Список самых дорогих книг XX века

(Values relate to first editions in very good condition)

1) Ulysses by James Joyce (Shakespeare & Company, 1922), £100,000

2) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (George Newnes, 1902) £80,000

3) Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence (The Oxford Times, 1922) £60,000

4) The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner's, 1925) £50,000+++

5) The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (privately printed, 1901) £50,000++

6) Poems by WH Auden (Privately Printed, 1928) £30,000

6) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner's, 1926) £30,000

8) Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (Heinemann, 1938) £25,000++

9) The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Knopf, 1930) £25,000+

9) Night and Day by Virginia Woolf (Duckworth, 1919) £25,000+

9) Three Stories & Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway (Contact Publishing, 1923) £25,000+

9) A Lume Spento by Ezra Pound (privately printed, 1908) £25,000+

13) In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (Three Mountains Press, 1924) £25,000

13) Nine Experiments by SHS by Stephen Spender (privately printed, 1928) £25,000

13) The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (Unwin, 1937) £25,000

16) Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf (Hogarth Press, 1922) £20,000 — £25,000

16) Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (McClurg, 1914) £20,000 — £25,000

18) The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Jonathan Cape, 1929) £20,000+

18) After Two Years by Graham Greene (The Rosaio Press, 1949) £20,000+

18) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (The Egoist Press, 1917) £20,000+

18) The Blue Guitar by David Hockney (Petersburg Press, 1976-7) £20,000+

18) The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (John Lane, 1920) £20,000+

23) Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (Jonathan Cape, 1953) £15,000 — £20,000

24) The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien (Unwin, 1954/5) £15,000+

24) Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett (Knopf, 1929) £15,000+

24) A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust (Bernard Grasset/La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1913-27) £15,000+

24) A Quinzaine for This Yule by Ezra Pound (Pollock & Co, 1908) £15,000+

28) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum (Geo. M. Hill Co, 1900) £15,000

28) Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner's, 1934) £15,000

28) Vision in Spring (privately printed, 1921), The Marble Faun (Four Seas, 1926), Soldier's Pay (Boni & Liveright, 1926), all by William Faulkner, £15,000

28) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling (Bloomsbury, 1997) £15,000

28) Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck (McBride, US, 1929) £15,000

28) Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Hogarth Press, 1925) £15,000

34) Rumour at Nightfall by Graham Greene (Heinemann, 1931) £12,000 — £15,000

35) The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett (Knopf, 1929) £10,000 — £15,000

35) More Pricks Than Kicks by Samuel Beckett (Chatto & Windus, 1934) £10,000 — £15,000

35) Two Stories by Virginia Woolf and LS Woolf (Hogarth Press, 1917) £10,000 — £15,000

38) Dandy No.1 (D.C. Thomson, 1937, with 'Express Whistler'), Beano No.1 (D.C. Thomson, 1938, with Whoopee mask), both £12,000+

38) The Bridge by Hart Crane (1930) £12,000+

38) The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (The Bodley Head, 1923) £12,000+

38) The World to Come by Evelyn Waugh (Westminster Press, 1916) £12,000+

41) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (Hogarth Press, 1927) £12,000

41) Quaint Fragment by Lawrence Durrell (Cecil Press, 1931) £12,000

44) The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter (privately printed, 1902,) £10,000 — £12,000

45) Camera Obscura by Vladimir Nabokov (Long, 1936) £10,000+

45) Poirot Investigates (The Bodley Head, 1924) and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Collins, 1926), both by Agatha Christie, £10,000+

45) The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (Little Brown, 1951) £10,000+

45) This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner's, 1920) £10,000+

49) The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (Blackwood, 1915) £8,500 — £10,000+

50) The Peter Pan Portfolio by JM Barrie (Hodder & Stoughton, 1912) £10,000

50) The Pyramids by Rupert Brooke (Rugby Press, 1904) £10,000

50) Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt, 1920) £10,000

53) Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence (1928) £8,000 — £10,000

54) Despair by Vladimir Nabokov (Long, 1937) £7,000 — £10,000

54) Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf (Hogarth Press, 1919) £7,000 — £10,000

54) East of the Sun and West of the Moon by Kay Neilsen (illustrator) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1914) £7,000 — £10,000

57) The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin (Warne, 1903/4) and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (Warne, 1904), both by Beatrix Potter, £7,000 — £9,000

58) Vile Bodies (Chapman & Hall, 1930) and Brideshead Revisted (Chapman & Hall, 1945) both by Evelyn Waugh, £8,000+

59) Murphy by Samuel Beckett (Routledge, 1938) £6,000 — £8,000

60) Winnie-the-Pooh by AA Milne (1926) £7,500

60) Prufrock and Other Observations (The Egoist Ltd., 1917) and Poems (Hogarth Press, 1919) both by TS Eliot, £7,500+

62) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis (Geoffrey Bles, 1950) £6,000 — £7,500

63) England Made Me (Heinemann, 1935), A Gun for Sale (Heinemann, 1936) and The Power and the Glory (Heinemann, 1940) both by Graham Greene, £7,000+

63) On The Road by Jack Kerouac (Viking, 1957) £7,000+

63) Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming (Jonathan Cape, 1954) £7,000+

66) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott, 1960) £6,000+

66) En Attendant Godot by Samuel Beckett (Editions de Minuit, 1952) £6,000+

66) Sons and Lovers by DH Lawrence (Duckworth, 1913) £6,000+

66) The Secret Adversary (The Bodley Head, 1922), The Man in the Brown Suit (The Bodley Head, 1924), The Secret of Chimneys (The Bodley Head, 1925), The Big Four (Collins, 1927), The Mystery of the Blue Train (Collins, 1928) and The Sittaford Mystery (Collins, 1931), all by Agatha Christie, £6,000+

66) The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (Knopf, 1939) £6,000+

66) The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (Obelisk Press, 1934) £6,000+

66) Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (Chapman & Hall, 1928) £6,000+

73) Call For the Dead by John Le Carre (Gollancz, 1961) £6,000

73) When We Were Very Young by AA Milne (Methuen, 1924) £6,000

75) Journey Without Maps (Heinemann, 1936), The Confidential Agent (Heinemann, 1939) and The Ministry of Fear (Heinemann, 1943), all by Graham Greene, £4,000 — £6,000

75) The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle (Warne, 1905), The Pie and the Patty-Pan (Warne, 1905), The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher (Warne, 1906), The Tale of Tom Kitten (Warne, 1907), The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (Warne, 1908), The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (Warne, 1909), The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse (Warne, 1910) and The Fairy Caravan (privately printed, 1929) all by Beatrix Potter, £4,000 — £6,000

75) The Globe By The Way Book by PG Wodehouse (Globe Publishing Co, 1908) £4,000 — £6,000

78) The Rainbow by DH Lawrence (Methuen, 1915) £5,500+

79) The Murder at the Vicarage (Collins, 1930), Murder on the Orient Express (Collins, 1934), Peril at End House (Collins, 1932), The Thirteen Problems (Collins, 1932), The Listerdale Mystery (Collins, 1934), Lord Edgware Dies (Collins, 1933) and The Seven Dials Mystery (Collins, 1929) all by Agatha Christie, £5,000+

79) On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming (Jonathan Cape, 1963) £5,000+

79) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (Methuen, 1908) £5,000+

79) The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett (Knopf, 1931) £5,000+

79) Dubliners by James Joyce (Grant Richards, 1914) £5,000+

79) King Kong by Delos W Lovelace (Grosset & Dunlap, 1932) £5,000+

79) The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (Collin Smythe, 1983) £5,000+

79) The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen (Stokes, US, 1929) £5,000+

79) The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck (Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932) £5,000+

79) The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (Heinemann, 1922) £5,000+

89) Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (Jonathan Cape, 1930) £5,000

90) Greenmantle by John Buchan (Hodder & Stoughton, 1916) £4,000 — £5,000

90) Lord of the Flies by William Golding(Faber, 1954) £4,000 — £5,000

90) Something Fresh by PG Wodehouse (Methuen, 1915) £4,000 — £5,000

93) Parker Pyne Investigates (Collins, 1934), The ABC Murders (Collins, 1936), Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (Collins, 1934) all by Agatha Christie, £4,000+

93) Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan, 1936) £4,000+

93) Whose Body? by Dorothy L Sayers (Unwin, 1923) £4,000+

93) The Man With Two Left Feet by PG Wodehouse (Methuen, 1917) £4,000+

97) Babbling April (Blackwell, 1925) and The Name of Action (Heinemann, 1930) by Graham Greene, £4,000

97) Chamber Music by James Joyce (Elkin Mathews, 1907) £4,000

97) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (Viking, US, 1962) £4,000

97) Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (Scholastic, 1995) £4,000