Stan Zielinski We started a thread on the eBay Bookseller’s Forum to identify higher value children’s books sold on eBay, with $300 being the ‘bottom’ threshold. The thread can be found here: Valuable Children’s Books Sold on eBay. The thread covers a broad range of children’s books, from a $12,000 Hardy Boys first edition book to a … Read more
A first edition copy of Madeleine L’Engle’s Newbery Medal winning book, A Wrinkle In Time, recently sold at a PBA Galleries’ auction for $10,800. Heading: Author: L’Engle, Madeleine Title: A Wrinkle In Time Place: [New York] Publisher: Ariel Books/Farrar, Straus and Cudahy Date: [1962] Item # : 195185 … Read more
How Collectible Books Are Priced The current method of pricing collectible books for sale is more a learned art than a science. The world of collectible books is quite large and very diverse. Everything from modern first editions to pre-1500 incunabula are sold and collected. Because of the diversity among collectible types, one pricing methodology … Read more
A first edition Make Way For Ducklings, Robert McCloskey’s 1942 Caldecott Medal winning book, has recently surfaced for sale. We haven’t seen a copy for years, so it will be interesting to see how long this book stays on the market. From the item description: MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS Robert McCloskey Book Price: US$ … Read more
2008 Caldecott Medal Winner The 2008 Caldecott Medal winner is The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic) From an opening shot of the full moon setting over an awakening Paris in 1931, this tale casts a new light on the picture book form. Hugo is a young orphan secretly living in the walls … Read more
A New ‘Most Valuable Children’s Picturebook’ Previous to the July 2007 PBA Galleries auction, we had listed Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are, the 1964 Caldecott Medal winning book, as the most valuable picturebook in the The Children’s Picturebook Price Guide. At the PBA auction, a copy of Where The Wild Things Are sold … Read more
First Edition Little House Fetches $9775 at PBA Galleries Auction The first edition copy of the 1943 Caldecott Medal winning book The Little House we described in our May 2007 blog post sold for $9775 at the July 12, 2007 PBA Galleries children’s book auction. The first edition The Little House is very difficult to … Read more
First Edition Curious George Fetches $21850 at PBA Galleries Auction The first edition copy of Curious George we described in our May 2007 blog post sold for $21,850 at the July 12, 2007 PBA Galleries children’s book auction. The first edition Curious George is quite rare, the PBA copy being the first to surface at … Read more
Where Have All The Books Gone? Based upon our experience, there are fewer key collectible picturebooks on the online market than a year ago, continuing a trend we have seen over the past couple of years. Try a search on any of the metasearch book finding websites, such as ABEBooks, Addall, Bookfinder, or the ABAA, … Read more
Earlier we posted a column titled “What Books To Collect,” which provided several categories of books or illustrators for various economic levels of collecting. Today and over the next couple of posts, we would like to discuss the state of the children’s picturebook collecting hobby, and provide some background information on the current market place. … Read more