so what's a rare book and what makes a
rare book valuable
i'm going to show you how to find rare
books that are more valuable so you can
start trading in rare used books
the rareness of a book is basically just
the scarcity and the way i check
scarcity is by checking a website called
a libris
and it gives you the results of
everywhere you can find that particular
book online
obviously the fewer the better but being
rare doesn't necessarily make a book
valuable there are a lot of really rare
books out there
that have no desirability desirability
is the number one thing that makes a
book more valuable and if you happen to
not have a whole lot of desirability in
a particular book
you can help foster that by finding a
tie-in and you can use something like
current events
or anything to help make it more
pertinent or relevant for today
so the best example i like to use is the
stand which is a book by stephen king it
was published back in 1978 and it's
about a plague
obviously now the relevance of that book
has just exploded because of what we've
all been through
and so if you happen to have a first
edition copy of something like the stand
it would be worth more now
today than it was a few years ago
the example of rare books that are not
worth much goes on and on there's tons
of books out there that are extremely
scarce or rare that are just not worth
much because they don't have the
desirability
the same is true with age if a book
happens to be particularly old
or rare it just doesn't mean it's
valuable so here's another thing to
consider a rare book that's desirable in
one area might not be desirable in
another area
case in point local history in salida
colorado
there's a huge desire for rare local
history books
but the bad news is they're not
desirable many other places however
if you happen to find a rare book about
the history of celita somewhere far from
salida
it's not going to be very desirable
there you might be able to get a great
deal scoop it up really cheap
and then bring it here and be able to
sell it to people who have a huge desire
for that book
and really with the internet in the way
that we sell and deal used books now
the possibilities are endless for
finding a desirable book somewhere else
and taking it to a place where it's more
desirable
so if you're out thrifting or hunting
for rare books that
could be valuable one place to start
looking is what
tie-in or what current event or what
pertinence do they have with
the world today that's a really great
place to start looking and you can find
some really good deals on books
especially if people are not aware of
how relevant they might be
so really just find that tie-in find
that story find that rare book and
create the story around it to make it
more desirable and i think you'll have a
lot of success
dealing in rare books from celita books
in slide of colorado happy reading and
happy book hunting