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\"\"<\/a>From Moonraker to A Farewell To Arms, the rare books making over \u00a3300 million annually<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Michael Hodges For Event Magazine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Got an old paperback of Moonraker gathering dust on your bookshelf? Get it down to this year\u2019s Antiquarian Book Fair and it could make you \u00a355,000. But unearth a first edition of Marilyn Monroe\u2019s favourite book and you could REALLY hit the jackpot…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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While Marilyn Monroe used to enjoy reading James Joyce\u2019s challenging novel Ulysses aloud to make sense of it, if you find a first edition in good condition complete with dust jacket, you could make \u00a3250,000<\/p><\/div>
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Sometimes, you really should judge a book by the cover \u2013 it might make you money.\u00a0Blow the dust from that old James Bond hardback propping up a spider plant in the sitting room.\u00a0Does it reveal a first edition, complete with slightly sinister dust jacket by acclaimed British illustrator Richard Chopping?<\/span><\/p>\n

Then it could be worth \u00a33,100 (as long as you haven\u2019t watered the plant recently). That\u2019s the asking price for a skull-adorned copy of Ian Fleming\u2019s Goldfinger at the 58th London Antiquarian Book Fair, which opens at Olympia on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ten years ago Fleming collectors would have been at the front of the queue to claim it, but now there are likely to be just as many Chopping fans.\u00a0The increasing popularity of dust-jacket collecting is just one aspect of a burgeoning rare book market that runs from modernists such as James Joyce to mammoth examples of the printer\u2019s art.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Birds Of America by early 19th century painter and naturalist John James Audubon sold for an astonishing \u00a37,321,250 in 2010 at Christie\u2019s London auction rooms.\u00a0Internationally, the rare book market is worth over \u00a3322.25 million annually, big enough to ensure that crowds of enthusiastic bibliophiles will be pushing through the doors of Olympia next weekend.\u00a0Among them will be the legendary book dealer and international Booker Prize judge Rick Gekoski.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Nobody gets rich doing this,\u2019 says Gekoski, now 70, ruefully.\u00a0\u2018The biggest book firms might have a turnover of say \u00a310 million or \u00a315 million, and profits of even a few hundred thousand in a year are very rare in the trade.\u00a0‘Rather it\u2019s the possibility that this time you\u2019ll find something special.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

For Gekoski, that something special is often in the small personal details.\u00a0\u2018I have a copy of The Return Of AJ Raffles by Graham Greene,\u2019 he says.\u00a0\u2018It\u2019s not a particularly important play but Greene signed the book to Catherine Walston, the great love of his life.\u00a0‘She was a femme fatale who caught Greene by asking him to be her godfather when she joined the Catholic Church. I\u2019d say it\u2019s worth \u00a33,600, but more importantly that copy of the book brings back the wonderful story of this fantastic seduction.\u2019\u00a0Copies signed by the author are increasingly sought after by collectors. They add both value and what Gekoski calls the \u2018alchemy of the writer\u2019s presence\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, some writers are more generous inscribers than others.\u00a0\u2018Ernest Hemingway was a very sociable guy,\u2019 says Gekoski. \u2018He liked to drink and when he did, he liked to give people his books, so he signed many.\u00a0‘TS Eliot signed a little bit but Thomas Pynchon rarely ever does.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Which is good news if you own one of his books. In the U.S., signed first editions of Pynchon\u2019s 1997 novel Mason And Dixon fetch over $50,000, but how can you be sure a signature is genuine?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018There have been a number of faked Hemingway inscriptions,\u2019 says Gekoski.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Though they wouldn\u2019t fool somebody who really knew Hemingway\u2019s hand. A good forger can even make ink from the Twenties but at the \u00a32,500 price level and below people take it for granted that things are all right and 99 per cent of the time they are.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

More than 30 years in the business has taught Gekoski a simple rule that equally applies if you are just starting to collect or are an established dealer with a list of rich clients.\u00a0\u2018The earlier the book,\u2019 he says, \u2018then the less known the author. The less known the author then the less copies they\u2019ll print. The less copies they print, the higher the price.\u2019\u00a0He cites a first edition of Harry Potter And The Philosopher\u2019s Stone as an example.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018When Bloomsbury signed JK Rowling an editor took her to lunch and said: \u2018We are happy to publish this but nobody makes money out of children\u2019s books.\u2019\u00a0Consequently Bloomsbury only printed 500 copies of the first edition of The Philosopher\u2019s Stone in 1997. I\u2019ve had a copy of that first edition reach \u00a320,000.\u2019\u00a0If that\u2019s slightly out of your range we\u2019ve picked ten other fascinating books you can find on the stands at this year\u2019s show.\u00a0The London International Antiquarian Book Fair is at Olympia from Thursday to May 30, www.olympiabookfair.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nTen rare titles to look out for at this year\u2019s fair<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

 
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1. Moonraker (1955)<\/span><\/strong>, Ian Fleming –\u00a0Value: \u00a355,000<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ian Fleming\u2019s adventurer brother Peter is often cited as the prototype Bond, but the hawkishly handsome Ivar Bryce, his close friend at Eton and a renowned womaniser, inspired 007\u2019s sexual success<\/p><\/div>
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\"\"It\u2019s hard to think of a 007 book with better provenance than this first-edition copy of Moonraker, inscribed and presented by Ian Fleming to Ivar Bryce, his close friend at Eton. Bryce was also a fellow employee of British intelligence during the Second World War, working in New York alongside Roald Dahl (who would go on to write the screenplay for the 1967 film You Only Live Twice, starring Sean Connery). Such personal details from a truly world-famous author can have a startling effect on price and the Bryce Moonraker is expected to demand upwards of \u00a355,000. Fleming\u2019s adventurer brother Peter is often cited as the prototype Bond, but the hawkishly handsome Bryce, a renowned womaniser, inspired 007\u2019s sexual success. Ironically, Bond\u2019s charms fail in Moonraker. Shortly after she has helped 007 launch a nuclear missile into the North Sea, Special Branch officer Gala Brand rejects him for her fianc\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2. The Lord Of The Rings (1954-55)<\/strong><\/span> \/Songs For The Philologists (1936), JRR Tolkien Value: \u00a320,000\/\u00a313,550<\/span><\/p>\n

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Near-pristine sets of the three-volume Lord Of The Rings first editions don\u2019t come up for sale often, which is why this copy \u2013 complete with maps and illustrations by the author \u2013 is expected to fetch over \u00a320,000<\/p><\/div>
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\"\"Near-pristine sets of the three-volume Lord Of The Rings first editions don\u2019t come up for sale often, which is why this copy \u2013 complete with maps and illustrations by the author \u2013 is expected to fetch over \u00a320,000. The fair also offers a glimpse of a younger Tolkien. In the early Twenties, he and colleagues at the University of Leeds formed the Viking Club, meeting to drink ale and write poetry inspired by Norse sagas. The poems were gathered together as Songs For The Philologists in the Thirties, but most copies were destroyed in a disastrous fire as the One Ring one day would be. That makes this rare survivor worth \u00a313,550.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more: From Moonraker to A Farewell To Arms<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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