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Charles Dickens collectors see prices rise as signed book fetches £275k, here's how to invest from just £100
"Charles Dickens is arguably the nation's greatest novelist as well as the most collectable. A signed copy of A Tale Of Two Cities was last month put up for sale for a record-breaking £275,000. The previous top price paid for the Victorian author's work was $290,000 (£ 174,000) for a pre-publication copy of A Christmas Carol in 2009. The signed copy of A Tale Of Two Cities is special as it is inscribed to fellow writer George Eliot real name Mary Ann Evans. But Brian Lake, president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, says the key appeal of Dickens is that there is a wide range of books and ephemera to suit all pockets ..."
"Charles Dickens is arguably the nation’s greatest novelist – as well as the most collectable. A signed copy of A Tale Of Two Cities was last month put up for sale for a record-breaking £275,000. The previous top price paid for the Victorian author’s work was $290,000 (£174,000) for a pre-publication copy of A Christmas Carol in 2009.
The signed copy of A Tale Of Two Cities is special as it is inscribed to fellow writer George Eliot – real name Mary Ann Evans. But Brian Lake, president of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association, says the key appeal of Dickens is that there is a wide range of books and ephemera to suit all pockets ..."
Charles Dickens collectors see prices rise as signed book fetches £275k, here's how to invest from just £100
>>> Read the whole article featuring ABA President Brian Lake in This is Money.