by Pamela Palmer #148, 20 September 2010

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Printer Friendly Version Which fiction and non-fiction books are winners on eBay? Each month this series answers the question and, along the way, looks at the listing strategies sellers use to bring in big bucks. To learn more about what's in and what's out of the lists, read our Top 10 on eBay Parameters.

NOTE: Items numbers are now included in this article. They are in the individual auction comments section below the author and title. Click the links to see the listings.

In August 2010, Stephen King dominated the Fiction Top 10 with an ARC of Night Shift coming in at #1. Another writer who placed more than once was Robert E. Howard whose Arkham House science fiction publications The Rarest Solomon Kane Wandering Star and Skull Facecame in at #4 and #5. Napoleon (Taschen) topped the non-fiction list with both recent and titles over a century old filling in the rest. A 1878 Chess Strategy, by Sam Loyd, a pair of 1880s Alice in Wonderland and an 1880s Dr. Thorne, by Trollope were among the older titles on the non-fiction list. If you are scratching you head at a Trollope novel listed as Books > Nonfiction, you are not alone. In the Antiquarian and Collectible category, a 1655 Don Quijote de la Mancha lead the pack at $20,000, followed by a book of hours, a 1475 Cicero title, a Vince Lombardi 1st edition, and a Shakespeare second folio of Romeo and Juliet.