Posted on 03/29/2009 10:50:54 AM PDT by rellimpank
About a year ago, a writer for one of the town's less-than-every-day papers infamously reported with regret that the Reading Room bookstore at Mandalay Place inside the Mandalay Bay was closing, leaving Las Vegas without any independent booksellers.
Las Vegas was not and still is not without independent booksellers, needless to say, and I'm not merely talking about the Philadelphia-based (and markedly upscale) Bauman's Rare Books, which moved into Sheldon Adelson's Palazzo last year.
Check out www.usedbookslasvegas.com/Open_Shops.html.
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
Liberty and Tyranny - Mark Levin
OUTSTANDING! Easy to read and fully understand even for liberal.
I collect used books across a wide range of topics. My personal library now numbers around 850 or so - most all of it obtained from used book stores, thrift shops, and salvage sheds.
No idea what it might be worth?
I’d guess a lot.
—I have no idea—must be somewhere on the Internet to start looking—
Is it written for a teen to read?
We need to have the next generation EDUCATED.
The Dune series could get kids thinking about authorities manipulating behind the scenes and social engineering.
So they don’t do a lot of book reading in Vegas? Shocking!
I'll let him know it is. ( If he hasn't thrown it away.)
How about Atlas Shrugged and related books, before they are outlawed?
Bauman's is incredible...but bring lots of cash.
always hit amazon when pricing books things generally are not worth as much as one might think. OTOH I have sold some at a rather large % wise profit.
Depends on the teen. I think any high school level teen could muddle through it. It would be an excellent home school project! Or an excellent opportunity for parents to read with their teens.
I have to agree that many current history and political science books written on the teen level are poor to bad.
I’m always on the look out for GOOD history books or good commentaries. As you stated, most are awful and I add - very leftist.
To check individual books, you can go to a used-book site like abebooks.com and do an advanced search, changing the order of the listing from "cheapest first" to "most expensive first." Then you can see the high end of what your book is worth.
You can also see how many copies are available, which gives another indication of its rarity.
If you are really interested, you can track a book over time to see whether its value is going up or down, which can tell you whether to buy, hold, or sell.
There is a lot to know about book collecting: the condition of the book, which printing it is and how to determine that, whether it's signed, British or American edition, etc. All affect value. The jacket doubles the price, usually.
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