Comments on: Brett’s Civil War Book Collection

By: admin

admin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:13:12 +0000

Leon,

I’d like to help but I’m not really a rare book collector. I’d ask someone like Paul Taylor at With Sword and Pen: http://swordandpen-prt.blogspot.com/

Alternatively, you might contact someone like Broadfoot Publishing as well: http://www.broadfootpublishing.com/SellingCollectionOffer.html

Brett

By: Leon Hertzson

Leon Hertzson — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:06:45 +0000

Help please, I just found a set of “The Photographic History of the Civil War” 1911 first edition by Miller and I have all but volume 4. Interior condition is very good but the covers are badly worn. I think that I would like to sell the 9 books and I need some advice as to how to proceed. Thanks for your time and information.

By: Drew W.

Drew W. — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:18:02 +0000

Brett,
I wasted a whole rainy Saturday a short while back trying out the various free book cataloging software. They all had something that annoyed me enough to not want to use it. IIRC, Librarything, as mentioned by elektratig looked interesting, but is only free for the first 200 books. I am holding off, but I suppose Excel is as good as anything…unless you want to pay. There are some good ones that automatically fill out a good profile just from the ISBN.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:27:55 +0000

I have not. I was aware of a lot of book cataloging software out there but never got around to checking this out. I’ll have to do so. Thanks for pointing it out!

Brett

By: elektratig

elektratig — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:23:53 +0000

Brett,

Have you seen Librarything.com? I wasn’t energetic or obsessive enough to catalog everything from scratch. Librarything is a great shortcut. I’m not affiliated!

By: Jim Miller

Jim Miller — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:51:01 +0000

Brett, Thanks for the mention. I’m also currently working on cataloging my Civil War fiction library, and would you beleive I have also kept a “Reading Log” since 2001. I will hopefully have both posted soon.

By: Larry Freiheit

Larry Freiheit — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:56:51 +0000

Brett,

I have the following dups of Civil War History for trade:

Vol. VI, no. 1, March 1960
no. 2, June 1960
no. 3, Sept. 1960

Vol. 11, no. 1, March 1965
no. 2, June 1965
no. 3, Sept. 1965

Vol. 12, no. 1, March 1966
no. 2, June 1966
no. 3, Sept. 1966
no. 4, Dec. 1966

Vol. 13, no. 1, March 1967
no. 2, June 1967
no. 3, Sept. 1967
no. 4, Dec. 1967

Vol. 14, no. 1, March 1968
no. 2, June 1968
no. 3, Sept. 1968
no. 4, Dec. 1968

Vol. 15, no. 1, March 1969

Vol. 33, no. 2, June 1987.

Conditions range from good to fair.

Larry Freiheit