After quite a while resting on my more or less laurels (past listings) it's time to get a move on and put up some more listings. My goal is five books every day from now on. This should be achievable, but not according to my past performance.

These books get listed in three places: on Amazon, Biblio, and Half. Books without ISBNs (older books) generally will not be listed on half. My prices might vary between these three places. Amazon and Half tell me competing prices, so I peg mine on them. Thus, if the lowest price for Deadly Percheron is $98 on Amazon, I might peg mine at $95. If it weren't my only copy maybe I'd be more reasonable. In fact, I think my Biblio listing is more reasonable.

Going forward (and possibly backward), links to titles of books will send you to the main Amazon listing. My listing will be somewhere amidst the other maybe 237 listings. This is where my photo of the book can be seen, which will probably be a better one than the one Amazon features. Half doesn't let me attach my own photo—at least I don't think it does. Photos are also at biblio. Lots of older listings still don't have photos. Nor updated prices.

I've been lousy at selling direct via email. Sorry about that, if you've tried me. Listing through the major portals keeps me honest—also prompt and reliable.

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

FIVE BOOKS

  1. Lafferty, R.A. THE MAN WHO MADE MODELS and Other Stories, Drumm Booklet #18, 9/84, 1st edn, (five stories original to this publication), 51 small-print pages, staple-bound 4x7" hand-assembled booklet, new $10 [list price: $2.50]
    ---I now notice the low price for this is $194.85 on half.com. That's just crazy—but well worth it!
  2. Leiber, Fritz A PAIL OF AIR, Ballantine U2216, 1st printing(7/64), (PBO; story collection), g-vg (small price sticker) $5[list price: 50¢]
  3. Leinster, Murray TIME TUNNEL, Pyramid R-1043, 7/64, (PBO; The atomic era and the age of Napoleon—linked by the…), vg $4 [list price: 50¢]
  4. Leinster, Murray THE TIME TUNNEL, Pyramid R-1522, 1/67, (PBO; TV tie), vg+ $4 [list price: 50¢]
  5. Sturgeon, Theodore THE ULTIMATE EGOIST, Volume 1: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, North Atlantic, 2nd('98), trade paperback, (1937-40 stories; Bradbury, Clarke & Wolfe forewords), new $20 [list price: $18.95]

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