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Search - Children's Picturebook Price Guide, 2006-2007: Finding, Assessing, & Collecting Contemporary Illustrated Books (Fin)

Children's Picturebook Price Guide 2006-2007 Finding Assessing Collecting Contemporary Illustrated Books - Fin
Author: Linda Zielinski, Stan Zielinski

Collecting first edition children’s picturebooks is one of the hottest areas of book collecting. Many picturebooks published in the past decade sell for hundreds of dollars, and a first edition Jumanji or Polar Express can reach over $1,000 in today’s market. The Children’s Picturebook Price Guide provides val... more »ues for nearly 23,000 books, covering over 700 children’s book illustrators dating from 1929 to 2006. For owners of picturebooks, the price guide is an essential tool to identify and assess their value. The Children’s Picturebook Price Guide explains in understandable terms the methods to correctly identify first edition Dr. Seuss and Caldecott Medal books, which can bring over $5,000 in today’s market. The Caldecott Medal has been awarded annually since 1937 by the American Library Association "to the artist of the most distinguished American picturebook for children published in the United States during the preceding year". Winners include such picturebook classics as Where The Wild Things Are, Make Way For Ducklings, Madeline’s Rescue, The Biggest Bear, Jumanji, and Polar Express. Many adults have fond memories of growing up with these books, and might unknowingly own valuable collectible copies. Today’s picturebook collecting market is similar to where the comic book market was in 1970, when Bob Overstreet published his first price guide. The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide became the definitive guide to the hobby and helped to institutionalize values. The general population now has an understanding of the value of collectible comic books. James Beckett published his first price guide to baseball cards in 1979. Once considered a child’s plaything, hardly anyone would now sell their Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays cards for pennies. In the case of both comic books and baseball cards, a large and vibrant collector base existed at the time of the respective price guide’s publication—however the general population was not aware of the value for either. The price guide helped to get the message out. Today people sell valuable first edition picturebooks on eBay or to used book stores for a fraction of their worth. It is easy money for astute book collectors and booksellers to purchase the books for a pittance then sell them for their true worth. According to the Children’s Picturebook Price Guide, the most valuable picturebook is Where The Wild Things Are, with a first edition copy valued at over $10,000 in today’s market. The price guide lists forty-four picturebooks with a market value over $1,000. The Children’s Picturebook Price Guide is more than a price guide, as the book’s first 100 pages provides an overview to collecting children’s picturebooks. This overview includes a brief history of how the picturebook came to be the picturebook, and concludes with an explanation for why today is the golden era of the picturebook. Today there are more illustrators and authors who make their living by creating picturebooks then at anytime in the past. Chapter 2, "Factors Affecting Collectibility", provides details about the six key factors which impact a first edition book’s collectibility and value. This is important, since it clearly and concisely provides the reader with information to assess a book’s collectibility. Usually, a first edition book’s value is prescribed through some altogether unknown process. By providing factors the reader can weigh, they can make more educated purchase decisions—and acquire books they feel the market is currently undervaluing. Subsequent chapters describe different strategies or approaches to collecting picturebooks; identifying first editions; grading books; and also discussion/lists of the most valuable children’s picturebooks, categorized by decade (i.e. "The Most Valuable Picturebooks of the 1990’s"). Book buyers & sellers will benefit from this price guide.

ISBN-13: 9780977939404
ISBN-10: 0977939405
Publication Date: 5/31/2006
Pages: 488
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Publisher: Flying Moose Books
Book Type: Paperback
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