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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19910618
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Q. What is the value of a 1966 edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," published by Amilcare Pizzi in Milan, Italy? The book has a red cover and large illustrations by Gustave Dore. A.P., Northampton A. According to Hugh Stockmayer at Boston's Brattle Book Shop, some of the most valuable editions illustrated by Dore (whose art also enhanced works by such writers as Dante Alighieri, Alfred Tennyson and Edgar Allan Poe) were published by Hachette & Cassell. Some of these editions on good paper stock are worth as much as $100. Your Italian edition may be worth $35 ...
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