by Pamela Palmer

#107, 19 November 2007

BookThink's Top 10 Ten on eBay
August 2007

Top 10 on eBay
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Which fiction and non-fiction books are winners on eBay? Each month this series answers the question and, along the way, looks at the listing strategies sellers use to bring in big bucks. To learn more about what's in and what's out of the lists, read our Top 10 on eBay Parameters.

NOTE: For item numbers of auctions featured in Top 10, subscribe to our free email list by writing Editor Craig Stark at editor@bookthink.com.

After July, the deluge .... In August, the growing number of summer NARUs reached flood stage. While trolling for the non-fiction top 10, 9 different auctions held the #1 slot only to fall to the non-paying buyers. BookThink could have had a non-fiction top 10 with only 1 seemingly completed purchase. Instead, we persevered, so instead of the single title listed as #1, you'll see the list of 9, each "sold" for $9,999, a price never paid. The good news of the month was a healthy contingent of UK sellers showing up on the charts.

eBay
Fiction Top 10
August 2007

#1* $12,121.29 HARRY POTTER & THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE RARE UK 1ST/1ST!
#2* tie $10,099.00 Don't Stop the Carnival Herman Wouk HB Buffett Parrothe
#2* tie $10,099.00 Bungalow 2 by Danielle Steel 2007
#4* $9,999.00 The Good, The Bad, and The Undead by Kim Harrison (2...
#5 $7,379.94 Harry Potter FULL SET OF SIGNED UK ORIGINAL PB 1/1
#6 $6,470.08 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS 1/1 SLIPCASE SIGNE
#7* $5,999.00 Tales of Suspense #39 cgc 8.0 slight p
#8 $5,762.42 A RARE BOOK BRAM STOKER DRACULA FIRST EDITION
#9 $4,852.56 Harry Potter Deathly Hallows SIGNED (not dedicated)
#10 $4,347.09 SIGNED COLLECTABLE HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS

*Non-registered buyer so sale not completed and final value not validated.

#1*
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling

NARU.

#2* tie
Don't Stop the Carnival
Herman Wouk

NARU.

#2* tie
Bungalow 2
Danielle Steel

NARU.

#4*
The Good, The Bad, and The Undead
Kim Harrison

NARU.

#5
Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J.K. Rowling

A set of 5 Harry Potter books, all first edition/first printing paperbacks with Rowling's signature. Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone is an ex-library paperback with "an original JK Rowling hand signed PS 1st issue bookplate which is NOT attached." The other 4 were signed on pages. Books #2-4 are described as in Fine+ condition. Listed in a 5-day private auction by a UK seller, the set sold as a BIN.

#6
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling

Another UK seller comes in at #6 with a signed unread Harry Potter.

#7*
Tales of Suspense
[Comic Book]

NARU.

#8
Dracula
Bram Stoker

17 bids were received by this 1897 first edition, listed by a UK seller.

#9
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling

Won by a best offer, the signed UK first edition hardback was listed by a UK seller.

#10
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling

It was only opened for J.K. Rowling to sign.

 

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