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10-17-2005, 02:16 PM
Posted By: <b>vintagecatcher</b><p>I have decided to sell off my baseball library, and I'm curious as to what is the best way to sell off my collection.<br /><br />Any recommendations: Used books dealers, EBAY, Buy/Sell/Trade thread?<br /><br />Many of the books are oversized issues so mailing them could be quite costly.<br /><br />Thanks, Patrick
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10-17-2005, 03:37 PM
Posted By: <b>tbob</b><p>Patrick- I have found some success in selling books about pre-war baseball in the vintage sports cards section on ebay, unless of course the ebay police are out and bounce your listing for being in the wrong category.<br />Bob
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10-17-2005, 03:38 PM
Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>If you email me at bsloate@att.net I might be able to give you some guidance. Just don't want to do business on the board. Sincerely, Barry Sloate
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10-17-2005, 03:44 PM
Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>The SABR Bulletin that comes out bi-monthly has advertisements for baseball book buyers who buy in bulk. I'm at work right now so I don't have a copy on me, but I can email the buyers info to you tonight or tomorrow.<br />
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10-17-2005, 04:54 PM
Posted By: <b>Patrick McMenemy</b><p>Thanks for your responses TBOB, Barry, and Daniel!
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10-17-2005, 05:38 PM
Posted By: <b>Max Weder</b><p>Patrick<br /><br />Bobby Plapinger of Ashland OR <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/home/RPLAPINGER" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.abebooks.com/home/RPLAPINGER</a>/ and Wayne Greene of NY <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/home/14995" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.abebooks.com/home/14995</a>/ are two dealers who specialize in baseball books and often buy larger collections.<br /><br />I only specializing in buying them. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Oversized books are notoriously tough to sell--only a few post-1970 oversized books have any resale value.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Max
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10-17-2005, 08:21 PM
Posted By: <b>Bob D</b><p>I had about 20 Reach BB Guides from 1906-1930 and originally thought I'd contact the 2-3 people who advertise in the SABR newsletter (forget their names). All offers I received were in the same price range ($200 I think). I decided to put 3 of the guides up for auction and got more for those 3 than I was offered for 20. Needless to say I sold the rest on ebay. And yes I had Libertyforall and his many permutations on my banned buyers list.