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$300 each for Secretary of Dreams vols. 1 & 2.
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RossWarren |
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I paid about £40 for an unsigned copy of PS Publishings '20th Century Ghosts' by Joe Hill and about the same for copies of his Chapbooks 'Better
Than Home' and 'The Saved'
I also paid $150 for a matching numbered pair of 'The Lies of Locke Lamora' and 'Red Seas Under Red Skies' by Scott Lynch from Subterranean |
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DSolow |
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$150
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Holden Pike |
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VictorVoyles wrote:Actually there are 26 known copies of the Guttenberg Bible. There are two versions, the 36 and 42 line versions. Last I read the only copy that went up for auction recently pulled in about $10 million. But it is rare that one of the few that are known to be in private collector's hands go on auction. I know of one copy in Princeton, NJ owned by a pretty well known collector. I think he has the 42 line version. But really, the Guttenberg Bibles aren't that much sought after since it is rare that they move from private collector to private collector. Recently Shakespeares' First Folio was sold at auction for a little over 1.5 million I think. Ross Perot sold his copy of the Magna Carta (which is related to book adn emphera collecting) last year. But, at least to me, the majority of collectors are collecting modern firsts more so than any other section. And clean near fine first editions of Fitzgerald's work can fetch in the mid six figures same with someone like Hemingway. As for prices of books I've paid. let's just say I've paid in the mid four figures for a few volumes. |
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VictorVoyles |
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Holden, thanks for the information. I just did a quick check for the Gutenberg Bible and the article mentioned only three intact Bibles. And when I checked on
Alibris, I saw nothing but the facsimiles that were going for upwards of $15k.
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McLaughlin Of Death |
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$35,000 for a Scratch-and-Sniff Necronomicon!
Kinda pricy, but I least I can say I know what a shoggoth smells like!* -- Markolathotep http://www.myspace.com/twistedtalesbook *Kinda like wet socks! |
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ahuber |
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About $300 for a signed slipcased edition of Barker's "Everville," but that was gift for a good friend.
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dannyboy121070 |
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$405.00 for a lettered edition of THE EXORCIST from Gauntlet.
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RBreznay |
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$80 for Stephen King's Six Stories. Usually, I really have to want a book to pay more than $40. If I were rich, that would be a different story.
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ajw2910 |
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I paid about $700 for a S/L Christine and the same for a S/L Skeleton Crew few years ago.
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tartarusrussell |
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I find it hard paying more than £40/$60 for a modern book that's in print, though there have been the odd exceptions.
But as for old, classic collectible books . . .I'd rather not try and remember/admit how much I've splashed out occasionally |
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HuwL |
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Same here, Ray!
I don't buy as much as I used to these days, for various reasons, so I have to be a lot more selective. The last nice small press books I bought were Shades of Darkness and some mysterious little tome called Putting the Pieces in Place... |
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tartarusrussell |
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I hope you like Putting the Pieces in Place, Huw. The author's an odd fellow...
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rileybooks |
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I sell books for ridiculous amounts, and very rarely buy them for those figures. The most I've ever paid was about £110 for Reggie Oliver's
The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini and The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler,
which I won on Ebay from the publisher.
I have sold books, on the other hand, for up to £900. I can't envisage myself ever doing anything like that in reverse! David |
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Jeff Mariotte |
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I think my record is $175, for a first edition of William Goldman's The Princess Bride, and the same for a first
of Jay Dusard's amazing book of photography The North American Cowboy. I've certainly seen plenty of modern
books selling for far more, though.
Jeff
http://www.jeffmariotte.com
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HalBodner |
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About $800 for a black vellum bound first American edition of "Dracula" which, if memory serves, was signed. This was back in the late 1980s -- I
found it in a rare bookshop in Sacramento. Sold it a few years later for about twice what I paid for it.
Now, I'm told, it's worth (pre-recession prices, of course!) close to ten grand. <sigh> |
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pendragon |
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Guantlet's hardback coffee-table collection of Matheson's Duel and Distributor scripts... but only because I sold some books to Matt and instead of
paying bank changes I asked for a straight swap.
Rather swanky book it is too - big and heavy. |
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HorrorLibrary |
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The first night I met the girl I'm now dating, she showed me a prestine copy published in 1911 of Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's
Dictionary" that she found in a thrift store for $4.
I was impressed. |
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dogpoet |
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HalBodner wrote: Ouch. Still, at least you made a profit on it and somebody else got a bargain. |
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Bloody MonkeyZ.horrorweb |
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I just have to start this by saying that before I got into the small press scene 8 years ago, I hated paying $25 for a new hardback. I would often go to
bargain tables and get them at $6 instead. Then I was suddenly thrust into the realm of $45 price tags...and hated it. There have been a slew of $45 titles. No
individual novel over that. Most I have spent was on a comic book. Pretty sure it was $60 for Uncanny X-Men #9.
JimmyZ a.k.a. Bloody MonkeyZ |
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