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Since: Dec 27, 2003
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:16 am
Post subject: Brag, to me
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I have never posted here but have been reading posts for awhile. I am new
to book collecting, mainly collect only authors that I like, and as a side
collection I collect books about armageddon/end of the world. Today I went
to a combined antiques/book fair in Richmond, Virginia. Not many book
dealers, thought there would be more, but looked through everything. An
antiques dealer had one small box of books marked $3 each. I looked through
and found a book that I hadn't heard of that was about the end of the world.
It is "The HAB Theory" by Allan W. Eckert. Went ahead and bought it since
it was $3, along with a few other titles. I got home and looked the book up
on ABE and found that the worst ex-libris copy starts at $45 and the better
copies go up to $335, and that only 3,000 copies were ever printed. This
copy is extremely clean, looks like it hasn't been read actually. I don't
buy books for value or to sell but for once I feel like I got a major deal! |
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Since: Mar 06, 2004
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 4:25 pm
Post subject: Re: Brag, to me [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Congrats! It sounds as if you won three ways: 1) found a book you didn't
know you wanted until you saw it; 2) found out it was a great (to say the
least) investment; and 3) acquired a book you might not otherwise have been
willing to pay the price for even if you had known about it.
Just shows what can happen when a book lover is turned loose among books for
sale, no matter the limited quantity. Nice job!
Alice
"Dan" <vze3b7za.TakeThisOut@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:Mks9c.4476$Kp4.4062@nwrddc03.gnilink.net...
> I have never posted here but have been reading posts for awhile. I am new
> to book collecting, mainly collect only authors that I like, and as a side
> collection I collect books about armageddon/end of the world. Today I
went
> to a combined antiques/book fair in Richmond, Virginia. Not many book
> dealers, thought there would be more, but looked through everything. An
> antiques dealer had one small box of books marked $3 each. I looked
through
> and found a book that I hadn't heard of that was about the end of the
world.
> It is "The HAB Theory" by Allan W. Eckert. Went ahead and bought it since
> it was $3, along with a few other titles. I got home and looked the book
up
> on ABE and found that the worst ex-libris copy starts at $45 and the
better
> copies go up to $335, and that only 3,000 copies were ever printed. This
> copy is extremely clean, looks like it hasn't been read actually. I don't
> buy books for value or to sell but for once I feel like I got a major
deal!
>
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Since: Jul 14, 2003
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:27 am
Post subject: Re: Brag, to me [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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"Dan" vze3b7za DeleteThis @verizon.net wrote:
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>I got home and looked the book up
>on ABE and found that the worst ex-libris copy starts at $45 and the better
>copies go up to $335, and that only 3,000 copies were ever printed. This
>copy is extremely clean, looks like it hasn't been read actually. I don't
>buy books for value or to sell but for once I feel like I got a major deal!
Since Addall list 158 copies for sale, I don't know that this book is
particularly rare. I wonder how many of them sell at 12.00 a copy for the
paperback version.
--
"Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor
citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when
single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang."
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Since: Jul 14, 2003
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:35 am
Post subject: Re: Brag, to me [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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>I don't
>buy books for value or to sell but for once I feel like I got a major deal!
I think the best deal I got from an online book dealer was a copy of George
Leonard's "Someone Else Is On The Moon." A seller had listed a PB copy for
$2.00 during the time when the cheapest PB was going for about $75.00 and the
cheapest hardback was $150. Apparently the seller hadn't bothered to look it
up before listing it.
In some ways. that's a better find than at a yard sale or library sale because
you'd think book dealers who didn't know what a book was worth would check
other prices before listing it.
--
"Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor
citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when
single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang."
--Benjamin Franklin<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ --> >> Stay informed about: Brag, to me |
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Since: Dec 08, 2003
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:46 am
Post subject: Re: Brag, to me [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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cloveclone.DeleteThis@aol.comdotcom (Courtney Love) wrote in message news:<20040329192757.09410.00000257.DeleteThis@mb-m24.aol.com>...
> "Dan" vze3b7za.DeleteThis@verizon.net wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >I got home and looked the book up
> >on ABE and found that the worst ex-libris copy starts at $45 and the better
> >copies go up to $335, and that only 3,000 copies were ever printed. This
> >copy is extremely clean, looks like it hasn't been read actually. I don't
> >buy books for value or to sell but for once I feel like I got a major deal!
>
> Since Addall list 158 copies for sale, I don't know that this book is
> particularly rare. I wonder how many of them sell at 12.00 a copy for the
> paperback version.
This book HAB THEORY was broght back into print (i.e. reprinted) a few
years ago. Before that folks would pay a lot for a reading copy.
Nowadays high prices are probably justified for the first, but not for
reprints....
David
David Holloway, Bookseller<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ --> >> Stay informed about: Brag, to me |
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:09 pm
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In article <20040329193529.09410.00000258.DeleteThis@mb-m24.aol.com>,
cloveclone.DeleteThis@aol.comdotcom (Courtney Love) wrote:
> In some ways. that's a better find than at a yard sale or library sale
> because
> you'd think book dealers who didn't know what a book was worth would
> check
> other prices before listing it.
Things slip through, though. Somewhere in the States a few years ago (I
entirely forget where) I found a pretty good first of Giovanni's Room on
the two-dollar shelf. The poor dealer realised what it was when I added it
to my pile of more expensive purchases and I guess there was some gritting
of teeth.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ --> >> Stay informed about: Brag, to me |
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:51 pm
Post subject: Re: Brag, to me [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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This one is actually from the first printing, not the reprint in....2000 I
think.
"hollowayd" <drhbooks.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> cloveclone.DeleteThis@aol.comdotcom (Courtney Love) wrote in message
news:<20040329192757.09410.00000257.DeleteThis@mb-m24.aol.com>...
> > "Dan" vze3b7za.DeleteThis@verizon.net wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > >I got home and looked the book up
> > >on ABE and found that the worst ex-libris copy starts at $45 and the
better
> > >copies go up to $335, and that only 3,000 copies were ever printed.
This
> > >copy is extremely clean, looks like it hasn't been read actually. I
don't
> > >buy books for value or to sell but for once I feel like I got a major
deal!
> >
> > Since Addall list 158 copies for sale, I don't know that this book is
> > particularly rare. I wonder how many of them sell at 12.00 a copy for
the
> > paperback version.
>
> This book HAB THEORY was broght back into print (i.e. reprinted) a few
> years ago. Before that folks would pay a lot for a reading copy.
> Nowadays high prices are probably justified for the first, but not for
> reprints....
>
> David
>
> David Holloway, Bookseller<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ --> >> Stay informed about: Brag, to me |
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