Book Prices and Auctions

Recent Modern First Edition Book Sales

Sebastian Faulks, Devil May Care - Bentley Limited 1st Edition - starring Ian Fleming's James Bond. Sold for $1681.56 on ebay in August 08 by flatsigned books.	James Patterson, Hardcover in original jacket. States First Edition on the copyright page. $7.95 price intact on jacket. Jacket has minor edgewear. Book is solid with minimal wear. Sold for $999 on ebay in August 08 by flatsigned books.	Philip Pullman - Dark Materials Trilogy Northern Lights 1995 1st/1st The Subtle Knife 1997 Variant 1st/1st The Amber Spyglass 2000 1st/1st **Very Scarce Set Of First Editions In Lovely Condition** sold for £650 ($1182.35) on ebay..
Stephen King, Carrie - A First Edition signed by Stephen King sold for $1700 on ebay in August 2008. The original price for the book in 1974 was $5.95.	Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1st English edition, signed by the author on title, original boards, dust-jacket, light marking, edge wear, frayed at corners and head of spine with loss, sold at Bloomsbury Auctions, London on 7th August 2008 for £360.	Graham Greene - The Man Within - William Heinemann, Ltd., 1929. 8vo. Original black cloth with gilt spine title in white dust jacket lettered in blue. Condition: edges lightly spotted, gilt title very bright and unfaded; minor rubbing to jacket with one tiny closed tear to upper edge of front panel, else fine and wholly unrestored, scarce thus. sold at Bloomsbury Auctions, New York on 19th June 2008 for $5,000.
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five First Edition with Inscription New York: Delacorte Press, 1969. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt, in dust jacket; custom folding cloth case. Condition: spine lightly faded as usual, a little offsetting along flap edges. sold at Bloomsbury Auctions, New York on 19th June 2008 for $3,200.	Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children, first English edition, first issue with the American sheets , signed by the author on title, original cloth-backed boards, slightly yellowed at edges, dust-jacket, spine slightly sunned as usual, very light sunning to top edges of panels, light stain to lower fore-corner of upper panel, 8vo, 1981. sold at Bloomsbury Auctions, London on 7th August 2008 for £500.	Ian Mcewan, First Loves, Last Rites -First edition in fine condition sold for £353 on ebay.co.uk in August 2008.