Login

Or
Register Now


Already have an account?
Username:

Password:

Remember me

Lost Your Password?
Main Menu
Collector's Guide Table of Contents
Recent Visitors

remy
12 minutes ago

Trotter
24 minutes ago

Findegil
32 minutes ago

wellinghall
1 hour 36 minutes ago

Stu
5 hours 26 minutes ago

Deagol
5 hours 41 minutes ago

Terra-Anne Bacon
5 hours 45 minutes ago

Earl
5 hours 55 minutes ago
Report message: *
 
* = Required

Re: Tolkien Signed Book

Subject: Re: Tolkien Signed Book
by Khamûl on 2009/1/29 11:15:00

I'm sure Beren will be on soon enough! But, it really is (or I'd imagine it is) pretty difficult to sell signatures without coming up against this problem. Decent provenance doesn't always come with all signed books; so what else is a seller to do? Other than, pull a sale if its seriously in question. Of course one could avoid aquiring them in the first place...

(Stu) On the matter of descriptions of condition; heavens! -this is a whole other thread! Any glance at Abebooks reveals that the majority of sellers are incapable (or simply unwilling) to list condition correctly; as well as a number of other important bibliographical points.

Why can't they stick to the guidance give by their respective associations (i.e. the ABAA, ILAB, PBFA etc). 'Mint' is not a recognised description of condition; books & jackets should be given a seperate condition grading etc etc. Hardly any sellers comply with these 'rules'; and many have no interest in answering specific questions you ask (mainly due to their lack of detail). There's also the historical nonsense that is the statement '1rst Edition'. Bah!...

BH
© 2015 TolkienGuide.com and respective authors. Contact Us
http://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newbb/report.php?forum=18&topic_id=1036&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&post_id=4974
www.tolkienguide.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2016-36
14137
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:7W3M6ZN7RB5FKZN4XXWYJFSYGTMOHZBP
<urn:uuid:da8e9425-6c8b-4144-a468-0961ad6f88c6>
2016-08-30T11:01:12Z
72.167.232.234
sha1:ACSXCI7RPBHORHKLUO2TTS5PRBF6JYJV
<urn:uuid:443e578f-8277-4d68-9cc7-1665140c668e>
http://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newbb/report.php?forum=18&topic_id=1036&viewmode=flat&order=ASC&post_id=4974
length
response
<urn:uuid:934decb4-ae28-41bc-946b-288ae382dab7>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2016-36
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for August 2016
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf