If you do, snatch them up!Īnd finally, there are those we’d pay our weight in gold to have. Out in the wild, at thrift stores, etc., you may find them for a bargain. One negative is that you can never be sure what condition they’ll be in when you get them.
If you do, they will be very expensive if you purchase them via mail-order. The original editions of these romances are (obviously) out-of-print and hard to find. Some of these books we’re lucky to have in our collection, and others we once had and sold or lost (how foolish!). They are hard to find, expensive, and rare. We’ve compiled a list of some of the most difficult first-edition old-school paperback romance novels to track down. That experience taught me the value of vintage book collecting and the importance of educating others on the worth of literary treasures. Even though I’ve recouped some of the books, it came at a price. I refer to that loss as The Great Book Purge. Those first editions with the original cover art and the foil-embossed covers, all those now-priceless stepbacks, and my copy of The Thornbirds with Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward on the front…all gone! He had no idea that my collection was worth a small fortune, with some of the most expensive romances a collector would cherish. My father, thinking they were just useless paperbacks cluttering up the house, threw them all out. Gone With the Wind! (No, I Borrowed That One From the Library) Plus, all my juicy Jackie Collins novels and V.C. And so many first editions: Johanna Lindsey, Rebecca Brandewyne, Jude Deveraux, and Catherine Coulter, as well as newer authors like Lisa Kleypas and Beverly Jenkins. Of course, there were historicals: I subscribed to Harlequin Historicals and Zebra Lovegrams. There were category romances: Harlequin Temptations, Presents, and Romances Silhouette Desires and Bantam Loveswepts. When I left for college in August of 1995 I made the mistake of leaving my beloved books at home. Even the out of print romance, Tender is the Storm–the McGinnis version, where the hero does unspeakable things to the heroine’s boobies–was tossed!
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