April 12, 20180 found this helpful
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You do not say the condition of your 1955 Britannica Encyclopedias or the type of binding and those are two factors that help determine value along with age/year/edition and the area/city books are located.
- It does appear that the 1955 set is still selling but of course we have no way to tell how long a set was listed on a site before it sold - months/months or even years in some cases and of course, many sets are removed because they never sold.
- You can check eBay, Etsy and Amazon as well as your local Craigslist for a set like yours to determine if you would like to try to sell.
- eBay has several sets listed with the sellers asking price (asking price is not a good example of a selling price):
- www.ebay.com/.../i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4840.m570...
- Two sets have sold on eBay since the first of 2018.. They sold for $169 & $139 but both had free shipping which would lower the sale by $15-$25.
- www.ebay.com/.../i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=1955...
- I would suggest you research more but you may want to consider listing on your local Craigslist as you can ask whatever price you want and lower it if no one shows an interest. Books sometime sell better if the buyer can see the books and there is no shipping involved.
- Be sure to have good pictures and give a good description wherever you decide to list.
You may want to read what book sellers say about these sets:
flipsy.com/.../are-my-encyclopedias-worth-anything
flipsy.com/.../how-to-get-rid-of-books-with-little...
