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I'm glad you read it! Yeah, ots sad and crazy to think it is as old as it is with how relevant what's happening is. But it's just cycles repeating, if you're up to reading more, the Forth Turning cycle is something you should dig into. There's a reason she wrote her stuff back then and why it's relevant now. (She lived it, that was about four turnings ago.)

@@antiquebookcollective that's awesome, thanks for the recommendation. I will check it out!

I'm glad you're making do! I truly hope you can find a book like the first edition of The Time Machine like I did and get some life-changing money! :)

Yeah, all those stamps and the other stuff you get from libraries can definitely hurt the value of a book, I usually end up undercutting everyone by 25%, roughly, if I have competition selling the same book that isn't from a library. That's very true about some libraries not stamping books that are withdrawn. Personally I prefer these, even with the risk that they could have been stolen, because I think all those stamps are unsightly, but I'm buying those books from libraries themselves 99.999% of the time, so I'm fairly sure they aren't stolen. Hahaha I've considered stamping those books myself, doing so far more conservatively than the libraries often do, but folks seem to like a book that is less marred.

@@antiquebookcollective I went to a friends of the library book sale recently in very affluent city on the West Coast. Last two hours of the sale you could fill a large grocery bag for three dollars. The first bag I filled with CDs and DVDs, I fit about 60 in the bag. If you do the map that’s pretty good price, all the CDs were jazz and classical so I will sell some of those in lots. That seems to be quite an easy way to put 20 CDs on eBay for $35 with free shipping. Good way to turn less than a dollar into about $24. The sale had hundreds and hundreds of cookbooks. It took a lot of time to go through them, but I found some real gems. None of the books have library stamps. Nice thing about it being an affluent area and they were hardback cookbooks about half of them were signed by the celebrity chef who wrote them, so that added to the value. Thanks again for your video.

@@HunterMann Phew! What a score!

Usually it's some sort of sander. Printers of the books actually sand the text block edges smooth in most books we see today, so it's not unheard of to try. :)

Sounds like it's got to be some cool books! I'd 10/10 recommend an ozone generator. Put all of the books in a large room with a good ozone generator (you can buy them on Amazon for like 80 bucks) and that will get rid of the smell. I'd give them a whole week. Be sure to space the books out so the ozone can get to them on all sides, also try to open the books up as well so the pages can be exposed to the ozone. Tobacco smoke is no match for the power of ozone, I've seen it work every single time. I know 80 bucks or so sounds like a lot for a piece of tech you only really need right now, but it's super valuable and will more than pay for itself in what you'll be able to ask for all of your books once the smell is gone! And, if I'm wrong, you only had the machine for a week--you can return it! But I'm not wrong. Those things are INSANELY effective. And I specified doing all of this in a large room just so you can have all of your books spread out to get ozone-d, you can do it in a small room just fine, but it'll take longer if you want to open the books up and ensure the tobacco smoke is gone. Hope this helps!

@@antiquebookcollective thanks! This sounds like a great solution. I hadn't heard of them before. The collection only came with the cost of removal so sounds like a fair expense to me!

@@amousanon. Love that!!! I'm a little jealous there! Hahaha Congrats on all the new books, I hope they sell super well for you! :)

You can check out some book binding videos on CZcams, there are lots. If you do glue the book back together, use a pH neutral glue--itll be better for the book in the long run. Good luck!

@@antiquebookcollective Thank you sm! I'll go to the craft store some time this week to get some. I know it's probably not valuable, but like the linguist in me wants to preserve it you know

@@pedanticseal4725 I totally understand. Good luck!

I can't, sorry, but you can ask on some Facebook groups. That's where I heard about them. I don't know their names though, all I know is I was told they exist and I saw some screenshots. Good luck.

So fun!

Love that! Yeah, lots of libraries have them and don't mention it and it stinks! So many books we didn't know we could get our hands on! Lol

Oof! That's crazy. But, yeah, good prices are hard to beat! Lol

I hope you have even more luck than me at estate sales--they're oft-overlooked but worth it. :) Thanks for watching my older videos too!

@@quiltedbrownie Of course, and thanks for the comment! :)

Congrats on the books, but, sorry, I don't buy my stock online. Got more stuff than I can handle just from what I can source locally. :)

@@regalmedia9487 It happens when publishers use cheap paper, when you live somewhere thats warmer, ans when you live somewhere damper as well. There are other reasons as well, but those are the hig three that I see. If your foxing is actually mold, and not foxing, then it could have a mold issue in your home as well.

@@antiquebookcollective can i email you pictures? I just want to be clear

@@regalmedia9487 Sadly it's not something I can be certain about with just pictures, but you can post them in this channel's Facebook page amd have several people weigh in! :)

@@antiquebookcollective thanks a lot. I will

Good luck! Hope it foxes the problem for you, use it sparingly! :)

@@antiquebookcollective Thank you. I'm actually having better success with 100% Hydrogen Peroxide with this mildew type of foxing. It's not getting completely rid of it, but it's lessening the evidence of it. 👍

Thanks! :) I hope all is well on your end of things.

Good luck with the restoration! :) Hope my videos are helpful for you.

Awe, thanks! :)

Lol! Well, in your defense, anyone reared up in the city most likely hasn't heard of it, so I'm sure you're not the only one.

It could be worth reaching out to some local booksellers--a lot of them advertise on Craigslist and Facebook--that you've got good books to sell. Just be sure to look up the value of at least some (but I'd recommend all) of your books so you don't get a lowball. However, a lot of people, myself included, wouldn't be interested if you ask for too much too. Hope that helps!

How about castor oil? I heard it penetrates skin well I don’t know about leather.

@@payattention31 Castor oil is pretty viscous, I kind of doubt it would penetrate well into a leather book cover, the leather on book covers is relatively thin. Mink oil or neatsfoot oil is sometimes used, they will not harden through oxidation over time like linseed, and they're also less viscous than castor oil so can penetrate thin leather of book covers well. There's specialised oils for leather preservation too. I looked over some studies on ScienceDirect, the best preserved leather books covers were those not treated with anything lol, although they didn't have all these chemical processes to purify oil we do now.

Interesting! Never head about that for fabrics and such. I've heard from many an antique book person that linseed oil is the best thing out there for leather book covers. Personally I like mink oil and lanolin more if I had to choose just one, but I find the blends I use are pretty nice. Thanks for the very informative and jnterestung comment though, I didn't know all of that before. :)

That's very interesting that untreated leather books did the best in that study! I wouldn't have suspected. I'm curious if you have to oil books from now until eternity once they are oiled then. I know that I will keep oiling the leather books that I get that need it, I'm talking the ones that are brittle, but your info is super neat all the same. I'll definitely rethink oiling any books that aren't in dire need now, so thanks for saving those books! :)

Thanks! Hope the info was useful. :)

It shouldn't, no. If you do have a wet or mildewy smell then odds are that you're dealing with mold and not simple foxing. Mold isn't necessarily the nail in a coffin for a book, but you'll want to be sure that the mold is dead before returning your book to the shelves or else it'll spread. I've got some other videos on mold on the channel, so check those out if you need more info there! :)

@@antiquebookcollective it's weird the mold is only in the inside part the covers and first and second pages... The sun technique does it work? How many seconds in the sun should I leave it? They are only 10 years books on plastic bags. I put yesterday 2 saches of silica gel in each plastic bag. Maybe I will try the bleach technique.

@@wypimentel the sun technique should do a lot to help, but I'd hold off on the bleach. Bright and early tomorrow I have a video on how I cleaned mold out of a set of books that you'll want to watch for what you are dealing with! ...And a spoiler in case you can't make it: Buy some Clorox wipes, wring them until they are dry enough to BARELY dampen paper, then wipe off your page. I mixed mine with rubbing alcohol too, which might not be the healthiest thing to do, but I wanted to be sure the mold was dead and it worked well enough for me. :)

@@antiquebookcollective thanks a lot, I will try it.

@@wypimentel Yep! :)

Love that! :) Yeah, hymnals are great. I just wish I could find and sell more of them in my eBay store because then I'd get to look through more hymns! :)

You didn't miss much, I didn't take over the world this time. I guess I'll have to try again next time. :P

Good to hear! :) Thanks for the comment.

Hahaha Guilty as charged. Thanks for the comment.

Very true!

YES! And I LOVE my ozone generator too. I've mentioned in quite a few replies and other videos that I recommend and use ozone generators because of how great they are at killing bad stuff on books, be it bugs, mold, or smells. For me, I had a large set of books that were super moldy and, after an extended period of time being exposed to ozone as I cleaned them, I could wipe off most of the mold. I ended up going back through the book with Clorox wipes on the edges of the text block to be extra-sure that the mold was dead. I then hit every single page with alcohol wipes to further cleanse the books. They look fantastic today and I'm still observing them to see how they fare. So far I am 10/10 pleased with the results though. (I also oiled their leather and used some anti-mold essential oils that I blended in with the oils that I applied to the leather.)

@@antiquebookcollective excellent! Thanks for the tips. 😁

@@knotsewfastjoanie Yep! :)

Most are doing either the absolute minimum to meet their needs or living off of friends/relatives, from what I've heard. Interestingly enough, the same sort of thing happened in Atlas Shrugged. Not saying that Ayn Rand was prophetic, but she was well-researched and saw firsthand what collectivist policies were doing in and around her homeland. History repeats, the characters and places might change, but it all ends up being like a Hallmark movie. Same plot time and time again. (Of course, there's stuff you can do to change stuff up and help yourself or your country though, not everything is inevitable! :) There's always hope!)

Glad that you found the links helpful! I know the struggle of finding the "right" box. Took years to standardize things to the number that I've got now, but I've really enjoyed having my wee little selection.

I didn't read this one before it sold, but that's not saying much. I don't read 99.999% of the books I sell! Hahaha

Yep, I went over those numbers in another video, if memory serves me, and a hundred an hour was a little conservative, actually. That being said, that sort of return is far from guaranteed. When I started I'd venture a guess to say I was under minimum wage myself, but I learned, adapted, and found that the high-end items were the only thing that really paid off well for me. I tried a few other things for this channel since I got questions, but I've since called that quits. Antique books are my thing. Antique Christian books from the late 1800s are my particular breadwinner.

Glad bleach was able to help you with your book! Sorry the hydrogen peroxide didn't do the trick. Like you I wasn't too keen on the idea of using bleach on an old book, but, like you said, things can't really get worse than moldy! Hahaha Good call on quarantining the book, I think I mentioned tossing it in the freezer, like some folks do. I'd also leave it out in the sun for a couple of hours to let the UV light do its thing a bit too. Hope you don't have to fight any more moldy books in the future! :)

Awe man, that's awesome!!! Congrats on the great score.

@@antiquebookcollective I need some pricing help with a signed book. Can I email you a pic or something?

@@shoningram Folks normally reach out on Facebpok for that, you'd probably do better asking on the Facebook community page I set up. I don't know the price of every book under the sun, after all! :)

@@antiquebookcollective gosh Caleb I’m sorry. I didn’t even this about Facebook

@@shoningram No worries about that, I don't make mention of it in enough of my videos. :)

Happy to help as best I can. :)

Good luck!