Any book collectors and or appraisers here?

[My I]

Looking for info and value of a book I recently found. The book is Historic Salisbury Updated 1962-1982 by Charles J. Truitt. Book is a first printing hard cover and signed by the author. Overall the book is in good condition, paper cover has some small tears but is complete.

Anyone have an idea of the value or know a site where I could find a value for it? I know it's not woth a fotune but I'd like to get some idea what it's worth.

 

[LaRocha]

Looking for info and value of a book I recently found. The book is Historic Salisbury Updated 1962-1982 by Charles J. Truitt. Book is a first printing hard cover and signed by the author. Overall the book is in good condition, paper cover has some small tears but is complete.

Anyone have an idea of the value or know a site where I could find a value for it? I know it's not woth a fotune but I'd like to get some idea what it's worth.

I doubt it's worth more than forty or fifty dollars. Sorry.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-list...1272928121&sr=8-1-fkmr0&condition=collectible

 

[trysail]

Try http://www.abebooks.com for comparables.

 

[oggbashan]

Looking for info and value of a book I recently found. The book is Historic Salisbury Updated 1962-1982 by Charles J. Truitt. Book is a first printing hard cover and signed by the author. Overall the book is in good condition, paper cover has some small tears but is complete.

Anyone have an idea of the value or know a site where I could find a value for it? I know it's not woth a fotune but I'd like to get some idea what it's worth.

It isn't likely to be worth as much as its cover price.

It probably didn't have a second edition, and unless the author is a celebrity, a signed book isn't much more valuable than an unsigned one.

Og (retired secondhand bookdealer)

PS. Found a signed copy on abebooks at 57 dollars. That is the ASKING price. If you wanted to sell it, the dealer would not give more than a third of his asking price - so about 20 dollars IF HE WANTED IT.

 

[ishtat]

Some years ago I was given a Welsh Language Bible dating from the early 18th century. "It must be valuable" I thought, only to be gently disillusioned that something I thought "must be rare" was in fact printed in tens of thousands. Thus nice to have but not worth much.

 

[oggbashan]

I had a three volume First Edition of George Eliot's Felix Holt.

I paid Forty Pounds for it.

Fifteen years later I sold it. I got...













...Forty Pounds.

The three volumes of the book had been bound, not by the publishers, nor by a prestigious bookbinder in sumptuous leather, but by the then equivalent of Walmart.

Og