Bidding is now @ $167.40 for this gem.Originally Posted by Br!an
Bidding is now @ $167.40 for this gem.
Way over value IMHO.Bidding is now @ $167.40 for this gem.
You think like me?I would cover the stamp with a King signed bookplate.I'd live with the stamp for the right price, but I suspect my idea of the right price and the seller's idea differ by at least $200.
I am not that smart.You think like me?I would cover the stamp with a King signed bookplate.I'd live with the stamp for the right price, but I suspect my idea of the right price and the seller's idea differ by at least $200.
That is very surprising. I bet there is a friend up bidding for the seller.Bidding is now @ $167.40 for this gem.
[QUOTE=Joe315;841469]That is very surprising. I bet there is a friend up bidding for the seller.
I stopped at $30. i liked the idea of the old signature.
Bidding is now @ $167.40 for this gem.
[QUOTE=Roseannebarr;841474]i stopped at $30. i liked the idea of the old signature!That is very surprising. I bet there is a friend up bidding for the seller.
I stopped at $30. i liked the idea of the old signature.
Bidding is now @ $167.40 for this gem.
I had that happen to me. There were two other bidders and I bailed out. Both made bids above mine. The seller sent me a offer to buy at my last bid since both other bids reneged on purchasing. I told him I wouldn't buy it at the jacked up price, but that I would buy it for my original bid of $9. I never heard back.That is very surprising. I bet there is a friend up bidding for the seller.Bidding is now @ $167.40 for this gem.
I just checked the bidders. It jumped from $16 to $167. Either the high bidder really wants it or ...
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
Well I have to say I bid on it several times as I loved the idea of the old signature and it being a first edition and maybe having a story behind it. But someone kept outbidding me - either a genuine bidder or the seller's friend or something. So I eventually bailed and won't bid on it again, as the international shipping is too high as well.
What happens if bids are cancelled and it is the seller's friend or the seller trying to "up" the price? Do you automatically become the high bidder again and be forced to pay it? Seems messed up if people can jack up listings that way.
If the high bidder reneges then the seller has the option to offer the item to the next highest bidder. That's what happened to me. I declined. If I hadn't felt like the lot was being bid up I would have taken the offer since it was still a good deal and I wanted the book. There is no obligation to accept or even to respond to the offer.
"One day you're going to figure out that everything they taught you was a lie."
Very strange. I wouldn't want it, but someone does. That's what makes collecting interesting.
Probably anathema to most Collectors, but I would cut the page out...
I'd either keep it as a curio or I'd probably cut the page out too and put it into a copy of The Stand but I wouldn't sell it on. I wonder if that's what the winner bidder is planning to do - perhaps cutting out the signed page and the copyright page with FIRST EDITION listed and putting them into a book club edition of The Stand to pass it off as a first and signed? If it goes to a high price I bet that's the game plan. I wonder if you can even get a book rebound like that... I was interested in it as a curio primarily, as it seems there might be a story/history behind it, and the romantic in me is always intrigued by that with older books.
I bid 6 bucks on it this morning, and would have upped it to 60 or so, but only because my name is Nick and I'd have dreams of presenting it to King at a signing for a second signing, also made out to Nick.i stopped at $30. i liked the idea of the old signature!That is very surprising. I bet there is a friend up bidding for the seller.
I stopped at $30. i liked the idea of the old signature.
Bidding is now @ $167.40 for this gem.
[QUOTE=Roseannebarr;841475]i stopped at $30. i liked the idea of the old signature!That is very surprising. I bet there is a friend up bidding for the seller.
I stopped at $30. i liked the idea of the old signature.
Bidding is now @ $167.40 for this gem.I was wondering the cost and the outcome one might get taking it to a professional who could rebind it in a nice leather cover. (if it were to be had at a reasonable " Cheap" price).
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UK Signed 1st Edition of Doctor Sleep
........but it is rare, and therefore thread-appropriate.
FOR SALE OR TRADE
Dark Tower 7 Artist Edition n/a
The Waste Lands 1st Edition in Shrinkwrap $200
1984 Grant Gift Edition of The Talisman $400
Lisey's Story ARC $50
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Signed 1st Edition of Storm of The Century (Paperback)
Wow that's pretty cool. A signed purple WH smith edition must be pretty much one of a kind or close? Nice!
Not sure on the sig, get a 2nd opinion.
4 bids, $31:
Autographed Bag of Bones by Stephen King (1998, Hardcover)
I have that convention program on my Watch List. Does anyone know what King wrote for it?
King was a judge, but I am not sure what if anything he wrote.
He may not have written anything for it -- it might just contain a bio. "Beyond the guest introductions and the details about the year's awards, the remainder of the book primarily consists of illustrations inspired by Robert E. Howard's work and advertisements."
Author of The Road to the Dark Tower, Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences and The Dark Tower Companion. Co-editor with Stephen King of the anthology Flight or Fright.
You've all probably seen this, but........
DT 7 Volume 1
http://bit.ly/1ivxtse (sorry, don't know how to link it like everyone else does)
At least it's got "zero page flip wear"!
I've got it but am not home right now to look. Pretty sure there is no King writing in it.
How does this happen?
No number, so probably a PC where the second volume was sent to a customer who had a damaged one.How does this happen?
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