[Genealib] Re: genealib Digest, Vol 53, Issue 5

[Carrie Cook]

Make an offer. She'll either take you up on it, or not. If not, refer her to somewhere that might be interested and have a bigger budget, locally or state-wide or even Ft. Wayne or Salt Lake City.
   
  County Histories - especially those out of print and still under Copyright are a "buyers market". In my county, our history originally retailed 25 years ago at $35.00. The museum found a box "stuck away" of the printing and sold them at $45. Since then, I've seen them go at local auctions and on eBay as high as $80-100. Our library has 3 copies, but the one at the state archives vanished long ago. 
   
  Someone does need to do the research on your title to see if it is in print, or "rare". Do any of your neighboring collections or the state archives have a copy? If so, acquiring it for your public collection would not be quite as attractive if purchasing it would take away from your budget drastically. If no one else has a copy and you have the biggest budget however, if your offer is turned down you may wish to counter with a higher one.
   
  Best of luck,
  Carrie Cook, Publisher
  Ottawa County, OK

genealib-request at mailman.acomp.usf.edu wrote:
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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:15:23 -0600
From: "Tina Beaird" 
Subject: [Genealib] Accepting County History Book donations from
patrons?
To: 
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I have been contacted by a woman from out of town about purchasing 2
county histories that she has had in her family for a number of years.
The info is not for my county, but for the county next to mine. I am
interested in the books, but she has no idea what they are worth and
seemed interested in having me give her a price. I am not qualified in
the least to assess the value of county histories. Does anyone have a
structure they use for pricing historic books or a rule of thumb?

Thank you, 

Tina Beaird
Reference Librarian 
Plainfield Public Library 
15025 S. Illinois St. 
Plainfield, IL 60544 
815.436.6639 

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