Old books

I have 3 books, Sunday school prizes from 1911. They have the fancy stickers inside with the child`s name. About 15, maybe more, years ago, when Michael Aspel was still there, I took them to the Antiques Roadshow, but was told they weren`t worth anything. I won`t part with them, they belonged to a couple of "aunties" long since departed, but when I`m gone my family will probably dispose of them.

A lot of auctioneers do specialist book sales. It's worth asking around.

My charity shop often states no books or CD's.
I second looking for a aution site.

Thanks Parsley3. I will try that and thanks to everyone else who responded. I will follow up some of the ideas. The charity shops around here are unfortunately overwhelmed with donations and certainly won’t take old books. I mentioned bar codes because on the sites I have looked at they require a bar code or ISBN code for an estimated value.

Try Vinted. It's good to know that your book is going to someone who really wants it instead of putting it to a charity shop and not know what happens to it. Advertise them in the other memorabilia section and you won't need to supply a bar code. I have passed on a few old books this way.

Try the National Trust if there's a property near you.
The one by my daughter has a second-hand bookshop in the courtyard where the other retail outlets are.

I think book numbers only came in in the 1960s and ISBN later still.
1972??

Donate to a charity shop………there’s all manner of crafting that can be done with old books with a certain patina.

You could try AbeBooks, which will give you an approximate value for each book. It’s a bit painstaking, but if you’re unsure of whether the books are of interest or value it’s a good starting point - we used them for some old military books which none of us had any knowledge about.

Charity shop for me too - even ‘family’ bibles, which mean nothing to me.

I just give books like that to charity. Why on earth does the fact that a book does not have a bar code and an ISBN mean it cannot be passed on in the way other books are passed on?

I have a lot of books published over 100 years ago that still have real value as key texts in their field and I have bought books published well over 100 years ago to add to my library.

Wouldn’t your family like them? What about selling online?

Research the titles on the Internet. Sometimes info comes up on auction sites then you’d have an idea of the value.
Oxfam and other charities have sites/shops dedicated to books. They might be interested.