"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
A Reading copy can be found on BOOKFINDER for $1.10
Thanks, Josh! Seller and I agreed on $150. I doubt there's any real value in Rich's sig as well and wouldn't have been a deal breaker for me.
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What is the value of a signed BCE Night Shift in NF condition?
What do you folks think the current value might be for the signed/numbered/ traycased/ massive edition of Knowing Darkness?
The last copy on my eBay/Amazon spreadsheet sold for $800 in 2016, which was definitely on the low end. Hyraxia currently has a copy for 1000 GBP (~$1400) and there are two sellers in the US who are asking $1500, so it is obtainable right now.
I would say realistic market value is ~$1000-1200. It probably should have appreciated more in the last 9 years but it is a really, really big art book (as you know) and I think has a smaller audience than a novel or a portfolio.
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You must be the eBay buyer from Feb 2015! That was a great price, given that it included the custom acrylic slipcase. Do you happen to have a picture of it?
There were "trade" editions available up through the end of 2015 for as little as $100.
As far as I can tell, by the very end of 2015 the final copies from George Beahm and Centipede Press finally sold out, and the price for both the trade and S/L took a big jump in20162017, with some decent appreciation since.
On a side note, I have never seen one of the deluxe versions (of which I think there were ~25 and that retailed for ~$4-5k), and would love to see it if someone here has a copy!
Be aware that some "dinged" copies of the trade edition were available at one point for around $100. So if shopping for a trade edition, double check the condition!
HBJ
Just because someone has something for sale at a certain price, that does not make it worth that price. It has to sell at that price.
The current market value of sold S/L Knowing Darkness is $750. Betts last sale of the $995 issued priced item was $750, and the one before that was $350.
These are the ones known to the public. I sold one for $1150. It is true, if someone wants it and is willing to pay for it, that's the real value. This discussion can always go the other way as well.....just the other day I bought a very nice Cycle of the Werewolf in one of the best jackets I've seen in a while for $50. Just because I got it for a deal doesn't set the market value of the book. JMO
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If it makes a difference, the slipcased “trade” version is pretty hot right now. There have been 5 eBay sales and a number of Amazon sales in 2018 alone, with prices between $300-400.
Thanks for the input everyone. Appreciate it! I'm actually considering selling mine as it's just too massive to even look at and it's not something I need. I can't decide so was trying to gauge whether or not it would even be worth selling as shipping will likely not be an easy thing. I reached out to David as well for his thoughts on the matter.
Yea, it made a pretty sudden jump after putzing around at $100-200 for a number of years (I got mine in 2014 for $100). I'm not exactly sure why... However, the number of sales has caused a flurry of new listings, so we'll see if it maintains. The last one sold was for $325 earlier this month. Amazon used to have a number of copies for around $300 but some sold and the others have been re-priced above $700 (which isn't gonna happen!).
I bought both the slipcased and deluxe traycased editions from George. The slipcased came with extra prints and the deluxe came with an acrylic slipcase. I paid just under $500 for both.
I figured the price would rise when George stopped selling them. I hadn't realized it had risen quite so much though.
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
I love the acrylic slipcase I got from George! It was for the regular Knowing Darkness and was a prototype for the larger one, the only one he had made for the "smaller" book, LOL!