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Also Bookfinder, which aggregates results from several sites and ranks according to price, etc.
There are some printed price lists (book format) available over here and probably are in the US (like this one), but if I were you I'd try and find the trade magazines (the UK one is called 'The Bookdealer' - they'll be more up-to-date and give you a better idea of actual price according to edition, condition etc. And you could go into your local antiquarian bookshop and pick up a copy of their catalogue.
Advertising in the trade rags can be a good way of finding jobs - it's a hard trade to break into. It's also a hard trade to make any money in. Easier to start with collectable books rather than rare or antiquarian ones - for starters you're more likely to happen across them in junk or charity shops. If you're dealing with overheads such as shop rent etc. you probably need to buy at about a quarter of your selling price. If not you can work with tighter margins. My guess is that lots of people these days start on Ebay - it has a very lively books auction section, and the collectors are pretty knowledgeable about their areas so prices tend to be accurate, though lower than you'd see in a shop (as an example - I saw a collection of Chalet School first editions come up on Ebay, lots of which sold at around the £80 mark - came across the same books in Marchpane, a children's bookshop on Cecil Court, with a fifty-pound markup on them - those are the overheads I was talking about). Have a look at it.
I doubt you'll make a living from it for a long long time, but you might get lucky and make some beer money - nice work if you can get it... |
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