Huxford's Old Book Value Guide [Hardcover]

Huxford (Author), Lisa Stroup (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Huxford's Old Book Value Guide | Publication Date: May 2001

Now you can find the value of those dusty volumes, and even make money selling them. If you are searching for that out-of-print copy or the latest novel, the booksellers will help you. The format is simple and easy-to-use, and collectors everywhere swear by this book! This edition also features informative text about the Internet and how it has changed the second-hand book trade.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 396 pages
• Publisher: Collector Books; 13th edition (May 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574322184
• ISBN-13: 978-1574322187
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #990,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars How Old is Old?, May 23, 2002

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Kathleen Keenan "1emp" (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Huxford's Old Book Value Guide (Hardcover)

When I purchased Huxford's Old Book Value Guide, I imagined that the books that were covered might be older than those written by Len Deighton and Marian Zimmer Bradley. There's lots of stuff from 1970 on, but coverage of genuinely old books is very sparse. The title of this guide is extremely misleading, but if late 20th Century books are your area of interest, you might find this useful. I didn't.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Hit or miss..., February 13, 2002

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Daryl Anderson (Trumansburg, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Huxford's Old Book Value Guide (Hardcover)

This book does list values of 25,000 books as it claims, but it is incomplete in some very frustrating ways that have to do with how it was put together. The authors apparently contacted a number of book dealers and collected their 'inventories' into a database. These were then consolidated into the listing(s) of this book.

But what that means is that you find an extremely unsystematic selection of titles. You may find a $500 title that someone has been trying to sell for years right above a run-of-the-mill used-bookstore title selling for $15. You could find an author's second book listed, but not the first or third. As a lookup/reference tool is is hardly useful.

I once thought this book would be a nice supplement to the other collecting books that focus on more high-end titles... something to take along to yard sales and the like to see if the $0.25 book was 'worth' $50 or $0.50. Well, even with 25,000 titles you can imagine that many more books are not listed here. Far too often I would not find a listing but COULD NOT KNOW if the book was valuable or not... its non-existence in this book just means one of the selected sellers did not have it in stock. I also kept finding entries in the $25/$30 range - right at the point where it might be a collectable underlisted by that one store or just their overpriced junk. With only a single such listing to consider, I just couldn't know.

The overlarge physical size of the book also seemed unwieldy to me. Combined with the sense of slap-together technique and a look at the number of other "Huxfords" listings, I frankly feel that it is just an attempt to grab a piece of the growing 'collectibles' market.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Boof Refference or Book Prefference?, September 26, 2001

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"princesssweetpea" (Spanaway, Wa USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Huxford's Old Book Value Guide (Hardcover)

If you know your books fairly well to begin with, then this book will be at times, helpful. If you are looking for a way to bone up on collectibles, you may just be discouraged. A lot of very noteworthy books are left out, which leaves the reader to wonder if a little favoritism may be going on with the Author. Overall, I still had to rate a solid 4 for good effort in organizing a generally helpful refference guide to the new and seasoned book hound. For the money, it's a go.