Selling on your behalf

Consign a book

For a book worth more than a bulk offer. He lists it, photographs it, describes it honestly and handles the sale; you keep the bulk of what it makes.

Consignment suits one good book better than it suits forty ordinary ones. If you have something with a real market — a key issue, a scarce variant, a genuinely high-grade older book — selling it properly takes photography, an honest condition write-up and patience, and that is what this is.

Terms are agreed in writing before anything changes hands, per book, and they depend on what it is and what it is likely to make. Nothing is agreed through this form.

This form starts a conversation, not a contract. Nothing here commits either of you to anything. The split, how long the book is listed for, who pays postage and what happens if it does not sell are all settled in writing first.

What happens to what you send

It lands in the collector's own back office and nowhere else. It is not published, it is not passed to anybody, and it is not added to a mailing list — there isn't one. Nothing is sent to you automatically either: the reply, when it comes, is written by a person. The privacy note says the same thing at more length.

Your name

This is how he replies. Nothing else is sent to it.

Phone optional

Roughly where you are optional

A town is plenty. It decides whether posting or meeting makes more sense.

How many books optional

Consignment usually makes sense for one book, or a small handful.

Tell him about the book

Title, issue, year, publisher, and what condition you believe it is in — including any grading it already has. If you have an idea what you want for it, say so.

No photographs through this form — he will ask for pictures in his reply if he wants to see them.