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  • Hey, can I help you?

  • Hi.

  • I have a book for you to look at.

  • OK.

  • "To Kill a Mockingbird."

  • Pretty cool.

  • I probably read this book when I was around 20,

  • and I'm 29 now, so.

  • [laughs]

  • GABRIELA: I have a first edition "To Kill a Mockingbird"

  • that I'm trying to sell today.

  • The condition is not perfect.

  • It has definitely had some wear and tear on it.

  • But I'm hoping to sell it for $5,000.

  • RICK: This is interesting.

  • I think it takes place in the 1950s.

  • It's about a-- a teenage girl named Scout.

  • Her father Atticus is defending a black man

  • that's falsely accused of raping a white woman.

  • And it's the trials and tribulations

  • of what the family goes through, and the trial,

  • and all these other things.

  • It's a really, really heavy book.

  • It's one of those books where you read it for an hour,

  • you got to put it down for a little bit.

  • You know, I mean, just you get a little emotional.

  • But it's a pretty amazing book.

  • I know this book has never gone out of print.

  • And besides the Bible, I don't know of any book that's been

  • in print for going on 60 years.

  • It's super collectible.

  • Do you know if this is a first edition or not?

  • I believe it is.

  • From what I looked into it, I think it is.

  • OK.

  • All right, I don't know if it is.

  • Well, it says first edition right there.

  • OK.

  • But there's first editions, and then there's first editions.

  • You can have a first edition, but different states

  • of a first edition.

  • Because they might start putting it out and then realizing

  • there's a typo or something like that, and they go fix it.

  • OK, so then you have the first edition second state

  • and so on and so on.

  • I can tell you right now there's going to be condition

  • issues with this thing.

  • Yeah.

  • The dust cover is in really rough shape.

  • The spine is all tweaked out on it.

  • It's been well-used because it was a library copy.

  • But being a first edition, even in terrible shape,

  • is worth money.

  • So how much you looking to get out of this?

  • I was kind of hoping 5,000 range maybe?

  • OK, I have no idea, to tell you the truth.

  • OK?

  • But I do have a friend.

  • Let me get her down here.

  • She'll take a look at this.

  • And I promise you she'll know everything

  • there is to know about it.

  • Perfect.

  • OK, I'll be right back.

  • GABRIELA: I think it's a great idea

  • he wants to bring in an expert.

  • I'd like to learn more about the book myself.

  • [cash register dings]

  • If you want to talk about books changing people's lives,

  • this is one of the best examples.

  • "To Kill a Mockingbird," published in 1960,

  • this is on the eve of the civil rights movement.

  • And many, many people consider this their favorite book.

  • This is one of the books that essentially, right

  • when it was published, it immediately

  • entered the American canon.

  • And in fact, Harper Lee is one of the few women who

  • was immediately sort of crowned into American literature

  • as a contender for the great American novel.

  • OK, so it says first edition in it.

  • Yes.

  • This book does say first edition on the copyright

  • page, which is important.

  • So what I want to see, a 3.95 price.

  • We've got a blurb by Capote here.

  • So these are the kind of things you're looking for.

  • These are what we call "points"--

  • the price, the blurb.

  • And this all actually checks out to be a first issue,

  • which means it was part of the first batch issued

  • to the public.

  • OK.

  • So there was multiple states?

  • Yeah, there were multiple issues.

  • This is the first of the first.

  • OK.

  • Good news.

  • Oh, yeah, definitely good news.

  • Now she's going to give us all the bad news.

  • Yeah, now-- now I've got to look a little

  • closer at the condition.

  • So the first thing I noticed, it's an ex-library copy.

  • You've got the stamps here and here.

  • You've got a few stains.

  • But the jacket is really the king here,

  • and you can see remnants of a laminate, which these are

  • all very common sort of treatments

  • that you see for a book that's been in the library system.

  • But in the collectible market, it kind of kills it.

  • So what's it worth?

  • So given the condition here and the fact

  • that I would consider this poor, I'd say it's probably $1,000.

  • OK.

  • Glad I could help.

  • Thanks.

  • REBECCA ROMNEY: Thanks.

  • GABRIELA: Thank you.

  • [sighs]

  • OK, so, obviously, $5,000 is not going to happen.

  • Yeah.

  • OK, I'd give you 500 bucks for it.

  • 1,000?

  • No, if I bought and sold stuff for the same price,

  • I wouldn't be in business long.

  • What about 7?

  • I'll go 600 bucks.

  • That's the best I can do.

  • Sure.

  • All right, we got a deal.

  • I'll meet you right over there, and

  • we'll do some paperwork Great.

  • GABRIELA: I ended up selling the book for $600, which

  • is far less than I was hoping to get for it,

  • but is definitely more than the 3.95

  • that's printed on the book.

  • [music playing]

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