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Date: 29 Jun 2007 10:12:26
From: EG
Subject: How much is my chess book worth ?
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I own of copy of Karpov's My 300 best games book. I met Karpov at a chess simultaneous exhibition that he was giving a couple years ago. He autographed my book for me. I was wondering how much my book was worth because it is autographed and in like new condition. Online, I found used copies of the book to be worth over $170: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/9984922901/ref=dp_olp_2/105-9766694-2056466?ie=UTF8&qid=1183136738&sr=8-1 Does that mean my book is worth more than $300 ? Thanks.
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Date: 30 Jun 2007 17:24:19
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: How much is my chess book worth ?
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On Jun 30, 8:18 pm, EZoto <[email protected] > wrote: > > Such a book would indeed be quite rare: there was no Candidates > >_Tournament_ in 1968. Did Cafferty translate a book of all the > >Candidates Matches that year? > > Sorry. Candidates matches. > > Yes. It is a single small book published by The Chess Player in 1970 > translated into english. > > Reshevsky - Korchnoi > Portisch - Larsen > Tal - Gligoric > Spassky - Geller > > -Semi- > > Korchnoi - Tal > Spassky - Larsen > > -Final- > > Spassky - Korchnoi > > Winner - Spassky > > It even has the 3rd place match between Larsen and Tal which Larsen > won and all the games were annotated except the 3rd place match. He > also did a book on the candidates matches in 1965. > > EZoto Ah, yes, good old Tony Gillam, one of the most faithful laborers in Caissa's vineyard. Thanks for the clarification. :-)
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Date: 30 Jun 2007 08:12:54
From: Taylor Kingston
Subject: Re: How much is my chess book worth ?
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On Jun 29, 10:02 pm, EZoto <[email protected] > wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:12:26 -0700, EG <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Does that mean my book is worth more than $300 ? > > >Thanks. > > No. However if you have a copy of the 1968 candidates tournament > translated by Cafferty then you may have a book worth that much. Such a book would indeed be quite rare: there was no Candidates _Tournament_ in 1968. Did Cafferty translate a book of all the Candidates Matches that year?
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Date: 01 Jul 2007 00:18:18
From: EZoto
Subject: Re: How much is my chess book worth ?
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> Such a book would indeed be quite rare: there was no Candidates >_Tournament_ in 1968. Did Cafferty translate a book of all the >Candidates Matches that year? Sorry. Candidates matches. Yes. It is a single small book published by The Chess Player in 1970 translated into english. Reshevsky - Korchnoi Portisch - Larsen Tal - Gligoric Spassky - Geller -Semi- Korchnoi - Tal Spassky - Larsen -Final- Spassky - Korchnoi Winner - Spassky It even has the 3rd place match between Larsen and Tal which Larsen won and all the games were annotated except the 3rd place match. He also did a book on the candidates matches in 1965. EZoto
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Date: 30 Jun 2007 02:02:45
From: EZoto
Subject: Re: How much is my chess book worth ?
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On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:12:26 -0700, EG <[email protected] > wrote: >I own of copy of Karpov's My 300 best games book. I met Karpov at a >chess simultaneous exhibition that he was giving a couple years ago. >He autographed my book for me. > >I was wondering how much my book was worth because it is autographed >and in like new condition. > >Online, I found used copies of the book to be worth over $170: >http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/9984922901/ref=dp_olp_2/105-9766694-2056466?ie=UTF8&qid=1183136738&sr=8-1 > >Does that mean my book is worth more than $300 ? > >Thanks. No. However if you have a copy of the 1968 candidates tournament translated by Cafferty then you may have a book worth that much. EZoto
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Date: 29 Jun 2007 18:14:48
From:
Subject: Re: How much is my chess book worth ?
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On Jun 29, 12:12 pm, EG <[email protected] > wrote: > I own of copy of Karpov's My 300 best games book. I met Karpov at a > chess simultaneous exhibition that he was giving a couple years ago. > He autographed my book for me. > > I was wondering how much my book was worth because it is autographed > and in like new condition. > > Online, I found used copies of the book to be worth over $170:http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/9984922901/ref=dp_olp_2/105-97... Those books are being offered for $170. Anybody can ask any price for any book. They're only worth that much if someone buys at that price. Isn't this the same book sold on the internet for $25? It looks like the first seller on Amazon undercut the price of the second by a penny after he saw his listing. Why would either think it's worth that much? I think they're scammers. I'd like to see the sucker who would actually buy at that price! > Does that mean my book is worth more than $300 ? Let's see. It goes for $25 new and unsigned. Karpov has been signing his autograph for decades so it can't be worth much. Your book is "like new" and signed so would likely sell for $35-$50.
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