- Joined
- Feb 20, 2005
- Location
- Near Kankakee
Sam:
Just skimmed abebooks.com. Most expensive was $2500 and it sounded like garbage. (Hint: Booksellers sell books for what they think they can get -- look through all that match your wants.) Found a much better sounding set for $750.
It seems that the green bound is becoming scarce. There were more, at least in the sample I looked at, of the delux binding: 3/4 morocco and brown boards.
Didn't go much further down the list, but there were 277 listings (down to a $1 paperback). Booksellers standards of condition apply which roughly translates in descending order as: new, as new, near new, very fine, fine, very good, good, ... fair, poor, and reading copy. As these are from memory, don't take my word for it as I read the specifications required for rating a book at the same site.
The site is very good about policing interractions. I've never gotten a book that wasn't "as described." Give yourself plenty of time to cruise. If you're going to read through 50 selections, it takes some time.
Final recommend. Don't wait too long. That bookseller with the $750 choice either won't have it next week, or he will realize that he can get $1250 for it.
(For a hoot, search for the shoulder-strap edition of Sherman's Memoirs.)
Second mortgages are readily available.
Ole
Just skimmed abebooks.com. Most expensive was $2500 and it sounded like garbage. (Hint: Booksellers sell books for what they think they can get -- look through all that match your wants.) Found a much better sounding set for $750.
It seems that the green bound is becoming scarce. There were more, at least in the sample I looked at, of the delux binding: 3/4 morocco and brown boards.
Didn't go much further down the list, but there were 277 listings (down to a $1 paperback). Booksellers standards of condition apply which roughly translates in descending order as: new, as new, near new, very fine, fine, very good, good, ... fair, poor, and reading copy. As these are from memory, don't take my word for it as I read the specifications required for rating a book at the same site.
The site is very good about policing interractions. I've never gotten a book that wasn't "as described." Give yourself plenty of time to cruise. If you're going to read through 50 selections, it takes some time.
Final recommend. Don't wait too long. That bookseller with the $750 choice either won't have it next week, or he will realize that he can get $1250 for it.
(For a hoot, search for the shoulder-strap edition of Sherman's Memoirs.)
Second mortgages are readily available.
Ole