Selling Russian Books

I have been asked about selling Russian books.  I will give what advice I can, based in part on what I know about buying the same.

As ever, you can try eBay or Gumtree or preloved or Amazon–I suspect Amazon may be more successful if you manage to list on the US version.  The advantage of Amazon in general is that your offering should then get listed on various consolidators like bookfinder.

Then there are businesses who sell used Russian books online–they must get them from somewhere, after all.   Thornton’s (in so far as they are still purchasing–they suggest trying PsychoBabel) andMarijana Dworski Books come to mind.  People do also try selling books on specialist mailing lists such as SEELANGS or RUSSIAN-TEACHING.  I don’t know how successful these attempts are.

Finally, we can ask about second-hand booksellers who tend to carry a significant amount of  Russian stock.  I can think of Anthony C Halland the Oxford Blackwell’s; possibly the Gower Street Waterstone’s as well.

The practical answer may be that if you already sell books on Amazon and the Russian books you want to  sell are already present in their catalogue, then it’s straightforward enough.  Otherwise, it may not be worth the effort.