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Title: Huxford's Old Book Value Guide: 25,000 Listings of Old Books With Current Values (10th Ed) by Bob Huxford, Sharon Huxford ISBN: 1-57432-057-2 Publisher: Collector Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: How Old is Old?
Comment: When I purchased Huxford's Old Book Value Guide, I imagined that the books that were covered might be older than those written by Len Deighton and Marian Zimmer Bradley. There's lots of stuff from 1970 on, but coverage of genuinely old books is very sparse. The title of this guide is extremely misleading, but if late 20th Century books are your area of interest, you might find this useful. I didn't.
Rating: 2
Summary: Hit or miss...
Comment: This book does list values of 25,000 books as it claims, but it is incomplete in some very frustrating ways that have to do with how it was put together. The authors apparently contacted a number of book dealers and collected their 'inventories' into a database. These were then consolidated into the listing(s) of this book.
But what that means is that you find an extremely unsystematic selection of titles. You may find a $500 title that someone has been trying to sell for years right above a run-of-the-mill used-bookstore title selling for $15. You could find an author's second book listed, but not the first or third. As a lookup/reference tool is is hardly useful.
I once thought this book would be a nice supplement to the other collecting books that focus on more high-end titles... something to take along to yard sales and the like to see if the $0.25 book was 'worth' $50 or $0.50. Well, even with 25,000 titles you can imagine that many more books are not listed here. Far too often I would not find a listing but COULD NOT KNOW if the book was valuable or not... its non-existence in this book just means one of the selected sellers did not have it in stock. I also kept finding entries in the $25/$30 range - right at the point where it might be a collectable underlisted by that one store or just their overpriced junk. With only a single such listing to consider, I just couldn't know.
The overlarge physical size of the book also seemed unwieldy to me. Combined with the sense of slap-together technique and a look at the number of other "Huxfords" listings, I frankly feel that it is just an attempt to grab a piece of the growing 'collectibles' market.
Rating: 4
Summary: If this is your taste.....
Comment: I am sure this book is excellent for antiquarian/rare book lovers, but I like popular authors with books 20-30 years old too, and those seem to be lacking in this guide a bit. Unless you are a professional book dealer, you will not fetch these prices on the internet, it is flooded with booksellers and the worth of a fine book seems to be waning. But all-in-all it is a good guide to go by when looking up older hardbacks.
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Title: Official Price Guide to Collecting Books (Official Price Guide to Old Books) by Marie Tedford, Pat Goudey ISBN: 0609807692 Publisher: House of Collectibles Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites by Stephen Windwalker ISBN: 0971577838 Publisher: Harvard Perspective Pr Pub. Date: 05 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Book Finds: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books by Ian C. Ellis ISBN: 0399526544 Publisher: Perigee Books Pub. Date: 06 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions by Bill McBride ISBN: 0930313062 Publisher: McBride Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Collected Books: The Guide to Values 2002 (Collected Books, 2002) by Allen Ahearn, Patricia Ahearn ISBN: 0399147810 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 08 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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