Guide to First Edition Prices 2006/2007 - Softcover

Russell, Ray B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1872621953 ISBN 13: 9781872621951

Publisher: The Tartarus Press, 2005

Synopsis

This new, eighth edition of R.B. Russell's Guide to First Edition Prices has been fully revised and updated and now includes over 725 full author bibliographies and contains over 50,000 values for first and collectable editions. 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. 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 80,000. 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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Synopsis

This sixth edition, of R.B. Russell's "Guide to First Edition Prices" now includes over 600 colour illustrations. Compiled for collectors, bookdealers and all who love literature, this indispensable volume provides a guide to the value of 35,000 sought-after books. 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. 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. More than 600 authors and artists are represented, in British and American first editions, limited editions and important, collectable reprints. 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 58,000.

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; and 100 Classic First Editions of the 20th Century Winners of The Nobel Prize for Literature, The Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Tartarus Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1872621953
• ISBN 13: 9781872621951
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 600