Sorry, I already sold the entire collection earlier in the day. I am leaving the link to my books up so people can get an idea of how much of a book junkie I was.
Because I have begun to run out of space in my apartment and because I lack the time to read them even if I live to 120, I am selling a bunch of books listed in the spreadsheet linked to below:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p_8XFsqLNLA7LBTtGcnEJCg
The price in column 3 generally comes from the cover of the book and is included for reference more than anything else. As a rule of thumb, my price is half of the selling price for a used version of the book on Amazon.com. So, for example, I am selling Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” (a biography of the weasel Robert Moses) for $4.25, while the Amazon.com used price for the same book is $8.50. All books are paperback, unless marked with an * in column 4.
Finally, I am more interested in making space in my apartment than making money. I am anxious to move the books and will be open to any reasonable offer. However, I am not interested in selling small quantities of books since I don’t have time to wrap packages up and run to the post office for 2 or 3 books. Ideally, I am looking for purchases $100 and up. Although I doubt anybody would want to take the entire inventory off my hands, I would be asking $1000 for all of them. Considering that the list price for that would be over $13,000, I think that is fairly reasonable.
There are no handling charges, just the postage it costs to mail the books.
Contact me at lnp3@panix.com with your bids and your questions.
That is an absolutely awesome collection. There’s quite a few there that I have down on my ever-growing list (though as a university student I have no idea when I’ll have time to get them all read, lol)… I’ll definitely take a look =|.
BTW Whereabouts in the world are you located? I’m in Canada, so chances are I’d get hard with shipping…
Comment by dksu — February 26, 2008 @ 12:49 am
Did you sell them to Bob Gould? It will be interesting to see how much he marks them up!
Comment by Norm Dixon — March 6, 2008 @ 3:01 am