ABPC Online

Our newest product is guaranteed to delight anybody who likes simplicity, speed, and elegance. And it looks beautiful on an iPad or iPhone or Android, in fact any smartphone or tablet, as well as on a computer.

The same great data that was available only to PC users on the CD, now is available to anybody who is able to read this description. The records cover the period from September 1975 to the present, and they will be updated every month (we’d rather be correct than instant).

This online version offers you:

  • over a million priced reliable records available for instant easy searching. You would have to check 37 annuals and examine each to know what this service will tell you in seconds.
  • the bibliographical references used by trained ABPC staff to create entries (e.g., STC, Howes, Brunet, etc, numbers) as well as issue points, bases for name-authority decisions, etc.
  • a multiplicity of access points. Discover how many Baskervilles bound by Derome le jeune have been sold at auction or how many copies of Moby-Dick bound in black cloth have appeared; find all mentions of Goethe in letters and manuscripts as well as those written by him.
  • a variety of displays for your results. Now you can even display your results in price order.
  • all prices in foreign currencies are also expressed in U.S. Dollars at the time of sale.
  • the ability to email search results to your computer or phone.

Librarians, dealers, appraisers, collectors, tax authorities, and scholars all will find new as well as traditional uses for the material American Book Prices Current provides in its online version. Whether you are cataloging, collecting, pricing, seeking frequency-of-sale information, appraising, or looking for unpublished material, this database will help you.

The online version of American Book Prices Current is available by annual subscription only. The price for the initial year is $595 if you are a librarian or dealer, and $800 if you are not. The annual update for the subscription will be approximately $198 (or considerably less if you place a standing order). You may use up to 2 computers on your subscription (a desktop at home and a laptop when traveling). If you have a network, please contact us directly. If you have a large network, we can arrange for access using IP range rather than access and passwords.