Best way to sell Baseball books

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Posted By: vintagecatcher

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.

Any recommendations: Used books dealers, EBAY, Buy/Sell/Trade thread?

Many of the books are oversized issues so mailing them could be quite costly.

Thanks, Patrick

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Posted By: tbob

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.
Bob

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Posted By: barrysloate

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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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

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.

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Thanks for your responses TBOB, Barry, and Daniel!

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Posted By: Max Weder

Patrick

Bobby Plapinger of Ashland OR http://www.abebooks.com/home/RPLAPINGER/ and Wayne Greene of NY http://www.abebooks.com/home/14995/ are two dealers who specialize in baseball books and often buy larger collections.

I only specializing in buying them.

Oversized books are notoriously tough to sell--only a few post-1970 oversized books have any resale value.




Max

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Posted By: Bob D

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.