posted on June 8, 2001 01:35:26 PM new
I'm not sure if this is a first edition or not, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I searched Ayn Rand first edition on ebay, and there is a book that SAID first edition in it that went for 1000 times what I paid for this at a library sale today. It looks the same, same 1943 date in it, says
Copyright 1943 the Bobbs-Merrill Company
Manufactured in the Unitd States
The Cornwall Press, Inc., Cornwall, N.Y.
That's all the copyright page says. Is it a first edition or does it have to say "First Edition" inside.
posted on June 8, 2001 04:33:29 PM new
The later printings of the 1943 B-M don't appear to have been stated or numbered. First was. Yours is likely worth at most $15 or $20.
Keep on looking though, you never know when you'll stumble across something really valuable.
posted on June 8, 2001 06:31:41 PM new
Thanks. I just thought it was odd a book publisher would print "first edition" in a book.
I gotta get to bed. There is a used book sale in the next town tommorrow (not many ebayers around here) and the library gave them the old books they didn't want that were donated (NOT ex-library editions, but books from the 1920s-30s that were donated).
Still, I'm pleased with finding this Uncle Remus Song of the South record soundtrack. One sold on ebay lately for $55, my cost: 55¢.
I honestly would have felt guilty had I bought this book at the library for 50¢ and gotten $500 out of it.
posted on June 8, 2001 07:00:54 PM new
jenndiggy1 - if you find a book for fifty cents that's worth five hundred dollars, and you are going to feel guilty about making that much money on it, I will take it off your hands for ten or twenty.
