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Rare editions of famous books worth a fortune

Are these valuable books on your shelves?
Bridget Jones's Diary: up to $660 (£500)
The Ruby in the Smoke: up to $930 (£750)
Good-Bye to All That: up to $2,500 (£2,020)
Trainspotting: up to $3,500 (£2,830)
Decline and Fall: up to $8,055 (£6,500)
The Pothunters: up to $8,055 (£6,500)
Lucky Jim: up to $8,365 (£6,750)
The Talented Mr Ripley: up to $9,500 (£7,680)
The Waste Land: $11,000 (£8,875)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: $12,500 (£10k)
Nineteen Eighty-Four: $12,500 (£10k)
Animal Farm: $12,500 (£10k)
The Time Machine: up to $15,000 (£12,120)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: up to $15,000 (£12,120)
The Postman Always Rings Twice: up to $20,000 (£16,140)
Fahrenheit 451: up to $20,000 (£16,140)
The Hound of the Baskervilles: up to $25,000 (£20,175)
Lord of the Flies: up to $27,500 (£22,190)
Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: $31,000 (£24,000)
The Grapes of Wrath: up to $32,000 (£25,000)
The Power and the Glory: up to $32,500 (£26,225)
Live and Let Die: up to $35,000 (£28,245)
Brave New World: up to $40,000 (£32,380)
The Christopher Robin Books: up to $40,275 (£32,500)
Prufrock and Other Observations: up to $43,370 (£35,000)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy: up to $55,765 (£45,000)
The Catcher in the Rye: up to $60,000 (£48,420)
The Hobbit: up to $60,000 (£48,420)
The Marble Faun: up to $71,255 (£57,500)
In Our Time: up to $75,000 (£60,525)
Dracula: up to $75,000 (£60,525)
Tender Is the Night: up to $85,000 (£68,595)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit: up to $89,220 (£72,000)
On the Road: up to $93,000 (£75,000)
The Great Gatsby: up to $100,000 (£80,700)
Jane Eyre: up to $125,000 (£100,875)
The Fountainhead: up to $125,000 (£100,875)
Casino Royale: up to $145,000 (£117,010)
Ulysses: up to $150,000 (£121,045)
Pride and Prejudice: up to $172,555 (£139,250)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone: up to $185,000 (£149,290)
Das Kapital: up to $279,580 (£225,615)
William Shakespeare First Folio: $9.97 million (£7.7m)
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Are these valuable books on your shelves?

You may not have thought too much of it when you bought your first Harry Potter book or that tattered copy of The Catcher in the Rye from a garage sale, but you might want to look again. Here are some very valuable first editions and what they are worth, using prices from AbeBooks and other book dealers and auction houses. Click or scroll through to find out the books that are worth a fortune. Note that the highest prices only tend to be achieved for pristine first-edition hardback copies with their original dustjacket coverings, if applicable. All dollar values in US dollars.

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15 November 2022

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