wanna swap, the list
Update: If you can see the list in the right hand column marked swap? -- ignore it. The links won't take you to the right edition.
Yet another update/clarification: A few people have emailed to say that many of the books on my list are available at half.com and other similiar websites. Which tells me that I wasn't clear enough in what I'm looking for. I don't generally go for ex-library copies or remaindered copies. A book doesn't have to be pristine, but it should be in good or very good shape, including the dust cover. A few of the books I've got on the list are to be found on half.com, but as far as I could see, they were all ex-library. This has been the for as long as I've been checking over there.
However. This link will take you to a page in my library catalog at LibraryThing. At this moment there are nine books on that page, a subset of my search list. Please note that in every case there is specific information (ISBNs, dates, etc) about the specific edition of the book in question that is of interest to me. In some cases it's the illustrator I collect. None of these books can be bought new. Some of them can be bought from collectors at considerable cost. Some are just impossible to find in the edition I want.
If it turns out you have one of these, or run into a copy at a used book store for a reasonable price, you could do one of the following:
- keep it for your very own
- sell it on ebay or to a used book seller
- swap
As Kenzie pointed out there are official swap sites out there. I keep my eyes on those as well, but I figured that y'all might be interested in one of my (signed) books. So email me if you want to talk swap. I don't have any great expectations here, but if things do begin to move, there are other books I could add to the list. As long as I have a storeroom full of my own books to swap, of course.