Some old books I acquired

[Shackleford]

Last summer, I picked up like fourteen boxes of books. I made around $150 selling all but three. I set aside the "older" books - < 1970. The oldest is a book from 1898. I'm just wondering if the books are worth anything. I'm a physics major/math minor, so the old arithmetic and algebra books and scientific encyclopedia are pretty cool. The set is contained in two boxes. The other box is basically worthless, determined from cursory internet search. I'll probably donate that.

The World Through Your Senses
Author: Riedman, Sarah Regal
1962

Padre Island
by Writers' Round Table
1950

Crimson Is the Eastern Shore
Don Tracy
1953

100 Fireplaces
Price Fireplace Heater and Tank Corp.
1947

Advanced Arithmetic
Wentworth
1898

Ready or Not
Mary Stolz
1953

Polly in South America
Lillian Elizabeth Roy
1924

I Give You Texas!
Boyce House
1943

Effective Letters in Business
Robert Shurter
1954

College Readings in English Prose
Scott and Zeitlin
1937

Hooks and Slices, A Parody on Golf
Jim Igoe, Jr.
1950

Herbert H. Dow, Pioneer in Creative Chemistry
1951

None but the Lonely Heart
Richard Llewellyn
1943

Colonel Effingham's Raid
Berry Fleming
1943

The Best American Short Stories 1944 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
Foley
1946

4 Square Planning for Your Career
S.A. Hamrin
1946

The Golden Snare
James Oliver Curwood
1921

Four Men
Paul Fox
1947

The Apostle, A novel based on the life of St. Paul
Sholem Asch
1943

THE TRUE SOLITUDE: Selections from the Writings of Thomas Merton
1969

Theirs is the kingdom
Jack M. MacLEOD
1959

He That Will Love Life
D. J. Kenyon
1968

Assault on the Unknown
Walter Sullivan
1961

A Book About a Thousand Things
George Stimpson
1946

Saint Joseph Daily Missal (Complete Revised Edition) (X2)
by Hugo Hoever
Confraternity Edition
1959

Green Mansions
W. H. Hudson
1946

The Best Shall Die
Roman
1961

Beau Geste
P.C. Wren
1926

Peters' Commercial Law
1916

SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAWS OF SEX LIFE AND HEREDITY OR EUGENICS (Hardcover)
PROF.T.W. SHANNON
1920

The Spider King
Lawrence Schoonover
1954

The Winged Horse Anthology - Hardcover
by Joseph and Hill, Frank Ernest Auslander
1929

The Hours Before Dawn
Celia Fremlin
1958

On Borrowed Time-HOW WORLD WAR II BEGAN
by Leonard Mosley
1969

Domestic Medical Practice (Hardcover)
Frank E. Miller
1930

Drifter's Gold
Don Blanding
1939

Living Creatively
Kirby Page
1932

Vein of Iron
Glasgow
1935

The Maurizius Case
by Jacob Wassermann
1929

White Witch Doctor (Hardcover)
by Louise A. Stinetorf
1950

This above all, (Hardcover)
by Eric Knight
1941

Der Fuehrer
Heiden
1944

Sex in Marriage: New Understandings
by Dorothy Walter Baruch (Author)
1962

Tarzan Lord of the Jungle
Burroughs
1928

Birthday Book of Friendship
1931

The Signpost
Robertson
1944

Principles of Horticulture
by Ervin L., Denisen
1958

American Government and Politics
Beard
1939

Representative Modern Dramas. (Hardcover)
~ Charles Huntington Whitman (Editor)
August 1, 1941

First Principles of Algebra
Slaught and Lennes
1912

Commercial Fertilizers
Collings
1955

PERSONS AND PLACES
George Santayana
1944

English Literature and Its Backgrounds
Dryden Press
1940

Plant Diseases, the yearbook of agriculture 1953
USDOA

PILOTING, SEAMANSHIP AND SMALL BOAT HANDLING,
Charles F. Chapman
1958-59 (Hardcover)

A Conrad Argosy
Introduction By William McFee
1942

Texas
by Stanley Walker
1962)

The Human Machine
George Bridgman
1939

THE VOLUME LIBRARY
Educators' Association
1929

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia
1958

 

[Peder]

You have some classics there.
Green Mansions
Beau Geste
Tarzan Lord of the Jungle
I wouldn't let those three go, even though I only know them by repute rather than by having read them.

 

[Eva]

Check their prices on abebooks.com.

 

[Peder]

Yes by all means, and some are worth keeping anyway.
At least, I would.

 

[Shackleford]

Thanks for the responses, guys.

Yeah, I'd like to keep a handful. It's absolutely fascinating to me when I see a handwritten signature and date on an inside cover and I imagine back to the exact moment in time when it was written, the period in time, etc. I'll set aside the classics you mentioned, but the Tarzan book is in terrible shape - at least the binding and cover. Some of these have good pages but not binding and hardcovers.

Oh, and there are like two copies on Amazon for the Domestic Medical Practice book - which is like a good six inches thick - for around $120.

 

[pontalba]

You could also try this link to try to find a value of one of your books.
Even if you never decide to sell any of them, it could be important for home insurance purposes to know the true value sometime down the road.

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