/r/BookCollecting
The definitive source for established book collectors or those who would like to start collecting themselves. A place to show off your collection or share tips on finding the best deals online or at your local bookstore, thrift store or flea market.
Feel free to ask questions!
If you are curious about the value of a book you have, try to include a photo, publisher information, copyright date (if any), and a general idea about the condition.
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Can someone help me determine the worth of this set?
I have a complete set of the Franklin Library Metropolitan Museum of Art books that I would like to sell so I have money for books I’m personally more interested in. They are in very good condition.
I have been searching online and these books appear to be more valuable when sold all together as opposed to separately. I could only find one complete set on eBay listed for a bit over 900. There were two sets sold on eBay in December, one for 850 and one for 250 (this one was not in the best condition). But as I’ve been looking more it seems that not all Franklin books are worth what people list them for? So I’m not sure what I can reasonably expect to get for them.
I did reach out to two local book sellers asking if they are interested in buying them and they have not responded. Are these not really sought after?
19:49 UTC
One of many shelves -Home
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Secondhand Foucault?
Hi! Does anyone know any good places I could get Michel Foucault’s books in the vintage 1988-95 edition (not sure if they’ve been reprinted, if yes please lmk) for a good price? Been looking on eBay and some other websites but they’re hard to find. I’m mostly looking for “History of sexuality”, “Madness and civilisation“ and “Discipline and punish”. I’m EU based!
13:56 UTC
Franklin Library and Easton Press Books I’ve bought in the past couple months
Each of these were anywhere between $10-40. The Russian books were understandably on the more expensive end but still very cheap.
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C ormac M cCarthy 1st edition
I have a copy of All the Pre tty Horses that has all of the points except the stamp of M cCarthy's initial in silver on the cover.
Any idea what edition this is? The book says first edition. The back flap of the book cover has the date 5/92.
04:47 UTC
Winston Churchill’s The Great War 1933 / 34
Published in 26 fortnightly parts
23:03 UTC
Winston Churchill
Three of the 26 volumes of Churchill’s Great War published every second week in 1933 / 34.
21:38 UTC
New to collecting, do alot of books not have hard covers? I had to go on a scavenger hunt to find this under $100 and it's a double feature for sime reason. All the other hard coppies of The Last Unicorn found were crazy expensive special editions.
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Some books from thrifting today
I found a few duplicates today by Ken Follett. unfortunately the two towers isnt in the best condition. However, after a long search i have finally found a copy, I also was able to replace my copy of "A Child Called It," which I read years ago. With some additional books by Dave Pelzer that I've been eager to explore.
00:21 UTC
Can we ban posts asking for price evaluations?
It's lazy and 99.9% of the time they aren't valuable or rare books.
23:03 UTC
Got this for a $1 at a local thrift store. See cool, buy cool.
18:00 UTC
Can anyone help me find a complete list of these books?
Hallmark Gift Books:
Found this at a thrift store today and have done a lot of digging into “Hallmark Gift Books”- however, these appear to have been only produced for a short time and not again since.
This, as well as the fact that searching for the label online and on the Hallmark website only reveal a hundred different things that aren’t these, have made it all but impossible for me to find a complete list of how many different books were made in this fashion: I.E with the hardback covers, felt and gold detailing.
eBay has several others but I’m a true collector at heart and need to know exactly what I’m looking for before diving in. Any and all info would be much appreciated! Thanks!
03:50 UTC
Collecting help!
Hello all, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this or not, but figured it didn't hurt. I'm going to have to admit I have never been much of a reader. I did poorly in English during school and have been diagnosed dyslexic. I gave audio books a try but found it was hard to keep up with all of the details and felt I was missing more than I was truly understanding. Recently however, I have found that if I physically read along with the audio book its very enjoyable. Brandon Sanderson has had me in kind of a chokehold for a little bit now and I was considering purchasing his leatherbound books. My question is this, are they so much of a collecters item that I should not read them (As in also buy a seperate copy to actually read) or should it be fine? Since learning this new tech of combining reading with audio books I have been obsessed (thank you Mr.Sanderson for making books so good, no matter how difficult I can't help but continue), so I would like to get the leatherbounds, just want to keep them nice.
01:54 UTC
Help Identifying Miniature Shakespeare Books
Sorry if this is the wrong sub!
Bought a few of these Shakespeare miniature books at an auction, but they're undated (as far as I know) and can't find a similar edition on Google for the life of me.
Appreciate if anyone can identify them and/or speculate on their value - won't cry if they're worthless.
Here's photos of the cover/side/first page/second/last (spoilers)/size - back is blank - just green. If you need any more of let me know.
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