Winning One Pocket... FA

Thanks for the heads-up, SB. I keep tabs on E-Bay, but this one slipped by me. I've thrown my hat in the ring, but know I will get run over when the big boys come out to play. Let's do a pool to see who can come closest to the final winning bid. I'm gonna guess $550, but could be way off.
 
In regards to collectible pool books I have a new theory...

If you see a pool book for sale from a small publisher (especially biographies) grab it whether you want it or not. No books increase quickly in collectible value like pool books.

10 years or so ago I bought a copy of Jack White's "Come Let Us to Billiards Away" for about $8. It can now be found for around $200.

I bought an original set of the first Blue Book and the Enclopedia of Billiards for $100 before they were published. Now they are somewhere in the vicinty of $400 for the pair.

How many of us would love to have the Eddie Robin books or "Rags to Rifleman?"

Just recently I bought "Road Player" "Cornbread Red" and "Bet High Kiss Low." I am sure they are all going to be excellent investments.

If they offer 'em, buy 'em.
 
i_maycotte said:
anybody have a non-collectible version of this for reading available???
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I once had the book on loan and might have scanned the entire book. Of course it would be a violation of copyright laws to do that. Or I might have done it in an altered state of consciousness, and if so, maybe I could plead insanity?
 
i_maycotte said:
anybody have a non-collectible version of this for reading available???
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I think all of the copies are collectible. Typical prices on eBay are $180 to $350. I have an extra copy.
 
Speaking of collectibles, a copy of Welker Cochran's "Scientific Billiards" just sold on eBay for $465. It's a small book published in 1942. The "right" price is closer to $50, but all it takes in an auction is two idiots or one idiot and a shill.

Also on eBay is box of 12 Brunswick "Manhattan Club" chalks that just sold for $455. Maybe that's about right -- the box is in pretty good condition.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7228601531
 
McKinneyMiner said:
Someone sold just the box for Manhattan Club chalk for $36.00
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Seems cheap for the box when the individual pieces of chalk are about that much.

A while ago, a single piece of round "Manhattan Club" chalk in its own round box, "Manhattan Sanitary Billiard Chalk," sold for $300. And you thought cue collectors were bad.
 
Man did you see all those signatures! It looks like a page out of the guestbook from Betmore’s basement!
 

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Smorgass Bored said:
Well, it's not the leather bound hard cover,but it could well bring over $500 with all those autographs (many from deceased champions). There is talk on RSB that the book is stolen and the rightful owner is being contacted. Let's see where the 'stolen book' theory takes us...I believe that it was stated at the bottom of the description that he (the owner) had autographed it Floyd.I wondered if that were Floyd Baxter.......
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If it's not the hard bound cover, then what is it?

I have this one, sans autographs, and another - Shot, Moves, and Strategies - but they are of a hard cover. What other cover did they offer? I can't tell in the pics.

Barbara
 
Smorgass Bored said:
Well, it's not the leather bound hard cover,but it could well bring over $500 with all those autographs (many from deceased champions). There is talk on RSB that the book is stolen and the rightful owner is being contacted. Let's see where the 'stolen book' theory takes us...I believe that it was stated at the bottom of the description that he (the owner) had autographed it Floyd.I wondered if that were Floyd Baxter.......
Doug
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Could be him or Floyd Reasons, only 2 Floyds I know of who might have something like this.
 
These books by Eddie Robin were only printed in hard bound. There has never been any soft cover printed. But there was a very limited (32?) sets of leather bound. I have heard they are in the $1000 each range.

The hard bound are as Doug says - a dark burgandy color.

Hope this clears up the confusion for Barbara and others. There are some still available. At times Bob Hennings has a few individual copies. He will be a the BCA Pool League Championships at the Riviera in May.

If there are some real interested parties around, they might contact me at markg@playbca.com. I might be able to help them locate copies. Make sure you identify the subject matter to avoid be shoved into junk mail.

Mark Griffin
BCA Pool League
702-719-7665
 
Smorgass Bored said:
Well, it's not the leather bound hard cover,but it could well bring over $500 with all those autographs (many from deceased champions). There is talk on RSB that the book is stolen and the rightful owner is being contacted. Let's see where the 'stolen book' theory takes us...I believe that it was stated at the bottom of the description that he (the owner) had autographed it Floyd.I wondered if that were Floyd Baxter.......
Doug
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This is going to be interesting.
 
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