How much is the 1st edition of On The Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder Worth?Also, does anybody have a description or picture of the first edition I want to buy it off ebay and want to know how it should look :) |
How much is the 1st edition of On The Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder Worth?Also, does anybody have a description or picture of the first edition I want to buy it off ebay and want to know how it should look :) |
A lot depends on condition, whether the dust wrapper is present, and provenance (who owned it before). The best place to research such matters is Abebooks.com. There you may find the pictures you want and will get a sense of what such items go for in the retail book market. It's best to click "highest price" in the election box because that will most likely give you a sense of what the top end of the book is.
I buy rare books. I believe in checking out anything on eBay very carefully first. A few sellers are dishonest, but more are simply ignorant or casual. They use words like "edition" and "printing" interchangeably; they mis-state condition, don't know first edition points, and so on. Many are amateurs in the book collecting business. I'm not. I have had to educate not a few. It's one thing if one is buying a $10 or $30 book--I just let it go. It's another if the price rises to three digits as this one easily could.