Guide to First Edition Prices 2008/9
Edited By R.B. Russell
December 2007
Tartarus Press Ltd
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9781905784035
564 Pages, Illustrated, 7 3/4 x 11 3/4"
$72.50 Paper Original
This seventh edition of R. B. Russell's "Guide to First Edition Prices" has
been completely updated and expanded and now gives the values of 42,500 sought-after
books by nearly 800 authors and artists.It includes classic authors from
Jane Austen to Oscar Wilde, detective writers from Eric Ambler to Minette
Walters, illustrators from Aubrey Beardsley to Florence Upton, and poets
from Richard Aldington to Walt Whitman, in British and American first editions,
limited editions and important, collectable reprints.Compiled for collectors,
bookdealers and all who love literature, this indispensable volume now includes
1,000 useful colour illustrations.
Everyone knows that the first edition
of the first "Harry Potter" book fetches a high price, but there are thousands
of other books that collectors will pay good money for, and not just the
obvious classics. "The Tartarus Press Guide to First Edition Prices" will
help in the identification of these hidden treasures.All entries have been
updated and expanded.
Titles published after 1920 are assigned values with
and without dust-jackets, almost doubling the total number of suggested values
to over 70,000. Each author in the main section of the book is briefly appraised,
and a full bibliographical listing of their works given. This edition also
includes a number of useful appendices: Single Title Entries, References
and Individual Author Bibliographies, Pseudonyms, Winners of The Nobel Prize
for Literature, The Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize.
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