Valuing Rare Books on the Internet

Who are these guys with absurdly high prices? Generally they have had unhappy childhoods, uncles who drank, boorish parents or have been educated at unpleasant and expensive schools."

Bookride has an article up about the prices of rare books on sites like Alibris, Abe, and Biblio. The mistake that a lot of amateur collectors make, they say, is to value their book based on the highest or mid-range prices listed online. In fact, the more expensive copies never sell and have probably sat in the inventory for months. " But when books are priced that high, all the booksellers need is an occasional ill-informed sale to stay profitable (if a bookshop is ever profitable). 

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