XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips, alt.fan.heinlein   
   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:43:56 -0500, Lynn McGuire   
    wrote:   
      
   >And another quarter of the books were in the afternoon sun and have very    
   >faded dust covers.   
      
   That would matter to a collector, I expect.   
      
   But not necessarily to a used book store owner (might affect how much   
   you get for it).   
      
   And probably not for a Friends of the Library organization, which (as   
   I understand it, which means at least up here in Seattle) sells most   
   of them (those the library can't use) to raise money to supplement the   
   library's budget.   
      
   This sale may be one of those where the buyers are willing to pay more   
   than they usually would to help out a good cause.   
      
   If there is such an organization in your area, they should have a web   
   page (after all, /everyone/ has a web page!) that will tell you what   
   they will and will not take.    
      
   The "will not"s (in addition to books infested with mold, presumably)   
   will likely be things like any Encyclopedia Britannica published since   
   the 70s and similar items which are so common everyone who wants one   
   already has one.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)