Any booksellers here?

[Vinca]

I need a guesstimate of value on the first Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," first American edition, 5th printing. Decent condition with a dust jacket. Inscription in the front. Thanks! (Tag sale season has started - yippee!!)

[peacetalksforall]

1. There are several book search engines you can look at -

www.vialibri,com , www.addall.com , www.bookfinder.com , www.marelibri. com for comparison and range.

[Vinca]

2. Thanks. I hadn't heard of any of those. Will do. nt

[grasswire]

3. abebooks.com

That's the one that book buyers use at Powell's in Portland, the world's largest used bookstore. ABE is a consortium of used booksellers, so you can see what all those dealers are asking for any particular book.

[Horse with no Name]

4. This is a great one

www.campusi.com

It compares all of the book sites and gives you the present selling prices of almost any book.

http://www.campusi.com/prod.pl?cat=book&op=buy&lang=en-us&search_country=us&shipto=us¤cy=usd&zip=&nw=y&class=&use_ajax=1&pqcs=Te%2FaVK%2FJYVOd9xP7AhouBA&ean=9780590353403

[old mark]

5. ABE Books is the best.

FWIW, I doubt a 5th edition will be too valuable-but you said "with inscription"-is it signed by the author?

mark

[zabet]

6. We have a DUer that owns a bookstore and may be able to help you...

RetroLounge.

http://www.xenithbooksellers.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=114774 <---DU profile so you can pm him if you want to.