Welcome back to the What's Hot on eBay series. It's been a while, and it's been a while because I haven't been on eBay. I don't really sell there any more and rarely buy. I had about 500 automated searches setup but slowly stopped looking at them. Anyway, this isn't about eBay's demise, because there are still things out there. So here are some of the more interesting ones:

Incunabula from 1500, being the first to contain Italic Type - An important piece no doubt and bids are reflecting this - as of writing there are 21 bids and the highest is currently $8500. Printed in Venice by Aldus Manutius in Italian. Click here.

A set of four Banksy first editions. Very popular at the moment, occasionally hitting the big auction house, Banksy is one of the artists of the moment. Whether his infamity will survive to the next generation is debatable but 10 bids and a current price of $199 suggest that some people think it so. Click here.

FlatSigned.com have an auction for a signed first edition of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, one of the more desirable modern first editions. The book is a first printing (unlike so many other I've seen recently). There are currently 11 bids and the price is just over $1000 with less than 24 hours remaining and the reserve not met, it's one to watch. Click here.

For any photography book collectors there's a a limited edition (1955 of 2000) of Dominique Tarle's Exile published by Genesis Publications in 2001. I would be interested to see the RRP of this book, as it's currently selling at nearly $1500 with three days left and 23 bids. Click here.

And that ends it for this episode. It just struck me that all the hot items are from eBay.com, I'm guessing then that eBay.com hasn't been hit as hard as eBay.co.uk. They do seem to trial changes here at the UK often before implementing them in the US, if at all. The two implementations are very different now, perhaps us Brits are a little more complaisant and haven't really taken to the streets - or if we have, it's been somewhat unnoticed.

 

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