The list of the top 500 books (or related paper items) to sell at auction for 2011 is now available. Beyond a first edition of Gulliver’s Travels, there was no SF I could spot, but a number of interesting items, including Action Comics #1, the founding documents for Apple Computer, the original manuscript for an unfinished Jane Austen novel, and the usual assortment of illuminated manuscripts. Also, a copy of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep inscribed to his wife; at $254,500, that may be the most I’ve ever seen a work of 20th century American fiction go for.
And here are all 500 books in a handy spreadsheet format.
Tags: book auction, Books, First Edition