I have a large collection of books I was given in a deceased estate. There is a great variety of both English and German books. There are encyclopedias, cookbooks, and other collections. I am looking for a site that I may be able to sell these on. The ages vary, many of them are from before 1970.
By BHC
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If you have barcodes on the books you can look them up on Amazon and sell them there. The listing will also have other sellers with the same book for sale the condition they rate their book and what they are asking as a selling price. This is an easy way to see if your book has value. If you don't have a bar code you can still try Amazon but it may take more searching to find exactly what you have.
Another option is Craigslist. A third option is PaperbackSwap.com.
On PaperbackSwap you can list your books and people don't buy them they request them. You pay for shipping the book and then, once the book is received, you get a credit.
If you aren't into books (including audio books) you can join SwapaCD or SwapaDVD and transfer your credits from the PaperbackSwap site to the other Swapa site to pick out items on those sites to b sent to you.
I'm sure there are other sites you could possibly sell on but I am not familiar with them. What you can do is go to Google or Bing and do a search for a title you ant to sell and see if a site pops up that may have your book and allow you to sell yours.
Your other option is just to pack everything up and try a used bookstore.
Your books will have some value, although depending on the book, maybe not a lot. Your encyclopedia likely have no value. There are countless posts on this site from people who wish to sell them, and unless they are over 100 years old, usually you can't give them away.
I inherited my mother's book collection over 30 boxes worth. I went through every book writing down all ISBN numbers I found. You can look the ISBN up online to see if the book is worth selling.
Below are links to sites that have helped me-
www.isbnsearch.org/
www.biblio.com/
www.abebooks.com/
www.abaa.org/
www.alibris.com/
www.travelinlibrarian.info/
www.booksellerworld.com/
I have been selling my books (old and new) on www.abebooks.com for about 4 years. They are a very reputable site with international connections. They are always ready to help me with navigating the website and listing the books. This site does not require ISBN numbers, and also sells euphemera.
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