How can I find out the value of Franklin Library books?

The books look to have the gold trim pages. Dates range from 1979 to 1985. I have 18 books here are some of the title:

The Histories of Gargantua And Pantagruel, Michel De Montaigne Twenty-Nine Essays, The History of Tom Jones Selected Plays, Aristotle Rhetoric And On Poetics and many more…any ideas where to get them appraised or how to sell them?

Dealers offer these books for sale at $20-30 each, but they are really a drag on the market because there are so many of them. They look nice on the shelf, but they are not very salable. You might get $25-30 for all 18 of them, but I suspect you’ll have a hard time selling.

Franklin Library books signed by the authors–Philip Roth, John Updike, Muriel Spark, and so on–have more value, so if any of the titles have a tipped in page with a signature, you’ll have a $20-40 book depending on which one it is.

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One Response to How can I find out the value of Franklin Library books?

  1. Roger Lathbury says:

    Dealers offer these books for sale at $20-30 each, but they are really a drag on the market because there are so many of them. They look nice on the shelf, but they are not very salable. You might get $25-30 for all 18 of them, but I suspect you’ll have a hard time selling.

    Franklin Library books signed by the authors–Philip Roth, John Updike, Muriel Spark, and so on–have more value, so if any of the titles have a tipped in page with a signature, you’ll have a $20-40 book depending on which one it is.
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