On January 18th, bmajure suggested that everyone list their top 3 sellers for the past week, just to see what we come up with. The following list is culled from everyone's posts that evening - up til around noon on 1/19 - and posted here for your enjoyment. The popularity of the list prompted me to continue with it, so you will find listings archived for each month, generally compiled bi-weekly. -Andy

Mariner's Atlas - Upper Texas Coast 34 charts - $37.00
Atlas of Reptiles & Amphibians - $44.21
Shiba Inu (t.f.h. - dog book) - $21.25
Foals & Foaling (horse book) - $23.00
Straw sculpture - $10.60

Corn and straw dollies - $16.00
Miniature rooms and furniture book $14.00
The mystery lot of cookbooks $14.00
Twin Peaks, The Diary of Laura Palmer PB - $10.50
Lot of 3 Georgette Heyer Romance PBs - $9.50

Lady of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (hardback) - $25.03
Medieval Home Companion (book club edition hardback) - $16.01
1902 yearbook from the Naval Academy - $128.30
If you ever see The Lucky Bag, buy it!
A softback cookbook from the 1960's Hungarian cooking - $20.50

Turf Management - $26.00
Alfrieda Gabiou - $46.05 (that name should be cryptic enough to get everyone looking)
Dianetics 1st Ed - 124.75
Genevieve Foster World of William Penn Juv. History - $81.00
Cherry Ames, Mountaineer Nurse - $27.50

Dana Girls Mystery, The Clue Of The Black Flower - $20.67
Hungarian cookbooks, all - $12.00 to $22.00
History of Walker County, Georgia - $152.50
Moolelo of Ancient Hawaii - $64.00
C.W. Anderson book at - $20.50

Hebrew Cat in the Hat Comes back - $20.55
A child's book "THE REMEMBERED VISIT" - $20.50
5 black stallion books with DJ, all went over - $10.00
Joy of Cooking HB - $38.00
Grab any city or county directory published by Polk or Manning. Apparently the Mormon Church is buying them up for their genealogy site and they go for a nice price

Judy Bolton pictorial cover #12 The Midnight Visitor - $72.00
1878 Huge Bible w/Steel Engravings - $46.00
1916 Edith Wharton Book of the Homeless - $75.00
PB New adventures of the Mad Scientist's Club - $46.77 with HOLES IN THE COVER!
Duet for Life Chang and Eng bio of the famous conjoined twins - $31.00

The Story Tree Faith and Freedom Catholic reader - $30.00
50 fat quarters, $66.00 and $51.99 respectively
The Deer Leap (BC) - $20.50
Wandering Under Sail - $12.50
Roald Amundsen - $10.25

The Elephant's Airplane - $10.50
Sailing For Beginners - $10.06
Chandler's Cottage, cross-stitch, Thomas KinKade - $10.00
1979 Boy Scout Handbook - $41.00
Gene Stratton Porter; Keeper of the Bees - $25.00

TAB Electronic Music Synthesizers - $26.00
3 paperbacks by Andrew Lang - $30.00
The Heritage Songster (banjo, mandolin) - $28.20
2 Little House hardcovers, not 1sts - $25.00
Family Songbook of Faith and Joy (Readers Digest) - $33.00

3 Tom and Pippo books - $22.50
Around The Year - Elsa Beskow - $33.00
Mushroom Planet A Mystery for Mr. Bass - $104.50
Dorrie and the Weather-Box - $46.00
The Wonderflight to the Mushroom Planet - $26.01

The Modern Gunsmith (2 Vol.-in 1) - $33.00
Alcatraz '46 - $15.00
Catholic High School '54 & '55 Yearbooks - $28.00
The Hidden Valley of OZ $102.50
Roman Catholic Breviary in English 1951 FALL VOL 3 - $81.00 (four volumes of this edition)

Tole Painting Furniture by Peter Hunt - $67.00
Wiseguy, a trade PB about the TV series starring Ken Wahl - $63.75
St. Joseph's Catholic Manual 1956 - $61.00
WWII Order of Battle A HUGE book - $56.88
Betty Crocker Cook books, the regular cookbooks (not the specialty books which seem to do poorly) - Closed at $48.85, $33.75 and $33.00

Truck Drivers Wives' cookbook- $12.50
We Seven--BCE - $23.72
The Confessions of Nat Turner Styron, 1st - $17.50
The Biggest Game in Town--A Alvarez, 1st - $17.30
Abounding in Mercy, Mother Austin Carroll - $24.00

Catholic set: Church's Year of Grace 1950's - $18.00
The Iberian Stones Speak, Archaeology in Spain and Portugal - $13.35
The Principles of Knitting - $77.06
GLITTER BABY, PB, Susan Elizabeth Phillips - $61.00
GRAVITATION, Misner/Thorne/Wheeler - $41.50

NEVER TEASE A WEASEL now at - $36.00
Sculpture With a Torch - $46.00
A Raggedy Anne book - $53.00
The Brooke Book, by Brook Shields - $242.50
Isaac Asimov, Asimov On Numbers - $15.39

Ron Goulart Authors Choice Monthly - $20.00
Margaret Atwood The Handmaids Tale - $13.53
1935 New Orleans Peychauds Cocktail book - $137.50
New Orleans Architecture Volume I the Garden District - $37.66
1929 submarine book On The Bottom - $37.50

Also, on an interesting note, I listed six songbooks...lyrics/music. The Beatles got no bids, Bob Dylan and Grateful Dead each went for $8.50, and Jim Croce was high auction at $21.00! (Two others...Jimmy Buffet and Indigo Girls were $7.50 ea.) Not the results I figured on at all! Who knew?

Rick Brant Rocket Jumper # 21 - $205.50
Giant Golden Book of Elves & Fairies - $91.00
Carroll Alice in Wonderland Hildebrandt - $20.00
Prof. Beerys Saddle Horse Instructions 1944 (set of 5)- $16.51
Lois Lenski Cowboy Small 1960s Reprint - $15.65

Madeleine Brent Long Masquerade HC/DJ xlib - $13.28
Travis McGee trivia PB - $100.00
Vincent & Mary Price Treasury of Great Recipes - $51.50
Dick & Jane We Work and Play - $46.00
Autographed Martha Stewart Pies & Tarts - $31.00

Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya-Yas Out Songbook - $20.50
1952 Catholic Reader Fun with John and Jean - $15.23
The Sexual Question, Forel, Medical book from 1906 - $35.00
The Cavalry Manual of Horsemanship & Horsemastership, Wrigth/Savitt - $34.33
The Cavalry Manual of Horsemanship & Horsemastership, Wright/Savitt - $28.75

Quail and Pheasant Propagation, Wildlife Management Institute - $26.00
Brood Cow, Purina - $23.00
Caroline's Grand Tour - $238.77
Pookie - $51.00
Tasha Tudor First Delights - $77.00

Diary of a Country Horsewoman - $52.00
Paul Brown Equestionnaire - $61.00
Miss Read, Farewell to Fairacre - 33.00
Red Ryder & the Adventure at Chimney Rock - $18.49
Bat, The Story of a Bull Terrier (Meader, always good) - $41.00

Science & Life, Nobel winner Millikan, signed - $36.00
Out of This World, signed Lowell Thomas - $24.75
A PB about the NY subway system - $21.26
Northern Exposure Cookbook (PB) - $14.50
Polaris ATV Shop Manual (PB) - $26.56

From My Experience, signed Bromfield - $38.00
Trixie Belden Mystery at Saratoga (PB) - $15.55
Auschwitz Museum Guidebook - $19.00
Oliver Optic's Manual - $25.51
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - $26.50

Through the Wilds (last page missing) - $51.00
Caleb & Me - $122.50
A Racing book about Thompson, 60's - $125.00
A book on squirrels - $48.00
Rackham print from 1905 Rip Van Winkle - $37.00

Bibliography of history of Dallas - $35.00
Another Rackham print from R.VanWinkle - $29.99
CW Anderson, Book of Horses and Horsemanship, xlib - $20.01
Electricity in mining - $41.00
Carrie's Gift illustrated by Tasha Tudor - $76.00

Charlotte Sometimes PB - $26.00
Moy Moy by Leo Politi - $46.00
Bright Wampum by Dorothy Lyons - $51.00
Christmas at The Tomten's Farm - $27.00
The Belgariad Part II BCE - $26.99

Twin Peaks Diary HB - $27.00
All of a Kind Family Uptown PB - $16.05
More All of a Kind Family PB - $16.25
Machinist Math Handbook HB - $20.50
St Joseph Catholic Missal 1959 - $18.51

Black Stallion, specific titles - $8.50 to $10.50
History of the World's Fair 1893 - $32.00
Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs - $20.00 (looks like Gilbert and Sullivan have a following)
The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs. Molesworth, early reprint - $15.00
Trixie Belden #36 seems to be in short supply - up to $15.00 with 3 days to go.

1945 volume of History of Nursing 1st Ed - up to $10.50
Booklet for Gdynia-America steamship line - $66.00
Adventures of the Teenie Weenies - $41.00
Magazine ad with Arthur Szyk illustration - $44.39
2 Dick and Jane books - $95.00

1816 Midwifery Book - $177.00
Beatrix Potter 22 - $83.00
Beatrix Potter 23 - $66.00
My Hand is My Sword Karate book $56.00
Book on Baseball park Stadiums - $78.00

Clive Cussler Raise the Titanic 1st - $50.00
Little Leather Library collection - $170.50
Lucy Dawson, Dogs as I See Them - $70.88
ELKS magazine 1903 - $45.44

Jan 25, 2000

A heads up on Jacques Pepin cookbooks. I've sold quite a few of these in the last six months and the prices have definitely gone up in the last month. I'm guessing it's the new PBS series with Julia Child.

Old architectural catalogue - $52.00
A bakelite (plastic) bracelet - $850.00
Early (#14) Fine Woodworking Magazine - $25.00
A facsimile about horsehoeing - $36.00
Sheet music - $50.00 for Hound Dog, ending on Elvis' birthday, same bidder got Heartbreak Hotel and Loving You for $27 each. Yesterday he got I Was The One for $22.38. Also Whale of a Tale at $33.

Big Little Book of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - $13.00
Jane's Communications and Jane's Aircraft, both from the 90's - $60.00 to $70.00
Flight Instruments aviation aircraft book - $27.50
Diesel Aviation Engines book aircraft - $34.87
Aircraft Power Plant book - $26.01

Principles of Knitting by June Hiatt - $143.03
Dr. Dolittle Green Canary Lofting hb dj 1st - $47.04
Freddy (the Pig) and Mr Camphor Walter Brooks - $42.00
St Joseph Daily Missal 1957 traditional RC - $41.01
Sue Barton Student Nurse HB Helen Boylston - $36.00

Tasha Tudor - First Delights - $77.00
Paul Brown - Equestionnaire - $61.00
Horsemanship - Waldemar Seunig - $41.00
Robb White - Up Periscope - $39.99
Cars at Speed, 1st Ed (1960),1950s Grand Prix auto racing - $42.00

Gun Digest Book of Folding Knives, PB 1st 1977 - $31.00
Gun Digest Book of Trap and Skeet Shooting, PB 1st - $21.75
A small Catholic Prayerbook from the 50's - $41.00
Alice and Jerry Preprimer - $36.52
A Moveable Feast E Hemingway with DJ,not 1st - $34.00

Panoramas, from Scott Foresman's New Basic Readers (The Dick and Jane series) 8th grade reader - $33.56
A Nancy Drew Book with the white spine dj - $30.95
Finishing for the Handweaver - $29.00
Dollars in Dogs by Dr. Whitney - $26.00
50 fat quarters (cloth) - $50.99

Cities of the Plain, Cormac McCarthy - $15.01
Mandala Quilt Book - $9.99
BCE of Dune Messiah - $20.50
A Dover soft cover about needlepointing miniature rugs - $19.00
If you see any funky looking earrings that are signed "lunch at the ritz" BUY THEM mine just sold for $97

Carl Larsson"At Home" - $23.72
2 Tom Swift Paperbacks - $16.00
Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book by Shel Silverstein- $12.50
American Diamond, history of baseball - $17.75
Mort, Bookclub edition- $22.50

Hooked on Phonics, complete set of books/tapes - $140.00

Not a book but I have to brag - Talisman Game (role playing) - $266.00

1930s Franciscan Ware Product Brochure - $158.98
St. Joseph Catholic Missal - $32.00
Chinese Bronzes - $21.50
Oriental Antiques & Art - $21.50
Chinese Jade - $20.50

Feb 1, 2000

An ex-lib copy of a "Dorrie the Witch" - $36.00

After the board engaged in a flurry of Monty Python and the Holy Grail quotes I chance upon a copy of the MP&HG Book. It was only a quarter so I snagged it. It finished at $61.00. This board ROCKS!!!

Tasha Tudor RARE Mr Stubbs book SIGNED 1st/DJ - $662.00

Two Years And Four Months In A Lunatic Asylum, missing a page - $79.00
Mother McGrew and Kate Kangaroo - $43.99
Barry Manilow's Sweet Life - $34.58
Betty Neels Harlequin - $97.50
Childhood of Famous Americans - Jim Bowie, Ex-lib in DJ - $13.20
The Tea Cookbook - $11.00

Childhood of Famous Americans, George Custer, ex-lib - $10.51
Washington Irving by Anya Seton, xlib - $10.50
50 fat quarters of fabric - $49.99
W.E.B. Griffin's "Battleground" - $11.01
"Hagar the Horrible" - $10.00

Teresa Wentzler Cross Stitch, "Lady of Shalott" - $15.50
Butt'ry Shelf Almanac, Campbell IL/Tasha Tudor - $23.50
Seventeen Magazine, Jul 71 - $27.75
Alfred Hitchcock's The Three Investigators HB - $10.50
A book on Bromaliads (plants) - $24.99

Walt Disney's Bambi, 1944 - $24.99
Signed Ben Green Horse Tradin'-ongoing - $45.00
Harper's Boating Book for Boys, 1912 1st -ongoing - $27.00
Altemus edition of Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse - $24.99
Ex-lib Zane Grey's Tales of Southern Rivers - $39.99

Janet Lambert's Rainbow After Rain - $65.00, and 3 other Lamberts at 19.99 each
A 2nd edition AA big book for - $89.99
Factory repair manuals for Datsun 280 and 300z for $80 - $100.00 each
Private printing paperback about a Texas man in China before the war that sold for $128.00
Harry Potter Sorceer's Stone 1st paid $17.95 at DD's book fair. Sold for $2025.00!!!

Red Lion Inn Cookbook Signed - $24.50
Fireside Book of Folk Songs - $22.00
Patsey Gray Horse Story Jumping Jack - $20.00
J. Onassis The Firebird - $16.50
A Child's Garden of Verses - R.L. Stevenson/Tasha Tudor - $16.00

Miss Read - Battles at Thrush Green - $31.00
Thelwell illustrated - Pony to Jump - $26.00
Paul Brown illus - Care and Handling of Dogs - $31.25
Space cat meets Mars - $20.70
1912 Notre Dame yearbook - $360.00

Rip van Winkle with NC Wyeth illustrations - $202.50
Our Journey to Japan signed copy by J Schiff - $130.27
A Richard Scarry book that I got for 50 cents and sold for - $51.00
How to do English Smocking 1947 Charts Pics - $26.00
Signed Mary Shields Iditarod Sled dog book - $11.00

Sheet Metal Work Pattern Drafting 1918 book - $22.50
Gone with the Wind, HB, 1936 - $84.99
Watty Piper, Stories that Never Grow Old, - $36.40
Disney Uncle Remus, Stories of the South, - $29.00
1939 book about neon & electric signs - $120.50

1942 Electrical Lineman's Handbook - $128.50
1852 American Historical Scenes w/engravings - $142.50
1924 humorous book about Florida land boom - $105.00
Jack Kerouc On the Road 1st PB - $127.50
Jack Ketchum Off Season (advance PB) - $67.87

John D. MacDonald TWO paperback - $85.00 (Note: "TWO" published by Carroll & Graf was withdrawn from the market during the first printing for copyright infringement. TWO has two John D. pulp stories originally published in a magazine. The magazine thought they owned the stories. C&G bought the rights from the mag, but J.D.M. actually owned the rights and forced G&G to withdraw the book).

P'sich by Mariana - $50.00
A Time of Trains, Plowden - $37.85
Lincoln - Lorant - $21.50
Cowboy Sam & Flop - $15.52
Maida's Little School - $17.49

Stopping for a Spell (Diana Wynn Jones) - $13.50
Modern Gunsmithing - $16.00
Mawson's Will, about a 1911 expedition to Antarctica, HC/DJ 1st Ed - $58.61
Chess is My Life - Victor Korchnoi - $21.00
Hornblower During the Crisis - Forester - $21.02

Honest Illusions - Nora Roberts - hc - $14.48
Tales of Teams - a collection of stories about work horses and mules - $19.50
Signed by author Civil War book, went for over $650.00
Giant Reptiles - $13.35
CHIPPENDALE FURNITURE circa 1745 - 1765 - The Work of Thomas Chippendale and his Contemporaries in the Rococo Taste Vile, Cobb, Langlois, Channon, Hallett, Ince and Mayhew, Lock, Johnson, and others by Anthony Coleridge - $50.00

PRINCE DRACULA - SON OF THE DEVIL by Douglas Myles - $27.69
FIRE ENGINES FIREFIGHTERS - The Men, Equipment, and Machines from Colonial Days to the Present by Paul C. Ditzel - $20.50
FREE FALL IN CRIMSON by John D. MacDonald - $19.79
Red Planet - Heinlein - $27.00
Witch of Glen Gowrie - Mackellan - $22.50

Johnny Crow's New Garden - Leslie Brooke - $20.50
Star Beast - Heinlein - $20.50
3 loveswept romances, The Shamrock Trinity: Rafe The Maverick, Blurke, the Kingpin and York the Renegade - $81.00
Duchess Bakes a Cake Virginia Kahl - $107.50
St Joseph Daily Missal 50 traditional RC - $49.73

Lot of 3 Danny Dunn hb Invisible Boy - $20.50
Mouse and His Child Russell/Lillian Hoban PB - $20.50
1950's Guinness Stout /Beer Guide - $64.00
1937 Electrolux booklet - $46.00
small 1938 book on Italian art - $41.00

1896 Indiana Geology Report - $99.00
1896 Fish & Fishery Report, currently at - $77
1935 Motor Camping, currently at - $31.00
Judy Bolton #34 Puzzle in the Pond (three days left) - $127.50
1956 Last Letters of Japanese Kamikaze Pilots book (three days left) - $38.50

Ford Comet/Falcon 1964 Shop Manual - $40.00
Jack Keroauc On the Road 1st Edition Bantam PB - $41.00
Beany Malone - $30.00
Justin Wilson Cookbook - $26.00
Go Tell it to Mrs. Golightly by Catherine Cookson - $25.50

The Wood Nymph by Mary Balogh - $68.89
The Baker's Daughter by D.E. Stevenson - $15.50
New Our New Friend - $30.50
Happy Hollisters Monster Mystery - $26.00
Raggedy Ann - Golden Rings - $33.00

The Big One - $16.00
New Adventures of the Mad Scientists Club paperback - $43.00
Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka Go to Market - $25.00
4 lots of Mothering magazine (natural parenting) - $22.00 to $23.00 each lot