Being offered the list of books, worth it?

I'm being offered the list of 51 Franklin Library books in unread conditions for a 1000,- euros. I'm tempted but honestly, I can only see myself reading 20 of these.

How easy or hard would it be to move the remainder in Europe to recoup some of my cost? I've marked the books I'd want to keep with an asterix.

*Crime and punishment - feodor dostoevsky
*Anna karenina - leo tolstoy
William Shakespeare - selected plays
Tacticus - the annals
Gargantua and pantagruel - francois
rabelias
Giovanni boccaccio - the decameron
*Faust - goethe
Candide-voltaire
Virgil - the aeneid
The ambassadors - henry james
*Paradise lost - john milton
The red and black- stendhal
The mill on the floss- george eliot
John donne poems
Swann's way - marcel proust
*The odvssey - homer
Canterbury tales- geoffrey chaucer
The magic mountain- thomas mann
The sound and the fury - william faulkner
Tristram shandy- laurence sterne
Plato - selected dialogues
*Leaves of grass - walt whitman
The collected poems of W.B. yeats
*Ulysses - james Joyce
*The iliad - homer
The return of the native- thomas hardy
*Greek tragedies
*Tales from the arabian nights- burton
Robinson cruse- daniel defoe
Selected lives - plutarch
Romantic poets
*The divine comedy- dante alighieri
Moby Dick- herman melville
*The scarlet letter- nathaniel hawthorne
Michel de montaigne-essays
*A farewell to arms- ernest hemingway
*Gulliver's jonathan swift
*Great expectations- charles dickens
Vanity fair - william makepeace thackeray
Wuthering heights- emily bronte
The great gatsby-f.scott Fitzgerald
Pere goriot - honore de balzac
The adventures of huckleberry- mark twain
Tom Jones- henry fielding
Anton chekhov-plays
Saint augustine-confessions
Madame bovary - gustave flaubert
Aristotle rhetoric- on poetics
Henrik ibsen plays
*Don auixote de la manch gervantes

I’m in America and don’t know the European market for Franklins, but these are common issues that would likely be hard to sell because of the competition. You can check eBay and abe.com for current asking prices. Keep in mind that both these services charge fees and that postal rates can be high.

If I were you (which of course I am not), I would search only for the 20 books you really want both to save money and to save bookshelf space. If you continue with you book collecting, you will run out of space sooner than you think!

>2 jroger1: Thank you for your response. I've come to the same conclusion.

We managed to come to an agreement to buy only the books I'm interested in. They turned out to be quarter-bound which is a bit unfortunate but at the end of the day, I paid little more than paperback prices for very fine books so I'm well satisfied.