| You can always count on finding a stack of books | | | | They don't know books. Oh it's true that some of |
| tucked away in a corner of an Antique store. Antique | | | | them do, but most of them do not. They see an old |
| stores buy up estates, hold estate sells, and then | | | | book as being an old book, therefore in must be |
| take what is remaining back to their store for stock. | | | | valuable. A tourist walks by and sees a book he read |
| First, let me say that you need to be aware of the | | | | when he was growing up, and buys the book, not |
| fact that Antique stores will also salt an estate sell | | | | know of the true value of the book. It is true that |
| trying to sell off some of their stock for "estate sell" | | | | being in an Antique store means you pay bigger |
| prices. For the book dealer this means they have to | | | | bucks. |
| be aware of this as it could help you save money. | | | | Another reason for going to Antique stores is that |
| Find out where the library is in the house and see if | | | | they are pulling out a lot of books from estate sells, |
| there are any windows that could have faded the | | | | so they will end up in their store before it is sold off, |
| books. If there are no windows, but the books are | | | | then traded with a used book store down the road. |
| faded, well, you might be suspect. Just something to | | | | The Secret is very simple. When you go into an |
| think about when you are going through these | | | | Antique store and find expensive books, look |
| estate sells. You also might find a lot of Book Club | | | | carefully. Yes, they price the normal books at two to |
| Books from the fifties. This is usually what is found. | | | | three times the value of the book, but they will miss |
| The problem with estate sells is that the Antique | | | | a truly valuable book worth hundreds and hundreds |
| stores usually get first pick, so the good stuff might | | | | of dollars on the same scale. So you might pay thirty |
| already be gone. Something to think about. | | | | or forty dollars for the book, but it will be worth |
| Are the books priced to sell, or are they really | | | | hundreds of dollars. Bottom line, they miss the truly |
| expensive? If there priced to sell this usually means | | | | valuable books. |
| that they don't want to take the books back to the | | | | Don't pass up Antique stores in your round of book |
| store. If the books are old looking and priced out of | | | | buying. Be aware of the pricing and double check |
| this world, then you know it was priced by the | | | | with what your buying and you always be reward |
| Antique store. Antique stores always price old looking | | | | with really fantastic deals from time to time. |
| books twice and three times what they are worth. | | | | |