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| Book Finds, 3rd Edition: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books | 
 enlarge | Author: Ian C. Ellis
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 51636
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0399532382
Dewey Decimal Number: 002.075
EAN: 9780399532382
ASIN: 0399532382
Publication Date: March 7, 2006
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Product Description
An updated edition of the essential insider's resource.
For the experienced collector or someone embarking on a new hobby, this newly revised and updated edition of Book Finds reveals the secrets of locating rare and valuable books. Includes information on first editions and reader's copies, auctions and catalogs, avoiding costly and common beginner mistakes, strategies of professional "book scouts," and buying and selling on the Internet.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 43 more reviews...
 Outdated April 29, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Without more extensive coverage of the internet marketplace, this book can only be considered out-of-date. For the most part, the kind of selling and trading presented here no longer exists as a profitable endeavor.
 Without peer March 6, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The author loves his work and shares that love and knowledge in an immediately understandable way.
Book Finds, 3rd Edition: How to Find, Buy and Sell Used and Rare Books February 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent book for either the new seller or those already doing so. Information included is useful to help become an even better seller.
The Best Yet! December 20, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is the best one that I have found so far for a new collector. I ordered many of the books on Amazon about book collecting recently. Although I haven't read all of them yet, so far this book is the most helpful. It is not dry and still has a wealth of information. This is important to me as I am easily bored. Just in the first chapter I learned many terms used to describe the different parts of a book and some of the history of books. I am really enjoying this book and I hope you try it too!
 PROBABLY WORTH FOUR STARS, BUT....... November 10, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have enjoyed this work and have indeed found parts of it to be quite useful. I have been collecting, buying, selling and trading books for quite a number of years now, and did indeed pick up some good information and hints from this particular book. It does have it's flaws though. The first, and most major, is that it simply does not address the internet as it should. So much of the information found in this book is simply outdated due to that fact. Now granted, once you have the actual book in hand, then this work becomes more useful. But finding the book is a whole different ball game than it was just a few years ago. The second problem with the book is that we all simply do not live on the East Coast of the United States and specifically, New York City. Pity, I know, but that is just a fact. Third, the author can come across as being just a bit stuffy at times, which, at best, is a bit annoying.
The negative being said, this is quite a good work to get yourself started. The author does give some great information as to the anatomy of a book, what to look for, what to avoid when purchasing or selling. This is valuable information. The chapters alone that discuss the various conditions of books and what it does to their price is probably worth the price of the book alone.
Overall, I do recommend this one, but with some reservations. There are a lot of resources out there now, and the reader, collector, seller needs to be aware of them all. This is not an easy business, and is probably not as easy as the author would make it seem.
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