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Chowing Down Big Donuts at Collectible Paperbacks Show
Follow the link below to see photos of more great collectible paperbacks. While the trade in rare and antiquarian hardcover books is a mature business, the world of paperbacks is young and lively. I expect prices will continue to rise for the most desirable titles as new collectors, frozen out of the market for classic [...]
Bookseller busted for selling forgeries on eBay
Boy, this is starting to sound familiar. An eBay bookseller was busted for selling signed books — with the signatures forged. Forrest R. Smith III, 48, of Exeter Pa., got 33 months in prison and will pay $120,000 in restitution by auctioning books with fake signatures of Truman Capote, Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, Kurt Vonnengut, [...]
More details on eBay collectible book fraud
More details here about the eBay first edition forgeries, courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer. I can’t figure out if this guy was brilliant, or one of the world’s dumbest criminals: “He’d take that signature to a stamp-making store,” he said. “They’d take his money and make [the signature] into stamp.” Smith would then stamp the [...]
Just because a book is old doesn’t mean it’s valuable
Here’s something I’ve never seen before: Someone wrote into their local newspaper with a question about rare books, and they actually gave a pretty good answer in the newspaper. The question was: I have a play book on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It is 4 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. It is a hardback book [...]
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