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Originally Posted by swiss tony
Yeah, maybe I got the chronology wrong there. When you think about it, there really isn't any part of the movie that isn't lifted directly from the book.
Give me your opinion on this; I was offered a signed 1st edition of Dracula by a local book dealer for £500. Are there any collectors on here who know if that is a good price? It struck me as being cheap but given that I'm in Ireland, there's probably a lot of his stuff floating about (kinda like a bat:)), thus driving prices down.
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I imagine Dracula had a fairly substantial print run, first of all. And second of all, Stoker was in the habit of autographing things and giving out swag of various kinds. Not to mention the book is a hundred years old. A Stoker autograph would not be such a rare thing. A first edition, not quite so incomprehensible, because as I said, large print run which also drives down the price of rare books. A first edition of The Great Gatsby would be worth a fortune because Scribner's had little faith in the success of the book so did not print that large a run. So 500, which is about a thousand bucks in the states, is a reasonable price for the item I think. I'm not an expert, but I've had some experience with book dealers and know about what drives up the price of collectible books. Also, a dealer is probably not going to sell of a forgery of something as ubiquitous as Dracula and doesn't have all that much to gain from cheating you. Dealers make a profit by fucking the person who sells things to them, not the buyer.