Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Internally clean, unmarked if not a touch tanned. Paper label to spine had darkened but titles remain presentable. Good condition, BP/Humor
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$42.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. Edge wear to jacket. Heavy brown tape along edges of back of jacket. Price-clipped.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xx, 147, [8] pp., illustrated, 8vo, quarter brown cloth, patterned paper sides, mounted printed title label on upper cover; no dustjacket. Illustrated with several plates and line drawings. Inscribed by Kenneth L. Roberts. Very good.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ spine darkened, edgeworn with some minor chipping; name stamped on endpaper
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good cloth first printing of first edition with paper title blocks on spine and cover. No DJ. Spine is straight and tight, bottom corners bumped. Light soiling of paper title block on front cover. Chipping and wear to top and bottom of spine. 1/2 inch tear to bottom of spine. Uniform age toning to all pages commensurate with age. Not ex lib, no remainder marks. 147 pages.
Seller: William Ramsey Rare Books & Manuscripts, Greenwood, SC, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. The Collector's Whatnot. Houghton Mifflin,, Boston:, 1923.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Very good in illustrated paper covered boards which are worn and bear at the corners and the spine is lightly soiled and tanned. The end paper bears a prior owner's book plate and the first free end page shows another prior owner's name neatly written at the upper edge. Without a dust jacket. Remarkably this book was actually reprinted in 1,000 copies! The copyright page states "The Second Edition consists of one thousand pure and pink copies, bound to sell." It would appear that they did!
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$119.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition, limited to 1,000 copies. This is the first edition of these tales of the antiquing world to bear the actual names of the authors on the dustjacket. A VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket with the price of $2.50 intact on the front flap. Scarce.
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Papercovered boards with printed paper labels. Spine label toned thus very good in a modestly spine-toned, very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An almost indescribable book, illustrated with whimsy by the great novelist Booth Tarkington, this is a collection of farcically fictional antique collecting stories. Please don't follow its advice, as it is definitely tongue-in-cheek. The book, itself, is in very good+ condition with some edge wear and some general wear. The dust jacket is very good+, $2.50 price intact, is marred only by tape residue at the bottom of the back strip.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition. Fine in a lightly soiled, otherwise near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a few short edge tears.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kenneth Roberts. The Collector's Whatnot. Houghton Mifflin,, Boston:, 1923.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good in patterned paper covered boards with paper labels on the spine and front board. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4" with two, shallow chips from the head of the spine. In a good+ dust jacket dust jacket which is heavily faded especially on spine. Inscribed by Milton Kigallen and Kenneth Roberts at Christmas time of 1923. 147 pages of text illustrated with line art and other comical works of art.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. THE COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT. Houghton - Mifflin, 1923.
Price: US$377.00 + shipping
Description: THE COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT, H-M, 1923, first edition, near fine in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and some obvious dust-soiling. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in sheet. Quite scarce in dust-wrapper.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Roberts, Kenneth. THE COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT. Houghton Mifflin, 1923.
Price: US$435.00 + shipping
Description: THE COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT, Houghton Mifflin, 1923, first edition, just about fine in vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and a somewhat faded dust-wrapper spine. SIGNED by the author on a tipped in page.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second edition. Illustrations by Booth Tarkington. Fine in attractive, near very good dustwrapper with tanning and light staining to the spine. Signed by all three authors with their real names.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.