Question 3: How long have you collected first editions?
Answer: I bought my first one from Lemuria 10-12 years ago. I look for Faulkners, Hemingways, Steinbecks, and the occasional Mark Twain. The market for these has held up extremely well. Plus, they’re great to touch and look at.
Question 4: Do you have any first editions of A Time To Kill?
Answer: Yep, buried in the back yard. At one time I owned 1000 of the 5000 firsts, and I was desperately trying to sell them. This was back in 1989. I stopped when I had about a 100 left.
Question 5: So you collect your own books?
Answer: Only the first three have any real value as first editions – A Time To Kill, The Firm, and The Pelican Brief. After that, the first printings were large and killed any chance of owning a rare book. A keep a stash of all my books. I enjoy giving them away.
Stay tuned to the blog over the coming weeks: John Grisham will be answering more of his own questions no one has ever asked him before.
See if you can correctly answer Question #1 to win signed first editions and other goodies. (By the way, John Evans, has added one more prize to the pot: A signed first edition of King of Torts—click here to find out more.) This first question will be answered at the end of Grisham’s question series.
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