St. Dunstan editions prices, 1903-2024

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2024

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Hovde, Sarah. "'For billionaire booklovers': George D. Sproul’s St. Dunstan Editions." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 118, no.4 (2024), 593-613.

Abstract

This is a dataset of auction and sale prices between 1903 and 2024 for the St. Dunstan Illuminated Editions, a set of de luxe editions published by George D. Sproul between 1901-1904.

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The following reference sources were consulted for titles, issue numbers, former owners and/or sellers, booksellers and/or auction houses, sales dates, and prices (asking, hammer, and/or realized): auction websites; American Book Prices Current (ABPC); Book Auction Records (BAR), Bookman's Price Index (BPI); Book Prices Current (BPC); Rare Book Hub (RBH); and selected newspaper articles (New York Times, New York Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Publisher's Weekly) and auction catalogs. Sales records from these sources were cross-checked against each other, and supplemented with CPI-adjusted 2023 prices calculated using the MeasuringWorth.com Purchasing Power calculator.

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