|
||||||||||||||||
|
The Knowledge Network |
What is My Old Book Worth?Location: Guilderland Overview: Did you inherit some old books from a relative? Buy some at a garage sale or flea market? Not every old book is valuable, but many are, and this class can tell you what makes an old book a potentially valuable one. Learn about the types of books people collect, and the factors (such as the edition, illustrator, and condition) that can make one more valuable than another. You will also learn how to evaluate your books, and receive advice on ways to sell them when you are ready to do so. The class will also include a free verbal evaluation of up to three books from each student. Topics: fun of collecting old books • types of collections • book values and why prices vary • Identification • determining the edition • sources of price information Internet - Amazon, eBay • donations - a tax deduction may be better than a sale • book evaluations Instructor: Bill Healy has been selling rare books for more than three decades, for the last twenty-five years as the owner of Bibliomania, an antiquarian book shop in Schenectady, NY. He is the author of two books, The Adirondacks: A Special World (North Country Books, 1986), and The High Peaks of Essex: the Adirondack Mountains of Orson Schofield Phelps (Purple Mountain Press, 1992). He serves as vice-chairman of the Adirondack Research Library of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, and on the steering committee for the K.R. Dorn Local History Collection at Fulton Montgomery Community College. He has lectured widely on Adirondack history, book collecting, photography, and other subjects, and has published two books and more than one hundred articles in various periodicals.
|