Alice in Wonderland

 > Donohue was primarily a publisher of inexpensive hardcover reprints of
 > classics and one-time bestsellers. Consequently, their books don't have
 > much resale value. You can see current asking prices by searching here:
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://used.addall.com/" target="_blank">http://used.addall.com/</a> (enter the publisher's name in Keyword)

That's not a bad search site. I always wondered what my copy of
"Tolstoi's Love Letters" from the Hogarth Press of Leonard and
Virginia Woolf, 1923, was worth. Now I know ... $150 US. Only took
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"Al Smith" <invalid.DeleteThis@address.com> wrote in message
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  > > Donohue was primarily a publisher of inexpensive hardcover reprints of
  > > classics and one-time bestsellers. Consequently, their books don't
have
  > > much resale value. You can see current asking prices by searching
here:
  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://used.addall.com/" target="_blank">http://used.addall.com/</a> (enter the publisher's name in Keyword)
 >
 > That's not a bad search site. I always wondered what my copy of
 > "Tolstoi's Love Letters" from the Hogarth Press of Leonard and
 > Virginia Woolf, 1923, was worth. Now I know ... $150 US. Only took
 > me thirty seconds.


Presumably the $150 is a dealer's asking price.

Prepare for a big disappointment if you expect a dealer
to give you anywhere near $150 for yours.

They may well want to quibble about the finer points of condition
as well.

Addall or other sites such as bookfinder.com are more useful for
gauging relative values - how much one title might be worth compared
with another - and thus spotting rarities - than absolute values.
But even then the dealer's mark-up may possibly vary between
different categories of book.



michael adams

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Thanks so much for the information you provided and also thank you for
the site, I had no idea about it.... very helpfull indeed.


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   >>>http://used.addall.com/ (enter the publisher's name in Keyword)
  >>
   >>>
   >>> That's not a bad search site. I always wondered what my copy of
   >>> "Tolstoi's Love Letters" from the Hogarth Press of Leonard and
   >>> Virginia Woolf, 1923, was worth. Now I know ... $150 US. Only took
   >>> me thirty seconds.
 >
 >
 >
 > Presumably the $150 is a dealer's asking price.
 >
 > Prepare for a big disappointment if you expect a dealer
 > to give you anywhere near $150 for yours.
 >
 > They may well want to quibble about the finer points of condition
 > as well.

Yes, I would assume as much. The secondhand dealer here in Halifax
that I frequent most often, Schooner Books, used to pay half what
they would price the books for on their shelves -- and my
understanding is that they are unusually generous. I suppose if
they buy in lots reather than individual titles, they would pay a
much lower percentage of their selling price.

Still if my Tolstoy sells for $150 I'm happy, since I only paid
ten dollars for it. It's in pretty good condition.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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