Collectible Red Books

Do you find the red book to be a collectible .Is there really a market for them

 

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They're definitely a collectable. I don't know how much of a marker there is for them. I'm sure Treashunt knows, because he wrote the book on Redbooks

 

The other frank wrote a book about them.

 

I have a small collection of them going back to 63' with a few missing here and there. About the only one's that are hard to get would be the 1st and 2nd additions of both printings and also the special 1992 & 1997 ANA Cover redbooks. There are a few others worth a little bit. The Redbook actually lists the values of these in the back of book.

 

The Red Book and the Blue Book are both very collectible. I have been collecting them also for quite some time and now have quite a few in my collection. Frank (Treashunt) can go into more detail with you about values and the current market.

 

The first five or six editions are where most of the value in Redbooks as collectibles. The first edition is highly desired, but the fifth edition is supposed to be the most difficult one to find.

 

I have every redbook back to my birth year, 1961, and eventually will fill the set up. You can find them on the bay readliy, and many times for just over the cost of shipping and in bulk lots...

Any old numismatic literature is collectible, and sometimes very pricy

 

How on Earth did this thread start without me?

[sighs audibly].

The 1st edition, both printings, are the most valuable, (natch) with copies even in poor condition selling for strong prices.

Agreed with Conder, (read above).

For special editions: The 1987 ANA is very valuable, with bids starting at $1,000+ for copies that are new, and signed editions (signed by Yeoman) going for even more.

Next (as BSSHOG40 stated) is the 1992 ANA, at $275, and more if signed (by Bressett).

Then, little know, are the large leather limited editions, special imprint for the National Literary Guild, #125 issued, at $800.+ and the same year issued for the ANS, #250, which is even less known, and is about the same value.

And, then there are many more varieties, a few:
Contributors' copies (with special inserts made as 'thank you's' for contributors);
Misbound editions: with the contents inverted;
Misprints: with the covers doubled;
Missing pages.
The most famous: the 1963 with page #239 duplicated, and page #237 missing.

etc.

Any other questions/

[alert! Self promotion about to flash before your eyes.]

Note: the Guide Book on the Guide Book just had the galley pages approved and is going back to the printers. Rumor says that it'll be released some day in March, altho this is just a rumor. (one that I started).

and, KevCoins, thanks for asking, the check is in the mail.

 

I have this 1963 edition. It actually pages out as 239 (backside is 238), then 239 again (backside 240)

 

Thank you for all the info
my local coin club as a big box of them and i wanted to know what i was looking for first

 

kev:
Good luck, if you find anything interesting, let me know.

Any more question?
Fire away.

also, just adding this to try to keep the thread up top.

 

I thought this was kind of cool. I bought a 1962 Bluebook handbook of coins and found this article in it. I wished it would have had the date of the newspaper on it.

 

Collectable? - Yes
Valuable? - No

Just look on ebay. There are scores of them and cheap as dirt.

 

I like 'em. Just look at the prices!:bigeyes: Amazing how they have risen!

 

bsshog:
Easy: It says that he was 53 when he posed, and was 110 in the picture, so that is 57 years, + 1913 (the year he posed) = 1970.

David:

The ones in eBay are often very common, but if you believe that they are all "There are scores of them and cheap as dirt. " Please feel free to send me a box of 1947 (either printing) 1948, 1949 and either the 4th or 5th editions, plus any special editions that you find.
I will be glad to pay "cheap as dirt" prices for them.

 

Mine aren't collectible because I write notes in them and highlight various things. I consider them working copies, not collectibles.

 

I'm still looking for the first five editions and someone to give me a discount on the same....lol. To me those five are the hardest to find of the regular issue editions.

 

Thanks Treashunt! I really didn't even take the time to think about it that way. duh!!

 

Indian head:

Glad to see that you are down to the 1st five editions. plus the specials I presume?

I do have a poor condition 1st, I have have to check to see if it is the 1st or second printing, if you are interesed.

How are you doing on the special and authorized editions?

Frank

 

Same at flea markets. One seller had a table of them for $1 each last year. All started with editions in the teens. Many, many in the 20's editions. All for $1 so although many collect them, many also try to resell them. It's only the first editions, like most books, that are difficult to find.