least one or two price guides that cover info for the categories you decide to specialize in.

(That is, assuming you do decide to specialize). If you are serious about given topics, it does pay to know your stuff, since there can be nuances in various branches of collecting. It would be impossible to know everything about every branch of collecting; you just don‟t have the time. So you can be a reasonably well-informed generalist in a lot of areas, or an expert in a few areas. Or a combination of a generalist and specialist (which I consider myself).

For example, I have a few books on , and they all emphasize the need to go with a few authors you know and love, so you can be an expert on which editions of theirs are worth how much. It‟s that specialized. You need to know, for example, the relative rareness of each of the editions of their books, both hardback and paper; how much is too much to pay, and what is a bargain, etc.

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III. Where to Find Books

If, like me, you‟ve always enjoyed books…reading them, owning them, collecting them, or any of the above, then selling books on eBay and other auction sites can be a fun and profitable way to make money.

Old Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Gold

When I decided to start trying to make money selling used and collectible books, I had a lot to learn about the business. At first, I thought that any old, vintage title would sell for a decent sum of money. I picked up some beautiful old books at one church book sale in my area, a great source of used books. But I found later that they were really not worth very much. For example, a 1913 book I picked up of Tennyson‟s Selected Poems would probably only sell for a few dollars on eBay. There is a book listed there now, and 1887 vintage, TENNYSON‟S POEMS, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND Co., going for only $5.99. And it has no bids yet!

So after reading some, and studying more, and researching a lot, I found the key to finding books that WILL sell for tidy sums…and they are out there! And I am going to show you which ones, and how you can find them, while having fun doing so.

But before I talk more about that, let me say that the field of serious book collecting is actually quite involved, and if you were going to go about it the way most book collectors do, you will have to really know your stuff. And, it would take a while to learn exactly which editions of which authors sell for a lot of money. Some people specialize in certain authors…they may know about all the editions of Hemingway‟s works, and which ones go for how much. Or what a first edition Stephen King goes for, etc. Plus, there are price guides out there that will list what some of those major authors‟ editions are going for. (If you buy a print guide, however, it will be at least a year to two years out of date, by virtue of its being in print, and it having to take at least that long to be edited and published).

HOWEVER…that doesn’t mean you have to know all the ins and outs of every author to make money off selling books. I certainly don‟t feel like doing that. There are a few general rules of thumb for acquiring valuable books that are not that hard to find!

If you have done any book collecting, you probably heard the old adage, “edition and condition.” These things are important in any books you find. But…this does not necessarily mean that an old first edition book in good condition is going to bring top dollar.

The main thing to keep in mind, and this is true for all collectibles, is, for something to be valuable…someone has to really want it! With books, this usually 64 means something that is old enough to be rare and somewhat hard to find, but also something about a topic that people care passionately about!

Now, what do people care passionately about? Well, if you think of even your immediate circle of friends, you will probably come up with a few things. Just thinking about people I know, I can come up with the following list:

- golf - basketball - football - gardening - cars - dolls – Barbies, Madame Alexander, etc. - art - movies - rock stars -- Elvis, , etc. - comic books and comic book characters -- , Batman, X-men, etc. - music - sci-fi

…and that‟s just a partial list! And you‟ll find that, indeed, if you find any books that are about these topics and reasonably rare and hard to find, they will probably sell for a decent sum of money on eBay. Usually $20 or more, but in some cases, $50, and for the really good ones, $100 and even several hundred or several thousand dollars!

But this book will not only show you which collectible books can make you money. I will also list some more contemporary books that go for decent sums…including many you can find for cheap at yard sales and the like…that you would probably never have thought about buying to resell before.

So, without further ado, let‟s talk about places to find your paper moneymakers….and then we will get to the list of such books themselves.

One other note on hobbies that people care passionately about: As a general rule of thumb, people who will pay the biggest bucks for rare books in their of choice are generally those who can afford to do so. Therefore, it stands to reason that it‟s good to look for books about pastimes that wealthy folks tend to indulge in. These would be things such as golf, skiing, art collecting, etc. (Insert your favorite vision of rich folks‟ passions here). ;) Not to sound crass…rich people often have other interests, and people of modest means have sophisticated interests, but in general, it‟s something to keep in mind if you want to attract the well-off buyers.

[ The Antiquarian Booksellers Association says, “The value of a book is affected by a variety of factors, including the intrinsic importance of the work, its scarcity, and collectors' interest in it. In general, the books most sought after are the great works in the humanities and the sciences, usually in the first editions. 65

The value of a particular copy of any given book will be further affected by many other factors: its condition, its binding, its provenance, and the significance of any inscriptions it may contain. The evaluation of manuscript material, including letters and signatures of well-known people, involves still other considerations.”]

Finding Valuable Books

There are many places to look for valuable books, and therein lies half the fun. The neat thing about books is that not a lot of people understand which books are valuable…often even in their own collection!

Let‟s look at some of the many places you can find books, and their pros and cons:

I. Yard and Garage Sales

This is probably one of my number one places to find valuable books, because yard and garage sales tend to have dirt-cheap prices. Also, from my many years of yard sale-ing, I have noticed that books tend to be among the least purchased items at yard sales, leaving you a better selection.

You may not be as likely to come across a very old, vintage gem at these sales...because the books at yard sales tend to be more contemporary; people are going through their packed shelves and clearing out more recent volumes or those they just don‟t use. But it can be a wonderful place to pick up relatively new textbooks (the more recent, the more $ you can resell them for); first edition books from hot-selling contemporary authors; large “coffee-table” or other high-quality books that resell well, such as Time-Life series, Martha Stewart books, unusual cookbooks (always good sellers), etc.

If you come late to a sale, the seller will often be very eager to get rid of the whole lot, and you can usually pick up all or a big batch of the books for one low price…like $5 for 15 books.

II. Library Book Sales

More and more, public are making extra money by selling off some inventory, and/or welcoming their patronage to bring in books to sell.

The two libraries closest to where I live have ongoing book sales, so I can stop in there anytime and scan the shelves for potential gems. One Internet resource that can help you find “FOL” (Friends of the Library) sales near your area (or in other areas) is http://www.booksalefinder.com.

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III. Estate Sales

This is another of my favorite places to find used books. You are probably most likely to find the good, vintage books here. Stick to only vintage books of the hot-selling topics, like those I listed ahead – sports, gardening, cooking. You might want to consider snapping up some odd books like old yearbooks from the person‟s estate. Those are the kind of rare books with sentimental value that people will often pay a for.

A 1978 High School Yearbook of John Elway‟s high school recently sold for $228.88 on eBay. But it doesn‟t have to be a yearbook with a celebrity in it. (Although celebrity yearbooks seem to be big business on eBay. It seems everyone and his brother who went to high school with Kobe Bryant, Sandra Bullock, or Cameron Diaz, is profiting off that affiliation by listing their yearbook!).

For example, here‟s a yearbook that‟s of interest simply because it‟s old: 1888 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY yearbook Annual, sold for US $89.97 , with 6 bids!

A 1925 ST PETERSBURG VA HIGH YEARBOOK (The “ROULETTE”) sold for US $76.00.

The USMA at West Point yearbooks (“The Howitzer”) are to be very popular. A 1911 West Point yearbook went for $56; and another, 1945, also went for $56. A 1970 went for $53. West Point has been the incubator for many a military and political star, so this yearbook generates more than its share of military and other collectors. It is also likely to contain photos of any visiting military dignitaries, making it valuable for that reason.

Ivy League college yearbooks are also a good bet…anything pre-1950 is likely to garner over $20 on eBay.

So, if you see an old yearbook, particularly one from a notable college or high school, at an estate sale for a reasonably low price ($1-$5; try to dicker down to $1 if you can), snap it up! It‟s a low-risk proposition that may make you a nice turnaround profit.

IV. Auctions

Another way to pick up some great books, and in quantity, is via auctions. One used bookseller said he bought a whole box of books and it contained some rare first editions of famous authors which he was able to flip for a nice profit. But since some of these auctions sell of lots and boxes of books sight unseen, you might want to be careful about spending too much, unless you‟re feeling lucky or in a gambling mood.

V. Funky Stores

What is a funky store? Any store such as a , a coffeeshop with take-em-an-leave-em books, a store which stocks vintage books as well as other items. 67

There is one such store in my home town of Alexandria which has stacks and stacks of books on the floor, along with trinkets from around the world. I try to scan the stacks whenever I am in the area.

VI. Thrift Stores, Salvation Army, etc.

Try to stop by your local thrift shop(s) when you can. If they get frequent donations (the one near me gets donations every day), the inventory will turn over a lot and the more often you go, the likelier you are to snap up some good bargains.

Tip: What do you do if you see a bunch of books that you think may be valuable, but you‟re not sure? If it‟s a thrift store, and the books don‟t turn over all that often, I recommend taking a little notebook with you, writing down the title and dates of books in question, and going home and looking them up on ebay before you plunk down a lot of money on a bunch of them. Of course, you may have a pretty good idea of what sells (take this book with you as one idea!), and want to act on your hunch right then. Use your best judgment. But I try to avoid getting too many books I‟m not sure of…then you‟re stuck with a bunch of books taking up place on your floor or shelves, which won‟t be easy to sell, or will bring in not enough money to make it worth your while to buy, store, list, and ship.

ScoutPal Service for Remotely Looking Up Book Prices

There is also a service you can subscribe to called “ScoutPal,” at www.scoutpal .com, that lets you check remotely the value of books using a wireless device. I‟ll let them explain it in their own words, taken from their web site:

“Use ScoutPal with any web-enabled cell phone or wireless PDA and find out the Amazon Marketplace value of books, CD‟s, DVD‟s, Video Tapes, or any other Amazon Marketplace Merchandise, while you are out bookscouting. ScoutPal also optionally reports marketplace prices from abebooks.com, as well as PriceGrabber.com.

“How many times have you come back from bookscouting with essentially worthless books? How many times have you passed over a book, only to find out later, when you look it up again on Amazon, that it was valuable and in high demand?”

The service has a free trial, and then costs $9.95 monthly or $29.85 quarterly.

VII. New Book Stores…Barnes & Noble, etc.: Clearance

Many new book stores, especially the big chains, will have a “bargain” book area where you can get very cheaply priced books. I mean like $1.99 - $7.99 depending on the book. I have picked up several $1.99 books at the Books-A-Million near my home, one of which was a Princess Diana biography…and books about her are almost always good sellers.

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VIII. Your Own and Friends’ Shelves

Your own shelves? How is that a good tip? Well, because after reading this book, I hope you see books in a new light. Got an old or out-of print book on cooking, gardening, golf, sitting and rotting on your bookshelves? Why not weed out those bad boys and see what they will bring in?

We do. My husband, for example, is an avid golfer, so he tends to get gifts from well-meaning folks who give him golf books and videos….many of these just aren‟t right for him.

I gathered a whole bunch together recently and put „em up for sale on eBay. (Yes, as I say in my book, “What $ells on eBay for What,” “re-gifting” in the Seinfeldian sense is alive and well on eBay! (Remember the classic Seinfeld episode where one of the characters passes on a gift he received and didn‟t want to someone else as a gift?). Feel guilty about this? Don‟t…remember, you can buy it for something you really want...think of it as converting your gift to a gift certificate! ;) (Hmm…I wonder if my husband will suddenly stop receiving golf books after people read this book!).

What other books might you own that you can sell off? Diet and self-help books are popular, although they may not sell for $20 or more. But, you can engage in my favorite practice, which is selling off several books at once as a “lot.” Make more money, get rid of more books at once! Not to mention, time, and time is money.

Hot Tip: Save Time While Listing…and How to Give Fabulous, Detailed Descriptions of Your Books (And Other Items on eBay) in Very Little Time!

Speaking of time, remember I promised in the description of this book that I would give you a great tip about saving time while listing.

If you‟ve been using eBay for any length of time at all, you probably figured out that good descriptions of things (and good pictures) equal better bids. People want to know the specifics about what they‟re getting, and it helps get them excited about an item…and excited bidders mean higher bidders!

But, entering many lengthy, detailed descriptions can be very time-consuming. So, what to do? Well…if it is an item of which there is at least one thing the same or similar on eBay, simple copy and paste that description into your own description! Then, tweak and change some of the details, so it won‟t be an outright copy of someone else‟s listing.

I don‟t mean to rip off a bunch of someone‟s original writing…but if someone has pretty much typed in a list of the of a book, and maybe other details such as publisher and copyright date, etc., that‟s not original writing anyway; it‟s simply 69 listmaking or transcribing. You can also take parts of one or two reviews on amazon.com (giving credit to amazon, of course), if it‟s a book that‟s been reviewed on there.

This will save you immense amounts of time and make for great descriptions. And, because I believe in giving as well as getting ;), at least once in a while I think you should take the time to type in a nice meaty description for a book…then someone else can save time by copying yours. ;)

Another Timesaving Tip: Simply List the Item Using eBay’s “Pre-filled Item Information” feature

More and more, where possible, eBay is offering the “Pre-filled Item Information” feature, where you simply enter the ISBN number of a book or other product, and the service grabs stock data from the publisher. In some cases, they even provide a cover photo for you. You don‟t even need a digital camera!

(Of course, if you do use the stock photo, be sure to mention the condition of your own item‟s cover, and especially any flaws).

Listing this way saves you a lot of time: taking the picture, it with photo software, and manually typing in an item description.

Signed Books

You‟re probably aware that signed books sell for a lot more than unsigned books (by the author, that is!). I actually own several copies of signed books now…some of them I had signed when attending author speeches, others were written by friends. One other hot tip I offer is to get signed copies of books as often as you can.

This may mean trekking out to your local big chain bookstore when they have author signings, and standing in line with the other literary aficionados. Or, it may mean attending writers‟ events or author events. I happen to live close to Washington, D.C., and the National Press Club in town hosts many author speech and signing events. For example, Joyce Carol Oates gave a speech there about her latest book (at this writing), entitled “Blonde,” about Marilyn Monroe. I made sure to purchase a copy there and have her sign it.

I also belong to a writer‟s organization which hosts bi-annual conferences, attended by all kinds of authors. The keynote speaker is usually a well-known writer, and these and other authors are on hand after the speech to sign their books. For example, at this past conference I bought a copy of Bob Woodward‟s latest, “Maestro,” about Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, and got him to sign it.

You can usually register for these events even if you‟re not a member of the sponsoring organization (although it may cost a little more for non-member). But, 70 getting potential big profits in future signed books by well-known authors may make it worth it!

When getting signed books, don‟t neglect lesser-known authors. These are the potential literary stars of tomorrow, and their early books may be worth a lot later. (Plus, they may be a lot friendlier and eager to sign a copy for you, not to mention appreciative!).

Finally, when looking for books in your own circle, don‟t neglect friends and relatives' shelves. If you have a friend or relative who has a book they don‟t want or need, ask if you can buy it off them. Or, if they think it‟s valuable, you could offer to sell it for them on eBay for a commission, so you both make money. (Several of my friends and relatives have asked me about this, as many folks are either intimidated by the technology of eBay or simply don‟t want to go through the trouble listing their stuff).

IX. Used Bookshops and Antique Shops

What about used book and antique stores? You may find some gems in there, but those are generally not as good sources for cheap, good inventory because the owners tend to be more knowledgeable about what used books are worth and price accordingly.

Still, they can be fun to browse, and sometimes you will find an owner who doesn‟t know all that much about books, especially if it‟s an antique store that doesn‟t focus on books but just keeps a stack of them in one part of the store.

Internet Resources

Booksalefinder www.booksalefinder.com

Booksalefinder is a site that allows you to search for library book sales in your own area (or other specific areas). Here is more about it from their web site:

Who runs the book sales?

“Most of the book sales listed are run by non-profit organizations around the country. The majority are sponsored by Friends of the Library volunteer groups who hold the sales to raise funds for such things as local cultural activities and book purchases for the library. There are also many other non-profit groups who either run bookstores or sponsor regular sales for general fundraising. These include such national organizations as the American Association of University Women, Bryn Mawr Alumnae, Brandeis University National Women's Committee, Goodwill Industries, and Planned Parenthood as well as neighborhood churches and charitable organizations. 71

We don't charge any non-profit organization to list their sale or bookstore on our web page. We require only that they be a legitimate non-profit group.

We also allow book fair organizers and for-profit book dealers to advertise their sales as well. These are clearly indicated on the page.

Where do these books come from?

Donations. Even at library sales, most books are obtained from donations - not from the library itself. Of course, libraries often use these sales to 'weed out' some older editions of reference and other books, but the number is typically small compared to the number donated. The donations are usually from local patrons, however some sales have access to publishers' overstocks or galley proofs. Sometimes a person will bequeath books to a local library, which will include these in its sale. Some of the national organizations actively encourage their members to contribute their books.

And not just books. At many of the sales you will also find National Geographic and other magazines, records, CDs, and videos.

This is recycling at its best. The donor gets a tax deduction, the non-profit group gets needed funds, the purchaser gets great books at great prices.

Everybody wins!

How much do they cost?

This is the best part. The prices are lower than you will find anywhere else. Most sales sell paperbacks for about 50 cents or $1, hardcovers typically sell for a dollar or two, children's books are often even less. Where else can you get an encyclopedia for $10? Or a complete set of a Time-Life series for about $15? The bargains are amazing. You and the kids can walk out of a sale with an armload of books for less than you'd pay for one book at a traditional bookstore.

Is there a good selection?

It depends on the sale. Most sales have several thousand books. Some sales have a few hundred books, while others have hundreds of thousands (this is more than most bookstores). Again depending on the sale, about half to three-quarters are hardcover and the rest are paperback. Many of the larger sales have an enormous assortment of books, and they are usually sorted at least as well as you would find in a traditional bookstore.

And speaking of bookstores, some groups run used bookstores, which rival for-profit businesses in professionalism and selection. The stores are open during regularly posted hours either year-round or seasonally. Like any other bookstore, they afford you the opportunity to browse at your leisure. Unlike a traditional store, however, the prices are quite a bargain. 72

If you like gardening, cooking, or do-it-yourself, you're in for a real treat at the sales. There are usually loads of non-fiction books on various subjects. You can build an entire library by attending just a few sales. Over time, you'll probably get more selective and search different sales for unusual books on the subjects that interest you. We know of several people who plan their vacation around book sales at their destination, so they're never too far from a sale.

If you like to collect modern first editions, book sales are the places to go. Used book dealers all over the country send their scouts to these sales to find the hidden treasures. It's not uncommon to find a first edition of a book for $1, which a dealer will sell for $25 or more. Of course, if you're going to match wits with professional book scouts, you have to get there early and make decisions quickly. It's really quite exciting - and worth the effort if you can find a first edition of a popular author's early book. This is a great way to start collecting.

What could I do with all the stuff I buy there?

Let your imagination run wild.

 Develop a collection of cookbooks and give the collection to someone as a gift.  Pick up travel magazines (Conde-Nast, etc.) and buy a dozen copies or so (for about $1 total usually) - then plan your vacation.  Build a collection of National Geographics. Or buy some for your children so they can cut out pictures for school projects.  Build a collection of mysteries by a single author.  Build a collection of investment guides - and get fabulously rich!  Donate some back to the organization the next year - and get a tax deduction.

You can afford to do these things because the prices are so cheap. Where else can you get books on so many subjects for just a few dollars?

What can I expect at the sale?

You can usually expect lots of people. Collectors and book scouts are in line before the doors open. The experienced book sale buyer knows that the highly collectible books are often sold in the first hour or two of the sale. Remember that the sales are nearly always staffed by unpaid volunteers, so be patient with them. It's a good idea to bring your own bags so you'll have someplace to put your books while you're scurrying around grabbing book after book. Don't forget to look under the tables; there are usually more books than space so the organizers often replenish the books from boxes under the tables.

If you don't get to the sale when it opens, don't despair. Many good books are available throughout the sale. At some sales, donors bring books throughout the sale so you never know what will be there in the next hour. For the entire duration of the sale, you can always get good self-help books, mysteries, novels, and just about anything else you want. Book sale organizers often reduce the price of the books near the end of the sale. Many 73 will sell books for a buck-a-bag on the last day. At that price, you can afford to bring a bunch home for friends to browse. Any that you don't want can be donated back next year.”

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Book Selling Statistics http://publishing.about.com/cs/bookselling/

Includes:

Bestseller Lists 1900 - 1995

(Who Knew? In 1901, Winston Churchill had the bestelling book – and Sir Winston had a number of top sellers in the „00s!).

1998 Consumer Research Study on Book Purchasing

Retail Sales for Bookstores for 1991-1999 A chart showing sales of all types of participating bookstores, including trade, college, religious, chain stores (including their superstores), and others.

UK Domestic Consumer Book Market UK consumer book sales statistics.

Where the new textbook dollar goes A PDF file showing how each textbook dollar is split. From the National Association of College Stores.

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Bookselling Newsletters:

- The Bookthinker is a free monthly newsletter available from Bookthink, at www.bookthink.com

Edited by bookselling expert Craig Stark, the newsletter is full of tips on selling books, and especially, learning about which books sell well, and why. Bookthink also produces a premium edition of the newsletter, Gold Edition. Annual subscriptions are $29.99. They explain it best:

“[Bookthinker Gold edition] is a monthly newsletter with three areas of focus. One, niche markets. Collector interest in books is sometimes fickle, and what's hot one month may be cold the next. Even if interest in a given niche is consistently strong over time, you 74 may not be taking full advantage of it or, for that matter, be aware of it. We'll look at both kinds of niches - the fleeting and not so fleeting - explain in depth why they attract collector interest, and suggest specific steps you can take to exploit them for profit. Two, lists of flashpoints. Nothing else will help you spot quality, salable books with a better rate of success than a strong knowledge of flashpoints. Lists of the very best flashpoints will appear regularly in the Gold Edition. And three, tips. These will take the form of specific and timely advice on how to grow your bookselling business. Annual subscriptions for the Gold Edition are $29.99.

Also from bookthink.com:

- The Quarterly Market Report of Common, Profitable Books, or QMR: $49.99.

- The Bookologist www.bookologist.com

[Note as of 2007: It appears the Bookologist has not published new material since March 2006 or so, but there is still valuable information on the site. There is also great info and discussion at the AuctionBytes‟ regular Forums.]

Published by the folks at AuctionBytes, The Bookologist site offers resources for booksellers, including a free newsletter by the same name. Again, they probably explain it best:

“…for online booksellers and will help you acquire better books, earn higher prices for them, expand and sharpen your knowledge of topics such as book condition, grading, terminology, first edition points, and simple repair, offer up-to-date tips on the hottest market niches and much, much more.”

Trussel’s Eclecticity www.trussel.com/f_books.htm

Useful site with many links to other sites where you can find collectible books

Other Book Sites:

Antiquarian Booksellers of America (ABAA) http://abaa.org/

Includes: This Day in Literary History, This Week in Literary History, Book Fairs, Find a Book, Collectors' Corner, and a discussion board.

Abebooks.com (Abe) 75

AddALL www.AddALL.com Book Search and Price Comparison

Alibris ww.alibris.com “Books You Thought You‟d Never Find”

Amazon Books www.amazon.com

Barnes & Noble bibliophile.net

Book Avenue

BookFinder.com

BookQuarters.com fatbrain.com

Gutenberg Holdings

Half.com (owned by ebay – books at 1/2 off and more!)

Pandora's Books

Powell's Books

SearchBiblio.Com

TomFolio.Com

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IV. Books that Sell for $50-$100: 2004-5 Prices

[Most of the below is from the original list from the older, circa 2004-5 version of this ebook. Some is from 2007 and is denoted as such.]

Now, without further ado, let‟s get to our list of some of the books that sell for $50-$100! They are listed in this book by category. But, bear in mind I don‟t cover all the lucrative categories in this book, so once you start getting the hang of what books sell well, use your imagination for other similar categories.

PLEASE NOTE: These books are taken from actual sales online. In some cases I list the sellers‟ descriptions (in terms of the book‟s content and condition). I have not altered the sellers‟ wording in those instances, in order to give you a feel for the actual real-world descriptions that got these books to sell for these amounts. Those titles and descriptions are not my verbiage, but the sellers‟.

Fiction/Literature

Action & Adventure

Hot Items:

Author, Character or Item/Avge Sale Price/Price Range

Dan Brown $24.23 $0.3 - $261 2 Patrick Brian $18.52 $1 - $310 Doc Savage $11.67 $0.75 - $561.5 Harry Potter $13.49 $0.5 - $56 Clive Cussler 1st $15.66 0.99 - $76 Edgar Rice Burroughs $20.73 $0.99 - $172 Clive Cussler DJ $13.25 1.29 - $52.99 James Bond/ Fleming $11.86 $0.99 - $61.5 James Patterson $9.03 $0.01 - $35 STEPHEN KING $3 $0.01 - $36 John Grisham $4.84 $0.01 - $33 Mack Bolan Executioner $11.22 $0.01 - $130.5 Tom Clancy Book $6.65 $0.49 - $31 Robert Ludlum $4.41 $0.5 - $20.49

Fiction, Updated 4/07:

Top Fiction Sales

26116: : Fahrenheit 451with Asbestos Covers 6 $13,000.00

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26228: Frank Herbert: Dune First Edition 3 $9,000.00

26168: Philip Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep 10 $8,000.00

26281: H.P. Lovecraft: The Shunned House Extremely Rare 8 $7,500.00

26136: Burroughs Inscribed Jungle Tales of Tarzan 5 $7,000.00 26223: Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land 8 $6,500.00

26211: Robert A. Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress 9 $6,000.00

26326: W. Olaf Stapledon Inscribed Last and First Men 19 $6,000.00

26329: Olaf Stapledon Star Maker 7 $6,000.00

26193: Hugo Gernsback: Ralph 124C 41+ 2 $5,500.00

26207: Robert A. Heinlein Double Star 6 $5,500.00

26134: Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange 1st Edition 12 $4,750.00

26217: Robert Heinlein Signed Rocket Ship Galileo 3 $4,750.00

26277: Rare C.S. Lewis Ransom Trilogy First Editions 4 $4,750.00

26280: H. P. Lovecraft Shadow Over Innsmouth 1st Ed. 11 $4,750.00

26304: Mervyn Peake Complete Gormenghast Trilogy in Fin 11 $4,750.00

26339: William Timlin: The Ship that Sailed to Mars 3 $4,750.00

26348: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 1st Ed. 2 $4,750.00

26117: Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 First Edition 9 $4,500.00

26295: Walter M. Miller, Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz 3 $4,500.00

26298: Inscribed Ringworld 9 $4,250.00

26222: Robert Heinlein: Starship Troopers 9 $4,000.00

26316: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein 2 $4,000.00

"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: 1831 Revised Edition of Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. Together with: Frederick Schiller The Ghost-seer! (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831), first illustrated edition…(third overall), (No. IX in Bentley's 78

Standard Novels series), xii (including series title), Frankenstein end page 202, The Ghost-seer!, 163 pages, 3 pages publisher's ads at rear… plum cloth with two black paper gilt lettering labels, small 12mo (4.5" x 7"), title labels slightly chipped, spine sun faded, boards moderately soiled, foxing to the prelims, internal pages still bright, near very good condition. Offered in a beautiful full morocco clamshell case with five raised spine bands, gilt titles and decorations. “

Enlarge complete Readers Edition VIE (44 books) the Jack Vance Integral Edition - new in box, complete! 11 $3,900.00

'The Vance Integral Edition Jack Vance, though largely unknown, is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He is the author of over 60 books. The Vance Integral Edition project published a complete, corrected and archival quality edition of Vance's work, under the aegis of the author himself. The project was begun in 1998; it gathered hundreds of Vance readers worldwide. § The V.I.E. project was unprecedented in the history of literature: never have readers paid comparable homage to a writer, and never has a writer received such a treatment over the Internet." "The V.I.E. bookset was available by subscription to the entire set only, in a Readers Edition with paper covers and leather binding, and a Deluxe Edition, with full leather covers. Each set contains 44 books, with the titles preferred by the author."

26185: Arthur Conan Doyle The Lost World 1st Edition 10 $3,750.00

26323: Edward E. Smith Signed Limited First Lensman 4 $3,750.00

"Edward E. Smith: Signed Limited First Edition of First Lensman and Original Suppressed Cover Art. (Reading: Fantasy Press, 1950), first edition, 306 pages, signed special limitation page bound in front with cut of nebula but no number, light blue cloth with gilt titles, 12mo (5.5" x 7.75"), light foxing to inside of covers, light fading to head and tail of spine, else fine with THREE variant jackets. All three jackets were designed by A.J. Donnell. Two of the jackets are the variety with the space ship on the cover, with the back panel of one (good condition with small portions missing at the edges) listing four titles by Smith and the other (fine condition) listing five titles as consistent with Currey's A and B priority. The third jacket, in fine condition, differs completely from the other two in design and color. This jacket was the first one produced for the book but was rejected by the publisher. Onlya handful (four or five) were ever produced."

26148: Arthur C. Clarke Childhood's End 1st Edition 8 $3,500.00

26229: William Hope Hodgson The House on the Borderland 6 $3,500.00

About Hodgson, from Wikipedia: "Hodgson's most famous works 79

Hodgson is most widely known for two works. The House on the Borderland is a short novel of which H. P. Lovecraft wrote "but for a few touches of commonplace sentimentality [it] would be a classic of the first water",[1]. These works… contain elements of science fiction, although they also partake of horror and the occult. According to critical consensus, in these works, despite his often laboured and clumsy language, Hodgson achieves a deep power of expression, which focuses on a sense not only of terror but of the ubiquity of potential terror, of the thinness of the invisible bound between the world of normalcy and an underlying reality for which humans are not suited."

26303: : Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984] 18 $3,500.00

26347: The Mysterious Island 1st Edition 19 $3,500.00

26274: Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea 13 $3,250.00

ALL, THAT'S RIGHT, EVERY ONE OF THE DOC SAVAGE BOOKS 6 $3,000.00 [“Doc Savage is a fictional character, one of the most enduring pulp heroes of the 1930s and 1940s, created by Lester Dent.” – per Wikipedia.]

26121: Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles First 8 $2,800.00

26154: Hal Clement Cycle of Fire 18 $2,800.00

26341: A. E. van Vogt Author's Copy The Book of Ptath 2 $2,600.00 'A. E. van Vogt: Author's Personal Gift Copy of The Book of Ptath. (Reading, Pennsylvania: Fantasy Press, 1947), first edition, 227 pages, illustrated, red leather with gilt lettering on spine, 12mo (5.25" x 7.5"), dust jacket (in protective Mylar). Dust jacket design and illustrations by A.J. Donnell. One of the four initial inductees into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, A.E. van Vogt is an original master of the golden age of science fiction. This is a fascinating special copy of one of van Vogt's best books. It is, in fact, van Vogt's personal copy, given to him by Fantasy Press founder and publisher, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach. The limitation page, bound in between the copyright page and the contents page, states that "This Special Edition is limited to two copies, numbered, autographed and bound in leather." It also has a personalized handwritten note by Eshbach, reading in full: "For A.E. van Vogt - as an expression of our appreciation for his fine work as a writer, and our thanks for his cooperation with Fantasy Press." It is signed by four members of the managing staff of Fantasy Press underneath the note: "L. A. Eshbach A. J. Donnell G. H. MacGregor L. H. Houck". "

26374: Rare Cosmos Hardbound Edition One of 25 10 $2,600.00

Edgar Rice Burroughs TARZAN AND THE ANT MEN 1st in DJ 1 $2,575.00

26103: Edwin Balmer & When Worlds Collide 9 $2,400.00 80

26198: Joe Haldeman Signed Review Copy The Forever War 16 $2,400.00

26327: W. Olaf Stapledon Last Men in London 12 $2,400.00

26032: Clark Ashton Smith Out of Space and Time V 4 $2,200.00

26194: William Gibson Signed Neuromancer 23 $2,200.00

26152: Arthur C. Clarke Inscribed Reach for Tomorrow 7 $1,900.00

26179: Philip Dick: Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch 13 $1,900.00

26371: Roger Zelazny: Lord of Light Signed First 6 $1,900.00

26372: Roger Zelazny Signed Nine Princes In Amber 6 $1,900.00

[Per Wikipedia: “Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. He won the Nebula award three times and the Hugo award six times, including twice for novels: the novella...And Call Me Conrad (1966), subsequently published as the novel This Immortal, and the novel Lord of Light (1968)… While his earlier works won greater critical acclaim, Zelazny is probably best known for the Amber novels. These fall into two distinct series of novels, together with a set of short stories.”]

Fiction, from 1/05: Below is the original group of top fiction sales I culled in 2005. I thought it would be interesting to include these both to see how these changed over time, or not.

Top Fiction Sales

Full Set First Edition Stephen King Dark Tower Series Bonus 4 out of 5 original Gunslinger short story mags $1,200.00 BIN

OUTSIDER Arkham House '39 Lovecraft Fine/N. Fine $3,450.00 BIN

Easton Press Masterpieces of Science Fiction Collection H.G. Wells, Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke,Heinlein, Herbert $2,182.00 BIN

HARRY HOUDINI BOOK THE MASTER MYSTERY 16 PHOTO IILUS'19 $2,030.00 17

Robert Frost A Boy's Will Signed Autographed 1st Ed. 81

Inscription from the Author to and from Paul Watt, 1958 $1,500.00 BIN

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes $1,225.00 31

Full Set First Edition Stephen King Dark Tower Series Full Set First Edition Stephen King Dark Tower Series Bonus 4 out of 5 original Gunslinger short story mags $1,200.00 BIN

Tarzan of the Apes (Authentic First Edition- -McClurg!) This is the ORIGINAL 1914 First Edition $1,136.00 16

WARREN COMMISSION REPORT 1964 JFK JOHN F. KENNEDY COMPLETE SET OF THE REPORT FROM THE JFK ASSASSINATION $1,026.00 11

Dean Koontz The Book of Counted Sorrows SIGNED PB $630.00 35

H. P. Lovecraft - 'Beyond The Wall Of Sleep' - 1943 First Edition Hard Back Arkham House $900.00 BIN

RARE The Ivory Grin by Ross MacDonald 1st Edition 1952 $850.00 1

Stephen King - CUJO - Sgn'd/Nmbr'd - F/F # 91 $830.00 3

Louis Lamour-104-DELUXE EDITIONS-Leather-Gilt Edge Page Louis Lamour-104-DELUXE EDITIONS-Leather-Gilt Edge Page $821.01 2

Stephen King SIGNED! Skeleton Crew LTD Ed Scream Press $811.00 11

HENRY ROTH- CALL IT SLEEP- 1ST, 2ND PRINTING HD/DJ $785.95 1

SOLARIS by Stanislaw Lem 1st US edition 1970 $785.00 10

EUDORA WELTY-ROBBER BRIDEGROOM-signed 1st in dj $750.00 BIN

MICKEY SPILLANE THE JURY 1ST ED 1946 HB/DJ $660.00 17

Dean Koontz The Book of Counted Sorrows SIGNED PB $630.00 35

85 LOUIS LAMOUR LEATHERETTE HARDCOVER BOOKS LIKE NEW! $610.00 8

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EASTON PRESS 16 * SIGNED * SCIENCE FICTION 1STED NMINT EASTON PRESS 16 * SIGNED * SCIENCE FICTION 1STED NMINT $585.00 17

Dean Koontz English Proof Dean Koontz English Proof Strangers $511.21 7

9 The Boy Allies A.L. Burt Series Books in Dust Jackets $511 12

HAND WRITTEN ENVELOPE FROM LOVECRAFT TO ROBERT E HOWARD $510.00 5

Tolkien: LORD OF THE RINGS. 1st UK edition. $450.00 1

Stephen King From a Buick 8 CD SGD#d MINT COPY $500.00 B IN

DARK TOWER VII Stephen King 1st HC SIGNED/LIMITED OP $500.00 BIN Nice BrownLeatherette goldinlay 105 Louis L'Amour books $475.00 1

Tolkien: LORD OF THE RINGS. 1st UK edition. $450.00 1

1956 1st ed~ELMORE LEONARD~Escape From Five Shadows~DJ $411.00 18

Clayton Rawson as Stuart Towne Death out of Thin Air $409.88 5

Louis L'Amour Leatherette 114 volume set NICE!!! $405.00 6

DAMIEN HIRST BOOK $400.00 1

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2007: General Fiction that Sold for $50 - $100

Now let‟s look at fiction that fell in the $50 - $100 range. These may be easier to find when you‟re out and about:

Stephen King - The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Grant 2nd Ed 9 $100.13

The Complete Calvin And Hobbes NEW 3 VOL B. Watterson 7 $100.10

Robert Jordan- 9 hardbacks from Wheel of Time - VG+cond 11 $100.02

RAY BRADBURY 1st Ed SIGNED 1950 THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES 1 $100.00 83

HUGE LOT OF 124 FEAR STREET HORROR BOOKS BY R.L. STINE BIN $100.00 Motivational Shrieker, Delirium Books, Mark McLaughlin 5 $100.00 Ray Bradbury DANDELION WINE - Rare SIGNED Easton Press 3 $100.00 26004: L. Sprague de Camp: Demons and Dinosaurs 1 $100.00

26011: August Derleth [editor]: Dark of the Moon 2 $100.00

26021: Frank Belnap Long: The Hounds of Tindalos 1 $100.00

26036: : The Eye and the Finger 1 $100.00

26048: Nelson Bond: Signed & Numbered Limited First Edi 1 $100.00

26064: de Camp Inscribed Review Copy Lest Darkness Fall 2 $100.00

26112: Ray Bradbury Signed: The Anthem Sprinters and Ot 3 $100.00

26200: Milo Hastings: City of Endless Night 1 $100.00

26225: Robert Heinlein, editor: Tomorrow, the Stars 1 $100.00

26288: : Hell House 1 $100.00

Roswell - Huge Book Set!! 1-10 and Pursuit, loose ends, shades, nightcape, and No good Deed BIN $100.00

Joe Hill Heart Shaped Box UK 1st 1st Sign Line Date HB VERY SCARCE SGN DATED 3.28.07 & LINED 1 ONLY BIN $100.00

Jack Vance Treasury - Signed Limited - Slipcased - NEW! 10 $100.00

Cormac McCarthy The Road HB/DJ TRUE 1st ed / 1st TIGHT! No Oprah mention, 2 tone boards, rough cut edges BIN $100.00

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone collector edition Leather Cover w/gold foil stamping sealed in orig. wrap 1 $100.00

Marvel MAX Alias Omnibus OOP HC By Brian Michael Bendis BIN $100.00

Robert B. Parker - MORTAL STAKES - Rare (1975) HC/DJ! BIN $99.99

Marion Zimmer Bradley. THE MISTS OF AVALON. 1st HC/DJ. BIN $99.99

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Cormac McCarthy. THE ROAD. 1st HC/DJ. 1st ed., 1st prt. BIN $99.99

BLACK STALLION'S STEEPLECHASER - 1st Near Mint 4 $99.99

Antique Book Laura Jean Libbey - Lyndall's Temptation 1 $99.99

1913~STRIKE THREE,WILLIAM HEYLIGER~BASEBALL~FIRST~RARE! 6 $99.99

Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1979) 1st - FINE/FINE BIN $99.99 [Note: Vonnegut had recently passed away at the time of this auction ending; several Vonnegut auctions showed up at this time and I believe there was increased interest in him.]

The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing, 3 volume set 1 $99.95

Daydreams & Nightmares Fantastic Visions Winsor McCay BIN $99.95

MINT Harry Potter Hardcover books 1-6 (J. K. Rowling) FREE GIFT INCLUDED! What will happen in Harry Potter 7? BIN $99.95

1922 Fitzgerald TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE First Edition 1 $99.90

ON POINT by DAVE HENDERSON LIMITED EDITION AMWELL PRESS 4 $99.89

MANGA Rurouni Kenshin: 1-27 (Full Run of books) 18 $99.60

KURT VONNEGUT The Sirens Of Titan EASTON PRESS SIGNED EASTON PRESS...LIMITED SIGNED FIRST EDITION 11 $99.50

VONNEGUT God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater EASTON SIGNED EASTON PRESS...LIMITED SIGNED FIRST EDITION 11 $99.50

The Children of Hurin by J. R. R. Tolkien Signed BIN $99.00

PIERS ANTHONY= XANTH SERIES = 29 NOVELS + GUIDE LOT BOOKS 1 THRU 29 IN THE SERIES ALOT LIKE NEW BIN $99.00 ALGERNON BLACKWOOD. THE WAVE. 1ST U.S. SCARCE DJ 1 $99.00 “stated First English Language Publication & First American Edition Condition is near Fine - This appears to be unread, or very carefully read. If you're reading this, you probably know the story behind this edition, but here's a quick recap: The earliest Dumarest novels were each published as half of an Ace Double, starting in 1967, and most went through several reprintings. DAW Books later continued 85 the series, up to #31. For various reasons, #32 couldn't find a publisher, until it was ultimately published in France (and in French), in 1992.”

SIGNED Daughter of the Empire by Raymond E. Feist 8 $99.00

MARS MOUNTAIN historical specialty press SF 1935 1 $99.00

NEVADA BARR BITTERSWEET FIRST NOVEL 1st. EDITION 6 $97.01

STEPHEN KING DARK TOWER 1;75 VARIANT 9.2-9.4 5 $96.95

Kurt Vonnegut SIGNED The Sirens Of Titan Easton Press 1 $95.00

Mists of Dawn-Chad Oliver-First-1952-w/DJ-HC-Winston 1 $90.00

Carrie by Stephen King (1993) ****AUTOGRAPHED**** 1 $90.00

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006) First Edition 15 $90.00

The Complete Calvin And Hobbes by Bill Watterson (2005) 2 $90.00

le musée imaginaire de tintin (1979) + film BDM 1 $90.00

Brian Keene The Resurrection & Life SGD# MINT IN HAND! 1 $90.00 THE ULTIMATE TRIUMPH Robert E. Howard 1st HC LIMITED 1 $90.00

Star Wars NJO Book 13: Traitor - Matthew Stover 15 $89.88

Patrick O'Brian Master & Commander Series (Vol 1 - 19) 10 $89.06

Promise Me Tomorrow by Nora Roberts (1984) 18 $89.00 "Promise Me Tomorrow by Nora Roberts is a *RARE* book. "

Don Quixote--Illustrated by Salvador Dali 7 $89.00

THE SANDMAN... by Neil Gaiman, SIGNED 1st+ PHOTO+CD+w/ with an original SANDMAN drawing by Gaiman 4 $89.00

"Sisters" Lynne Cheney Lesbian Romance Western Novel !! 3 $88.77

20 CHRISTINE FEEHAN CARPATHIAN VAMPIRE + MORE 15 NEW 16 $88.10

Lot 59 NORA ROBERTS~11 Complete Series~Circle Trilogy! 27 $88.05

The Good Guy by Dean Koontz (2007)ARC paperback 10 $88.00

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The Folio History of Ancient Greece (4 Volumes) 2002 9 $87.27

Edgar Rice Burroughs - THE MUCKER - hc w/original dj 4 $87.00

Rare-Space Hulk Campaigns by Dean Bass 11 $86.12

MirrorMask by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean -- signed! Brand new limited edition from Subterranean Press! 4 $86.02

MEDITERRANEAN CAPER & ICEBERG/CLIVE CUSSLER 1ST PRINT 9 $86.00

Easton Press ROBIN HOOD illustrations by NC Wyeth 7 $86.00

Fear of Gravity by Brian Keene (2004) 8 $86.00

Children’s – From $3500 Down to $97

Let‟s look at a whole bunch of recent children‟s book listings that sold for high amounts, from highest to lowest. The range here is from $3500 on the high end to $100, and below that I have a more limited set of children‟s book prices from @ $50 - $100.

1266: Dr. Seuss. Horton Hatches The Egg. $3,500.00 1

1376: Dr. Seuss/. Flit Lotion In Box. $2,600.00 24

RARE Mickey Mouse Library & Set MIB $1,691.61 14

RARE Das Puppenhaus, Lothar Meggendorfer Children's Popup Book $1,625.00 5

Seckatary Hawkins. Ghost of Lake Tapaho. Ralston $1,001.11 13

1285: Dr. Seuss. Maybe You Should Fly A Jet! Maybe You $1,000.00 11

LEMONY SNICKET ALL 11 PLUS AUTOBIOG SIGNED VOL. 6 THROUGH 11 & AUTOBIOG ARE 1ST ED, 1ST PTG $999.00 Free

1176: Tudor, Tasha. Original Watercolor Illustration $950.00 38

1293: Dr. Seuss. Oh, The Thinks You Can Think! $950.00 5

1928 Hardy Boys Hunting For Hidden Gold - Red Ed w/DJ $860.00 19

1229: [Sendak, Maurice]. Stockton, Frank R. The Griffi $850.00 9

Hardy Boys SHORE ROAD MYSTERY W/DJ - BROWN ! $800.00 2 87

Set of 53 +1 Nancy Drew Books by Carolyn Keene $760.00 36

1281: Dr. Seuss. I Had Trouble In Getting To Solla Sol $750.00 5

Hardy Boys Tower Treasure 1927 TRUE 1st Ed FINE Red DJ $750.00 7

Hardy Boys Old Mill 1927 TRUE 1st ED FINE Red HB W/DJ $750.00 11

1185: Sendak, Maurice. E.T.A. Hoffman. Nutcracker $700.00 5

1303: Dr. Seuss. The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins $650.00 1

RAREST POOH!! FIRST Edition NOW WE ARE SIX by AA Milne Original 3d of Set of 4!! WINNIE THE POOH c.1927 $610.00 24

1284: Dr. Seuss. Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go $600.00 2

1460: [Dr. Seuss]. Theo. LeSieg [pseud]. Ten Apples Up $600.00 11

RAREST Alice in Wonderland- - FIRST MINIATURE EDITION! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland- Pub: Macmillan c1907 $561.00 1

RARE 1917 BABY RAY PRIMER "THE CHILD'S WORLD" BOOK SET! 1917 COMPLETE SET Primer Book One Two Three Four & Five $560.00 39

Tom Swift by Victor Appleton COMPLETE SET 38 Books! $450.00 1

NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS/TASHA TUDOR/FIRST EDITION $415 21

Victor Appleton - Ocean Airport HC/DJ G&D 1st $499.99 1

RARE First Ever 1930 set of Elson Dick & Jane Readers $455.00 13

23rd PSALM/TASHA TUDOR/1st/SIGNED & ANNOTATED $455.00 11

1224: [Sendak, Maurice]. Macdonald, George. The Golden $450.00 6

1252: Dr. Seuss. Bartholomew And The Oobleck $450.00 3

1437: [Dr. Seuss/Magazines Appearances]. Life $450.00 9

Tom Swift by Victor Appleton COMPLETE SET 38 Books! $450.00 1

Bad Beginning - 1st printing - Lemony Snicket Also included 1st/pr Reptile Room, Wide Window $427.00 6

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1st - 6th grade VINTAGE BASIC READERS in AMAZING SHAPE! $415.00 23

1ST ED!! 1957 Dr Seuss: HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! $403.04 6

1370: Dr. Seuss/Ephemera. Dartmouth Freshman Green Book $400.00 4

Will James Cowboy Book, 1938, 1st Ed., Western Children's Book, American Western Stories $385.00 17

1131: K. GRAHAME, THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS $380.00 7

1220: [Sendak, Maurice]. Krauss, Ruth. A Hole Is To Di $375.00 5

1332: Dr. Seuss. Thidwick The Big Hearted Moos e $375.00 1

NANCY DREW ~ Vintage Complete Set ~ 1-38 HB DJ Many with Orange or Navy silhouette endpapers 1930-60s $375.00 14

ALL 5 HARRY POTTER BOOKS 1ST SIGNED by J.K. ROWLING COMES WTH COA. $361.00 18

1st Peanuts Treasury Signed Charles M Schulz w/ Drawing $359.00 54

HARRY POTTER HAND SIGNED SET OF FIVE HAND SIGNED COMES WITH COA. $355.00 11

Baby-Sitters Club Ann Martin, Lot of 185 LIKE NEW Up to 132+Mystery+Super Specials+Portrait+Friends 4Ever $355.00 40

The Story of MICKEY MOUSE and the Smugglers $333.00 21

Lot of 29 Alfred Hitchcock 3 three investigators books $331.48 42

1243: Dr. Seuss. 2 Titles + First Day Cover. $325.00 1

1253: Dr. Seuss. Bartholomew And The Oobleck. $325.00 1

COMPLETE SET OF TOM CORBETT FIRST EDITIONS + MORE! $320.00 1

De Saint-Exupery The Little Prince 1st French Ed 1943 $317.00 9

1935 Night Before Christmas with Comics Characters $316.55 25

TOM MIX BIG BIG BOOK WHITMAN PARADISE VALLY MINT!! $305.02 8 89

3 Old BOOKS Tom Swift 25 28 33 MYSTERY COMET 1960 $305.01 25

100th Anniversary Oz Books by L. Frank Baum $305.00 18

1259: Dr. Seuss. Great Day For Up. $300.00 1

Black Stallion Books Walter Farley Set of 21 HB DJ OOP $299.00 12

SIGNED 1ST EDITION DR. SEUSS BOOK HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS ! $282.99 12

Jellybeans for Breakfast Miriam Young Hardcover 1968 $255.00 36

1296: Dr. Seuss. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. $250.00 17

COMPLETE SET OF MIKE MARS FIRST EDITIONS! $250.00 1

111 GOOSEBUMPS books R.L. STINE + pc game FREE S/H $240.00 33

BUCK JONES & THE NIGHTRIDERS WHITMAN BIG BIG BOOK NICE! $233.52 6

1960s CHARLES SCHULZ PEANUTS PAPERBACK BOOK COLLECTION 94 DIFFERENT LOTS OF 1rst edition BOOKS Comic strip rep $230.50 7

Cherry Ames Ski Nurse Mystery 1968, HB, PC, Rare, BK#27 $230.27 10

Salt & Pepper * * 1885 Illustrated $230.05 8

RARE 1940 Dick and Jane Workbooks Great MINT condition $223.16 14

31 Valuetales Value Tales Vintage HB Books by Johnson ! $222.50 33

1355: Dr. Seuss/Ephemera. Beginner Books Tin Sign. $220.00 3

LITTLE BLACK SAMBO - 1948 - First Ed- Golden Book $213.50 21

1298: Dr. Seuss. Scrambled Eggs Super. $210.00 10

1441 [Dr. Seuss]. Abingdon, Alexander. More Boners. $210.00 6

33 THE THREE 3 INVESTIGATORS ALFRED HITCHCOCK 1ST BOOK $201.00 17

Dare Wright Book THE LONELY DOLL EDITH & MIDNIGHT 1978 $201.00 28

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Little Red Riding Hood & Big Bad Wolf,1934,Disney $200.00 3

L.FRANK BAUM*HIDDEN VALLEY OF OZ BY COSGROVE DJ $199.95 1

Complete NANCY DREW Series by Carolyn Keene Books 1-56 $198.52 39

COMPLETE SET HARDY BOYS MYSTERY BOOKS NEW $197.57 5

1936 TARZAN BIG BIG BOOK WHITMAN TARZAN TWINS RARE! $192.52 9

Vintage Elves and Fairies 1st Edition Golden Book 1951 $192.50 33

1264: Dr. Seuss. Horton Hatches The Egg. $190.00 1

BLACK STALLION SERIES ~ Walter Farley 22 PBs OOP MINT $189.51 29

1231: [Sendak, Maurice]. The Juniper Tree And Other Ta $180.00 1

Babes in Birdland/Laura Bancroft (L. Frank Baum)/1st ed $178.50 4

THE WHITE GOOSE/TASHA TUDOR/SIGNED $177.50 13

24" X 19" DICK AND JANE PHOTOS FROM TEACHERS EDITION $175.00 2

Mildred Wirt - Shadow Stone - HC/DJ Beautiful! $174.99 1

Hooked on Phonics $172.50 49

DON STRONG PATROL LEADER BY WILLIAM HEYLIGER $170.39 7

Songs ALICE in WONDERLAND. & Looking Glass. 1921 1st ed Rare. 12 beautiful tipped in col. plts. Charled Folkard GBP 87.00 10

8 COWBOY SAM BOOKS - 1950s First Editions - NR $163.50 9

VERY RARE Giant Schnauzer Dog Children's Book Fiction $162.50 35

LOT OF 205 CHILDRENS BOOKS~ END OF YEAR CLEARANCE! Educational Great for Classroom Use! Dr. SEUSS & MORE! $162.50 29

Gaston Lagaffe ALL COLLECTION 19 BOOK French NEW BD $162.50 3

Thoroughbred series Joanna Campbell 74 book lot NR $162.50 28

Animorphs K. A. Applegate 1 - 54 Complete Set +12 bonus $162.50 17

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1197: Sendak, Maurice. Wo Die Wilden Kerle Wohnen. $160.00 2

1230: [Sendak, Maurice]. Tesnohlidek, Rudolf. The Cunn $160.00 1

1276: Dr. Seuss. I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! And Other $160.00 1

1322: Dr. Seuss. The Lorax. $160.00 8

NANCY DREW COMPLETE 56 HARDCOVER BOOK SET NEW $160.00 1

E NISTER Something New For Little Folk Mechanical Book $159.06 14

Set of 56 Nancy Drew books from 1970s $158.51 6

1921 Peter Rabbit Box with 3 Books and Peter in Grass! 3 1st Edition Alma Hudson Peter Rabbit Titles $158.50 3

28 Valuetales Value Tales Spencer Johnson MD homeschool $158.06 11

John Marsden TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN rare 1st DJ! $157.50 31

Radio Boys Chapman Complete Set 13 books to the Rescue $157.50 12

RARE- Help the Animals Pop-Up Books by Robert SABUDA Complete 1st EDITION Collection of ALL 4 Books $156.05 9

1948 Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman Golden Book $155.53 15

A Town Dog in the Country 1925 G.Vernon Stokes HC DJ $153.50 3

The New Book of Knowledge (2003) GREAT GIFT! $152.50 6

Dr. Seuss book lot 67 Suess books some rare vintage $152.50 29

The Saddle Club books [86 Total] by Bonnie Bryant $152.50 13

FOURTEEN BEARS SUMMER AND WINTER 1974 Evelyn Scott $152.50 $3.75 15 Dec-14 19:20

HUGE lot 39 SERENDIPITY BOOKS PB Stephen Cosgrove $152.50 32

THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ 1st ED.3rd State $152.50 9

All 5 HARRY POTTER Books on CD: BRAND NEW COMPLETE SET $150.50 25

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119 Choose Your Adventure Books! CYOA Lot High Nos WoW! $150.00 3

Nancy Drew VELVET MASK HB DJ TRUE FIRST Silhouette EPs Rare FIRST Printing $235 value per Farah's 11th $150.00 7

Set of 20 Highlights Top Secret Adventures - - Complete $142.50 19

11 Cowboy Sam Hardcover Books-1960's-1970-Very Good $142.02 9

LEFT BEHIND -THE KIDS SERIES VOL. 1-40 $139.77 14

Dr.Seuss"Did I ever tell you How Lucky you Are?"signed 1973 First Edition Signed by the Author Dr.Seuss,WOW $139.49 13

L. Frank Baum, Wizard of Oz, 14 books Comp Series(PB) $138.50 2

The Boxcar Children Books # 1 to 48 $137.50 74

HARDY BOYS Complete 1-50 Vol; Blue Binding 1960-s-'70's $137.50 18

ADVENTURES OF TINTIN BY HERGE COMPLETE 21 TITLE SET SC $136.00 1

Three Investigators #41 Creep-Show Crooks HC GLB 1st $135.63 26

Entire Mr. Men book collection!! Brand new!!! Shipped from the US!!! $135.00 2

Winnie the Pooh, Stuart Little 1st Edition Books! $132.50 20

1308: Dr. Seuss. The Butter Battle Book. $130.00 1

The Little Mermaid Book Hans Christian Andersen 1939! $129.50 6

F. A. O. Schwarz 1932 Christmas Catalog toys, etc $129.50 4

1930's-40's Set of JUDY BOLTON MYSTERY Books 1-16 $128.50 7

1951 GIANT GOLDEN BOOK OF ELVES & FAIRIES MUST SEE!! Very good to excellent condition - - in time for Xmas! $128.50 12

THE SILVER PRINCESS IN OZ, 1938. RUTH P.THOMPSON – BAUM $128.41 7

DICK AND JANE 1947 ONLY CATHOLIC PRE-PRIMER OF 1940s ALSO INCLUDES BLESSED MOTHER AND BABY JESUS $127.76 14

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Walter Farley Black Stallion Series 22 PBs OOP! WOW! $127.51 22

8 Books - J Tatham/Helen Wells HB 1946-1961 $127.50 23

Huge Little Golden Book Collection (234 Books!) $127.50 2

Little Golden Book Little Black Sambo 1948 "C" LGB $127.50 12

HUGE 175 GOLDEN BOOKS "CLASSIC STYLE" NO DOUBLES! $127.50 3 Dr. Seuss Collection, NEW, 25 Hardback Children's Books Brand New Books, No Duplicates, Bargain Opportunity $127.50 6

Cherry Ames' Book Of First Aid And Home Nursing-With DJ Helen Wells, 1959, Good condition, Dustjacket in mylar $127.50 20

The Night Before Christmas 1960 Giant Whitman Book $127.50 19

The Night Before Christmas Hallmark Pop-Up Book Mint $127.50 24

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN $127.45 6

I can Read with My Eyes Shut! Dr. Seuss - True 1st/1st $126.94 8

Junior Year Abroad *Rosamond/Judy du Jardin *Signed 1st $125.50 18

RARE set of Dick & and Jane Health Readers Excellent $125.00 3

OZ-ROAD TO OZ $124.95 1

3 Three Investigators #43 CRANKY COLLECTOR hb HC $124.39 26

Little Black Sambo - Julian Wehr Movable 1949 RARE $123.50 16

New-A Series of Unfortunate Events 1-11 Lemony Snicket $123.00 31

Hooked on Phonics Teach children to read $122.50 31

LUCKY BUCKY IN OZ; 1942, JOHN R. NEILL - L. FRANK BAUM $122.50 17 MY BOOK HOUSE 13 Volume Set 1948 Olive Beaupre Miller COMPLETE SET - - INCLUDING LITTLE BLACK SAMBO $122.50 14

FIRST PRINTING of The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket $122.50 7

NANCY DREW - HIDDEN STAIRCASE; EARLY WHITE DJ $122.22 12

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NANCY DREW - MESSAGE IN THE HOLLOW OAK - RARE DJ $122.22 7

The Rover Boys on Treasure Island 1909 Winfield HC DJ $121.50 10

27 Volumes of by Jerry West $121.25 25

Little Black Sambo Little Golden Book #57 $121.00 18

1967 D'AULAIRE NORSE GODS and GIANTS CHILDRENS BOOK XLT RARE 1st Edition Mythology Norway Collectible BOOKS $119.99

Little Black Sambo Little Golden Book 1948 $117.50 31

POOCHY the Christmas PUP Charlot Byj RARE Child's Book Vintage Paper Pop Up book MINT by Beth Vardon Complete $117.50 29

SCARCE VINTAGE POP-UP BOOK Marco Polo Czech London Westminster Books Bancroft EXQUISITE POP UP DETAIL $116.03 9

LIMITED EDITION CLUB HANS ANDERSEN FAIRY TALES SIGNED 1942 LEC HAND COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS FRITZ KREDEL RARE 114.50 2

Betty MacDonald NANCY AND PLUM 1st/dj VF 1952 XMAS $113.50 14

3 Old BOOKS Tom Swift 11 31 23 DYNA-4 CAPSULE 1960 $113.35 17

1918 1st ADDITION BOOK-THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZ-BAUM $112.50 9

Big Little book Zane Grey's Tex Thorne $112.50 15

1948 LETS~LET'S PRETEND by Nila Mack & 1946 Both Books are illus. by CATHERINE BARNES~A++ condition $112.50 4

1917 Montgomery-Anne Of Avonlea-Fine with Dust Jacket $112.05 3

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS Lemony Snicket 1-11 1st 1195: Sendak, Maurice. Where The Wild Things Are $110.00 11

1265: Dr. Seuss. Horton Hatches The Egg. $110.00 1

CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, w/ DJ $109.50 13

"Under the Window" by , Rare1878 1st Ed. $109.00 1

1950 Tall Book of Make-Believe (NR) $108.26 21 95

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH - 1961 - VINTAGE – DJ $107.96 18

The Shiniest Star EXCELLENT CONDITION MUST SEE $107.50 31

Gaston and Josephine Little Golden Book 1948 $107.50 18

THE WIZARD OF OZ 1903 EDITION 'RARE' BY FRANK BAUM, PICTURES BY WW DENSLOW $107.50 16

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS - Moore, Barnes - 1960 WHITMAN GIANT TELL-A-TALE BOOK - very good condition $107.50 31

1915 VOL. 16 BILLY WHISKERS ON THE MISSISSIPPI $106.58 5

Sutton - Judy Bolton - Puzzle in the Pond HB/DJ NEW! ~*~RARE Aeonian Press Reprint in MINT condition!~*~ $105.50 12

SUGARPLUM, Johanna Johnston, 1955 $105.00 14

1946 WHITMAN BETTER LITTLE BOOK DONALD DUCK DISNEY MINT $104.52 17

RUFUS RASTUS BROWN IN DARKTOWN 1906 book $104.04 11

Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham First Edition 1960 First Edition, First Printed Wrapper Issue. Very Good+ $103.51 7

1935 CHILDREN'S BOOKS ILLUSTRATED by JESSE WILCOX SMITH $103.50 6

1951 BOOK: GIANT GOLDEN BOOK OF ELVES & FAIRIES 1ST ED $103.50 12

Chip Hilton FEUD (Clair Bee) HB 1st ed #22 '64 Chip Hilton Sports Story #22; Children's Series; 1964 $103.50 9

1946 BUMPER BOOK WITTY PIPER EULALIE PLATT MUNK VG++ $103.50 8

1947 BRER RABBIT WALT DISNEY BETTER LITTLE BOOK MINT!! $102.52 15

Easton Press WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ Frank L. Baum RARE $102.50 21

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PETER PAN AND WENDY Barrie 1925 1ST FULL COLOR PLATES!! $102.50 34

Nancy Drew Diary WHITE SPINE DJ RARE EPS! Tandy Art $102.50 10

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman 1st ed signed $102.50 14

The Hardy Boys SECRET OF OLD MILL 1927 FRANKLIN W DIXON $100.99 8

Big Little book Zane Grey's Tex Thorne $100.99 8

1306: Dr. Seuss. The Butter Battle Book $100.00 1

Hooked on Phonics: Learn to Read Deluxe Package $100.00 1

2 scarce Lone Ranger Better Little Books, 1941 & 1946 Lone Ranger Follows Through, Lone Ranger Silver Bullets $100.00 1

1st Ed. SUZUKI BEANE by Scoppettone illus. Fitzhugh Personal Reading Copy for Booksellers $100.00 19

Judy Bolton ~ PUZZLE IN THE POND ~ HB DJ Sutton NEW $100.00 5

WALT DISNEYS THE RELUCTANT DRAGON,1941,MINTY,1st.HC DJ. $100.00 12

1943 THE LITTLE PRINCE-EXUPERY-REYNAL H.-RARE BOOK $99.99 1

EASTON PRESS PETER PAN LIMITED CHILDRENS EDITION $99.50 24

Oh What Fun It Is To Read Sweet Pickles 27 $99.00 1

YAMA YAMA LAND 1909 BOYLAN & KELLER OZ LIKE RARE $99.00 1

Easton Press PETER PAN Barrie RACKHAM 1ST MINT/RARE OOP $98.50 25

AROUND THE WORLD WITH ANT AND BEE BY ANGELA BANNER $98.00 12

Sugar Creek Gang by Paul Hutchens Set of 36 NEW NR Great Christmas Gift for Young Boys and Girls $97.26 36

The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket SIGNED/ 1st Ed. $97.00 10

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Title/ /# Bids (or BIN/FP)/ Final Price

Scholastic Lot of 89 Children's Books Paperback 22 $61.00 Serendipity Books with no duplicates! 22 $86.00 Help me be Good Series of books by Joy Berry 20 $86.00 Sesame Street Talking Big Bird Story Magic Tape & Book 28 $96.00 Childrens book The Golliwog News c 1920 2004 2 $56.00 Little Golden Book Black Sambo 13 $61.00 GEORGE O'BRIEN #1457-BIG LITTLE BOOK 1 $65.00 COLORING BOOK GREG IRONS 1 $50.00 WALT DISNEY'S - BAMBI HANKIES BOOK 11 $211.38 New Harry Potter Hardcover Books Boxed Set 1-5 Book Box 9 $51.00 OLD Little Golden Books w/ 1st ED. Childrens 13 $71.00 BIG CHIEF WAHOO #1432-BIG LITTLE BOOK 1 $60.00 Scholastic First Discovery Books 18 $66.00 Lot of 4 THINGAMAJIG books * Irene Keller 13 $56.00

Special Interest Books

Golf

The Golfers Year book 1905 golf book $735.00

BOOK-FAMOUS GOLF LINKS-HUTCHINSON 1891 **PICS $371.00

1937 GOLF BOOK/CONDE NAST/FORE/AFT/GOLF PRINT $326

The Gist of Golf-Harry Vardon-Book-1922-1st $185

1931 GOLF COURSE COMMON SENSE Book RARE! $175

Visa Golf Flip Book,Chester Horton, 1925, NR $159

Chester Horton,1925,Golf Book,Visa,NR $138.50

Travers Golf Book Rare $130.00

1893 Hutchinson GOLF BOOK Badminton Library $100.99

Divots - P.G.Wodehouse Golf 1st Ed.- 1927 Book $84.95

The Duffer's Handbook of Golf Book (c) 1926 ! $71

GOLF BOOK My Partner,Ben Hogan by J.Demaret $71.00

THE SPIRIT OF ST ANDREWS $67.11 98

GOLF BOOK SHORT HISTORY OF PINE VALLEY NR $56

More Books, Including Longer Descriptions:

Gardening

The Joy of gardens 1911 $167

Gardening for Pleasure 1882 $72

Redoute Roses Botanical Print Book 24 Prints $168.39

Cookbooks

Time-Life The Good Cook Cookbook Set 26 Vols. $400.00

1807 Cookbook New System of Domestic Cookery $153.57

GUATEMALAN AND MAYAN COOKBOOK -Copeland Marks $138.10

BROWN DERBY Cookbook 1952 HB Lthr. Illustrated $125.00

1978 KABUL AFGHANISTAN COOKBOOK rare ILLUST. $125

Mary & Vincent Price Cookbook HC 1St Printing $102.50

Cookbook - Kitchen Keepers * Brand New* $99

1961 BETTY CROCKER NEW PICTURE COOKBOOK 1STed $92

FRIENDS TV SHOW cookbook ** out of print ** $86

Dark Shadows Cookbook Barnabas Collins Scarce $85.00

1949 Brown Derby Cookbook - 1st Ed $84

Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook 1956 EXCELLENT $79.99

1888 Hand written CookBook RARE!! L@@K $78.88

Black Americana Mammy cookbook $78.50

Scarce 1970 LIBERACE Cooks-Cookbook-1st w/DJ $76

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Cookbook, Scottish Step-By-Step Gourmet Food $62

Southern Living Heritage Cookbook Cookbooks $61

Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook 1956 EXCELLENT $59.99

Nancy Drew Cookbook 1st Ed. w/ red endpapers! $59.26

PICAYUNE CREOLE COOKBOOK LOUISIANA 1901 $57.66

Old manuscript cookbook Lexington, VA $57.51

Nut Tree Remembered - The Cookbook $57.49

DIXIE RECIPES 1939 COOKBOOK BLACK MAMMY COVER $57.01

LA WEIGHT LOSS PACKAGE! COOKBOOK & 4 NULITES $57.01

The New Pillsbury Family Cookbook $56.00

1910 Egg Baking Powder Adv. Cookbook $54.99

Time Life Set Good Cook cookbook cookbooks $53

Buzza Vibrant Graphic Cookbook W/ Orig Box $52.99

Original Chambers Stove Cookbook NOT A COPY $52.00

Houston Livestock Show Rodeo Cookbook 1st ed US $50.00 (ended w/ Buy It Now)

CULINARY INSTITUTE COOKBOOK/TEXTBOOK $50.00

"THIS BOOK IS CALLED THE NEW PROFESSIONAL CHEF, and is used as the textbook at the CULINARY INST. OF AMERICA. Everything you ever needed to know about cooking anything is in this cookbook!"

1886 VINTAGE COOKBOOK - VICTORIAN AMERICANA $50.00

Heading: 1886 COOKBOOK - GOOD CONDITION “This is a true collector's item. It's more than a cookbook...an historical look at life in the late 1880s. The title: Home Dissertations: an Offering to the Household, for Economical and Practical Skill in Cookery, Orderly Domestic Management, and Nicety in The Appointments of Home. 174 Pages plus Table of Contents. Compiled and illustraded by Mrs. E. Stevens Tilton. Published by Hunter & Beach, New York. Copyrighted, 1885, by Mrs. E. Stevens Tilton. The book is in very good condition with little foxing on the pages or cover.”

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Railroad/Train Books

PENNSY DIESEL YEARS VOL 1-5 RAILROAD BOOKS $172.50

“PENNSY DIESEL YEARS VOLUMES 1-5 BY ROBERT J. YANOSEY ( VOLUME 1 ) COPYRIGHT 1988 PUBLISHED BY MORNING SUN BOOKS INC. FIRST PRINTING ISBN # 0-9619058-2-4, (VOLUME 2) COPYRIGHT 1989 PUBLISHED BY MORNING SUN BOOKS”

DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD STATIONS BOOK 1928 $152.51

RARE PRR RAILROAD BK BRD DIRECTORS TRIP BOOK $152.50

RAILROAD DATE NAIL BOOK DATE NAILS COMPLETE $151.50

Exceptionally Rear Railroad book 1923 $103.50

1894 D&RG RGS Silverton Railroad Book MusC NR $100.99

RARE 1893 Northern Pacific Railroad Book $92.55

Car Builders Cyclopedia 1949-51 Railroad book $86.00

PRR PRSL RAILROAD BOOK BY RAIL TO BOARDWALK $76.00

Comic Books

Old, rare comic books can be quite lucrative. But, these are going to be harder to find, because the world of collectors is large and people are more aware of their value. But...want to talk big bucks? Just look at some of these bad boys:

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 comic book CGC 4.0! US $2,550.00 Description: The Amazing Spider-Man #1, the historic of Spider Man in his own comic book (he had made an earlier appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15). You can read all about this comic book in the Overstreet Price Guide. I have had this comic slabbed by CGC, which gave it a grade of 4.0.

Avengers #1 comic book-Hulk, Thor, Ironman US $810.00 “This book was sold to me and graded by seller at F+. Looks better than that to me. This is not a reprint, but the original 09/1963 one.”

1940 Superman #4 Comic Book Very NICE CONDITION US $585.67

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“THIS SUPERMAN COMIC BOOK IS #4 OF THE 1ST SERIES FROM 1940. THIS IS A VERY DESIREBLE COMIC BOOK. THIS BOOK IS IN GREAT COSMETIC CONDITION AND IT IS COMPLETLY UNRESTORED. THE STAPLES ARE TIGHT AND THERE IS ONLY A VERY SMALL TEAR IN THE FRONT COVER THAT IS ONLY 1" LONG ON THE BOTTOM OF THE BINDING. THE TEAR IS ONLY ON THE FRONT COVER, NOT THE WHOLE BINDING. THE PAGES ARE VERY NICE AND BRILLIANT. THE CORNERS ARE IN NICE SHAPE TOO. THIS IS JUST A SUPER NICE COMIC BOOK THE WHOLE BOOK IS BRIGHT AND CRISP.”

1964 DAREDEVIL COMIC BOOK 1ST ISSUE NO.1 $567.00

“YOU ARE BIDDING ON A 1964 DAREDEVIL COMIC BOOK NO.1 THIS IS A NICE LOOKING COMIC BOOK IN VG++/FINE CONDITION. WINNER ADDS $4.00 FOR S/H AND CHECKS, M.O.'S, AND PAYPAL ARE ACCEPETED.GOOD LUCK! PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS COMIC BOOK HAS A NEAR MINT VALUE OF $2300.00”

Weird Comic Book #4 NOV. 1952 $450.00

“Great old comic book in near mint condition. Acquired from the estate of the original owner. I will be listing 100+ nice comics from this estate in the next few months. This 1952 example shows very little wear as pics show. You will not be disappointed in the condition of this comic.”

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #121 NM-M COMIC BOOK $300.00

“You are bidding on The Amazing Spider-man #119 Comic Book. This comic book is in Near Mint-Mint Condition. Produced in June 1973. This book has the death of Gwen Stacy, (killed by Green Goblin). The cover has a nice gloss and vibrant colors. All pages are complete and without tears.”

1948 BATMAN #139 COMIC BOOK $198.17

“this comic is in wonderful condition. the cover still retains most of its original high gloss. I have checked the whole comic very carefully and there are no ripped or torn pages anywhere. the binding is pretty nice with very little wear and just very slight staple pulls. just a little wear on the edges where you would turn the pages with your thumb there is a two very tiny splits. the front cover has just a tiny corner bend at the top right and bottom right hard to even see and slight discoloration by the binder. [more condition notes]…the color of the pages look pretty uniform with some yellowing from age I would call it light to medium yellowing. this is really one of the cleaner comics that I have ever seen. hard to imagine after 50 years.”

Old 1945 Mask Comics #2 Comic Book *RARE* $178.86

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“This is an old Mask Comics 10 cent comic book from 1945. I don't know how to rate comics books but I would say it in pretty good condition for it's age, it shows some wear and has some small tears on the cover and has been rolled at one time and doesn't lay flat, maybe you will know how to flatten it.”

Madonna Sex Book, Comic, Erotica CD US $155.50

“You are bidding on a first edition copy (U.S.) of "SEX" by Madonna, including the accompanying "Erotica" CD. The book has the metal cover and is stamped with serial number 0212267. The metal cover is in good shape, but not perfect. It has a couple of minor scratches that could probably be buffed out. The spiral binding is in perfect shape, not flattened or deformed in any way. The pages inside are perfect, not folds or marks of any kind. The "comic" is still bound into the book. The CD has been opened and is still in excellent shape. The mylar cover for the CD is intact, but has some marks. Mylar is very fragile. While the Material Girl is the proper focus of the book, don't overlook the work of photographer Steve Meisel. This is a bona fide collector's item, which will only increase in value over time. I am the original owner of this copy and it has been well cared for. … Warner Books, October 1992.”

Walt Disney's Comics Comic Book 1941 V.1 $153.50

“Here is a super rare and hard to find item. This is a comic book from 1941 the very first volume of the whole series. This is the 9th one of Series 1. This magazine is in awesome condition. There are NO RIPS OR TEARS on the magazine except for the back cover that is covered up with clear tape it is a 3" long tear on the back. The binding is tight and all the pages are in MINT condition. This is a very hard book to find so get yours today. Be sure to look at my other auctions, they may surprise you. good luck and happy bidding.”

FANTASTIC FOUR #2 SKRULLS Jan 1962 Comic Book $139.38 “Original old Jan. 1962 issue of THE FANTASTIC FOUR #2 in attic found condition. I don't know how to professionly grade condition of comic books but in my opinion this issue is in fair condition as it is still in one piece with no major tears. Covers are still tightly fastened to inside pages by the staples and front cover and inside pages are pretty clean and colorful…[more condition notes, with flaws..] This is a well read copy but looks pretty good displayed and could be in a lot worse shape.”

Famous Funnies #9 Comic Book 1935 $129.57 “This is #9 , April 1935. Features , Joe Palloka & Dan Dunn strips. The cover has been neatly taped at the spine. Some light edge wear. Pages are nice & look complete. Some minor edge tears and chips, slightly browned. Great Buck Rogers Casting kit ad inside front cover. Good Reading Copy.”

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #129 VF COMIC BOOK US $128.50 “You are bidding on The Amazing Spider-man #129 Comic Book. This comic book is in Very Fine Condition. Has 1st appearence of the Jackal and The Punisher. Produced in February 1974. The cover has a nice gloss and vibrant colors. All pages are complete and without tears.”

#2 LITTLE LULU COMIC BOOK ( COMICS ) US $127.50 “Here is the #2 Little lulu in excellent cond. I can't rate comics but I would say this is an 9.5+++ for being 54 years old. My cousin gave me this as I am only 53.7 years old. It has a slight ink stamp on cover and first page with my name and address. This should not detract from the value. Again this is the #2 issue March-April 1948. (My pride and joy.)”

1949 WONDER WOMAN #94 COMIC BOOK SUPER NICE US $123.50 “this comic is in super nice condition. the cover still retains most of its original high gloss . I have checked the whole comic very carefully and there are no ripped or torn pages anywhere . the binding is really clean with almost no wear and just very slight staple pulls …[more condition notes, with flaws..] I would call it medium yellowing on the outer edges.”

1922 ~ Tillie The Toiler ~ Comic Book $119.50 “This item is Vol 1 , #5 of the 1922 comic monthly. It is titled „Tillie The Toiler.‟ The book is complete and without damage except for a 1-1/2" tear in the outside binding at the bottom.”

X-MEN #4 COMIC BOOK $102.55 “The fourth issue of the original X-Men comic , published in March of 1964. This issue features the first Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Brotherhood of the Evil Mutants. Slight spine roll and a tiny bit of wear around the edges, otherwise grades about fine.”

Famous Funnies #5 Comic Book 1934 Buck Rogers $87.50

“This is Famous Funnies #5, December 1934. Features Buck Rogers, Napoleon, & Nipper strips. The cover has been neatly taped at the spine. Some creases and edge wear…”

1964 Dell Giant Comic Book The Beatles! No. 1 $80.95

This vintage comic is complete - it is in fair condition - some bends on the front cover and is dusty / dirty in some places. There are no missing pages or tears. It has some great color photographs of The Beatles as well as their life stories in comic book form.

1949 Dagwood Splits the Atom Comic Book $79.99

This is one of many military paper items I am auctioning this week. Be sure to check out the others after reading about this one. Next week- Pre WWII German items and lots of 104

WWII paper. Dagwood is joined by other comic book characters like Popeye, Mandrake and others to educate us about the Atom. Each page as a cartoon and then explanatory text. Look at the picture of the page on spliting the nucleus. Dagwood and his friends can't do it, so you have to read the text below to find out why. On other pages, Dagwood gives more information. At the end is a test to see what you have learned. 32 pages almost mint condition. You also get a promotional folder for the comic that went out to ad.

MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER COMIC BOOK # 1 FEB 1963 $78.01

MAGNUS ROBOT FIGHTER 4000 A.D., Issue #1, February 1963 from Gold Key. Copyright K. K. Publications, Inc., Poughkeepsie, New York. Tiny holes at the bottom of some pages, some wear on the spine, one tiny tear on right edge of front cover, light soiling. S&H at $2.00 plus insurance.

Old FLASH Comic Book #60 The Wind Master NR $76.50

Art Books c.1880 Book - Art Masterpieces in Germany US $279.50

Title: Art Treasues of Germany Published - ca. 1880s By A. Gorling, B. Meyer, and A. Woltmann Published in : Samuel Walker & Co. No Date Listed. 13.00 inches x 10.00 inches. Pages: 151 + 198 + approx 120 Plates. English Language.

Rare ERTE Hardcover Art Book 1972 $184.03

Beautifully bound hardcover illustrated Erte book by Roland Barthes, published by Franco Maria Ricci copyright 1972. Out of print, rare, mint condition with original hard cover box. Gold leaf lettering on cover with gorgeous ERTE illustrations, including alphabet and fashion drawings. Perfect for art collectors, designers, coffee tables. 9 1/4" X 14". 179 pages.

Massive Art Book MARINO MARINI Complete Works $143.50

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MARINO MARINI by Herbert Read, Patrick Waldberg and G. Di San Lazzaro

Massive Hardcover Book with Dustjacket. Published by Tudor Publishing Co. (c)1970 Rare, Unstated First Edition - First Printing Nearly 1000 reproductions! Eighty of them in color - printed under the artist's personal supervision

From the dustjacket: "It seems that one could justly and without paradox describe Marino Marini as the last paladin of Western sculpture, according to the apt expression of Patrick Waldberg, author of the general text of this work, Not since Rodin has there appeared a 105 body of work where richness ad diversity combine such coherence and rigor, the whole set within such a great respect for life…” [more notes…]

CONDITION: Book itself is in excellent condition. Minimal wear. [more notes..] The dustjacket is missing a small piece along the bottom of the spine and shows moderate shelf wear with a few small tears at the edges/corners.”

1944 art reference book on LUIGI KASIMIR $140.50

Rare Book LOETZ ART GLASS 1905 – Vol 2 of 2 $135.00

Capcom Illustrations Gamest Mook Art Book $125.00

A Japanese video game magazine (book) 'Capcom Illustrations Gamest Mook Vol.17 All Graphical Works Of The Capcom Design Room' art book. It has 160 A4+ pages of superb Capcom art from 25 Capcom games (Final Fight, Street Fighters, Vampires, Cyberbots, etc), plus a Bengus Capcom Girls collection, Capcom Manga, Making Of Cover Illustration (showing the cover illustration in its different stages of design), interviews with & profiles of Capcom artists (including Bengus), B&W rough sketches, etc. It was published in 1995. All in Japanese. Excellent condition.

HORSES LEROY NEIMAN BOOK OF ART NR US $112.50

This is a book of art by Leroy Neiman, Horses. Dated 1979, book has 350 pages of art, descriptions of techniques by artist. There are foldouts, full spreads plus smaller prints. Some of the art include, Seattle Slew, The Triple Crown, Steeplechase, Racing in France, Jockeys, Racing in Ireland, Betting, Polo, Wooden Horses, Olympics, and many more. Cover is of a cloth material that needs cleaning and front has a bow that could probably be straightened out. All bindings, pages are intact and good condition.

The Delineator Book 1909-1920 Illustrated Art US $112.50

*** 1909 - 1920 "THE DELINEATOR BOOK" 1000'S OF ILLUSTRATIONS, ENGRAVINGS & ADVERTISMENTS *** Overall this Outstanding Book is in Really “Nice Condition - the binder & the cover have a tiny bit of roughness and the pages have a tiny hint of yellowing. There appears be to be 11 years worth of magazines issue information in this book, which dates from December 1909 - December 1920. Filled with tons of pictures - which include - Vogue Fashions , All Sorts of Advertising , Just about Any Thing that you can think of -- Many are Full Page Pictures - Colored & Black/White…”

Victorian 300 pictures art antique RARE book US $72.99

I will never do this book justice in my description...but I will try my best..this is a leather bound very old book that is called MASTERPIECES OF ART...I believe this is 1800's.It is 14 by 11 inches..all the picture are in very good condition..no water stains or rips in the 106 pictures..It has over 300 pictures black and white of famous and unfamous paintings..with titles & history & the painters name..etc...The odd thing is it is NOT missing any pages..BUT I can not find any names or company..it starts by talking about the editor but NEVER mentions the name of the editor.. "The editor is a lover of pictures. In making a tour of the art galleries of the world, he realized the luxury of seeing all these pictures was limited to the very wealthy and to them by wearisome and expensive traveling time. It occured to him in the present age of photographic reproduction, the most beautiful, the most popular, the most noted of these art treasures might be available to all lovers of pictures. [more notes…] AWESOME COLLECTORS BOOK!!

DOGS ROUGH & SMOOTH dog ART book LUCY DAWSON US $71.00

“DOGS ROUGH AND SMOOTH. Vintage Dog Art Book by Lucy Dawson. 1930‟s HC Rare … OOP! DOGS ROUGH AND SMOOTH. Vintage Dog Art Book by Lucy Dawson. 78 pages. No copyright date in book, but my research indicates it is a 1930‟s book published by Grosset & Dunlap. The book is a lovely vintage hardcover with a pictorial cover and stunning ILLUSTRATED PASTEDOWNS. About the book … Profusely illustrated in black and white as well as 16 color plates. Illustrations on every page!

The book is in FAIR to GOOD condition….showing cover wear and soiling. [more condition notes…] Appears to be free of writing or markings. A nice copy of a very scarce title!”

NADIA The Secret of Blue Water Anime Art Book US $71.00

Rare Newtype Nadia Art Book. Beautiful Full page & Two page illustrations Very little text. I can only show a few images here as an example but there are lots more inside. Trust me! If you are a fan of Nadia you must have this book. There are about 6 pages about Electra alone ~_^ A large percentage of the Illustrations were done by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. In the middle of the book there is a data section with original sketches. 82 Pages total - (68 in Color) Book is used but still in good condition. Japanese language!

Dog Art Book Eng 1932 DIANA THORNE Your Dogs US $71.00

This Scarce Hardcover Dog Art Book is titled YOUR DOGS AND MINE. One Hundred And Fifteen Pen Drawings and Eighteen Etched Portraits with Text by Diana Thorne and is a Hard To Find British First Edition Published 1932 in Great Britain. The Book is in Very Good Clean Condition with a Dustjacket, has 115 Pages and measures 7 1/2 x 10 inches in size. There is also a really cute unused old with a Wire Fox Terrier on the first blank page. The following Dog Breeds are represented in here by a Large Drawing and several smaller Drawings: Scottish Terrier x2, Sealyham Terrier, Smooth Dachshund, Cocker Spaniel, Boston Terrier, German Shepherd, Wire Fox Terrier, Pekingese, Cairn Terrier, Irish Terrier, Bull Terrier, Spaniel, Setter, Schnauzer, Huskie, Foxhound. 107

MAIMON ART BOOK 1993 FIRST EDITION (LAST ONE) US $70.00

UP FOR AUCTION IS THE 1993 FIRST EDITION ART BOOK OF MAIMON. IT CONTAINS 152 PAGES OF ILLUSTATIONS, INCLUDING DRAWINGS, SERIGRAPHS, EARLY WORKS, AND PAINTINGS. THIS IS A VERY RARE BOOK. IT RETAILS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF $150...I AM STARTING THIS OFF AT A VERY LOW PRICE, THE BOOK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. BEAUTIFUL ART.

H.R. Giger Necrinomicon Large Art Book! WOW! US $69.99

“This book is amazing! measures 17" tall and 12" wide. Strange beautiful full page pictures on all pages! Fabulous!!! in excellent condition, the plastic on the cover is slightly worn as you can see, the markings on the back cover are just the reflections off of the wrinkled plastic. Otherwise, the pages are in fantastic condition!”

Western 60s Original Art Book Cover – Curwood US $67.00

“ I purchased a large and magnificent collection of original art used for the book covers in the Spanish versions of the American and English popular authors of the 1920s thru the early 1970s. The collection includes Romance, Westerns, Mysteries etc. The artwork is by some of the leading Spanish and European illustrators of the 20th Century. I will be listing several lots on eBay to see whether there is any interest from the eBay community. .... The artwork is often accompanied by a proof of the final dust jacket that was used in distribution of the books in .”

POLAND "Parzenice Goralskie" folk art book US $66.02

Poland - Polish book "Parzenice Goralskie"

Printed by: Wydawnictwa Muzeum Etnograficznego w Krakowie - Tadeusz Seweryn55 Pages + 9 colour plates. Printed in Poland, Krakow 1930. softcover / very good condition.The coloured plates show parzenice from: 1. Barcice 2. Kasinka Mala 3. Zawoji 4. Zdzar 5. Zakopane 6. Bukowina 7. Poronin 8. Nowy Targ 9. (parzenica Podhalanska)

CALIFORNIA ART 'MAGNUM OPUS' 450 YEARS ~BOOK US $62.77

CALIFORNIA ART. 450 YEARS OF PAINTINGS AND OTHER MEDIA." BY NANCY DUSTIN WALL MOURE. 1998. HARDCOVER WITH DUSTJACKET. 560 PAGES! INDEX. TWO . LISTINGS OF THE MOST COMPLETE AND/OR CURRENT ON THE ARTISTS. TIME CHART/CHRONOLOGY.

THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND ALL ENCOMPASSING BOOK EXTANT ON CALIFORNIA ART, FROM THE EARLIEST BEGINNINGS THROUGH CONTEMPORARY. THE MAIN STRENGTH IS ON PAINTINGS, BUT 108

OTHER MEDIA ARE ILLUSTRATED AND DISCUSSED. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR, WITH HUNDREDS OF MAGNIFICENT, AND SOMETIMES SELDOM SEEN, EXAMPLES OF CALIFORNIA ART. THIS WAS YEARS IN THE MAKING, AND THE FINAL RESULT IS IMPRESSIVE - NO OTHER BOOK BEGINS TO TOUCH IT IN ITS SCOPE.

VERY WELL RESEARCHED AND PRESENTED. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INDISPENSIBLE FOR THE BEGINNING TO THE MOST ADVANCED COLLECTORS, DEALERS, HISTORIANS, SCHOLARS OF THE , OR ANYONE INTERESTED IN FINE ART - A MUST HAVE IN YOUR LIBRARY.

Walter/Margaret Keane 2 Hard Cover Book Set $200.00

Very rare and hard to find Walter and Margaret Keane two volume hardcover book set, MINT condition, comes with cardboard casing, both books are French editions, both come with rice paper wrapping in addition to the dust jackets, both books are 9 3/4 inches by 12 7/8 inches, and are 3/4 inch thick, Walter book contains 48 prints in total, 29 in color, and 19 in black and white, each color print is accompanied by a thin rice paper divider (same as in the Margaret book). Margaret book contains 44 prints total, 31 in color and 13 in black and white, books are published by Johnson Meyers Publishing Company 1964, printed in Japan. Incredible collection for the Keane big eye mod art collector.

Other Interesting Books that Sell for Big Bucks:

AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) BIG BOOK - 2ND EDITION -1ST PRINTING – RARE US $230.19

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS - BIG BOOK - 2ND EDITION - 1ST PRINTING. This is a rare hard to find book. The copyright is 1955 and there are no other listed after it says this is the 2nd Edition. The book and dust jacket are both in really good condition with just a little bit of wear. You will want this one.

1950 VINTAGE SCUBA diving book Schenck HB/DJ US $204.00

Title: Shallow Water Diving For Pleasure and Profit Author: Hilbert Schenck, Jr and Henry Kendall Publisher/Copyright: Cornell Maritme Press c 1950 Illustrations: b/w photos, drawings Dimensions: 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 138 pages Condition: Hardback book, green cloth covers, some grazing on extreme outer edges, overall fair. Dust jacket whole, but soiled, chipped along edges and age toning. Outer page edges spotted, but interior clean, and age toning. Former owners name/date on FFEP.

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The Big Book of Buttons ( Hughes & Lester) US $202.50

This is the "bible" for button collectors! Copyrighted in 1991 with the 1995 price update insert. In excellent condition - no highlighting or writing. 813 pages. Tight binding. No longer in print. Please email questions prior to bidding. Exact shipping per buyers preferences. Never a handling fee. I accept Paypal, personal check (ten day hold to clear), money orders and cashiers checks. Please see my feedback and bid with confidence.

GRE BIG BOOK with BONUS ETS powerprep CD US $200.00

GRE BIG BOOK: Practicing to Take the General Test by Educational Testing Services ISBN 0-446-39600-1, 1,086 Pages

“Description: Become acquainted with the structure and content focus of the GRE general test. This book, published by ETS, contains 27 previously administered full- length tests with over 5000 actual ETS GRE questions and answers. Also in this book, you will find strategies for taking the GRE as well as inside tips from the test makers.

“WHY YOU NEED THE BIG BOOK: There is no replacement for actual, previously administered exams. The GRE exam is evil. You need to prepare for it, and the best way is to practice, study & learn, and practice, practice, practice.

“WHY ETS REFUSES TO REPRINT THIS BOOK: ETS (Educational Testing Service) is the developer of these admissions testing programs. They released the GRE Big Book in 1996 and since then they have refused to reprint the book…[stuff deleted]

“This book is in such high demand because it is no longer in print. I mean, seriously, its original value is around $30.00 and yet over the past 2 years, I have seen this book sold on auctions for nearly $300 US! Someone on AMAZON is currently asking $269.99 for a used copy, and they charge expensive shipping for international buyers. On HALF.COM (which only ships to the US), I saw a starting price of $259.99. I have to admit that I balked at these prices and for a while I stubbornly refused to buy one. However, once I realized that I had to consider gaining admission to graduate school as an investment in my future, I started treating it as such… Condition: This book is in very good condition.”

Hell's Angels Motorcycle Gangs Book 1977 US $172.49

Barbarians On Wheels - Edited by Sam Wilde Published in 1977 by Chartwell Boods Inc., A Division of Book Sales, Inc. Text and Illustrations copyright New English Library Limited 1977, Printed in Fratelli Spada, Ciampino, Rome, Italy

“Contents - The American Hell's Angels, The Last of the Folk Heroes, We're the One Per Centers', Angels from Hell, Bike Talk…Bikers on Stage & Screen, Choppers, The Bikers..[etc]…Barbarians On Wheels is an exhaustive documentation of the curious underworld of the motorcycle cult and of the savage gangs which have established 110 themselves firmly as an element of violence in society on both sides of the Atlantic. Through historical narratives, interviews and an astonishing wealth of candid and evocative photographs, the book traces the evolution and subsequent history of these speed-crazed power-satiated outlaws, with special emphasis on the notorious Hell's Angels, the most brutal of all bikers.

“Against this factual background there are also fantasy short stories and cartoons which provide insights into the way of life of these rebels. To the Hell's Angel, the most sacred possession is his chopper, or customised motorcycle, and great attention is given to these machines. Superb color photographs and black and white drawings. Harley-Davidson, Indians, Choppers, and more…Barbarians on Wheels captures the contrasting bitterness and beauty of two generations of motorcycle rebels who have set themselves up as the last folk hereos of the twentieth century.

“This vintage book was printed in 1977. It has some wear on the edges of the dust jacket and a few very minor spots or stains, mostly on the title pages. This book is Very hard to find. I haven't seen another one like it on ebay or any other online auction.

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V. 2005-6 Book Sales Prices – Price Data with High, Medium and Low Sales

Here is a lot of data on books throughout the eBay Books category, that include medium and low as well as the high prices. This data is circa 2005-6.

Books > Accessories

Unless you‟re selling high-end items like the Louis Vuitton agenda and planner book listed below, book accessories are not the highest-yielding items. This category is, however, a good place to search for gifts at low prices, like specialized or address books with a theme to match your gift recipient, such as the Baby & Sunflower address book listed below that went for $3.50. (Also, the nice thing about buying books, as opposed to other items, is that sellers can ship your purchase using “media mail,” aka “book rate,” which is a lot cheaper than first-class or priority mail rates – though it does take longer to arrive: usually seven to ten days.) High Ten vintage brass finishing tools $291.00 21

0-CENT DELL PAPERBACK BOOK TIN ADVERTISING SIGN RACK $232.4 12

Note that the two highest-priced items in the Books Accessories category are not books at all, nor in book format, like the address books below.

Average Leatherette cases for Nat'l Geographics, 1984-2000 $4.99 1

Lots of people receive National Geographic; there are probably lots of these around.

Genuine Leather Bible Cover. Features one zippered side $4.90 1

Low Tweety address book $0.01 1

Barbie spiral bound journal new $0.01 1

Books > Accessories > Address Books

High New Louis Vuitton Agenda - Address Book $91.00 17 112

AUTH** LOUIS VUITTON ADDRESS BOOK/PLANNER $55.00 9

One factor in the top listing selling for more may have been that the seller did not use all capital letters in the item‟s title, as the second-highest item‟s seller did. In general, it‟s best to avoid listing items in all caps because it can look unprofessional and be off- putting, which can result in lower sales.

Average Hallmark Ring Binder Address Book – NEW $3.51 3

BABY & SUNFLOWER ADDRESS BOOK VALERIE TABOR- SMITH $3.50 1

Low POOH and TIGGER ADDRESS BOOK $0.01 1

Precious Moments Address Book (NEW) L@@K $0.01 1

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible

In the Antiques/Collectibles book category, the average sales price of an item – about $42 -- is higher than in other Books & Magazines subcategories. This is not a surprise, given that these books are usually rarer and more valuable than newer books. The sell-through rate in this subcategory is about 46%.

High: Beatles, George Harrison I Me Mine Signed limited book. Extraordinary additional material included with book! US $7,475.00 1

This listing has several things going for it. It‟s Beatles-related (or a Beatle, anyway – George Harrison); it‟s signed – something that almost always boosts a book‟s value; and it includes a bonus item. (Sometimes even if an “extra” isn‟t worth a lot, it will nicely boost an item‟s price, because it creates a perception in the buyer‟s mind that he‟s getting something for nothing). In general, you can‟t go wrong with All Things Beatle.That goes for books and magazines as well as records, tapes and memorabiliaIn fact, if you see a Beatles-related book at a yard sale at a reasonable price, I‟d snap it up without hesitation.

Plutarch de Exilio Libellus 1516 Rome rarest edition. Editio princeps in latin mazochium 4th known copy US $3,800.00 21 113

According to the seller, this is the “First Separate Printing in Latin and the Editio Princeps in Latin of Plutarch's famed essay, ON EXILE,” and he says no copies of this book have appeared at auction in the past 70 years. Should you assume an item is rare just because the seller says so? Not necessarily, but if the seller has a good feedback rating, say 97% or above, it‟s a pretty safe bet. In this case, the seller‟s rating is 100%.

1539 Estienne's French-Latin Dictionary-cum-Phrase-Book first edition. A classic work of lexicography US $3,100.00 67

The sellers of this book say it is “exceedingly rare” and that they have found no other example of it coming on the market. Estienne has been called “the father of modern Classical Latin and French lexicography” and this dictionary was published at the time of the development of Early Modern French. 1796 Leonhard Euler First Edition on Algebra fine German Edn. 2 volumes. Extremely rare US $3,050.00 41

This is also a very rare book. By Swiss-born mathematician Euler, the book contains “the proof of the binomial theorem for an unrestricted real index which is still known by Euler's name…” (from the listing description). Appropriately, the seller is based in Switzerland. ***Sighned Ronald Reagan yearbooks 1925 & '26 +bonus! US $2,291.00 9

The typo in the Reagan yearbook above didn‟t seem to detract from its selling price. Yearbooks in general are quite often profitable, and many times if I arrive at an estate sale even a little late, book dealers will have cleared any and all of them out of the house. Yearbooks with celebrities can command high prices for the obvious reasons: they contain rare pictures of celebrities from before they were famous. Big-time fans of a certain celebrity may pay dearly to round out his collection with that yearbook. But they don‟t have to have celebrities to be in demand. Many folks search for the yearbooks for sentimental reasons --perhaps they lost their own yearbook from that time, or they are searching for a yearbook of a deceased relative. (I‟m still on the lookout for a 1949 University of Pennsylvania yearbook, my father‟s graduating year. I‟d probably pay big bucks for it, too).

J.R.R Tolkien, Lord of the Rings UK First Editions 1955 Original jackets, Return of the King - a True First Edn US $2,000.00 10

Here‟s another listing with more than one thing going for it: It‟s not only a first edition, but a “true” first edition in that it‟s the first edition from the country in which the book 114 was originally published: the United Kingdom. It has its original dust jackets, and lastly, it‟s just plan a cool trilogy of books, with a unique place in our popular culture, that has spawned popular games, movies, and merchandise. Average: Spain at Christian Reconquist's Times Vellum 1795 US $42.00 2

History Of Romanism John Dowling 1846 Illustrated Rare US $41.95 9

Blue Book of Magic, 2004 Price Guide, #68 of 100 Cards, Coins, Ephemera, P&L, Stage, Houdini, Thayer etc $41.53 6

Low: Zane Gray, The Last of the Plainsmen US $0.49 1

Vintage 1968 Comet Nazareth Area PA Senior Class US $0.95 1

Books > Antiquarian & Collectible>Literature

High: Dark Tower I, II, III Mtchd # Bxd Sgnd Ltd Stephen King. All 3 Mint, Boxed, Signed, Limited, Each #272 $8,600.00 19

SIGNED ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1ST ED. WITH C.O.A. ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES $5,200.00 15

An old Ernest Hemingway, signed, and a first edition – a triple threat. But this book also comes with a certificate of authenticity from Argosy Book Store, Inc., in . Such authentication documents, if you can include them in your auctions, will help assure the buyer he‟s not getting a fake, and can help boost the final sales price. FAREWELL MY LOVELY -TRUE 1ST RAYMOND CHANDLER $4,100.00 18

Pluses for this item: “A BEAUTIFUL first edition in dj [dust jacket] with slight edgewear. A bright dj spine NOT RESTORED BUT IN ORIGINAL AND SUPERB CONDITION. In handcrafted mylar.” It has its original dust jacket and has “been on book shelf since 1942” according to the seller. Average: THE CAINE MUTINY, Herman Wouk, Leather-like, ICL $9.99 1 115

“Published by the International Collectors Library in the what I believe was the1960's....Book has a leather-like cover, with gold letterin‟ on spine and cover, and beautifully decorative...” Roughing It - Mark Twain $9.99 1

“Condition: Book is in good condition. Exception - the spine has partially come away and been glued and scotchtaped at top. I have included pics to show condition.” Low: David Copperfield II by – Heron Books C $0.07 2 (Approximately US $0.06)

Book of virtues, moral stories William J Bennett NR $0.01 1

Books > Audiobooks

Subject matter that tends to sell well in Audiobooks include money-making/business; self-help; and education (such as the Pimsleur Spanish CD‟s that went for $549.95). The average sales price in this subcategory is about $14, less than antique and collectible books but higher than many other Books subcategories.

High: Books on tape!! 158 books by various authors. Grisham, Steel, Ludlum, Clancy and more!!!!!!!! US $750.00 1

“158 books on audio tape.... You can have them at a fraction of the cost...... Famous authors such as Archer, Grisham, Clancy and many more.....mostly fiiction....but a few others as wel...all are in pretty darn good condition...”Pimsleur Spanish Bundle I, II, III CD Level 1,2,3 PLUS Receive a FREE Gift! US $549.95 1

Alan Cowgill Private Lending NOT Ron LeGrand free bonus US $459.00 17

Average: Anthony Robbins Get the Edge! US $47.50 6

17 Star Wars Audio books/radio drama US $47.00 5

Low: Audio: Robert Ludlum's The Sigma Protocol! New US $0.49 1 116

Isle of Dogs by Patricia Daniels Cornwell (2001) US $0.99 1

Books>Catalogs

Who would have thought you could make money selling things you get for free in the mail? Well, it turns out, with catalogs you can -- if they are the right ones and you hang on to them long enough. Not surprisingly, older, rarer catalogs command higher prices, and high-end are more sought-after. But “old” doesn‟t necessarily mean 50 years old or more. For example, a “vintage” Victoria‟s Secret Catalog would include anything from the 1980s, or even the early to mid-. (Victoria's Secret was founded in in the early 1970's by a man with the not-so-British sounding name of , with the idea of setting lingerie in the inviting atmosphere of a Victorian boudoir). Catalogs develop cult followings for different reasons. Some have fans simply because they share the hobby which the catalog caters to; others, such as lingerie/clothing purveyor Victoria‟s Secret, inspire loyalty based on the models featured (e.g., Jill Goodacre and Laetitia Casta are two popular VS model from former years, and a Fall 1997 issue with Yasmeen Ghavri recently sold for $37.01). Lest you think collectible clothing catalogs are all about scantily clad women, consider the Abercrombie & Fitch catalogs, which are known for its beefcake men and provocative photo spreads. A Fall ‟97 Abercrombie catalog sold for $51. The average price in this category is about $17, with a healthy sell-through rate of around 50%. High: Winchester Repeating Arms April 1886 Catalogue US $482.50 15

Four other Winchester Repeating Arms Catalogue also sold for high prices: an 1894 edition for $461.69, with 12 bids; a Jan. 1887 issue also for $461.69, with 11 bids; a Nov. 1885 for $430.60, with 12 bids; and another 1885 catalogue for $392.50, with 9 bids. In fact, guns and firearms catalogs dominated the top prices in this category: a Marlin Fire Arms 1888 Rifles Catalogue went for $332.99, with 14 bids; and a “very rare” 1927 Maxim Silencers Catalog went for $325.00 with 12 bids. I know some gun and firearm collectors who are very serious about this hobby and will spend big bucks on antique weapons. (Although they can‟t buy the actual guns on eBay anymore; eBay halted all listings of all firearms and ammunitions on the site as of March 2000, saying it believed the Internet is not an appropriate venue for that kind of merchandise). Couple that enthusiasm with a firearm-related item that is also rare and old, and you have a winning combination. Nike book Irreverence Justified. Nike book gold catalog shoe vintage sport US $450.00 1 Illums Bolighus Danish Modern Furniture Catalog 1961 US $338.00 9 117

Average: Banana Republic Catalogue #32 safari clothing catalog US $17.00 6

Catalog is from 1987 Rolex 2004 Catalog reference book Vol. 7 US $17.00 5

Wards Christmas Wish Book boy toys 70-85 Wow US $16.99 1

Low: Army Navy - Security/Police - Military Gear Catalog US $0.25 1

Catalog of Government Grants, On CD US $0.08 3

Books>Children’s Books

Overall, children‟s books sales prices average about $10, and about a 44% sell-through. High: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban signed 1STUS $921.11 23

1933 Micket Mouse In King Arthurs Court Pop Up

$516.51 12

Lot of 50 World Landmark & Landmark Books. Illustrated excellent condition! Some first printings. US $260.77 18

Average: 1956 Basic Reader Dick & Jane The New Our New Friends US $9.95 1

18 Fear Street books * R. L. STINE * thriller book US $9.95 1

3 DK Eyewitness Books Question and Answer Book + US $9.91 3

Low: Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel (1982) US $0.50 2

Sesame Street Book Letter H US $0.49 1 118

Books>Children’s Books>Classics

High 1ST ED HB HARRY POTTER AZKABAN W/ ERRORS WORTH £20,000+. 1st EDITION 1st PRINT with JOANNE ROWLING as AUTHOR!!! GBP 1,297.00 (Approximately US $2,349.97) 25

There's a reason J.K. Rowling is now worth more than the Queen of England. Harry Potters seem to pop up in the high end of many Books subcategories…Children‟s, Young Adult, Fantasy, etc. Her books, especially hardbacks, resale values are holding up well. And if you ever have a chance to have her sign one of your books, run, don‟t walk, to the signing.

Lewis, C.S. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe GBP 1,150.00 (Approximately US $2,083.63) 1

First Edition Mary Poppins Signed by Author $1,916.00 31

Average Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne (1988) $4.00 1

Hugh Lofting Doctor Dolittle in the Moon 1956 Ed $4.00 1

Low Mickey Mouse Waddle Book/Includes Punch-Out Characte... $0.05 1

Charlotte's Web (2003)-Great Shape-NO RESERVE $0.01 1

Books > Children's Books > Activity & Coloring

One look at most prices in this category and you‟ll see it‟s not exactly a big opportunity for sellers. It is, however, a good place to pick up coloring and activity books on the cheap, especially if you buy a lot of multiple books and/or request they are sent via inexpensive media mail (but check the seller‟s mailing policies, if any). High All Time Greatest of Kid Concoctions Book 140 Pages $52.27 20

RUPERT Adventure Book No. 49 published 1963 - - NICE!!!! $51.99 4 119

Vintage Coloring Book TV Roundup of Western Heros 1961 $34.33 7

Mid A BUG'S LIFE Special Edition Coloring Book $3.25 1

DRAGON TALES: "Dragon Days" Coloring Fun & Activities $3.25 3

Low Clifford: Getting Ready for Math kindergarten workbook $0.01 2

Highlights Puzzlemania soft cover book child activity $0.49 1

Books>Education & Textbooks

Textbooks can be lucrative, but they usually need to be current enough to make them appeal to the buyer. I recently read an article that hypothesized that textbooks are updated so frequently so that people will lay out more money each year buying them, instead of picking up old copies. Whether or not this is true, in my experience, textbooks that are no more than two to three years old have sold pretty well. Because books like graduate school test prep courses, such as for the LSAT (Law School Aptitude Test) or USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Exam) can be expensive (with retail price ranges about from $17 up to $795 for a Patent Bar Exam course, depending on the book), students are often eager to save whatever money they can and buy them used. This is borne out in the sell-through rate in this category being somewhat higher than that of other books categories, at around 51%. The average sales price per item is about $23.

High: 2004* PLI Practicing Law Inst. Patent Bar Exam Course - Home Study Video & Cassette - New Condition! $795.00 2

WAIS-III Test Kit Psychological Test US $640.00 11

Brand new USMLE Step 2 CK books (2004 edition)US $592.00 20

Average: Alpha Omega Lifepac History 4th Grade 4 New 2-10 & TE US $24.00 1

4 Quick & Easy Medical Terminology books US $24.00 (BIN) 1

Low: Principles to Microeconomics Study Guide US $0.05 1 120

Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World by J US $0.31 1

Books>Fiction

Perhaps because fiction books are often so plentiful, especially for top authors whose titles are cranked out in huge quantities, their resale values on average aren‟t as high as other, more unique books. For fiction overall the average sales price is around $8, with about a 40% sell-through. High flyers here: first editions, signed copies, and, especially, both. The top-selling book, a Stephen King, king of fiction in many ways, had the added advantage of being a numbered limited edition, and brought $1075.

So unless your book has some of those special things going for it, don‟t set your expectations too high: expect about $8 or $9, and lower in some cases. However, clearly many people are willing to take those prices, and if your bookshelves are as stuffed as mine, I can see why. Another strategy to consider: selling your books in lots (see the Books>Wholesale category for some ideas) to get rid of more of those shelf stuffers at once. High: Stephen King - Firestarter - Sgn'd/Nmbr'd Ltd. Ed. US $1,075.00 1

Other Stephen Kings that were high: a “signed 1st ed. Firestarter HC DJ,” $400.00, 1 bid; “signed 1st ed. Insomnia HC DJ,” $250.00, 1 bid; “HB Set of 3 Darktower - hard to find!,” $200.00, 1 bid. Interview with the Vampire advance reading copy $334.95 7

JRR Tolkien History of Middle Earth 12 vols first eds US $300.00 (Reserve met) 5

To Kill a MockingBird by Harper Lee Signed Ann. HC/DJ US $280.00 13

Average: Michael Connelly~9 PBs~Lost Light +++ US $8.45 3

Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" 1923 HC Edition US $8.45 2

Low: Like new Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (2001) US $0.05 2

Beyond Eden by Catherine Coulter (1996) US $0.05 1 121

Books > Fiction & Literature Books>Classics

High: BRITANNICA GREAT BOOKS WESTERN WORLD 54 VOL $197.50 24

LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 2 Vols $190.50 4

PLATO, M. AURELIUS, HOMER! GREAT COLLECTION of 15 BOOKS $165.00 1

Average: The Autobiography of Santa Claus (2003) NEW HB $3.99 1

ARABIAN KNIGHTS 1946 illustrated by: Earle Goodenow $3.99 1

Low: Three Vintage 1958 Reader's Digest Condensed Books lot $0.01 1

THE CANTERBURY TALES - GEOFFREY CHAUCER - NO RESERVE! $0.01 1

Books > Fiction & Literature Books>Mystery, Thriller

High B Is for Burglar by Sue Grafton (1985), 1st ed. Signed $935.01 3

DASHIELL HAMMETT The Thin Man 1934 First in ORIGINAL DJ Mystery Classic in original KNOPF issued 1934 DJ !! $787.00 6

Mid Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich $2.26 4

WIZARD AND GLASS By Stephen King $2.29 1

Low HC/DJ~Black Notice~Patricia Cornwell $0.01 1

"Standard shipping service: US $4.00" Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark (2002) $0.01 1 122

Books > Fiction & Literature Books > Science Fiction

High Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, 1st, DJ $632.00 18

Lensman Series (6 vol.), E. E. Smith - Science Fiction Original Fantasy Press 1st Edition Hardcovers $600.00 1

Mid Star Wars Tatooine Ghost by Troy Denning (2003) $5.00 1

Bearing an Hourglass by Piers Anthony (1984) Hardcover $5.00 1

Low Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen (1998) $0.01 1 shipping is $2.75 The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven (1974) new NR $0.01 1

"US Postal Service Media Mail: US $4.49" Bear in mind that although the above two items only cost a penny, you should factor in shipping costs for the “real” price of the item, because sellers sometimes inflate their shipping charges, especially with one-cent items.

Books > Fiction Books > 1st Edition eBay considers 1st Edition a "Special Attribute," not an actual subcategory.

High: LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL THOMAS WOLFE 1929 1ST ED IN DJ. A VERY NICE FIRST EDITION IN THE FIRST ISSUE JACKET $5,000.00 1

A FAREWELL TO ARMS ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1ST ED IN DJ UNRESTORED. FIRST ISSUE BOOK AND DUST JACKET $1,600.99 3

Average: DOUGLAS ADAMS,DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC..., 1STHB,MINT!!!! $4.95 1

UMBERTO ECO THE ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE 1ST HC DJ $4.95 1

Low: Violets Are Blue by James Patterson (2001) $0.01 1 123

Sein Language by Jerry Seinfeld (1993) $0.01 1

Books > Magazine Back Issues

Magazine back issues are an interesting mixed bunch. As with any category, magazines have their collectors, and some are very intense about collecting. Some collect a year or several years‟ worth of a particular magazine, and others may only be interested in one specific magazine because of its subject matter. For example, two standouts on the high end are DC Comics‟ “Strange Adventures” #1 and the very first Playboy Magazine, from December 1953, which featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover. In the case of the Playboy, this is a magazine in which a collector of Marilyn Monroe memorabilia would be very interested; he wouldn‟t necessarily be just a magazine collector. (Marilyn Monroe is another of those iconic celebrities, like Elvis and The Beatles. Collectibles based on her, or items she owned, will command high prices due to her exalted status in our popular culture). “Strange Adventures” #1 is worth noting for a couple of reasons: it‟s the first issue of this series, and it‟s in the very popular horror/fantasy magazine genre, which includes other magazines such as “” and “Creepy.” Four of the top ten highest-selling magazines in this sample were in this genre. Of course, older and rarer copies command high prices, and sometimes the cover artist is a factor in a magazine‟s value: “EERIE” # 23 CGC 9.0 VF/NM, with a Frank Frazetta cover – “Scarce Egyptian Princess”,went for $263.00 with16 bids. Some other high-priced magazines, not listed below, were specialty niche magazines like “Wooden Boat” and “Black Belt,” both of which went for about $300. The average sales price for this category is about $14, and the sell-through rate is about 41%.

High: Playboy December 1953 Marilyn Monroe issue US $1,625.00 12

1950 DC Strange Adventures #1 CGC 7.5 VF- No reserve US $1,096.00 24

Famous Monsters huge lot, most issues #28-191 +YBs, MWs Super set of 170 magazines, NICE condition US $1,025.00 21

Average: After Dark September 1982 - Maxwell Caulfield $8.25 6

Future, March 1951 - Anderson, Blish, del Rey $8.25 2

Low: CosmoGirl Magazine 5/04 Anne Hathaway Cosmo Girl Elle w US $0.10 1

National Geographic Magazine, December 1999 US $0.20 1 124

Books > Nonfiction Books

The average sales price is about $13, and the sell-through rate about 39%.

High: Video Atlas General Surgery Schwartz Sabiston US $499.00 1

Giger's NecronomicoN I&II Limited Edition US $450.50

TIMES AND SEASONS HC Reprint of 1840's Mormon Papers US $356.00 12

Average: Digital Art Studio new book US $13.95 1

Grimoire for the Green Witch /Tarot for the Green Witch US $13.95 2

Low: The Very Best Baby Name Book in the Whole Wide World... US $0.08 2

Design for Wholeness by Juliano-Sofield-Hammett (Anger) US $0.03 1

Books > Nonfiction Books>Art & Photography

High: Antarctica - Fine Printing/Photography, Limited Edition by Pat & Rosemarie Keough

US $1,200.00 1

Helen Levitt...A Way Of Seeing...1st HC...1965. Robert Frank...Diane Arbus...Walker Evans US $450.00 1

"1965, 1st Edition. Helen Levitt's classic book of New York „A Way Of Seeing‟ with an essay by James Agee.....Published by Viking in 1965.....First hardcover edition....Out of print.....Beautifully printed in gravure...... Book is about near fine with a very light bump to the bottom right hand corner." Allen Ginsberg Photographs - SIGNED by Allen Ginsberg SIGNED & NUMBERED 41/100 SLIPCASED 1ST EDITION US $450.00 7

"1st Edition, Signed. A VERY RARE ALLEN GINSBERG SIGNED PIECE. „PHOTOGRAPHS‟ by Allen Ginsberg is an insider's history of the „Beat‟ movement and it's personalities through the personal photographs of one of it's principal figures, Allen Ginsberg. The poet created a unique visual record of his friends and companions covering a period of almost fifty years. His subjects incuded Jack Kerouac, William 125

Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Robert Frank, Paul Bowles, Timothy Leary, dozens of writers, poets and friends, and several revealing self portraits. Beneath each photograph are Ginsberg's handwritten reminiscences of the circumstances, people, and places relating to the photographs."

Average: LIFE MAGAZINE CLASSIC PHOTOGRAPHS ULTIMATE BOOK ~NEW

US $8.99 1

LIGHTHOUSES A PHOTOGRAPHIC TOUR ULTIMATE HARDCOVER BOOK US $8.99 1

Low: The Great Book of Trains by Arthur Cook, B. Hollings $0.01 1

Shipping is $6

Recollections of a Picture Dealer Ambroise Vollard NEW US $0.10 1 shipping is $3.50

Books>Nonfiction Books>Biography & Memoir

High: Live in Japan George Harrison signed book no. 439

AU $1,000.00 (Approximately US $726.50) 12

RACHMANINOFF'S RECOLLECTIONS 1st EDITION 1934 signed by Rachmaninoff himself GBP 227.00 (Approximately US $409.58) 12

"The Recollections of Sergei Rachmaninoff as told to Oskar Von Riesemann, it starts with his childhood in 1873 in Russia, his early music and growing popularity, the war and revolution and his move to America in 1919, with notes on his family and list of his works, we have searched booksellers lists and can find only one other copy for sale at £329 so it's scarce.." Easton Press: ALL THE BEST by GEORGE BUSH Signed

Signed First Edition Never Been Read US $400.00 (Reserve met) 8

These three top-selling biographies and memoirs are textbook cases for books in this genre that will fetch high prices, if you are lucky enough to come across any. The latter is a “memoir” of sorts by former President George H. W. Bush, i.e. Bush Senior. He never 126 wrote a memoir per se, but this is a collection of his correspondence, spanning from his letters home during WWII, to his career as a senator and president, through retirement. That it is a signed first edition, and also in pristine “never read” condition, adds to its appeal. Politicians, and in particular presidents, seem to top the high-end of the biography category: other high-sellers were a signed 1st edition of ‟s My Life, $294; Hillary Clinton‟s Living History, also a signed 1st ed., $205.01; and John Kerry: The New Solider (1971), $183.50. The highest-selling book (at US $726.50) ,Live in Japan, is a record of George Harrison's and Eric Clapton's “Rock Legends tour” at the end of 1991 and is signed by Harrison. This is another testament to the power of the Beatles and ex-Beatles. Bear in mind that this book is accompanied by 2 CDs, so that bumps up its value from a book alone. The Rachmaninoff‟s Recollections is another signed first edition, and would be of great interest to those interested in the Russian composer‟s music and life, and book collectors in general.

Average: Street Fighting Years by Tariq Ali (1991) US $4.50 1

CARELESS LOVE Unmaking of Elvis (HC) Peter Guralnick US $4.50 1

Low: Iacocca by Lee A. Iacocca (1986) US $0.01 1

Cosbyology by Bill Cosby (2002) US $0.05 1

Why would anyone sell a book sell for only a penny? A few reasons. One, there are many copies of the book out there, so it‟s not rare. And although it may be interesting enough, it does not have that combination of interest and scarcity that commands high prices. But a penny? Or even a dollar? Aren‟t the people selling books for that little losing money? Unless they‟re truly gouging buyers on shipping, they‟re not making any money, at least not after all their costs are factored in. And even with high shipping, they may not be making a net profit. One bookseller who runs a seven-figure business annually says his unit cost for every sale is around $10, and he cautions against selling a significant percentage of your books for under $20. But although that may be bad news for you as a seller, as a buyer, it‟s an opportunity, because you can pick up books for dirt cheap. At least until these sellers stop selling books for so little.

Books > Nonfiction> Cooking, Food, Wine

High: 1854 Indian Doctoring; Cook Book; Household Secret Book US $430.99 15 127

"The house-keeper's guide and indian doctor: containing the very best directions for making all kinds of ice creams, preserves, jellies, perfumery, and essences, fancy and plain soaps...Seems quite scarce; the only copy I can find on any internet antiquarian bookselling site is a copy of the 1852 edition (the FIRST edition; mine being a copy of the SECOND edition, published 2 years after the 1st), listed by a fellow member of the ABAA at $850.00…” MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING 1961 Early printing JULIA CHILD Clean 1961 copy in dust-jacket! US $226.00 17

"Possibly THE most important cookbook issued in the U.S.A. during the 20th Century!" Julia Child and Jacques Pépin Cooking at Home SIGNED! US $200.00 12

1st Edition

Average: Bartending for Dummies by Ray Foley (1997) US $4.98 9

Southern Cook Book Culinary arts press 1965 Vintage US $4.95 1

Low: The Good Enough to Eat Breakfast Cookbook US $0.01 1 shipping is $3.49 Eat More, Weigh Less by Dean Ornish M.D. (1993) US $0.09 1 shipping is $4

Books > Wholesale, Bulk Lots > Books

One the high end in this category appear to be entire bookstores selling their inventories, with books in lots of the thousands. Others appear to be collectors parting with their collections, such as a Louis L‟Amour lot of 107 that went for $480 and a manga (Japanese anime) lot of 300 that brought in $720. The average sales price is about $16, with a success rate of about 51%, which is on the high side for the Books category overall.

High: Used paperback book store inventory - over 22000 books US $3,600.00 6

A second listing just like this one sold for the same price.

20,000 wholesale books 600 boxes 30% researched. Great for Amazon, ABE, Alibris, Ebay, or Half.com US $2,426.99 14 128

Wholesale 1000 book lot paperback books free S/H US $500.00 1

Five other lots described exactly like this also sold for $500 each.

Average: 20 science fiction paperback novels US $15.99 1

Lot 10 Books Nazi Germany Third Reich World War II WW2 US $15.94 3

Astronomy book lot - teacher -20 used - space planets US $15.87 3

Low: Lot of 5 Historical Romance pb's great reads & authors US $0.11 2

Book wholesale lot of 22 Agatha Christie US $0.06 2

Books > Other

The average sales price (ASP) per Item is about $14, with a sell-through rate of about 39%. The sell-through rate may be a bit lower than other Books subcategories, because as a kind of “catch-all” category it may miss out on the browsing traffic that those other categories receive.

High: Feline Husbandry Diseases & management in multi cat house US $285.00 (Reserve met) 19

Case 580B CK Backhoe Service Repair Manual 580 B US $237.50 42

Patton Tank Book by R. P. Hunnicutt US $233.09 12

Average: Rare LDS Mormon Book The Land at Adam-Ondi-Ahman US $14.99 1

Dungeons And Dragons Players Handbook 3.5 edition US $14.63 4

Complete Outdoor Wedding Planner, The wedding & party planner and thank you card guide US $13.98 7

Low: Lot of 5 religious books, 2 hymn books, Christian radio US $0.06 2

Thousands of jokes free shipping hours of laughter l@@k US $0.06 2 129

High-Priced But Not Necessarily $50 or More:

Home/Design:

Weddings by Cowie, Colin; $40.99 on half.com;

Best of Martha Stewart Living Weddings, $19.99 on half.com (the whole Martha Stewart franchise of books, especially the hardbacks, usually resell for decent money, assuming they are in good condition).

Shabby Chic: Simple Living, the Comfort of Age & the Beauty of Imperfection, by Glynis Costin and Rachel Ashwell; $15.95 lowest price on half.com. [ The whole “Shabby Chic” movement is hot now, so books and items related to it sell well! ]

Art of Faux: The Complete Source of Decorative Painted Finishes by Pierre Finkelstein; best price $15.95. Faux finishes, rag painting, etc. are red-hot right now!

Textbooks/Business:

Human Resource Management: With Special Student Travel Offer Inside by Gary Dessler; best price $40

Understanding Business by William G. Nickels; best price $38.26

Strategic Management: Concepts & Cases by Alonzo J. Strickland III, Thompson; best price $39

Principles of Corporate Finance by Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers; best price $54.15

Managerial Accounting Hardcover, 2000 Eric W. Noreen, Garrison-Noreen, Ray H. Garrison $30.00

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Marriages and Families: Making Choices in a Diverse Society by Agnes Czerwinski Riedmann, Agnes Riedmann, Mary A. Lamanna, Mary Ann Lamanna $29.95

Best of Martha Stewart Living Weddings Hardcover, 1999 Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living List Price: $50.00 - $19.99

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Cooking:

Larousse Gastronomique Larousse Editors $24.99

The Herbfarm Cookbook: A Guide to the Vivid Flavors of Fresh Herbs by Jerry Traunfeld Illustrated by Elayne Sears $21.00

Orig. National Geographic May 1896 + Ephemera $200.00

Gardening:

MICRO BUTTON GARDENING (HANDMADE BUTTONS BOOK) $43

A 10 BOOK RODALE GARDENING SET $36

Reef Gardening: Book of Coral Propagation NEW $28.99

TAYLOR'S MASTER GUIDE TO GARDENING BOOK $28 hrdbk

The Container Gardening ENCYCLOPEDIA HC BOOK $20.50

Treasury of Gardening book $19.02

Gardening with Perennials book - Kaczorowski/HC $15

More Resources:

From ABAA web site:

How can I tell how much my book is worth? We have devoted a portion of our website to this complicated question - please visit our Evaluating Books page.

I have several antiquarian books. Is there some kind of list or publication which would help me determine their present values? The RBMS (Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries) is a helpful resource for general information. Within the Your Old Books section of that site, they recommend a number of publications, many of which you may be able to find in your local library, and some authored by ABAA members, which may assist you in determining the value of your books. 131

Appendix A: "A Book that Looks Like Nothing"

"A Book that Looks Like Nothing" is the title of a fascinating discussion that has taken place on the eBay booksellers discussion board for…well, years now.

I am going to point you to this fascinating discussion thread on the eBay Discussion board. Taking the time to read it through can be worth thousands of dollars to you. Among the nondescript-looking books mentioned here are such profitable gems as:

- Black‟s Law Dictionary (my research found a recent high-priced sale: THIRD EDITION! Black's Law Dictionary HB 1933 Buy It Now $99.95);

- Alcoholics Anonymous (early printings) (my research found a recent high-priced sale: Alcoholics Anonymous 1st Edition 4th Pr. w/ ODJ 28 $4,827.00);

- - THE AMERICANS by Robert Frank (“ LES AMERICAINS is worth even more.”).

Recent high-priced sale, per my research: The Americans/Photographs by Robert Frank/Jack Kerouac 5 $152.50; other recent completed Sales on eBay from $63 to $135.00).

The book that starts off the discussion is “Security Analysis” by Graham and Dodd, “authoritative guidance on analyzing securities that generations of investment bankers have come to rely on” per the “publisher‟s note” in one auction).

Check out the whole discussion here: http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?threadID=96296&tstart=0&mod=118524388868 9

Appendix B: The 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

Compiled by Philip Zaleski, editor of The Best Spiritual Writing series. Based on nominations by Thomas Moore, Natalie Goldberg, Rodger Kamenetz, Harold Kushner, Lawrence Kushner, Christopher de Vinck, David Yount, Kabir Helminski, Helen Tworkov, Ron Hansen, Frederic Brussat, , Huston Smith, Lawrence Cunningham, and John Wilson.

Adams, Henry, Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres

Agnon, S. Y., In the Heart of the Seas

Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous 132

Anonymous, The Gospel of Thomas

Balthasar, Hans Urs von, The Glory of the Lord

Barfield, Owen, Saving the Appearances

Barth, Karl, The Epistle to the Romans

Bernanos, Georges, Diary of a Country Priest

Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, The Cost of Discipleship

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Letters and Papers from Prison

Buber, Martin, I and Thou

Buber, Martin, Tales of the Hasidim

Camus, Albert, The Plague

Chapman, John, Spiritual Letters

Chesterton, G. K., Orthodoxy

Daumal, Rene, Mount Analogue

Day, Dorothy, The Long Loneliness

Dillard, Annie, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Dunne, John S., The Way of All the Earth

Eisley, Loren, The Immense Journey

Eliade, Mircea, The Myth of Eternal Return

Eliot, T. S., Christianity and Culture

Eliot, T. S., The Four Quartets

Endo, Shusako, Silence

Florensky, Pavel, The Pillar and the Ground of Truth 133

Foster, Richard, A Celebration of Discipline

Frankl, Viktor, Man‟s Search for Meaning

Gandhi, Mohandas, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Greene, Graham, The Power and the Glory

Griffiths, Bede, The Golden String

Guardini, Romano, The Lord

Guenon, Rene, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times

Gurdjieff, G. I., Meetings with Remarkable Men

Hahn, Thich Nhat, Peace Is Every Step

Hammarskjold, Dag, Markings

Heschel, Abraham Joshua, God in Search of Man

Heschel, Abraham Joshua, The Sabbath

Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha

Hopkins, Gerard Manley, Collected Poems

Huxley, Aldous, The Perennial Philosophy

Isherwood, Christopher, My Guru and His Disciple

James, William, The Varieties of Religious Experience

John XXIII, Pope, Journal of a Soul

John Paul II, Pope, Crossing the Threshold of Hope

Jung, Carl, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Kafka, Franz, The Trial

Kelly, Thomas, A Testament of Devotion

Kerouac, Jack, The Dharma Bums 134

King, Martin Luther, Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

Knox, Ronald, Enthusiasm

Krishnamurti, Think on These Things

Leclercq, Jean, The Love of Learning and the Desire for God

Lewis, C. S., The Chronicles of Narnia

Mere Christianity

Lusseyran, Jacques, And There Was Light

Maharashi, Ramana, The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharashi

Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Maritain, Raissa, Journals

Maugham, W. Somerset, The Razor‟s Edge

Merton, Thomas, New Seeds of Contemplation

The Seven Storey Mountain

Muggeridge, Malcolm, Something Beautiful for God

Newman, John Henry, Meditations and Devotions

Niebuhr, Richard H., Christ and Culture

Niebuhr, Reinhold, The Nature and Destiny of Man

O‟Connor, Flannery, Wise Blood

Otto, Rudolf, The Idea of the Holy

Ouspensky, P. D., In Search of the Miraculous

Peck, M. Scott, The Road Less Traveled

Percy, Walker, Lost in the Cosmos

Pirsig, Robert, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 135

Ramakrishna, The Gospel of Ramakrishna

Reps, Paul, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

Rilke, Rainer Maria, Duino Elegies

Rosenzweig, Franz, The Star of Redemption

Russell, George William, The Candle of Vision

Schimmel, Anne-Marie, Mystical Dimensions of Islam

Scholem, Gershom, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

Schumacher, E. F., A Guide for the Perplexed

Schuon, Fritjof, The Transcendent Unity of Religions

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, Collected Stories

Smith, Huston, The World‟s Religions

Steinsaltz, Adin, The Thirteen-Petalled Rose

Suzuki, D. T., Essays in Zen Buddhism

Suzuki, Shunryu, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Tagore, Rabindranath, Gitanjali

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, The Phenomenon of Man

Teresa, Mother, A Simple Path

Therese of Lisieux, St., The Story of a Soul

Tillich, Paul, The Courage to Be

Tolkien, J. R. R., The Lord of the Rings

Tomberg, Valentin, Meditations on the Tarot

Traherne, Thomas, Centuries

Trungpa, Chogyam, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism 136

Underhill, Evelyn, Mysticism

Weil, Simone, Waiting for God

Wiesel, Elie, Night

Yeats, William Butler, Collected Poems

Yogananda, Paramahansa, Autobiography of a Yogi

Appendix C: Top 10 US Out of Print Books of 2006

These were the top 10 most sought-after out of print books in America in 2006, according to Bookfinder.com:

Sex (1992) by Madonna A perennial favorite, the pop icon‟s first book, featuring erotic photos, Vanilla Ice cameos, and more

Football Scouting Methods (1963) by Steve Belichick Legendary college football scout‟s playbook used by coaches and players to develop winning game plans

Touch Me Again (1978) by Suzanne Somers The ever so cleverly titled sequel to Touch Me, Ms. Somers‟ first collection of poetry. (Yes, that Suzanne Somers.)

Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words (1975) by Johnny Cash His original autobiography, and the source for the film Walk the Line

Treasury of Great Recipes (1965) by Mary and Vincent Price Some of the best recipes from world-famous restaurants redesigned for the amateur kitchen. (And yes, that Vincent Price.)

The Principles of Knitting (1988) by June Hemmons Hiatt Methods and techniques of hand knitting, the ultimate resource

The Lion‟s Paw (1946) by Robb White 137

An enduring children‟s adventure story

The Secret of Perfect Living (1963) by James Mangan An early source book about positive mind control using affirmations (“I‟m good enough, I‟m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me”). This book just came back into print on December 1, clearly a wise move on the part of the rights holders.

Once a Runner: A Novel (1978) by John L. Parker, Jr. Cult classic about the sport of running; the sequel, Again to Carthage, is expected soon

One Way Up (1964) by John F. Straubel Chronicles the history of helicopter development

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