Bookplanet: world's most valuable 1st editions

=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