I want to buy a bunch of Dr. Seuss books for my new baby.  I've been
burned once before when I wanted to buy a number of Golden Guides and
I slaved away at Amazon struggling to get all the books I wanted from
only two zShops--only to find that they treated every book as a
separate order anyway, and charged me for shipping accordingly!

I've seen that Alibris will consolidate purchases from a single
seller, but they don't make it particularly easy to identify a single
seller who carries all the books you want.

A good answer would give me the ability to somewhat easily get 10-20
Seuss books for an average of under $3.00 including shipping.  I'll
give an extra $5 or $10 if a number of them are board books.  (If I
get an anser that requires me to do more than, say, twenty minutes of
work, I'd still be willing to pay something.)

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Clarification of Question by mercurio-ga on 01 Nov 2005 16:12 PST

I did look at Powell's, and you're right.  The prices are more like
$5.  But a lot of the brokered stores seem to have prices under $3.  I
did see, for instance, that Beagle Books LLC on Amazon has a number of
Seuss books for good prices, but since I can't find a way to buy from
them except through Amazon, I would be stuck paying multiple shipping
charges.

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Clarification of Question by mercurio-ga on 10 Nov 2005 03:46 PST

Thank you for the comment.  I'm afraid I forgot to cancel the question
after going ahead a buying on ebay.  The lot I ended up with seems a
little overpriced and includes a bunch of Berenstein Bears, which I
don't think I want.  But at least some Seuss books are on their way. 
I thank people for their help.

Also -- someonee could probably make some money by adding better
search/aggregation features to book buying engines....

Powell's Books has a multitude of used Dr. Seuss books, and you only
pay one shipping charge, since Powell's isn't brokering sales for
others, but has its own stock of new and used books. However, Dr.
Seuss books, even when they are used, are not generally cheap. I doubt
very much that you will find any online merchant whose Dr. Seuss books
will average under $3.00.

For several years I worked in a used book store. Used Dr. Seuss books
were very much in demand, and the supply was not extensive, since many
people kept their books even after their children grew up. Large
demand + small supply usually means a high price.

In case you want to look at Powell's, here is a link:

http://www.powells.com/s?kw=dr+seuss

half.ebay.com has lots of Dr. Seuss books at their minimum price of 75
cents.  Shipping is $3.25 for a hardback, $1.99 for each additional
book from the same seller.  Like Alibris, they don't make it easy to
find sellers who have a lot of the books you want.  So that would be
$4.00 at worst, $2.74 if you can find a seller with multiple books you
want.  And of course, the 75-cent books may not be in the best
condition.  But there are a lot of titles that are cheap.  A search
for "Seuss" got 469 results and when sorted by price only exceeded
$1.00 on page 5, with 20 titles per page.

http://search.half.ebay.com/Seuss_W0QQsortZ88QQsoZ1QQmZbooks

Why not buy them from ebay?  There are many sellers who sell Seuss books in lots:

For example, this person is selling 11 books for 12 dollars plus 6
dollars shipping, so $18 total.

http://cgi.ebay.com/DR-SEUSS-LOT-OF-11-CHILDRENS-BOOKS_W0QQitemZ8011345618QQcategoryZ279QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

This is 15 Seuss books for $1 + $7 shipping

http://cgi.ebay.com/15-Dr-Seuss-Book-Lot-Old-New-Green-Eggs-ABC-Cat-in-Hat_W0QQitemZ8012564513QQcategoryZ279QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem