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First Edition
Book collectors seek out first editions as they represent the original form in which a book was originally published.
Signed and inscribed copies are even more desirable, and the ‘dedication copy’ – the copy which is inscribed to the person to whom the author dedicated the book – is more sought after still.
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Agatha Christie makes plea to ‘Pop’ to promote her book
08 August 2022Bid to £16,000 in a sale held by Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) of Dorchester was a 1921 first of Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious House at Styles.
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Frankenstein first now in second place
06 June 2022Just one other example of Mary Shelley’s famous tale has made more at auction
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Potter proof set uncovered
23 May 2022A London saleroom offered what was billed as the only “known” surviving set of uncorrected galley proofs for Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone.
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Collecting classics: The market for books on political thought from Leviathan to Animal Farm
16 May 2022If social media makes you feel like Big Brother is watching you, and if truth occasionally feels stranger than fiction, then like many bibliophiles you might be exploring books that suggest models for society and the role of the individual.
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Investment that brings a big return
07 March 2022One of the stand-out lots at Sotheby’s New York (26/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) was a 1949 first printing of The Intelligent Investor.
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First edition of TS Eliot's first book on offer at Swann
14 February 2022Swann Galleries is holding a sale of Books and Autographs in New York on February 17.
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Knockout £50,000 for Casino Royale first
07 February 2022When Ian Fleming sent an initial typescript of his first James Bond book Casino Royale to his good friend Paul Gallico asking if it was publishable, he got the reply “the book is a knockout!”.
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Pick of the week: Whisky travelogue in demand at auction
17 January 2022In the early 1880s Alfred Barnard, secretary of Harper’s Weekly Gazette (the magazine that morphed into today’s Harpers Wine & Spirit), decided to visit all distilleries in Scotland, England and Ireland.
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Tolkien classic takes £46,000 in Dorset
29 November 2021Among the book lots offered as part of an October 7-8 sale at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) the earliest was a Burgundian ‘Hours of the Virgin’ manuscript.
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ATG letter: Second go at ‘first’ books terminology
22 November 2021I have just received ATG No 2516 wherein the old question of first edition and first impression is raised in the Letters section.
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‘Surprizing’ Crusoe result in Oxford
08 November 2021Top lot in a sale held by Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) of Oxford was a 1719-20, first edition set of 'The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe…', 'The Farther Adventures…' and 'The Serious Reflections…' in later but very smart bindings of red morocco gilt by Francis Bedford of London.
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ATG letter: First impressions count when it comes to books confusion
01 November 2021I wonder if it could be explained to me why, in the currently fashionable world of ‘modern first editions’, there is a trend to link the words ‘first edition’ and ‘impression’ in the same sentence.
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The web shop window: Copy of Great Plague death list in unusually healthy condition
04 October 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
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Ghastly tales, joyful vendors
04 October 2021Remarkably well-preserved 1818 Frankenstein and 1897 Dracula firsts impress in New York
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First edition of Ian Fleming’s 'Casino Royale' saved from a skip
20 September 2021This first edition of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale will be offered for sale by Scammell Auctions in Adelaide on October 11.
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Saleroom with a view on Forster
13 September 2021Author’s works were well represented in London auction that included a £24,000 surprise
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First book-form edition of Middlemarch sets record at Doyle
30 August 2021George Eliot’s much-admired novel 'Middlemarch…' made its first appearance in a parts issue in 1871.
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The web shop window: First edition of Ian Fleming’s 'From Russia With Love'
26 July 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
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The web shop window: Ada Lovelace's first-edition copy of key mathematical text
22 March 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
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Heinemann first edition of 'Present Laughter' by Noel Coward sold at Toovey's auction
01 February 2021Signed by the author and all members of the cast, the stage manager and the props manager, a 1943, Heinemann first of 'Present Laughter' was one of two Noel Coward plays that made up a lot sold for £1600 via thesaleroom.com in a Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) auction.
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