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If you are reaching out about your books, please review the following information first.
How much are my books worth?
You can use a rare book search engine like ViaLibri to look up your books. Prices range widely based on condition, edition, scarcity, desirability, and other variables. It can take some expertise to determine how much your particular copy may be worth. If you need assistance with determining value, we can provide informal verbal opinions of value (not for IRS or insurance purposes) for a fee of $150/hr. Please reach out to a certified appraiser if you need an appraisal for tax, insurance, legal, or charitable donation purposes.
I am interested in selling my books to you. What should I do?
We selectively buy rare books and ephemera. Please take photos of your books and ephemera, and send the photos to Michele Wan, proprietor of Head to Tail Books, at info@headtotailbooks.com. If you have an idea of how much you want for the books, please include that in your email.
We will respond to let you know if we are interested in seeing the books in-person to examine them further. We will then determine if we would like to purchase the books and how much we can offer for them. If we are not interested or cannot come close to the number that you have in mind, we will let you know.
Keep in mind that rare bookselling is a labor-intensive, low-turnover business, so we cannot offer you the full market value of a book when purchasing it from you. Like other booksellers, we offer a percentage of what we hope to resell the books for, typically up to 30%, with some variation depending on desirability of the books. We offer you this information to be transparent about the process.
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Use the form below to contact us, or feel free to reach out at:
(203) 293-6462