Every seller will include about the same things in about same order, sometimes even filled into your listing automatically from the ISBN or another source.
Where you can really shine and stand out is describing the book in front of you.
Knowing about books at this point is crucial the parts of a book can be learned from reference books
Books & Book Collecting Reference Books and Collector's Resources at
http://www.trussel.com/books/bookbib.htm is a great list or one of the many sources on the net.
The more you know the better you can describe.
ABC for Book Collectors / by John Carter is a great reference and is on pdf for free at this site
http://www.ilab-lila.com/images/abcforb ... ectors.pdf
BOOK COLLECTING TERMS ILLUSTRATED at http://www.mywingsbooks.com/ has great photos of books in graded conditions.
AB Bookman's Weekly condition codes or variations are still the standard that most knowledgeable booksellers follow and going back to reacquaint yourself with them occasionally can be very helpful. We offer a pdf of this code that can be printed out along with our book condition checklist at http://books.descriptionbuilder.com/ http://books.descriptionbuilder.com/Book_Condition.pdf
Print out our book condition checklist and go through a book you want to describe point by point and you will get a much more complete appreciation of the condition. Good habits make better descriptions. Don’t forget to note the good points about the book or you will make it sound worse than it actually is.
I have described books after noting all the faults and barely recognized the book from my description.
Describing the features of the book as well as the defects can balance the description.
Michael Elmer
Michael's Books
www.michaelsbooks.com
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