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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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Sticky situation is resolved
09 November 2020An 1859 first of Darwin’s seminal work shrugs off condition issues to be a best-seller
First edition of Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations' sells in New York
26 October 2020A 1776 first of Adam Smith’s '…Wealth of Nations' sold in a New York summer sale bore an understandably irritated inscription by the man to whom it had been gifted by its author.
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Eye-opening images feature in German auction
12 October 2020An October 27-30 sale of more than 2800 lots at Reiss & Sohn of Königstein-im-Taunus includes a 1583 first of Georg Bartisch’s Opthalmodouleia…, a famous work on eye surgery that is also the first extensively illustrated account of any surgical speciality.
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Dalmations spotted as Dodie Smith books bring demand
21 September 2020Inscribed copies of the works of Dodie Smith were among the attractions of a summer sale held by Stride & Son (18% buyer’s premium) of Chichester.
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First edition of Thomas Malthus’ essay on population and first Ethiopian edition of the New Testament leads German auction
14 September 2020Always likely to produce one of the sale’s best results, a 1798 first of Thomas Malthus’ 'Essay on the Principle of Population' duly led the bidding in a recent German sale.
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Humphry Repton first edition on landscaping features at North Carolina auction
07 September 2020On September 12 Brunk Auctions of Asheville, North Carolina, is holding a single-owner sale comprising the estate of William N Banks Junior from his Georgia property, Bankshaven.
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Kipling first edition equals auction record thanks to author’s signature
13 July 2020The gilt decorated blue cloth binding showed signs of age, but a copy of Rudyard Kipling’s 'Captains Courageous, A Story of the Grand Banks' offered in a Philadelphia sale bore the author’s signature on the title-page.
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JK Rowling's children's classic dumped in a skip, now £33,000
22 June 2020Harry Potter first deemed too scruffy by a public library brings a spellbinding result
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First edition of Mary Shelley’s 'The Last Man' offered in dealer's latest catalogue
15 June 2020A rare first edition of the first fully realised post-apocalyptic tale is on offer in Peter Harrington’s inaugural fantasy and science-fiction catalogue, 'In Other Worlds'.
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Wide-ranging PG Wodehouse collection in Philadelphia features both popular and less well-known works
26 May 2020Diligently researched and documented by a local collector, the late William Toplis, a wide-ranging PG Wodehouse collection offered by Freeman’s of Philadelphia featured books, manuscripts, artwork and much more besides.
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Sylvia Plath’s 'The Bell Jar' sells for £3000 at Surrey auction
16 March 2020A copy of Sylvia Plath’s 'The Bell Jar' in a well-preserved dust jacket sold for £3000 in a recent Surrey auction may have set a record for any uninscribed or association copy.
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Shakespeare’s First Folio comes to auction at Christie’s with $4-6m estimate
13 January 2020William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, often referred to as the ‘First Folio’, is regarded as the greatest work of the English language.
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Hammett hammers at joint record price
09 December 2019A fine-looking copy of the 1931, US first of The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett sold right on the low estimate at $60,000 (£46,875) at Christie’s New York (25/20/13.5% buyer’s premium) to match a previous auction high.
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Eleven early Christmas Carols stored in a garage
02 December 2019Although Charles Dickens is often credited with creating the ‘modern’ Christmas, some of the recognition should go to John Leech.
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Charlton Heston’s 1673 copy of Macbeth returns to the market at Bonhams’ New York sale
27 November 2019A 17th century copy of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ formerly owned by Charlton Heston (1923-2008) is reappearing at auction only three years after it sold from the actor’s collection.
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Hindman sets auction record for copy of Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’
08 November 2019A record for a copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species came at Hindman’s sale of the library of a Midwestern collector in Chicago earlier this week.
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Harry Potter casts spell on bidders
04 November 2019Code locked in a briefcase for two decades, a finely preserved, 1997 first issue of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was finally released this summer after being delivered by its Lancashire owners into the hands of a Derbyshire saleroom.
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Chelsea book fair previews – including Arthur Conan Doyle first edition
28 October 2019The ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair is one of two major London events held annually by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association.
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First issue of James Joyce’s 'Ulysses' in Chicago sale
28 October 2019Copy No 74 of the 100 signed, first issue copies of James Joyce’s 'Ulysses' is estimated at $120,000-180,000 in November 5 sale being held by Hindman of Chicago.
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Modern First Editions sale goes Greene
28 October 2019A sale of Modern First Editions at Bloomsbury Auctions on November 14 includes this ‘near mint’ 1950 copy of Graham Greene’s 'The Third Man and The Fallen Idol'.
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