Rare Book Monthly

Articles - May - 2003 Issue

Capturing Valuable Information: The Key to Reselling

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All these options begin by simply entering your books into your personal database. That is your first step. From there the world opens up to you.

Now join me in a tour of the Collector’s Database. For database and auction notices subscribers the Collector’s Database is immediately available. You can try entering some books today. And you can upload images to these files as well. It’s very flexible.

Today we’ll show you what a small collection of material about the Hudson Valley looks like when it is entered into the Collector’s Database. If you are already a qualified subscriber, as soon as you sign in, you’ll find links on your personal home page which are now installed under FACILITIES on the menu bar. For the time being we are also providing a link in the home page text. If you are not yet an AE Database and Auction Notices member (still $74.50), please join. If you are signed up as a free member and wish to upgrade your membership, sign in to get to your personal home page and then click on MEMBERSHIP + on the menu bar. If you are not a free member simply choose BECOME A MEMBER on the menu bar to sign up. This software is available to use for free until August 1st.

Next month we will introduce "Wants List" Software which will help you find and efficiently purchase books on the web. This software will allow you to mark records in our database as “interesting.” Members will in turn be able to sort and categorize these lists and select material to post both to the web and to all upcoming book auctions as “of interest.” Your lists may find immediate matches but the strength of this process is to uncover, within a few hours of their being posted, the rare and obscure and possibly undervalued item that is a fit with your collecting interests. Almost 50,000 new book listings are posted to the web every day so there are always interesting items coming into the market somewhere in the world. Someone always finds the great books listed on the web and often it is almost by accident. Soon you’ll be able to develop highly specialized lists of material on virtually any subject in the Americana field and post these lists for a year while maintaining the ability to amend your lists as often as you wish. As well we provide a form for you to add to the "Wants List" Module other materials of personal interest that will be matched against internet listings every day. AE Database and Auction Notices members will receive a two month free trial of the "Wants List" Software beginning June 1st.

Now join us for a brief preview of the Collector’s Database (Click Here). It’s a great tool for anyone with a love of books and history. Here is my HUDSON VALLEY Collection (Click Here).

Rare Book Monthly

  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: ORWELL, George. ANIMAL FARM. London, Secker & Warburg, 1945. $8,000 to $12,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: MILNE, A.A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London, Methuen, 1928. Deluxe limited edition. $3,000 to $4,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: TWAIN, Mark. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. $1,000 to $1,500 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: RAND, Ayn. ATLAS SHRUGGED. Random House, New York, 1957. First edition. $800 to $1,200 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: [BAUM, L. Frank]. PICTURES FROM THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ By W.W. Denslow… Chicago, [1903]. $400 to $800 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: HELLER, Joseph. CATCH-22. London, Jonathan Cape, 1962. $400 to $600 AUD.
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€

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