I have a 25 volume of Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedia from 1912. They are small books (4x6). It is a complete set. How much are they worth?
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I see a post on eBay that looks exactly like yours where someone is asking $189.00. If those are yours and you fetch that much, that will be today's market value.
I have never seen a set like this with the white and blue (sold or listed before) so this auction may set the current market value.
Post back how the sale goes!
Funk & Wagnalls was a lower end encyclopedia and for a couple of years you could get a free volume each week at some grocery stores and gas stations (Compton's Encyclopedias were also given away) when you spent a 'certain' amount of money.
I see that you have your set listed for sale on eBay for $189.00 plus $25 dollars for shipping. You also do not mention overall condition of books in your listing.
You show this as Priority Mail shipping but most sellers ship sets by media mail as it is much less expensive, especially since USPS changed how they charge for larger boxes.
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Many appraisers as well as researchers use sold listings on eBay to set current value but I did not find any set of Funk & Wagnalls that sold for over $60.
I did not find any sold set from 1912 but I could have missed one. A books age or even first edition does not always mean it is more valuable than later editions unless there is something extra special about the book/year.
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I did find something strange (at least strange to me) in that a seller has a 1912 set listed for sale on this site for $125:
And the same seller has the same set listed on eBay for $49.99.
Sets are listed for sale starting at $.01 and go to $500 so there is no way to even guess how these sellers have arrived at their asking prices but some sellers leave their listings up for years and maybe one day they sell??
Good luck with your set - it would be nice to see it sell for that amount.
Thanks for all your info, I will update. Books are in very good condition considering the age. They have been sitting in a closed cabinet in my house for thirty years.
Hello I also have complete set but mine are green and gold but they are the same size. Have you seen these before? Curious on what I should list them for.
This set is not the standard size. The prices online are for the full size books so these prices do not work for the books you are asking about. I see the full size books being sold for or should I say the asking price to sell them starts at $25 and goes up to around $200 for the books.
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