This is the 1961 Christmas edition of The Illustrated London News.  It is a large magazine 14 1/2" by 10 1/4".  Although the front and back are filled with adds, once the magazine articles start, they go on uninterrupted by more ads.  It has some very interesting red, white and black illustrations a couple of which look like illustrations of hell.  There are long articles and lots of photos giving us a view of London in 1961.

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LOW SHIPPING:  Although this will weigh about  2 pounds when packed for shipping I can send them Media Mail for only $4.00.  Media Mail takes much longer so if you are willing to pay more shipping, it can reach you faster.

International bidders welcome.  There is no international Book rate and because it is over 4 pounds, this must go out Priority International which is expensive.  Please be sure you know the cost of shipping before bidding.

PAYMENT INFO:  I expect a prompt response from the winning bidder and payment through PayPal within 3 days.  A prompt response is more important than the date of payment.

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BIDDING TIPS

EBay used to be an auction only web site.  Then they introduced Buy It Now and most purchases are BIN.  That means that auctions, which usually ask less $, are being ignored and often get no bids.  If you reconsider auctions again, you have a much better chance of winning than you used to.

AUCTIONS:  Advantages of earlier bidding

Watch List: Many bidders are putting items on their WATCH List and then they wait until the very end to bid. There are advantages and disadvantages to this approach. The advantage is that you are not driving up the price by bidding with your competition. The disadvantage is that bidders often forget to keep track of their watched items and find out too late that the item sold for less than you would have been willing to pay, or it didn't sell at all and you could have had it for the minimum bid. The solution to this dilemma:  Bid just the minimum bid amount early on. This doesn't prevent you from also bidding at the end, and it doesn't drive up the price because it is just the minimum. Also, if you tend to lose track of what is on your WATCH LIST, then you wouldn't have to worry about losing an item that receives no other bids because you would already have bid. Even the most careful bidder can have an unforeseen interruption that prevents him/her from bidding and lose the item altogether.

When you bid, it locks in the seller's description.  It can only be added to only at the very bottom of the page where no one looks.  If you see an error that may discourage bidding, (spelling etc) it is to your advantage to force that error to remain because other bidders may then miss it altogether.   An early bid also prevents the seller from later adding a Buy It Now to a listing that someone else may see before you do and grab it.  It must remain an auction if it has a bid and cannot disappear because someone emailed the seller with a good offer.

Decide on your maximum:  If you bid at the very end, bid the maximum.  If you really bid your maximum, you won't need to feel bad if the item was outbid. Someone else may seem to have outbid you by so little, but you don't know how high the other bidder actually bid.

If you want it no matter what it costs:  If money is no object and you must have an item no matter what it costs, Then bid some ridiculously high amount that no one else would possibly bid.

***NEW EBAYERS:  New bidders are often confused by the bidding process.  They worry that their high bid is what they will pay and that isn't necessarily the case.  EBay bids for you in increments depending on how high the bidding goes. (increments of 25 cents, 50 cents, $1, $2.50 on up).  The only way you will pay the maximum you've bid is when someone else bids close to or the same as your maximum.  In cases where someone else bids the same as you, the first bidder is high bidder until more bids come in.

In auctions combined with a Buy It Now Price, if you don't want to pay the BIN price than bid the auction amount and BIN will disappear so no one else can Buy It Now anymore.