----- Original Message -----
From: "Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: American Seashells 2nd Ed on eBay


> The current price is 100/150 USD. The book is quite scarce and hard to
> find but 175.00 with reserve on ebay is too, too high.

I disagree on this one. The book sells at $250-350 (for a clean copy with
very good dust jacket). Back in 1974 it was sold at $49.50. It was widely
available then but now with inflation & all, $200 may buy you no more than
$50 did 29 years ago (all other things equal, which in this case is not so -
the book has become very scarce indeed). I'd suggest to try and get it for
$200.

Marien Faber
www.mollus.nl






> A good source of interesting books and papers on mollusks with thousands
> of titles:
>
> http://www.abebooks.com/home/shellbook/
>
>
> also use the search engine of used books:
>
> http://used.addall.com/
>
> With regards
>
>
> Riccardo Giannuzzi-Savelli
>
>
>
> >The listing on Ebay has a start bid at $175.00, with a reserve. What
> >do copies of this book go for? I have a friend who is looking for a
> >copy. I told him to expect to pay $200. This listing seems to
> >indicate a higher sum of money, or is it a hopeful listing?
> >
> >I wish I bought that pile of 10 I saw 20 years ago in the discount
> >section of my local book store*, for $27 each. I bought one copy,
> >figuring every shell collector should have one, not knowing how
> >scarce it would eventually become, or how "lost" I would be without
> >it.
> >
> >*The bookstore has long since gone out of business. I did think
> >about seeing if they had any left stored away when I realized it was
> >harder to get.
> >
> >John Timmerman
>