So, okay, you've tried one or all of these organizations, your thrift store locks the doors when it sees you coming, your local librarian runs screaming when she sees you with that box of useless books, and you still have books that need to go bye bye. Here are a couple of last resorts. They say on their website, Earth's 911: "If donation options are not available or your books are not usable, please consider recycling used books. Earth's 911 may help identify a local recycler for used books in your area. For recycling, pollution prevention, and other environmental information in the United States, Earth's 911 provides a comprehensive database of local recycling programs by ZIP code. For more information, visit the Earth's 911 website or call 1-800-CLEANUP."
And the last interesting organization that I found, though there are many more out there, is www.bookrecycler.org. You need to belong to or be a part of a nonprofit organization to use this and no, just because your bookstore is not profitable that does not make you a nonprofit organization! This is a way for non-profit organizations to sell books. The bookrecycler.org system finds books in your inventory for which they already have a buyer waiting. They say that; "When a desired book is located in your inventory, you are given a price quote representing a resale value of that book. The price quote is the amount a buyer has already committed to pay for that particular book. In many cases, the price quote is much more than the amount the book would be priced for sale in a public sale. You have the option to send the book to bookrecycler.org for immediate sale, or to leave it in your inventory for sale at the nonprofit bookstore or in a public sale. Again, the advantage of using bookrecycler.org is immediate sale, 24/7, at a higher resale price."
I guess my point is that though we are all drowning in old books we cannot sell in our stores or online, there are lots of ways to see those books into the hands of people who want, need them, and would love them; they deserve the chance to give them a home.
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Sotheby’s
Modern First Editions
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USDSotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USDSotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USDSotheby’s
Modern First Editions
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USDSotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USDSotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD -
Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000 -
Gonnelli
Auction 51
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 14st 2024Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€