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23Nov2009

THE RAREST OF THE SPECIES...

DateMonday, November 23, 2009 at 09:52AM

I just love books and I am always fascinated by stories like this!

A first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which was kept on a toilet bookshelf, is to be sold. It is hoped the book, which was bought about 40 years ago in a West Country shop for a few shillings, will reach £60,000 in Tuesday's auction. The book was kept on a bookcase in a guest lavatory at the owner's family home in Oxfordshire. Just 1,250 copies of the work were produced in 1859. In April one sold at auction in Norfolk for £35,000.

Isn't that just amazing? When I was over in the US last month, I visited a rather upmarket store which specialised in first editions/and or books of a very rare and precious value. The prices sought were astronomical so I did not purchase any of the offerings even though they included a signed first edition of Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" and a letter signed by Abe Lincoln! I got a kick out of seeing so many special and unique books on offer and the fact that this Darwinian offering could be sitting around in a lavatory for all those years tickles me pink!

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Have faith David. Maybe in 100 years a first edition, signed copy of 'Unionism Decayed' might be worth a small fortune?

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 02:18PM | Registered CommenterJM

Were you in this shop?

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 02:22PM | Registered CommenterThe Phantom

Phantom

Yes!

JM

My legacy! Wonder could I get the cash upfront?

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 03:45PM | Unregistered CommenterDavid Vance

There is something really special about hardbacks compared to paperback but how wonderful to have a first edition of some classic you loved (fiction or non fiction)

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 04:37PM | Registered Commenteraileen

My fantasy first edition would be "1984". Orwell is my favourite author of the last century.

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:04PM | Registered CommenterDavid Vance

Autographed first edition of The Bible.

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:08PM | Registered CommenterPaul Mc Mahon

lol! Can't beat that.

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:11PM | Registered CommenterDavid Vance

I'd like a first edition of the oldest book ever written. It's a diary written by a guy called Adam. It's pretty mundane stuff really, but ends unexpectedly with an entry that says... "Oh here comes my lovely wife Eve, she's got me onto this healthy eating lark and it looks like all I'm getting for lunch is an apple...

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:13PM | Registered CommenterColm

Some apple...
....some progeny..

Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10:30PM | Registered CommenterDanny Boy

Just wondering David, if you'd file Darwin's Opus under fact or fiction?

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 12:29AM | Registered CommenterRS

Unproven.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 08:43AM | Registered CommenterDavid Vance

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