Louis L'Amour Westerns Lot - Choose - Build a Collection

Louis L'Amour Westerns Lot - Choose - Build a CollectionThis lot offers you the opportunity to select from a variety of Louis L'Amour Westerns and build your own collection. The books are available in paperback format and are written in English, with Hanging Woman Creek being one of the titles in the series. The author is known for his work in the Western genre, with this lot encompassing both mystery and Western themes. Expand your literary horizons with this selection of books.Bowdrie   Bowdrie's Law   Buckskin Run   Callaghen   Chancy   Crossfire Trail   End of the Drive   Fair Blows the Wind   Flint   Galloway   Hanging Woman Creek   How the West was Won   Jubal Sackett   Kid Rodelo   Kilkenny   Killoe   Kilrone   Lando   Last Stand at Papago Wells   Law of the Desert Born   Milo Talon   Mustang Man   North to the Rails   Reilly's Luck   Riding for the Brand   dm–Some notes on book collectingTaggart   The Daybreakers   The Ferguson Rifle   The High Graders   The Iron Marshall   The Man from the Broken Hills   The Outlaws of Mesquite   The Quick and the Dead   The Rider of the Ruby Hills   The Sackett Brand   The Trail to Crazy Man   The Warrior's Path   To Tame a Land   Trouble Shooter   Valley of the Sun  Westward the TidecdmTL;DNR is a relatively new shortcut to understanding a modern phenomenon – many or most people have short attention spans. It becomes a joke when the N is left off – indicating that it is comical when you actually take the time to read a long article – or in this case – a long Ebay description.If for whatever reason you don’t have the time or stamina to read long articles or descriptions – just stop here – but if you are interested in some tips and info on book collecting – read on.Understanding the Ebay search app.For some strange reason the search engine initially searches only the title of the Ebay offering – but after the first search – on a computer – a check box appears making further searches of the title and description possible.  We create our book offerings using ‘variable listing’ which creates a pull down list for the books.  It allows us to offer many books in the same offering but the list allows only a small amount of text for each item listed.  Note that the search engine will not search the pull down list. Because of this limitation we put the entire list of the offered items in the description. In the case of a list of books — the entire name of the book and its author(s) can be listed. So with this bit of info in mind – to find a specific book title you may need to do the search twice – with the description box checked on the second search.You should also like to know what a book one of our listings is worth – we have a method for that also.  Two devices will be necessary for this method – it can be two cell phones or a phone and a computer.  Just open our listing and get to the book you are interested in and display the cover on one of the devices. Use the Ebay app on a cell phone and click on the camera icon. A kind of target will appear – center it on the picture of the book cover and take a pic. The Ebay app will then open up other listings of this book along with their prices. Note that this camera app will not find info in the descriptions or item list either and apparently just does optical character recognition of the text in the pic and searches the titles. Note also that it usually finds books that are listed as one book offerings – books in lots or multiple offerings such as ours will not be found. Odd text may not be recognized and I suspect some strange cover designs will also confuse the app. Some of our books will not find a match – which may indicate that there are no current listings of the book – meaning that the book may be rare or valuable. Note that ‘active’ listings are usually higher than the same item in ‘completed’ listings as the sellers are trying to get what they ‘think’ the item is worth. Their valuation may be wrong and it takes all kinds to make a world. Check out ‘Dunning-Kruger effect’ on YouTube to understand the phenomenon.Note also that a book usually costs $4 or so to ship and you must add the book price and its shipping cost in the listing – or if free shipping is offered you should realize the book and shipping is combined. We offer combined shipping on our books and depending on the weight of the books – multiple purchased books will add a dollar or so to the single book cost for each additional book purchased.Checking on book values can be done by clicking on the ‘advanced’ link on the computer version of the ebay search and searching again with completed items checked. This will give you ‘sold’ listings for the item you are searching on – but again this is limited to single item listings and is also time limited in that the search is only for the last 90 days of Ebay sales. Note that on any item there will be ‘auction’ sales and most experienced sellers will have found that many items go for a very low bid which does not reflect the true value of the book. Who has the time to find auction items which are only up for one week? – TL;DNR applies here – if the serious buyers are not seeing the item then it goes for peanuts. You will see no auctions on our Ebay store. A more scholarly method to find book values is to use Google search which will find the book on Amazon or some of the other online bookstores such as AbeBooks or Biblio.com.  These sites have their own search engines you can use. For the pinnacle of book value sites you can subscribe to Worthpoint which somehow tracks collectible items sold on Ebay and other sites and will give you the real value of the item or book.First editions – I suspect a good percentage of our books are first editions but that does not mean they are rare. Rare and valuable first editions are usually hard back (and even leather bound) and the rarity is in the limited number of copies printed in the ‘first’ edition. A first edition of what is commonly called a ‘mass market’ paperback can be quite a few books – meaning the book is ‘first edition’ but not rare. Also note that paperbacks are usually a secondary printing with the first editions coming out in hardback – there can be a first edition of the paperback. Read the page at the front of the book which will usually list the publishing history.