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Guide to First Edition Prices

Eighth Edition

 

 by R.B. Russell

 

This eighth edition of R.B. Russell's Guide to First Edition Prices is compiled for collectors, bookdealers and all who love literature, providing a guide to the value of over 50,000 sought-after books. 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. 684 authors and artists are represented, 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 in the Guide 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, Publishers' Conventions for Identifying First Editions, Winners of The Nobel Prize for Literature, The Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize.

"...curiously fascinating." Times Literary Supplement, 23rd May, 2008.

"…a browser’s delight, as illuminating as it’s absorbing … no collector will be fooled by the £25 tag. It’s priceless." The Bookdealer, October 2007.

Pages: 861 + xii. Format: Paperback ISBN 978-1-905784-24-0 

Please note that the paperback edition is no longer available direct from us. However, it can be obtained from Antiques Information Services