Most expensive book writers of the 20th century

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The first editions of famous writers can decorate any book collection, and be a good investment. The factors that shape their prices - is, first, the circulation (usually limited, often several hundred copies), and secondly, the presence of the author's signature on the inside cover, and thirdly, the general condition of the book, and in Fourth, the merits or regalia author. Here is the 10 most expensive first editions of famous writers whose books were first published in the last century, and sold at various auction sites for a maximum cost of this century.

1. "Ulysses" by James Joyce - $ 460,500

Copies of the first edition of the legendary novel "Ulysses" became a legend among booksellers and collectors in the first half of the twentieth century. Explains this fact is simple: a small Parisian publisher Shakespeare and Company in 1922, printed only 100 to 150 copies of the novel on the expensive Dutch paper. We also know that Joyce has signed two copies of the first edition. And in October 2002, at Christie's auction was sold to just one of these books signed! The inscription is written for the publisher Henry Kaiser and dated October 1922. So it is no surprise that the final cost of a curiosity reached a record $ 460,500 pre-sale estimate at the maximum $ 300,000.

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[bykinist]

James Joyce - one of my favorite authors.

Finnegan's Wake - a phenomenon of 20th century literature.

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Сообщение от bykinist

James Joyce - one of my favorite authors.

Strange you type: in you somehow oddly combined, for example, love to Joyce and quite ugly bydlyache gopnichesky-mockery to the dilettantehere.

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzran

quite ugly bydlyache gopnichesky-mockery to the amateurs.

She deserved it his ugly bydlyache-gopnicheskim attitude to the members of the forum.

You are blind and deaf?

[bykinist]

N.B. It is interesting that out of the top ten , seven books were written by American writers. England - 2 . Ireland - 1 , but the first place !

And I was very impressed at school age :

"You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can, and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use ... silence, exile, and cunning. "
(James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man )

I do not know how to treat this now.

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Сообщение от Magnolia, 2425191

She has earned it its ugly bydlyache-gopnicheskim relation to the members of the forum.

You would stop your nonsense here to print as well?

[bykinist]

Сообщение от Cyril Syzran

Strange you type: in you somehow oddly combined, for example, love to Joyce and quite ugly bydlyache gopnichesky-mockery to the dilettantehere.

I think you and I were born under the same star.
)

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Сообщение от bykinist

I do not know how to treat this now.

bykinist, do not rush fate.
There will come a time when you feel your whole being his destiny in Mire.

Such a moment comes to all ask (from the word "ask")

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Cyril Syzran, what is the answer deaf?
Do you have a special interest in protecting hamovatye Dilettante?
Let me apologize for my rudeness, and the issue will be closed.

[Toinen]

Magnolia, first read your nonsense was fun, but you have decided to add to delirium rudeness, but this is too much!

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Toinen, I defended myself from rudeness, which once led the amateurs.

It hurt, she wants an apology.
What was she thinking when Khamila others?