{"id":12596,"date":"2014-05-29T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2015-01-19T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T21:42:06","slug":"book-auction-watch-bonhams-june-18-book-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=12596","title":{"rendered":"Book Auction Watch: Bonhams June 18 Book Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Auction houses other than Heritage do occasionally<\/i> offer up notable science fiction first editions. On June 18, Bonhams is offering up<\/a>:<\/p>\n

  • A first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit<\/b> in a tattered dust jacket<\/a>. Copies in dust jacket are not unknown, but they do come on the market fairly infrequently, so even one (like this) with significant chips is likely to go for a pretty penny.\n
  • The first U.S. edition of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth<\/b>.<\/a>\n
  • However, the most expensive item in the auction is probably not SF, but one of the 150 signed oversized arches paper first editions (out of a total of 1,000 copies for all states) of James Joyce’s Ulysses<\/b>, once owned by a friend of Vladamir Nabakov<\/a>. These were rare enough to begin with, but the oversized paperback nature pretty much guarantees it’s designed to fall apart over time, so even remotely intact copies are very expensive when you find them. A comparable copy of this edition in a more common binding state sold for $35,000 at Heritage in 2012<\/a>, and James Cummins has a copy of the arches paper edition that once belonged to composer Virgil Thomson listed for $75,000<\/a>. It wouldn’t surprise me to see some collector of modernist highpoints go bonkers over this…\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Auction houses other than Heritage do occasionally offer up notable science fiction first editions. On June 18, Bonhams is offering up: A first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit in a tattered dust jacket. Copies in dust jacket are not unknown, but they do come on the market fairly infrequently, so even one (like this) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,5],"tags":[436,1973,1983,434,1792,1970],"class_list":["post-12596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-science-fiction","tag-book-auction","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-james-joyce","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12596"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13456,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12596\/revisions\/13456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}