Breda in Oorlog 1939-1945. Oorlog en Bevrijding in Woord en Beeld
....just a title of one of the books I picked up Sat. [Knowing someone
here can read it.]
550,000 books was the estimate. Up 11% from last year.
I pulled into the lot to the side of the Arizona State Fairgrounds at 3:45PM
Friday.
I was not the first in the "pre" line.
Cars were allowed to line up at the lot gate at 8PM. I was in the front line.
By midnight, the gate had to be opened and cars were moved up to the ticket
booths as the line of cars went three hundred yards in both directions on the
main street.
The lot opened at 5AM and at the same time the runners were allowed to do the
400 yard sprint to the building. Only because I had picked up a sliding door
"bailer", I wound up only 3 people back from the front rail.
When the sale opened at 8AM there were 4,000 people in line.
Walk very fast to the technical books...... 45 seconds needed to fill my
plastic milk carton. Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes, paid $4. Found
out I can sell it for $85. Grab a box of matching bindings not knowing
exactly what they were. Just saw a few keywords and the $1 stickers. They
were Arizona State University bound student papers for advanced degrees in
chemical engineering. No idea if sellable. Try $25 each and first sale pays
for box.
On to sets... spend $186 for two handcarts full of items. Paid $12 for 3 vol
Military Effectiveness. Find it's sellable at $150. The Great River at $5 I
find worth $5. {Everything aint a hit.]
Another $180 for the eventual sweep of the rest of the sale. Pick up all the
German military I see as I can tell that it was all donated by one person.
And all the political paperbacks for the same reason.
An hour into the sale I see a full box of lib. bindings of Bulletin of the
Menninger Clinic. Fifty cents each. No big cash loss if they are a common
item. Find on the net that full volumes are priced at $40 each for the early
years. I have 1-30 with a few numbers missing.
Second sweep of sets. I see I missed the box of 30 of the Christian
Concealing series for $50. I bought a set here last year. Single volumes sell
well on Amazon for $7.50 minimum. The out of print issues without copies
already available can sell for $30.
One last general run through picks up another $20 in books. One turns out to
be worth $50.
Now you see why I didn't treat an offer to travel from Alabama to get to this
sale as a joke.
One Oregon dealer found an in print current medical book for $4 that is
published at $850. He, like a lot of other people, had their cell phones in
hand as they sifted through what they had pulled. Others had phone in hand as
they traversed the tables.
Me? I don't even have DSL yet.
William Taylor
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Peanut butter until something sells.
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