I was hoping someone might enlighten me as to the approximate value of Volume I, II and III of Webster's New International Dictionary Second Edition Unabridged with Reference History 1948.
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Your set is different from the 'second edition' dictionaries that you will see listed on most online sites.
This is because yours is a 3 volume set and most others are just the one book.
I only found this set listed for sale on Abe's Books so you can check out the asking prices on their site: These are asking prices which do not reflect 'value' as only a sold item will show what someone was willing to pay for that item. I did not find any sold sets like yours.
You can check out eBay's sold site and see that dictionaries are selling quite nicely but value will be determined by several factors; overall condition, year, special binding, contents.
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There is a common misconception about the value of books being more valuable after the age reaches 100 but most of the time this is not valid and the price does not change very much, if at all.
If your books are in good condition you could start your price higher - even $100 and all offers considered as well as low shipping cost by Media Mail. If no offers received after several weeks than lower the price and wait again.
Take very good pictures of all 3 volumes including title page of all three. Show condition of spine, pages, covers and extra pictures of anything colorful - such as maps.
You can list on Facebook marketplace, OfferUp, LetGo as well as eBay.
Be sure you list it will shipping as Media mail as other shipping will be expensive.
Webster's Dictionary is any of the dictionaries edited by Noah Webster in the early nineteenth century, and numerous related or unrelated dictionaries that have adopted the Webster's name. "Webster's" has become a genericized trademark in the U.S. for dictionaries of the English language, and is widely used in English dictionary titles. Merriam-Webster is the corporate heir to Noah Webster's original works, which are in the public domain.
In 1934, the New International Dictionary was revised and expanded for a second edition, which is popularly known as Websters Second or W2, although it was not published under that title. It was edited by William Allan Neilson and Thomas A. Knott. It contained 3350 pages, some versions added a 400-page supplement called A Reference History of the World, which provided chronologies "from earliest times to the present". The editors claimed more than 600,000 entries, more than any other dictionary at that time, but that number included many proper names and newly added lists of undefined "combination words". Multiple definitions of words are listed in chronological order, with the oldest, and often obsolete, usages listed first.
Usually these dictionaries were published in one book (the Single-Volume Regular Style), like this one www.ebay.com/
Your dictionary has three volumes (3-Volume Style). Here you can see an advertisement for your dictionary: a New 3-volume Style of Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, With Reference history, not sold in stores, but only by subscription, Attractively Bound in Red Buckram, size of volume 12 1 / 4 x 9 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches; this new 3-Volume Style is printed on the same paper and has the same contents as the Single-Volume Regular Style archive.org/
I found Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language with Reference History Second Edition Unabridged three volumes with price $ 300 www.amazon.com/
Your dictionary is in good condition, considering it's age. The price of your Vintage Webster's New International Dictionary Second Edition Unabridged with Reference History Volume I-III 1948 is about $ 120-300.
Sadly...vintage dictionaries aren't worth very much.
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