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January 22, 2006: "Book & Magazine Collector" Compares 20th Century Rarities
"RARE first editions of Ulysses by James Joyce have topped a list of the most valuable fiction works of the 20th century."
"Virginia Woolf once said in a review of Ulysses: "Never have I read such tosh." But a 1922 copy printed on Dutch handmade paper and signed by the author is worth £100,000. ($235,600), Book & Magazine Collector magazine reports. The first edition comprised 1000 copies but only 100 had the all-important signature."
"The second most valuable first edition is a 1902 copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, with dust jacket, valued at £80,000."
