Very rare first US edition of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera sold by Swann for $10,000 (£7750).
Hugo Gernsback’s curiously title SF classic, Ralph 124C 41+ of 1925, which made $6250 (£4845) in the Swann sale.
Sporting a torn and defective but rarely seen dust jacket, a 1911, first American printing of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera sold for $10,000 (£7750) in a recent New York sale.