hi there and welcome back to antiques
trade secrets a few people asking about
how to buy and sell collectible books
first editions modern first editions and
books that people might collect so I
thought I'd do a quick video on the kind
of things you can pick up incredibly
cheaply actually sometimes many of these
I'm about to talk about I picked up for
30 40 pence apiece and they can be worth
10 20 30 pounds apiece and just thought
I'd run through some of the areas that I
pick up and you could sell yourselves
so starting down this end kind of fun
stuff
music annuals do sell particular got
some cool groups in them
TV tie-ins so we've got a 1972 candle it
green tying in with the program as it's
quite cool it's a pop-up book always
check the condition try and go for the
original BBC editions if that ties in
with the program really cool to do over
here talks about these before signed
books you can find these again and again
people pop them in they don't realize
they're giving them away
so here's john cleese biography signed
and signed at a book signing in a shop
frank mccourt at the late great frank
mccourt
again hand signed to the front i pay 50
p for those two books you know 10 to 15
pounds easily vintage children's books
very collectible look for interesting
covers interesting color plates this
one's from a turn-of-the-century you
know with some nice kind of color
pictures conditions important these
aren't great but again 5 to 10 pounds on
these kind of books here modern first
editions do sell check your inside pages
so jean-paul sartre I've got see tree
Sassoon John Fowles etc etc you're just
looking as I said before flip open and
you check copyright 1985 here no other
post printing dates sometimes first
edition sometimes a number line do check
out my other video on first editions to
check those
lastly genuine antique books so here for
example is a pair from the badminton
library as you can see different kinds
of hunting and shooting not politically
correct but kind of beautiful books of
their type these are highly collectible
I paid a pound for these this series the
badminton series these can sell for 10
pounds each any day of the week look for
famous authors so got some Dickens here
in a nice original Victorian versions of
Dickens the spines are good and these
are these are collectible as well and
these console you know again 510 pounds
no problem at all so to kind of recap
books do sell a car boots people
overlook them auctions you can pick up a
whole box off and just check through
before you go and you could have a lot
of fun with books do check back please
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