I think the general rule of thumb is that a 20th century first edition without its cover is worth about 10% of a jacketed copy.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
about 100 novels published in 1848 - https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/graphs_publ.php
― woof, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 14:55 (five years ago) link
Oh it's totally a wikipedia failing not a reflection of reality
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
great link, thanks. made my life 10x more difficult but hey...
a lot of those books on that site don't appear to be anywhere else on the internet. no gutenberg, no archive.org, not a lot in the way of google results...
i wonder what happened in 1862...
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
year of the great london exposition = general uptick in cultural interests everywhere
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
Lady Audley's Secret! xp
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
her secret was yeast iirc
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
sorry
Haha
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
hmmmmm but no corresponding 1851 uptick for the great exhibition. Seems like a sudden, big and unsustained leap just off the back of sensation fiction, but maybe you're right LBI - Braddon makes the industry/reading public explode. Could be an artefact of their methodology - they call 1862 a 'benchmark year (i.e., all titles added)' - maybe they've just dug and dug into that year in particular? I am intrigued.
― woof, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
exhibition = showing exposition = telling
i wasn't proposing it very seriously, just reading off the likeliest thing in wikipedia "what happened in 1862 in the uk" page (as we've established, such litsts may not be complete)
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
we must examine all hypotheses carefully. I'm currently working through the idea that it's to do with the founding of Notts County.
― woof, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
first edition Old Man and the Sea
This edition was a HUGE first printing, bcz it was Hemingway and he was at the height of his reputation and popularity; it was kind of comparable to that CD release by Adele a couple of years ago that was hyped to the hilt.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
Checked my bookshelves for old books but didn't get any further back than mid 60s (second hand Algis Budrys)
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
Collected "Illustrated London News" for 1874. Lots of fighting in Afghanistan and S Africa that year, apparently.
― An Uphill Battle For Legumes (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
think the only pre-twentieth century copy of a book i have is a scuffed-up 2 volume of the anatomy of melancholy from 1813... one of the myriad of editions that seem to have come out around that time. other than that would be an early reprint of algernon blackwood's john silence stories sporting a theosophical swastika on the title page.
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
"The Top Ten Best Sellers According to the Sunday New York Times as of January 7, 1973." Again, lots of things already largely forgotten, especially on the accompanying non-fiction list
All second-rate books (or worse), but as for "largely forgotten" I remember almost all of them, not from having read them all, but as things that existed at the time and books I have often seen over the decades as used books. I could probably provide a thumbnail description for 17 of those 20.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
thread and poll pls
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
Aimless, I'm sceptical that today's young ppl share yr deep James Herriot knowledge, but am willing to be convinced o/wise.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
"I'm OK, You're OK" is...OK
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
I know I am becoming more of an outlier every day.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
> We have some nice old Dickens editions, mid-C19th
do you mean this? because that's when he was writing them...
Yeah, but these are far from 1st eds, and not bound periodicals, and from pretty huge print runs even from the time
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 18 October 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link