Stirling teacher's 'first-edition books' fetch 226K pounds at auction

The literary editions collected by an English teacher from Stirling were sold for a total of 226,000 pounds at an auction in Edinburgh.

Bruce Ritchie, who died in October 2012, owned first editions of classic works such as Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol -1843.

The lot also contained Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows- 1908 and Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, the BBC reported.

A first edition of F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' was bought for 1,875 pounds.

Other books in the lot included a first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), which was sold for 4,400 pounds.

Some of the first editions in the sale

History Of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749) - 1,700 pounds

The Rape Of The Lock by Alexander Pope (1714) - 1,800 pounds

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843) - 2,700 pounds

Prufrock by TS Eliot (1917) - 3,600 pounds

The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908) - 1,200 pounds

Dubliners by James Joyce (1916) - 3,800 pounds

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