60 year cookbook collection for sale
Mike Hilton
when my father in law passed away. In the library is his lifetime
collection of cookbooks. I would like to sell them as one lot, but
don't know what they are worth. He was a librarian as well as a cook,
so some of the books are pretty obscure. I will say that I have found
some real plums in some other books that I know something about, but
cooking is not one of those subjects. How would you folks reccommend I
approach this? What I mostly don't want to do is itemize each book by
title,author and such. Thanks for your assistance. Mike Hilton email:
hilto...@hotmail.com
John Forrest Tomlinson
writes:
father collected over the years before he died. What she did was
looked in the yellow pages for used book dealers and a number of them
said they would buy entire libraries and would visit your home to look
at them. So she called up three of them and sold it to the one that
offered ,the most money.
Perhaps she could have done better selling the books one by one, but
this was the simple way.
(She lives in a big city, by the way.)
JT
Michael K. Smith
don't know about Chico, but most university towns have a used book dealer
in the area. As was said, they will estimate the value of a collection for
you -- but be aware that if they are likely to make an offer, the value
they put on it may be somewhat lower... naturally, because they have to
leave room for their own mark-up. You can also have a collection estimated
for a flat fee (as is usually done for insurance purposes), which makes the
estimate (probably) more objective. But that probably wouldn't be
worthwhile for only 60 volumes.
I would check at the university library, in the Rare Book section, for the
names and reputations of local book dealers, by the way. Any staff member
whose been there for a few years will know the local trade.
Mike
Mike Hilton wrote:
> I recently became the proud owner of a pretty extensive home library
> when my father in law passed away. In the library is his lifetime
> collection of cookbooks. I would like to sell them as one lot, but
> don't know what they are worth. He was a librarian as well as a cook,
> so some of the books are pretty obscure. I will say that I have found
> some real plums in some other books that I know something about, but
> cooking is not one of those subjects. How would you folks reccommend I
> approach this? What I mostly don't want to do is itemize each book by
> title,author and such. Thanks for your assistance. Mike Hilton email:
> hilto...@hotmail.com
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margie
>>when my father in law passed away. In the library is his lifetime
>>collection of cookbooks. I would like to sell them as one lot, but
>>don't know what they are worth. He was a librarian as well as a cook,
>>so some of the books are pretty obscure. I will say that I have found
>>some real plums in some other books that I know something about, but
>>cooking is not one of those subjects. How would you folks reccommend
>I
>>approach this? What I mostly don't want to do is itemize each book by
>>title,author and such. Thanks for your assistance. Mike Hilton
you might want to be careful about selling them in one lot. If he has some
rare books, they could be worth $$$. A Dealer isn't going to tell you "hey,
you could get a $1000 bucks for that one" he's gonna buy it for $2 and sell
it for $1000.
Book appraisers do exist- perhaps you could find someone in your area to
take a look.
margie
James Morrissey
>>>I recently became the proud owner of a pretty extensive home >snip
Gee Margie there was someone about a week ago with the same problem. So,
you get the same advice... Contact Kitchen Arts and Letters in NYC, I think
92nd Street. This store is reputable and can point you in the right
direction. They may also be willing to purchase the entire lot. The have
someone working on obtaining books for people. Good Luck.
ren...@skylands.net
<jmorr...@home.com> wrote:
That's Kitchen Arts & Letters
1435 Lexington Ave (between 93 & 94th St)
NY NY
HTH,
Cindy Renfrow
ren...@skylands.net
Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 15th
Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
Recipes"
http://www.alcasoft.com/renfrow/