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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.books,net.sf-lovers
Subject: Hardcover book value guide, SF especially
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 17:26:24 EDT
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A couple questions relating to the value (in terms of prices to
collectors) of hardcover books:

1) I've seen paperback value guides, but about all I've ever seen
covering hardbacks were reports of book auctions (stuff our local
library's bibliography department had). Since I am particularily
interested in the value of some SF hardbacks I have, and these cover
everything since printing was invented and seem to neglect modern stuff,
especially such looked-down-upon genres as SF, they aren't very useful.
I believe some dealers publish catalogs, maybe in tabloid form (I have
one old catalog in such a format), which might be useful as a
price/value guide -- main problem is that they are not comprehensive --
just has what the dealer happens to have in stock at the moment.
Would anyone recommend any particular dealers' catalogs for this purpose?

So, can anyone recommend sources of values for SF hardbacks?

2) Are there any SF Book Club editions that are collectible/rare/etc.
and therefore higher-valued than run-of-the-mill reading-copy prices? Or
are any SFBC editions just worth a couple dollars or so?

Thanks for any info!
Regards,
Will Martin

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