Some pricey AR memorabilia on EBAY

[Backlighting]

$20 or 30 thousand for a signed letter. Too rich for my blood.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=ayn+rand&_sop=16

[Brant Gaede]

$20 or 30 thousand for a signed letter. Too rich for my blood.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=ayn+rand&_sop=16

When I first started looking at Rand stuff on eBay there were three pages of listings--maybe 300 items. It's since bloated up over many years to something over 2300 items. A lot of over-pricing. This one is the worst ever. It's a contract she didn't write, just signed and returned. Anybody who'd want this--I can't imagine who--would be a fool to pay more than $4000. It may be a consignment item.

The trick is to go to the sold listings to find out current values. Anybody can ask anything.

--Brant

be very careful about buying "true" first editions of "The Fountainhead"--first printing, second printing, first edition, don't count on what's printed by the publisher up front when you open it up--too many nuances; little text mistakes or corrected mistakes--it's all too much and I've forgotten the details--buy an early printing with a first class original dust jacket--not a facsimile and don't worry about the first printing for the first printing you buy is 4 to 1 bogus so buy at least four--all will be likely be sold in willfully ignorant good faith (it should state "First Edition" but that doesn't necessarily mean first printing and you can buy one now for $8000 "signed" with a clipped signature and facsimile jacket which actually reduces the real value from around $800 to half that--that's right, pasting her clipped signature into the novel reduced it's value [and ruined the value of the clip which could have been mounted, but what was it clipped from?] with the new jacket contributing nothing) (Rand's signature, btw, is easy to fake: if she autographed a book "To Tom, Dick, Harry and Larry" then you can see her handwriting in the dedication as a backup)