Stamp dealers buy and sell every day. For the collector or heir, selling is usually a one-time affair for which they are all too often woefully ill-prepared. Top Dollar Paid! helps put you on an even footing by providing insight into how dealers think and how they approach buying stamps.  Stephen R. Datz writes from experience; he has purchased thousands of collections in his career.  He takes you behind the counter, puts you inside the dealer's head.

Top Dollar Paid!, now in its sixth printing, has become one of the best selling books in philately. It's really two books in one: a concise, factual guide to what works best in selling, and an entertaining, revealing, behind-the-scenes journey into the real-life world of stamp dealing.Critically acclaimed as the best book ever written on the subject, it's a must-read for anyone who buys, collects, invests, as well as those thinking about selling.

Even if you're not in the market to sell right now, perhaps the greatest service Top Dollar Paid! performs is to make you aware of the financial consequences of purchases you, as a collector, are making today. Not all stamps are created equal!  The information in Top Dollar Paid! could be worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars to you. Paperbound, 165 pages.