More advice?

[cyrano]

I know I have some bibliophiles on this list. I have about half a dozen old books. (Old meaning over 100 years.) They're not in great condition--given what I read on the web, I would say 'Good' at best. Recgnizable authors in some cases--Dumas, Scott, a collection of Greek mythology by Nathaniel Hawthorne--and I don't know if I should bother shopping them or just put them in the bin with everything else.

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[scarywhitegirl.livejournal.com]

Seconded. Even if they're paperbacks (which the books you mention are most definitely not), check places like Amazon and such. cochese had some crazy weird new age-y books that he asked me to see if I could sell, and one of them sold for over $100 (used! and paperback!) on Amazon.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

I got some crazy amounts for some of my old anthro books, too, some 20 years later. All small academic press stuff, and I guess hard to get these days.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

How much effort is involved? I've got a significant pile of books, and my main goal is to make moving easier and less full of stuff. Although I like money.

[scarywhitegirl.livejournal.com]

Guessing that these books don't have ISBNs... it's going to require a lot more work than more recent books. :(

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Alas, no ISBN. A few of them don't even have edition dates. But for a handful of potentially lucrative volumes, I can probably deal with extra work. The Compleat Gilbert And Sullivan with programs is going to be tricky, I think.