selling your stuff on Amazon - part 8 - advice for newbies in the first 2 posts

boston_uk

Can i just point back to post 783 before it gets lost please?? Would appreciate advice on this from all you clever bods

ta ever so

funkyfunkymonkey

boston_uk wrote:

I have a full set of 8 paperback books - the Discovering London series - including the 2 maps that were issued along with them. They are available singly on both amazon mp and eBay ( some on there with part sets but no maps)

Now I know they are not worth that much, presumably more as a set with the maps which i cant list on the MP, but was wondering whether eBay or Amazon auctions might be the best venue? Dont see much about the Amazon auctions on here and wondered what experience folks had of it for such things?

Advice appreciated!

Thanks

Hi

I can't really help you here because I've never used Amazon auctions - from the Amazon Discussion Board I get the impression they are a bit of a 'non-starter'.

If I was going to auction something I would definitely use Ebay over Amazon.

FFM

Sexy_Em

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Dudette if you please

sorry - wasnt meant personally I call everyone 'dude'

apprentice_tycoon wrote:

Rare_stuff, you still there?.....over to you, we'll all listen carefully....:D

mishkanorman

Ive got a whole ton of 1st editions and they are all listed as 'collectable-'

I did notice quite a few sellers just adding this in the discription though


mishka

rare_stuff

Amazon auctions? never used them and aren't aware of any success with them from others, though auctioning mobiles and the like will attract the scammers who will try to pay you well over the value of the phone. The auction side of amazon is even less supported that the zshops!


As for First Editions! I don't really want to be the one who opens that Pandora's Box! The majority of modern fiction first edition, first impressions are worth no more than the later reprints. Unless the author is particularly collectible or that there were mistakes in the first printing and the majority were scrapped, they still only hold value to the collector and from what I have been told the market here has shrunk considerably.

It is important if you are describing an item as a first edition to describe the reasons for you identifying it as such. This can mean a certain amount of research may be needed as it may be the first edition in that binding, or by that publisher but earlier editions exist. Also it is common for people to quote a book as a first edition when it is in fact the 7th impression of the first edition. I believe the advice pointing to links on identifying first editions is in the first 2 posts on this thread.

The funniest time I have ever come across a book advertised as a first edition was a readers digest condensed novel!

On the positive side of this, many customers would not know a first edition if it jumped up and bit them, but you should be aware that a serious collector will be most upset to find out they had been mis-sold a book wrongly described as a true 1st/1st

boston_uk

eBay it is then - thanks folks ...

(They are all 1st/1sts ... maybe I am sitting on a goldmine ....:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: )

mishkanorman

Ok better go back and check mine !

So to be a thicky how do you identify the impression ?

The book im most concerned about is George Gilman The rifle (edge) if that helps at all.


( oooh look how i gave advice on someone else problem and then turned out it was mine too !! )


mishka

wilf55

hi everyone help needed here

been given an old book a religious book called

Wanted - A Boy and other addresses to the young by george c leader
minister of lightfoot grove baptist church stockton on tees

published by h r allenson ltd
7 racquet court fleet street however

i cant find a date in it references to sunlight soap adverts at railway stations abraham lincoln political figure gladstone lord shaftesbury

does anyone know how i should date it or how i can sell it searched on amazon bookfinders google etc and cant come up with anything

its interesting cos its got hand written sermon type notes with it and catalogue pages from h r allensons but cant find any references to anything when looking

obviously a book of great interest to some one but who???!!!

if it was worthless as such would prefer to send it to the church or something....can find the address of the church but cant find when george c leader was the minister there which would give me an approximated date on the book

thanks guys
debs

rare_stuff

wilf55 wrote:

hi everyone help needed here

been given an old book a religious book called

Wanted - A Boy and other addresses to the young by george c leader
minister of lightfoot grove baptist church stockton on tees

published by h r allenson ltd
7 racquet court fleet street however

i cant find a date in it references to sunlight soap adverts at railway stations abraham lincoln political figure gladstone lord shaftesbury

does anyone know how i should date it or how i can sell it searched on amazon bookfinders google etc and cant come up with anything

its interesting cos its got hand written sermon type notes with it and catalogue pages from h r allensons but cant find any references to anything when looking

obviously a book of great interest to some one but who???!!!

if it was worthless as such would prefer to send it to the church or something....can find the address of the church but cant find when george c leader was the minister there which would give me an approximated date on the book

thanks guys
debs

that's a book for ebay rather than amazon imho, you could contact the church and ask when he was leader. Maybe try and get the keywords baptist, stockton, in the title may help, but I really don't have too much knowledge of old uncommon books like that.



As for working out what impression a book is, most modern printers use something called a 'number line' and this will often be described as a 'full number line' when describing a true 1st/1st
Number lines can look like this

1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

or even more simply

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10


after the first impression the lower number is removed, and the same with subsequent impressions until you get something like this for the 8th impression

9 10 8

The choice often differs from publisher to publisher and some will give a date of first impression and then a list of dates of subsequent reprints of that edition.

As for identifying true firsts of books without number lines you need to refer to specialist knowledge as it could be as subtle as a slightly different shade of end paper or very slight variations in printing on spine.

I certainly do not want to identify myself as a specialist in identifying firsts, the only books I have learnt to identify are the humble ladybirds. Other than that I rely on number lines or seeking specialist knowledge. Often searching ABE will reveal first editions for sale which have all the notable markings listed by the seller so that may be a place to start for older books.

wilf55

no number lines or anything am i developing the first signs of amazonitus addiction here spent virtually all evening trying to suss this one out !!! didnt even watch eastenders but then perhaps this is less sad than that lol