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Kathleen (lludwig) posted an update Sunday, Sep 1, 2013, 11:46am EDT, 12 years, 1 month ago
Greetings from Penn's Woods on this first day of September,
This past month in book sales has been great! It was the third highest month of the year. Just a surprise in the dog days of summer when our book sales are usually at the lowest. August topped June and July. July had topped Jan and Feb.
This month we did really well in selling Swifty's Tom Swift books. It seems that collector's must have finally found us. We also sold a good number of Easton Press books for nice amounts. Heritage Press was ok - those sales ranged from $12-18.
For those who go to book sales, here is a hint about not turning your nose up at International Collectors Library Editions (reprints, similar to Easton and Franklin but much earlier and cheaper in many ways). These are the bonded leather with paper that turns brown and brittle. Usually they don't sell or if they do, not for much so stay away from them which I suspect many of the booksellers here already know. HOWEVER, over these many years I have found one that I have sold more times than I can count and that is the GONE WITH THE WIND. Those GWTW collector's are willing to buy them. There are two kinds, one has the top edge gilt and the other not. I consistently get $24.99 for the former and $19.99 for the latter. I am down to my last one, no teg, but it has 'problems' so may have to lower the price from the inital $17.99 after the next batch of 10% sales ends on the literature category. DH did pick up a Canterbury Tales illustrated by Rockwell Kent and that only sold for $10.00.
Top 5 Book Sales
Joan MIRO ENGRAVER Original Woodcuts Ltd Ed Vol I Etchings Catalogue 1928-1960 - $134.99
WADDESDON MANOR England Architecture & Panelling Catalogue James de Rothschild - $53.99
TOM SWIFT AND HIS PLANET STONE First Edition G&D 1935 Sr #38 1st Ed Nat Falk - $49.99
VOLVO 122S P1800 1962-1968 Service Repair Handbook Clymer Manual Automobile Car - $39.99
GILDED METALS Gold Silver Bronze Technology Care Conservation Techniques History - $39.99
Top 8 Cookbook Sales, with one a duplicate With such an ethnic diversity of the top selling cookbooks, I decided to list the top 8 (one is a duplicate with one signed and the other is not signed)
PA DUTCH Cookbook SIGNED Florence Shunk Sweet Things Pennsylvania German Ethnic - $29.99 (plus another copy unsigned for $24.99)
JEWISH COOKBOOK Soviet Union Immigrants of New York City Russian Ethnic Recipes - $24.99
BETTY CROCKER'S New Cookbook 3-RING BINDER HC Sealed - $22.49
LITHUANIAN Cookbook Knights of Anthracite Council 144 Pennsylvania Ethnic Recipe - $22.49
JEWISH COMMUNITY Cookbook Temple Oheb Sholom Sisterhood Reading PA Ethnic VTG - $19.99
Italian Cookbook SONS OF ITALY Recipes Lodge #528 York Pennsylvania Ethnic Food - $19.99
RUSSIAN Cookbook Ethnic Recipes From SITKA ALASKA Russia Cookery Cuisine Vintage - $17.99
And DH no longer laughs at my cookbooks - he now looks for them when I am not along!
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