If you’ve ever tried to sell your clothes to a consignment shop and stood there as a calculating teen or 20-something appraises your aesthetic, you know the vulnerability of trying to sell something that defined you in some way, no matter how shallow.
Now, apply that to your books, the volumes that can simultaneously speak to your personal taste, intellect, and hipness. Or maybe I’m just projecting.
Whatever a book means to you, trying to sell a stack to Seattle’s critical secondhand buyers can be daunting. So, I put my ego on the line to get a few tips and tricks, and help you clear your shelves for new titles.
‘Condition, condition, condition’
A used bookstore with about 70,000 volumes in stock has to be picky, which may be why Magus Books in the U District has a reputation for being one of the toughest places to sell in Seattle…