Books & media
Community spiral-bound cookbooks, lot of 12, 1970s-80s
Spiral-bound cookbooks put out by churches, schools and clubs in the 1970s and 1980s, the kind stacked in kitchen cupboards. Buyers want the locally tested recipes and small-town names, and clean unmarked copies sell steadily in lots.
Estimated resale range (used)
$15 – $35
A ballpark, not a quote. Condition moves this number a lot, and so does who turns up to buy it. It isn't an appraisal and it isn't a dealer's offer.
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What matters when you check it
- Flip through for loose pages, spills and handwriting in the margins, since clean copies sell and food-stained ones often do not.
- Check the title page for the town, church or club name and the year, because local titles sell best in that region.
- Count the books and note duplicates, since a mixed lot of titles moves faster than twelve copies of one.
Where the number comes from
Watching what these go for, not a record of sales. The range is a judgement call from what the same thing fetches secondhand. When an item has real sources behind it, they'll be printed here with the date they were checked.
Before you sell anything, look at sold prices rather than asking prices. Asking prices are wishes; sold prices are evidence.