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25 April
2024-4-25 10:00:23 PM UTC
*mod edit, have moved wheresrob’s comments to the flipping thread.

wheresrob wrote:

So cranky about this latest mckellen flip on ebay. It sold for 2k US via Peter Harrington last week, order cancelled only for the buyer to now flip for 10x the price.

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Seller: greatandrarebooks
(238)
Ends Dec 25, 2024 10:03:30 PM UTC
Buy-It-Now:
$17,500.00
25 April
2024-4-25 10:10:11 PM UTC

Mr. Underhill wrote:

*mod edit, have moved wheresrob’s comments to the flipping thread.

wheresrob wrote:

So cranky about this latest mckellen flip on ebay. It sold for 2k US via Peter Harrington last week, order cancelled only for the buyer to now flip for 10x the price.

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Seller: greatandrarebooks
(238)
Ends Dec 25, 2024 10:03:30 PM UTC
Buy-It-Now:
$17,500.00

I think you were lucky the order was cancelled. A destroyed 1946 Hobbit - just my humble opinion....

25 April
2024-4-25 10:39:54 PM UTC

remy wrote:

Mr. Underhill wrote:

*mod edit, have moved wheresrob’s comments to the flipping thread.

wheresrob wrote:

So cranky about this latest mckellen flip on ebay. It sold for 2k US via Peter Harrington last week, order cancelled only for the buyer to now flip for 10x the price.

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Seller: greatandrarebooks
(238)
Ends Dec 25, 2024 10:03:30 PM UTC
Buy-It-Now:
$17,500.00

I think you were lucky the order was cancelled. A destroyed 1946 Hobbit - just my humble opinion....


I agree - I think a bullet was dodged here. An early Hobbit is not improved at all by that kind of sketching. I'm also unsurprised by the particular seller that is trying to flip this. I doubt anyone will be interested in it at anything close to that price.
26 April
2024-4-26 5:33:13 AM UTC
More childish scribbles added to the book, why did they not use a new paperback instead of a book like this. Very sad.
11 September
2024-9-11 11:48:10 PM UTC
Dealers flipping letters
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Seller: bombisbazaar
(96)
Ended Nov 26, 2024
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$12,000.00


Sold recently for a whole lot less
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot ... d73e7631fdc13b91267fe2447
12 September
2024-9-12 3:14:42 AM UTC
Didn't know this thread existed, but I've got one to add! I bought this book for under $160 on Abebooks a few months ago, only to have my order cancelled. Here it is now on eBay for nearly 10x that price. Still irritates me.

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Seller: greatandrarebooks
(238)
Ends Jan 2, 2025 4:40:59 PM UTC
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$1,490.00
12 September
2024-9-12 3:26:30 AM UTC

ǽc ælf wrote:

Didn't know this thread existed, but I've got one to add! I bought this book for under $160 on Abebooks a few months ago, only to have my order cancelled. Here it is now on eBay for nearly 10x that price. Still irritates me.

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Seller: greatandrarebooks
(238)
Ends Jan 2, 2025 4:40:59 PM UTC
Buy-It-Now:
$1,490.00
Can't imagine it'll sell at that price.
12 September
2024-9-12 3:41:49 AM UTC

Luckyshot wrote:

ǽc ælf wrote:

Didn't know this thread existed, but I've got one to add! I bought this book for under $160 on Abebooks a few months ago, only to have my order cancelled. Here it is now on eBay for nearly 10x that price. Still irritates me.

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Seller: greatandrarebooks
(238)
Ends Jan 2, 2025 4:40:59 PM UTC
Buy-It-Now:
$1,490.00
Can't imagine it'll sell at that price.

Not with the missing front flap. A similar copy sold on Oxfam three weeks or so back for £400 (sold very quickly, mind -- was about an hour between me seeing it and it being sold). I don't think it was the same copy as the Oxfam one didn't have the front flap missing.
23 September
2024-9-23 3:30:09 PM UTC
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Seller: adventurecat1215
(340)
Ended Sep 16, 2024
£1,346.00
[22 Bids]


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Seller: dogfark
(2698)
Ended Oct 22, 2024
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£3,695.00
4 October
2024-10-4 12:49:28 AM UTC
Sold a few days ago for $2557
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Seller: booker17
(7490)
Ended Sep 24, 2024
$2,557.00
[33 Bids]


Now up again for $3250
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