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Rare books?
Posted on 09/01/2003 8:23:07 PM PDT by Delphinium
I found a bunch of old books on the floor of my sisters garage. One of them is a signed copy of "Personal Memoirs of U.S Grant" and another is "The Works of Washington Irving", the Life and voyages of Christopher Columbus. Both are dated 1885.
Does anyone have an idea of their value, or where would I go to idea?
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To: Porterville
Stephen King? There were alot of his books that I left in the garage? Should I get them?
To: Delphinium
Whats your address? Cute. I think you have a real treasure there -- especially if the US Grant sig is real!
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posted on
09/01/2003 9:24:22 PM PDT
by
Migraine
(my grain is pretty straight today)
To: Porterville
J.D. Salinger of "Catcher in the Rye" fame? Probably the most overrated piece of drivel every to be hyped as a best seller. Ellsworth Toohey would have been proud.
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posted on
09/01/2003 9:26:09 PM PDT
by
stylin_geek
(Koffi: 0, G.W. Bush: (I lost count))
To: Delphinium
I don't know French. But I would be willing to try that for you at no cost. I would use babel fish. I would only be interested in helping on that end cause I'm third generation myself in America. Family was originally sharecroppers in Italy. I know how precious things like that are.
So you may enter babel fish or forward info to me for that. I all ready told you I personelly don't know the language. But you do understand the empathy of sentiment from me.
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posted on
09/01/2003 9:26:27 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
To: fqued; Porterville
How do I find what addition it is?
To: Delphinium
Various ways of finding out what edition a book is.
The first place I look is AddALL
http://used.addall.com/ If that is not fruitful, I use WorldCat. [You can log into WorldCat through you library. If you can log into your library from home, you can then log into WorldCat from home.] WorldCat lists all the books from the member libraries around the world. The info given on a book is generally good enough to tell what edition a book is.
Note, it is not always true that a first edition is substantially more valuable than a second or third edition.
Actually, I have one book that has three "first" editions, and, truthfully, each has claim to the title.
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posted on
09/01/2003 9:35:06 PM PDT
by
fqued
To: Calpernia
When I first got a computer, about 9 years ago I bought some French translation software. The problem is that these books are written in pretty old French.
I haven't got the book in the computer now. I copied it from a microfilm. I would have to type it in and I really don't know how to type.
To: Delphinium
By the way, what is the title, author and date of this (these) french book(s) that you keep mentioning. It is within the realm of possibility that there is a translation already available.
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posted on
09/01/2003 9:38:24 PM PDT
by
fqued
To: Delphinium
Stephen King books sometimes say first edition on the copyright page.... but to be sure check on a website that is specific to Stephen King collectors. Many King books have a code-number on a later page, on the inside near the spine, like (CJ768)The Stand for example has a code on page 823. But the code change for each printing... A give away is if the Dust Jacket say Book Of The Mont Club. In general, that means the book is worthless, unless it is The Old Man And The Sea you can get 50-80 bucks for that BCE.
First editions vary on how they are marked to indicate first edition by the publisher. Scribners has a seal that will be on most of their first editions but they may throw in a capital A to indicate the true first and a W to indicate something else.. Ayn Rands Fountain Head states First Edition on up to the 14th or 15th edition, the first edition has burgandy clothe the second Green.... so when your scanning a book store you know what the jackpots look like... then you check out the finer details like what would make it a first edition later. Then you go back and buy the book.
Kipplings Jungle Book is worth a lot of money, but most of his books aren't worth but 10$. He has a ton of books that were printed.
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posted on
09/01/2003 9:41:28 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(I spell stuff wrong sometimes, get over it, you are not that great.)
To: fqued
What a great resource! I've been trying to find copies of one of my Dad's books that's been out of print for quite a while and lo and behold...I found more than I can imagine!!! Thank you!!!!
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posted on
09/01/2003 9:43:09 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: Delphinium
I'm a great typist. Is it normal characters? I would help.
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posted on
09/01/2003 9:43:41 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
To: stylin_geek
Yeah, but since that movie with Mel Gibson, people love it, they think they are all Holden Caulfield. But, the true first Nine Storied, Raise the Roof Beam High, and Franny and Zoey, all worth money and are hard to find.. True First that is the key.
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posted on
09/01/2003 9:44:56 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(I spell stuff wrong sometimes, get over it, you are not that great.)
To: Hildy
What a great resource! I've been trying to find copies of one of my Dad's books that's been out of print for quite a while and lo and behold...I found more than I can imagine!!! Thank you!!!!
You are welcome. What did your father write?
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posted on
09/01/2003 9:46:06 PM PDT
by
fqued
To: Porterville
Nine Stories not Nine Storied
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posted on
09/01/2003 9:47:02 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(I spell stuff wrong sometimes, get over it, you are not that great.)
To: Delphinium
You might want to contact Yale University Library for information, as some of those books have been used in their research, especially the Christopher Columbus one. They might have some concept of their value.
Best Wishes
To: fqued
That would be a miracle! I doubt if that would be a possibility.
"Histoire DE LA MAISON dUrfe"
and,
"Achille-Francois de Lascaris d'Urfe Marquis Du Chastellet 1759-1794" , by David de Saint-Georges
To: Porterville
The Old Man And The Sea
I think that is one of them. I am sending this information to my niece who sells alot on ebay. They are in her mothers garage.
To: Porterville
Another book I just discovered in this stack is "Poems" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
It looks in perfect condition. No date at all that I can see but looks very old.
To: Calpernia
Is it normal characters?
Not sure what that means. I was not a good student, can you tell?
To: Delphinium
Go to http://www.abebooks.com, take the book, like Old Man And The Sea and turn to the copyright page. The first edition has the scribners seal and I think a capital "A" it was published in 1952, the dust jacket should be a 50's style blue with a tan island and a picture of hemingway is on the back. Also the dust jacket (dj) will not say book of the month club edition... eBay is also a great resource.
I don't know about Oliver Holmes, but just checking on abebooks.com it shows that most dealers are selling early editions, some saying first (you really have to check) for 10-20 dollars. fadedgiant.net is also a good resource online.
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posted on
09/01/2003 10:52:36 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(I spell stuff wrong sometimes, get over it, you are not that great.)
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