I Just Nearly Had A Coronary!!!!

[theantiquetiger]

I went estate selling today and found a 1st Edition Dr Seuss "If I Ran The Zoo" book. It was $30 and some lady told me if I didn't want it, she wanted it. I carried it around for a little while and decided I didn't want it, giving it to her.

Well, just a few minutes ago, I decided to look it up on Ebay. I find the exact book (in worse condition), and guess what it sells for, $1100!!!

91288: Dr Seuss Book

I nearly cried. But after I did alittle more research, and realize this $1100 book has a dust jacket. I search for another book, and I find many without the jacket, and they all sell for $20.

I cannot believe a dust jacket sells for $1080!!!

[toys2cool]

wow that sucks bro

[vulcan2074]

I Never knew they where worth so much.
Sammy

[RG]

Books can be a real pain ... one of my teachers in high school was a book collector and he would tell us in his class about how he has a book that would be worth $10,000 but becasue of condition issues he'd be lucky if he could get $100 out of it ... I guess books are a lot like baseball cards ... value drops really really fast it they're not mint