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Selling Secondhand Books If you have items that you wish to sell, please email us with details of the items for sale and your location. Please record all faults to avoid misunderstandings. Check our book descriptions page for guidance. Please also say where you are located so we can see if it is possible to collect the books (if there are a lot of them) or if they will need to be posted. You can book a collection of a large parcel (up to 25 kg - around 25 books or more) by DHL from Parcel2Go for less than £10.We buy both single items and large collections. Although we prefer to deal by post where practical, if you have a lot of items for sale, we may be able to come and look at them. You can phone us too on (07526) 831682. Email is better if possible as it is easier to avoid mistakes and we are likely to be able to make a more considered (and generally higher) offer. We will respond to all requests with either an offer, or a polite refusal if we are not interested. We are the largest seller of secondhand books by the Folio Society in the UK. We generally offer around £4 a volume for bulk purchases of Folio Society books published since 1990 in nice condition (pro rata for boxed sets). See below for more details. We also offer around £8 each for Easton Press volumes. We also buy non-fiction (the more unusual the better) and first edition fiction. We do not want items in poor condition, and we rarely buy items without dustwrappers (the paper cover) if they were issued with one for anything after about 1930. We also very rarely buy paperback fiction. Paperback non-fiction is of interest though, particularly quality material of a serious or academic nature, rather than layman books. Items generally not required are Reader's Digest editions, encyclopedias, book club editions, most fiction reprints, most fiction post-1970, most fiction without dustjackets and most fiction uniform sets. We pay a premium for items in fine condition, particularly children's books, with bright covers, without cover damage and inscriptions. See our book collecting articles for more information about buying books for resale, and information about particular authors and subjects. As an example, we are always interested in the following:
Folio Society All titles. As a very rough price guide, £1-2 for pre-1980 books; £3 for 1980s books, £4 for 1990s books, £5 or more for more recent books, and pro rata for sets.We are always interested in Folio Society Limited Editions especially the following: The Surinam Album The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Night Thoughts by Edward Young Lord of the Rings leather bound limited edition The Hobbit leather bound limited edition The Silmarillion leather bound limited edition The Diary of Samuel Pepys (11 volume Limited Edition) Doctor Johnson's Dictionary The Temple of Flora The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr The Queen Mary Atlas Morte Darthur The Luttrell Psalter The Holkham Bible Tractatus de herbis. British Library Egerton MS 747 The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote The Benedictional of Saint Aethelwold Ulysses Don Quixote The Fitzwilliam Book of Hours War and Peace The Bird Paintings of Henry Jones The Four Gospels Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Oxford Classical Dictionary Oxford Thesaurus of English Les Miserables The Decameron The Letterpress Shakespeare We are also keenly looking for the following volumes: The Complete Anthony Trollope (1990s, 48 volumes) The Folio Society Nonesuch Dickens Leather Edition (in maroon leather covers) Paradiso by Dante Purgatorio by Dante The History of England (12 volume set) All PG Wodehouse Boxed Sets Northanger Set of Horrid Novels (1968) Marlborough, his Life and Times by Churchill The World Crisis by Churchill (5 volume set) Swallows and Amazons Boxed Sets A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell (4 volume boxed set) His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (3 volume boxed set) Graham Green (6 volume boxed sets) Evelyn Waugh (6 volume boxed set) George Orwell (boxed sets) Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake (3 volume boxed set) Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (all boxed sets) Easton Press and Franklin Library All titles.Modern First Editions AMIS, Kingsley pre-1960AMIS, Martin pre-1980 AUDEN, W.H. BALLARD, J.G. BECKETT, Samuel pre-1960 BELLOW, Saul BETJEMAN, John pre-1960 BOWEN, Elizabeth pre-1940 BURGESS, Anthony - pre 1960 BURROUGHS, William CHANDLER, Raymond - All titles CHRISTIE, Agatha pre-1960 DOYLE, Arthur Conan - particularly Sherlock Holmes of course. FITZGERALD, F. Scott FLEMING, Ian FORSTER, E.M. GREENE, Graham HEMINGWAY, Ernest HUXLEY, Aldous ISHERWOOD, Christopher JAMES, P.D. JOYCE, James KING, Stephen LARKIN, Philip LAWRENCE, D.H. NABOKOV, Vladimir ORWELL, George POWELL, Anthony - All titles EXCEPT 'The Fisher King' and 'Oh how the wheel becomes it'. Also any literary criticism about Powell, particularly 'The Dance to the Music of Time' series. SAYERS, Dorothy TOLKIEN, J.R. WAUGH, Evelyn WELLS, H.G. WODEHOUSE, P.G. WOOLF, Virginia Very Good or Fine copies of most pre-1970 first editions by most popular writers are always considered. Also early reprints in dustwrappers may be of interest. Non-Fiction Fine copies in dustwrappers on most subjects, the more obscure the better. For examples, see our non-fiction catalogue below.Topics sought include the following, but the more unusual the better so if you have books on taxidermy or puppetry please give us a call: Architecture Aviation Ballet Biography Books Erotica First World War History Humour Literature Military Music Natural History New Age Poetry Politics Royalty Second World War Theatre Theology Trains Travel Children's BLYTON, Enid - Secret Seven, Famous Five, Five Find-Outers, 'Adventure' series, 'Mystery' series.BRENT-DYER, Elinor - All titles, particularly the Chalet School series. BUCKERIDGE, Anthony - All titles, particularly pre-1960 Jennings. CROMPTON, Richmal - All William titles. JOHNS, W.E. - All titles, especially Biggles of course. RICHARDS, Frank - All titles. ROWLING, J.K. - first editions in dustwrapper. SAVILLE, Malcolm - All fiction titles, particularly the Lone Pine series. GILES Cartoon Annuals GILES Cartoons (Numbered 1-10, i.e. 1946 to 1956).GILES 'SPECIAL' - NUJ. 'It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature' - Henry James [Back to top] |
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