PFC40 First Edition Books Index
PFC40 First Edition Books Index
Price performance of the world's 40 most popular first edition books, from 2004 to 2014
Up 23.1% pa, Huxleys Brave New World has top performed since 2004
The PFC40 First Edition Books Index tracks the value of popular first edition fiction books that are regularly traded around the world.
Values shown are reflective of a good condition example with dust jacket - unless otherwise stated.
Summary:
The index is up 140.3% (9.2% per annum) between 2004 and 2014.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World achieved the greatest percentage increase in value - up 700% between 2004 and 2014, or 23.1% per annum, from 500 to 4,000.
F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is the most valuable book in the top 40, at 90,000.
JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the best performing contemporary work - up 483.3% (19.3% per annum) to 17,500.
Most valuable books
F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby: 90,000
James Joyce, Ulysses: 85,000
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: 75,000
Best performing books between 2004-2014
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World: up 23.1% per annum to 4,000
JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: up 20.9% per annum to 30,000
AA Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh: up 20.1% per annumto 2,500
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2004-2014
Book
2004 ()
2014 ()
2004-2014 Inc
Per annum
Jane Austen: Emma (1815)
8,000
12,000
50.0%
4.1%
L Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
5,500
18,000
227.3%
12.6%
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (1847)
20,000
30,000
50.0%
4.1%
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange (1962)
6,000
7,500
25.0%
2.3%
Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (second issue) (1865)
5,000
15,000
200.0%
11.6%
Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
2,500
4,000
60.0%
4.8%
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol (1843)
12,000
27,500
129.2%
8.7%
TS Eliot: The Waste Land (1922)
11,500
22,500
95.7%
6.9%
F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby (1925)
35,000
90,000
157.1%
9.9%
Ian Fleming: Casino Royale (1953)
16,000
45,000
181.3%
10.9%
EM Forster: A Passage to India (1924)
4,000
7,000
75.0%
5.8%
William Golding: Lord of the Flies (1954)
3,000
6,000
100.0%
7.2%
Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows (1908)
4,000
8,500
112.5%
7.8%
Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
2,000
4,000
100.0%
7.2%
Ernest Hemingway: For whom the bell tolls (1940)
6,250
9,000
44.0%
3.7%
Joseph Heller: Catch 22 (1961)
750
1,750
133.3%
8.8%
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World (1932)
500
4,000
700.0%
23.1%
James Joyce: Ulysses (1922)
30,000
85,000
183.3%
11.0%
Jack Kerouac: On the Road (1957)
1,650
3,000
81.8%
6.2%
Stephen King: Carrie (1974)
900
1,250
38.9%
3.3%
CS Lewis: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
4,000
7,500
87.5%
6.5%
George RR Martin: A Game of Thrones (signed) (1996)
200
750
275.0%
14.1%
AA Milne: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
400
2,500
525.0%
20.1%
John Milton: Paradise Lost (1667)
7,000
16,000
128.6%
8.6%
Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind (1936)
6,500
8,000
23.8%
2.1%
LM Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables (1908)
8,250
14,000
69.7%
5.4%
George Orwell: 1984 (1949)
2,500
6,500
160.0%
10.0%
Edgar Alan Poe: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)
11,000
25,000
127.3%
8.6%
JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)
3,000
17,500
483.3%
19.3%
Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (1980)
1,300
2,000
53.9%
4.4%
JD Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
2,800
8,500
203.6%
11.7%
Dr Seuss: The Cat in the Hat (1957)
2,000
5,000
150.0%
9.6%
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1818)
30,000
75,000
150.0%
9.6%
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
1,750
3,750
114.3%
7.9%
JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955)
4,500
30,000
566.7%
20.9%
Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
10,000
25,000
150.0%
9.6%
Evelyn Waugh: Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-1961)
400
750
87.5%
6.5%
HG Wells: The War of the Worlds (no dust jacket) (1898)
500
2,750
450.0%
18.6%
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
1,750
3,750
114.3%
7.9%
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse (1927)
2,750
6,000
118.2%
8.1%
275,150
661,250
140.3%
9.2
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