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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 159932, member: 25&quot;]You could well be right, but I&#039;d say this was much more the case 20 years&nbsp; ago. When I started selling books on ebay around 1998, I made large profits because the US market was far less fussy about condition than the UK booksellers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The British trade wanted pristine 17th C. copies, so anything with binding problems such as a detached board appeared at auction in large mixed lots so I could buy a mixed box of 17th and early&nbsp; 18th C books in less than good condition for £100 or so. The right items would fetch almost that much individually from US buyers (of course, everything was sold as an auction with a 99c. start).</p><p><br /></p><p>I could buy cheap because British booksellers seemed to be unaware of the US market or how easy it was to reach it.</p><p>Of course, they caught on after a few years, and nowadays much more is internet available. This may have reduced US demand for the run of the mill by making more of our British old book wealth available to US buyers.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion this will have levelled down&nbsp; prices for books that are merely old, and in the case of this book, have been in print in one edition or another since publication.</p><p><br /></p><p>One good effect is that prices at auction for defective but seriously old books have increased considerably, to my benefit when I sold the old books from the Manchester Hoard (see threads passim.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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