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[4725shane]

5 old  books    are these worth listing  and does any one collect them 

[4725shane]

 the 5th book  sorry

[siddieswans]

Not an expert but I would think they would all be worth listing under Collectables - Militaria. The small booklets look like they could post as large letters - cheap postage always helps to sell.

When I am listing books or ephemera, I alway run it through the Abebooks.com search - helps to confirm whether you have something very common or not; also can provide useful information about the publications.

[4725shane]

 siddie me and you should be in business  i find the stuff you sell the stuff   i work at a tip in a very old military area and  come up with stuff every week got a hole tea chest to go through this time  some mouse nest but some good stuff 

[siddieswans]

Good for you! Sounds like a dream job for when I was a bit younger (sigh!) I was about 8 years old (I think) when they first started kerb-side "clean-up"collections in Sydney - I was so excited I didn't want to go to school. I can still remember some of the stuff I dragged home that day - a pair of carved soapstone bookends (only one was broken!), a plated entree dish (it probably didn't have a lid!) - my poor Mum!

Without doubt the best single thing I have ever found on a council clean-up was in the late 70's - a genuine signed Daum Nancy plafonnier ceiling light, complete with hooks and chains. In good condition with no damage. (What WERE they thinking?) We have it still, in a box in the store room - we have never used it, it is shades of orange and navy blue, and we need ILLUMINATION, especially at our age.

Of course all you get on council clean-ups these days is rubbish like flat screen TVs and exercise machines.

[lakeland27]

A lot of these books were printed, but i don't come across them any more.

I used to love what they called 'hard rubbish collections'  if you looked , properly.. there was always treasure. often the type of thing that doesn't turn up elsewhere. i remember one box had unopened packets of lucky strike cigarettes with a blue paper seal at the top marked 'US Army and Navy stores'  and a paperweight consisting of a silver coloured WMF cannon on an ebony plinth with the words 'compliment's of Krupp armaments' (in german) with nazi insignia. Someone had kept them in the shed since WW2 along with a lot of other items, like a box of jewellery and some rather high end vintage watches. i'd better stop at this point.