How do used-and-rare booksellers make a living these days? The advent of eBay and Amazon has decimated prices in used-and-rare, as everyone and their dog has hauled books down out of the attic and put them on sale online, for a little extra cash. Books that would have gone for $5 in a bricks-and-mortar store are now available in their hundreds online for $1 + $3 shipping.
One technique real booksellers use to make a buckle here and there is to put together sets of books aimed at completists, book-collectors who like to have, say, every book ever written by a certain author. Continue reading