DO YOU HAVE A BOOK QUESTION?

[manor_house_books]

Hi all, pippy_oak here, posting under my brand new user name. Hopefully, Richard will pin this thread, as it seems a nice tidy place to pose specific questions about a book (Is it a 1st edition, what's it worth, where to find it etc. etc.) Don't just come here with a question. If you think you have the answer, then let's hear it.

Or we could just mooch around and learn a few things.

Cheers

Paul

[bamboo1066]

Hi Owl.:-x
What dress?

[halo.jones]

I wonder if this postal strike will affect many people?????

[bamboo1066]

Not me.
I have closed down all my listings now until the New Year.:)

[halo.jones]

How do you mean closed down your listings? Do you mean you won't be putting any more items on. Sorry for the questions but if you don't ask you won't know...

[halo.jones]

How do you mean closed down your listings? Do you mean you won't be putting any more items on. Sorry for the questions but if you don't ask you won't know...

[halo.jones]

How do you mean closed down your listings? Do you mean you won't be putting any more items on. Sorry for the questions but if you don't ask you won't know...

[bamboo1066]

Halo, are you echoing?
I have a shop with fixed price listings in it on here, and also listings on Amazon.
They are on the vacation setting now.:)

[halo.jones]

can you only use vacation settings for a shop?

[bamboo1066]

Yes, and it only works for BIN items.
Auction listings still show.

[lilacenvironment]

Hi I am interestd in books and learning about them. I have at the moment two books which I can not firn a cost for to sell. Any idea??
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins can not find an ISBN number on it or in the book?

The Vultures - HS Merriman can not find an ISBN number just states This edition first issued (Smith, Elder & Co) October 1909?

Thanks

Lilacenvironment

[lilacenvironment]

Hi I am interestd in books and learning about them. I have at the moment two books which I can not firn a cost for to sell. Any idea??
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins can not find an ISBN number on it or in the book?

The Vultures - HS Merriman can not find an ISBN number just states This edition first issued (Smith, Elder & Co) October 1909?

Thanks

Lilacenvironment

[jeffbrg23]

Using bookfinder.com, people are asking between £4 and £8 for the Merriman.

For The Woman in White you need to put the details into bookfinder using the publication date/publisher as keywords and you should get a valuation, but don't hold out too much hope as it is a much published book and loads of copies floating about.

[lilacenvironment]

Thank you for your help

[cwcai]

The book {Hannibal Rising } is very popular in UK. Author: Thomas Harris. Publisher: William Heinemann. It's about Rs.245 /-, you can buy it on ebay.:-D
Life is fighting

[susan8083]

Can Anybody help with finding a book called
'The Treasures of the Tremaynes' by C.Bernard Rutley
printed in 1945 by Edward Arnold asin no. B0018182QE or any information about the author please

thank you

:^O

[jeffbrg23]

If you put his name in bookfinder.com he's a very prolific writer with just over 40 titles by him available for sale, unfortunately not the book your looking for.

If you wade through those listings though you might find some which have a bit of information about the author or you could contact the sellers to see if they have the book your after and haven't listed it yet.

[susan8083]

Hi All - Has anybody any idea where I can get copyright information from.
I am looking for a book held at the British Libary in London, and they will supply it copied (as its out of print) for a charge - but!! they have asked me to get copyright permission, although the author is dead, I really do not know where to start to look. They gave me a link to a university in texas where copyright information is held, but I cannot find the author on there.
The book is 'The Treasures of the Tremaynes'
by C. Bernard Rutley printed in 1925
any help would be appreciated

thanks sue oakley

[bamboo1066]

Sue, try putting this as a new thread on the main board as not many people read the pinned threads at the top.:)

[petedec]

As Bamboo says, Sue, plus it might be worth posting on the .Com Books Board, otherwise.:_|

There follows a list of possible other sources of information, and ways of tracking copyright holders:

Write to the principal publishers of any particular author. Some publishers will give information to accredited researchers about recipients of royalties; others will forward letters of enquiry.

Write to the archivists responsible for major collections of an author's papers.

Contact authors' societies, which may be prepared to share information or to forward letters. The principal bodies here are the Society of Authors (84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB); the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (14-18 Holborn, London EC1N 2LE); and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain (430 Edgware Road, London W2 1EH0). For Ireland, it may be worth contacting the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency (The Irish Writers' Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1), and for France, the Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (9 rue Bleue, 75009 Paris).

Contact the Book Trust (Book House, 45 East Hill, London SW18 2QZ), which keeps extensive files of author information, including some copyright information.

For manuscripts and primary sources, ask the owner of the documents for information about the copyright holder.

Write to biographers or other scholars who have worked on your chosen author.

Contact British literary agents who may have had dealings with your author.

Check the acknowledgements and notes pages of published works wholly about, or touching on, your author. Well-edited editions of correspondence often give information about a wide range of authors and public figures.

Check genealogical and legal sources. For authors likely to have died in England or Wales, the wills which are publicly available at the Probate Office in London are a rich (although time-consuming) source. For Scottish authors, it may be worth checking for information through the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh.

Try author searches on the World Wide Web.

Send a letter to the author's last known address.

Check authors' directories and works such as the Gale Research publication Contemporary Authors.

For general copyright information, seek guidance from the Copyright Directorate at the Patent Office (25 Southampton Buildings, London WC2A 1AY).

When all else has failed, publish a notice in appropriate newspapers or journals. The Times Literary Supplement is recommended for enquiries about literary authors, whilst a notice in The Times is a recognised last resort when one wishes to demonstrate that all possible avenues have been explored.

[susan8083]

Thank you Petedec for a most reliable sorce of information. I will get busy, with all information you have given me. (all because the old man wants to relive his youth by reading and having a copy of the book)

thank you again
kind regards
sue oakley