For the Trade & Collectors

The whole market for a book in one search, with alerts that keep watching

Scouting a title or pricing a copy takes too many tabs when the market is split between AbeBooks, eBay, Booklooker, and dozens of national shops. Near Fine searches 130+ booksellers in some 50 countries at once, converts asking prices and shipping into your currency, checks whether seller descriptions back up first-edition and signed claims, and watches your want list every hour on Pro.

Check what a title is going for across markets

An edition that sits at $180 on US marketplaces may be listed for €35 on Boekwinkeltjes.nl, Booklooker, or a shop in Dublin or Sydney. One search shows every offer that ships to you, with the landed price in your currency and duplicate cross-site eBay listings collapsed into one. For cross-border VAT and carrier rules, see our guide to international book shipping and customs.

Separate true firsts from book-club reprints

Marketplace checkboxes take sellers at their word, which buries real copies under book-club editions, later printings, and study guides. Type signed first edition in dust jacket under £250 in plain words: Near Fine passes native filters to the marketplaces that support them, then runs a decision model over each listing’s title and seller description. Confirmed attributes get a mono label on the card; listings that don’t back up the claim drop behind "Show N more". Read more in our guide on identifying first editions.

Alerts built for a working want list

Most alerts stop the moment a single copy turns up. On Pro (€50/$50/£50 a month, or ten months for a year, VAT included):

• Run 500 active alerts checked hourly across every bookseller we search (and every 6 hours on eBay), with extra alerts available in blocks of 100 at €10/$10/£10 a month up to 2,500 on the site.
• Import your want list in one step from a CSV, TSV, or plain list of queries.
• Keep watching after a find: when new copies turn up, Near Fine emails you the ten cheapest new listings (up to once an hour) and keeps the alert live for the next copy, re-arming its six-month window automatically.

Or hand the legwork to your assistant or script

Connect https://nearfine.com/mcp to Claude or ChatGPT to check availability and set alerts from a chat, or query GET /api/v3/search directly in JSON at up to 60 requests a minute with no API key (documented in the API docs).

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