Re: RARA-AVIS: The Glass Key

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• Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: The Glass Key
• From: Jerry Silverman <silvrmn@enteract.com>
• Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 16:04:42 -0500
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DOUGLAS GREENE wrote:

> I sometimes think that dealers sell to each other!

Exactly!  There have just been threads on biblioMANIA and Biblio
discussing this point.  It seems that many booksellers routinely sell as
many as 80% of their books to other booksellers.  There are many good
reasons for this but the one most often mentioned was that the book
wasn't in their area of expertise.  Better to sell it to a specialist
dealer for a fraction of its "collectible" value, still make a profit,
and use the money to buy more books.  Let the specialist dealer extract
the last penny of profit from their group of elite collectors.

Cordially,

Jerry Silverman
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