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Take them out of the boxes and sleeve them.
I would have said buy them over the years, but in the last couple of years the prices of vintage stuff has really went up.
Alcohol wipe, and I do the best I can to take any stickers off. If it looks like it would hurt the book, I don't do it. Before sale, it gets the same treatment when it leaves.
It's the humidity that you need to watch out for.
I would stay away. Even if you bought it for parts, the MOBO is proprietary in shape and who knows what else.
I just wrote a little article about these books a couple of months ago- so many really interesting and unique examples, and I love them all.
Not sure if allowed, but I have a blog that I update pretty often that has pictures of my bookcases and whatnot: First Edition Fantasy
Here are a couple of pictures from the POV of my desk looking to the left and right taken right now; mostly these books are waiting to be listed organized.
Just sold a BCE and 1st/1st on ebay, but the condition was far worse than this copy!
I have some book stored outside that are a deep orange, almost brown color, and the pages are more brittle as a result. The covers are still colorful. I would not even open some of them because they would fall apart. Poor/Fair would be a good estimate if the color is that bad.
I do. Not often, but sometimes the edition and printing are good enough where people overlook all the other stuff.
One of those Clearly Canadian Blackberry Sparkling waters from the 80's.. with a ton of vodka in it
I miss the amount of fan sites about a very specific topic or movie.
Science Fiction and Fantasy mostly.. some horror and mystery. I try to stick to the vintage stuff. I sell books on the side so have to keep a big inventory, but can't help but keep some of the best stuff for my personal collection. Sitting at about 8400 books.
Be open to learning production work
forgot how loud PC's were back then
Boddingtons is still available
Defunct beer.
beer