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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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Charlie Watts books sale: it’s all over now
02 October 2023Christie’s sale Charlie Watts: Gentleman, Collector, Rolling Stone combined stardust with an extraordinary library of modern first editions.
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News in brief including Charlie Watts' book collection coming to auction
17 July 2023A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the book collection of the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts being offered at Christie's.
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The web shop window: First edition of seminal work that prompted Arts & Crafts movement
03 July 2023Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
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Austen’s pride in her work
22 May 2023Two of Jane Austen’s works, both from the same Wyoming collector’s estate, were stand-out lots in a May 11 sale held in Chicago.
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Brontë works hit saleroom heights
22 May 2023Works by the three sisters including copies published under pseudonyms come to a Cambridge auction
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Bookplate boosts Sackville-West debut novel result
08 May 2023The best-selling lot in a recent Carlisle auction was a 1919, Collins first of Heritage, the debut novel of Vita Sackville-West, who at that time was better known for her poetry.
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No escaping Houdini’s research
08 May 2023'A Magician Among the Spirits' by Harry Houdini conjured up one of the highest prices in the Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) Houdini-related sale in Chicago on April 8 when it sold for $15,000 (£12,095).
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On the origin of the ‘survival of the fittest’ comes to London auction
17 April 2023This copy of 'The Study of Sociology' by Herbert Spencer is a first edition from 1875 in original cloth.
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Sayers serves £2100 Gaudy Night feast
10 April 2023The dust jacket in those familiar red, black and yellow colours favoured by the publisher, Gollancz, had a few shortcomings in terms of condition, including some chips and losses, but this ‘Just out!’ 1935 first of 'Gaudy Night', signed by its author, Dorothy L Sayers, was bid to £2100 on March 3.
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Buyer not afraid of Virginia Woolf value
03 April 2023Complete with the often missing dust jacket and entirely unrestored, as the cataloguer’s notes were pleased to point out, a 1925 Hogarth Press first of Virginia Woolf’s famous novel Mrs Dalloway was offered as part of a March 2 sale at Swann Galleries (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) of New York.
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Fifteenth century friar's manual inspired by the game of chess
06 February 2023A 15th century first edition of a pioneering work by Johannes Gallensis surfaced at auction late last month.
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First edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest emerges in Chicago
06 February 2023Included in Potter & Potter’s latest sale of Books and Manuscripts is a rare first edition limited issue of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest.
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Jane Austen, a compact collection sold at Dominic Winter auction
30 January 2023Small group of the author’s ever-popular works makes a big impression at Gloucestershire saleroom
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Presentation copy of Paddington Bear first edition sells to American bidder
16 January 2023Having featured prominently on television in a specially made part of the late Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, Paddington Bear hardly needs any more publicity.
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Torn jacket but a tidy sum
17 October 2022Though the dust jacket featuring one of Pauline Baynes’ illustrations for the book is torn with loss and exhibits a number of patched repairs, a 1950 first edition of 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' did sell for £1100 against a guide of £500-700 on October 6 at Buckinghamshire saleroom Bourne End Auctions (17.5% buyer’s premium).
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Expand an interest in Beatrix Potter
12 September 2022The ‘property of a lady’, this concertina-style wallet book by Beatrix Potter, 'The Story of Miss Moppet', is a first edition published by Frederick Warne & Co, London & New York, 1906.
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Harvard College makes print debut mention
12 September 2022Freeman’s September 21 Books and Manuscripts auction, in Pennsylvania is led by an ‘extremely rare’ first edition of 'New Englands First Fruits' (estimate $20,000-30,000), a 1643 account of Puritan evangelisation in New England.
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Gilbert exerts a strong magnetic pull
12 September 2022Catalogued as a ‘very good, complete copy in original condition of the first really modern scientific book published in England’, a 1600 first edition (Peter Short) of De Magnete by William Gilbert is estimated at £10,000-15,000 in Forum Auction’s Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper sale in London on September 29.
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Evelyn Waugh’s first book inscribed by man who wooed author’s first wife
29 August 2022Copy of his first book was a later gift from Sir John Heygate to Tarka the Otter author
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‘First editions, second thoughts’ of notable names
22 August 2022The headline borrows the title given to an online Christie’s (26/20% buyer’s premium) sale – one that presented more than 80 modern first editions.
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