(The prices of the old books in this chapter are all real, and there is no water!) ）

In fact, the "Shenzhou Used Bookstore" is next to the game hall, and further along, it is the most famous "Lu Yu Tea Restaurant" on Stanley Street. The Shenzhou Bookstore is located in the alley next door to the tea restaurant.

Under the leadership of Zhou Jiahua, a bad boy, Lin Yi had to turn around hard, and in a narrow passage, in an inconspicuous place, he saw the signboard of "Shenzhou Used Bookstore".

Why did you choose such an inconspicuous location? Probably because the rent here is expensive and the location is more remote, so you can pay less rent.

As soon as Lin Yi entered, he saw a lot of "Cultural Revolution" items placed in the store, such as a large brocade portrait of the chairman, Mao Lin's handshake ornament porcelain, Taizu quotations, etc., which made people fall into the red sea at a glance, and thought that they were in the mainland, not Hong Kong.

Lin Yi looked at it, and saw that the bookstore as a whole was divided into two floors, with bookshelves underneath, and the bookshelves were stuffed with books, and even the ceiling was used to design a hanging layer, and three rows of neat bookshelves hung down from above, needless to say, the shelves were still stuffed with books.

At the staircase on the second floor of the bookstore, a temporary warning sign was placed: Construction above, please do not enter. It can be seen that it should also be a part of the bookstore, where old books are placed, and customers are forbidden to go upstairs only because of the construction.

After Lin Yi looked around the bookstore, he rushed to the bookshelves and looked at the books carefully. At this moment, he is like Ali Ba in a fairy tale, first entering the treasure house, surprised and surprised by everything. After all, there are so many Hong Kong books, which is absolutely unimaginable in the mainland, and it is more difficult to see a Hong Kong or Taiwanese book than a giant panda in the mainland.

However, unlike Lin Yi's imagination, looking at the books on those shelves, they are all placed according to categories, which are very neat and easy to find, and in the middle of many Hong Kong edition books, there are also some mainland editions with simplified characters.

How so? Isn't this a Hong Kong bookstore, how can there be books published in the mainland? But soon Lin Yi understood that this second-hand bookstore is a second-hand book business, people can be divided into regions, but books are not divided, especially books have a strong natural circulation, Hong Kong and the mainland are now so close, it is not unusual to see books published in the mainland here.

Of course, for Lin Yi, since he came here, he naturally won't buy the mainland version of the book, but will only pick some Hong Kong and Taiwan books that he is interested in.

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First of all, Lin Yi saw a Hong Kong triptych version of Huang Shang's "Late Spring Journey" at a glance, which made him very surprised and happy, you know, now Huang Shang is famous in the "old book world", known as the only remaining "Taishan Beidou" of Shanghai writers, on the status of identity, it is also with Hong Kong and Taiwan scholar Dong Qiao, known as the two peerless masters in today's literary world, known as "North Huangshang, South Dong Qiao" said.

In addition, there are countless fans in the Huangshang circle, and there are a large number of "Huangshang fans" in the cultural circle, known as the craziest "Huangshan".

For example, Huang Shang's most famous "Jinfan Jiwai", a signed rough-edged book published by the Republic of China, was sold at a price of 8,888 yuan; "Zhu Hui Xing", a signed edition published in 2006, limited to 100 copies, was sold at a price of 3,500 yuan; "Old Drama and New Talk", signed by Kaiming Bookstore in 1948, sold for 2,800 yuan; In addition, Huang Lao's "Coming to Yanxie Shuba", "The New Record of the Dream of the Former Dust", "Yuxia Storytelling", "The Aftermath of Guyan", and some commentary collections, etc., as long as there is Huang Lao's signature, it has become a treasure sought after by Huang Shang fans.

If you look at the incredible selling prices above, you will see that these books have one thing in common, except for some of the older ones, and that is - signed copies.

A signature, worth a thousand dollars.

As long as it is Huang Lao's book, a few yuan, dozens of yuan, as long as his signature is stamped, the price will be a hundred times!

If anyone is suspicious, then you can compare Dong Qiao, who is as famous as Huang Shang, and you will be relieved.

Do you know, Dong Qiaoniu's various editions of signed old works are now tens of thousands per copy, such as "Miscellaneous Tales of Two Cities" published in Hong Kong in 1977, which was just sold at a price of 9,800 yuan not long ago. The first edition of "Once Upon a Time" in Oxford, Mr. Dong Qiao's signature, seal, and inscription were auctioned for 10,010 yuan. What's even more surprising is that the upcoming 2012 publication of Mr. Dong Qiao's handwritten jujube red leather cover "Dong Qiao Seventy", with the author's signed book stamp, has been fried to a price of 25,380 yuan. The book has not yet come out, it is already crazy, and Dongqiao fans are still here, and it is understandable that fans of yellow clothes are understandable.

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For Lin Yi, although he is not an authentic "yellow fan", he has also seen his bibliography on the "Taoshu Notes", and has written down some excellent works.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Yi fell in love with a set of Hong Kong Sanlian's "Memories and Caprice Essay Series", which are all memories and essays by famous writers, Lin Yi likes it very much, but this used bookstore is not complete, and Lin Yi only bought two copies. In addition, Lin Yi also picked up a copy of Xu Dingming's "Bookworm Book Talk" and Zhao Jiabi's "Books Live Longer Than People", both of which are also Hong Kong editions.

But because he had the idea of not buying mainland books in advance, Lin Yi actually missed Tang Tao's first edition of "Book Words", the price of this book is not expensive, only 10 Hong Kong dollars, and the first version in good condition can be sold for 70 or 80 yuan in the mainland.

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Shenzhou Used Bookstore was established as early as 1966 and is now a big name. The boss, Mr. Ouyang Wenli, is an old gentleman who wears glasses, with white sideburns and a smile on the corner of his mouth, and has the elegant style of a Hong Kong literati.

What Lin Yi didn't expect was that the old gentleman was very enthusiastic and easy-going, he spoke very slowly, and the mantra was "If you want a wild book, I will help you find it (what book do you want, I will help you find it)". Especially when he knew that Lin Yi was from the mainland, he was even more enthusiastic, and even used jerky Gangpu to communicate with Lin Yi, and said that he had many book friends and friends from the mainland, and his enthusiastic attitude was completely opposite to the coldness that ordinary people saw mainlanders, maybe this is the gentlemanly demeanor cultivated by Hong Kong's old-style scholars.

Under the introduction of Boss Ouyang, Lin Yi looked at some of his treasured old books - on the side of the used bookstore, one wall is made into a bookshelf, and each book is covered with plastic film, which shows how much the collector cherishes these books.

With the permission of Mr. Ouyang, Lin Yi took a general look, basically divided into categories, all of them were neatly stacked, especially the books of the book type, there are countless books, these are also Lin Yi's favorite types.

Through Mr. Ouyang's introduction one by one, Lin Yi found that the price codes of these books are basically the same as those on the Internet, and some are even higher.

In the end, Lin Yi realized that Mr. Ouyang had already started to operate an online store on the mainland side of the used book online a long time ago, and basically had sales of more than 100,000 yuan every month, especially because he had a geographical advantage, and the Hong Kong version of the book was highly sought after by mainland book fans, who thought that most of the Hong Kong versions were original and unabridged, and the traditional Chinese version was more cultural.

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Looking at so many Hong Kong versions in front of him, Lin Yi seemed to have found a shining treasure, carefully flipping through them one by one, rubbing them.

Soon Lin Yi fell in love with a book, but it was the Hong Kong Polish Book Company, which published Huang Jundong's "Book Talk" in 1973, a hardcover version, with nine grades facing up.

For Huang Jundong, many mainland readers are not very familiar with him, but Lin Yi knows that this person does not have many books, but all of them are high-quality.

At this moment, I got this beautifully bound "Book Talk Collection", only to see that the outside is a beautiful brown paper color cover, open the cover, it is a red and joyful cover, vertical line of the title - Book Talk Collection, there is a "Huang Jundong" small seal on the right corner of the title, and under the title of the book, it is the seal of Dong Qiao, the author of the title - Dong Qiao? It's Dong Qiao again!

When I opened the inner page of this book, I saw a lot of exquisite illustrations, many of which were about the content of the book, and on the copyright page at the end, it was written in detail, 1973 edition, with a print run of 2,000 copies, 20 yuan for paperback, and 35 yuan for hardcover. It can be said that the whole book is exquisitely bound and the pages are heavy, which makes people love it.

Mr. Ouyang, the owner of the Shenzhou bookstore next to him, saw that Lin Yi seemed to like this book very much, so he smiled and said: "Sir, if you like it, buy it, there are not many books left, it is almost out of print, I sell it here, and I can't even receive it now." ”

That means that this book will no longer be a rare book.

Lin Yi really liked this book, but he still cautiously asked about the price. Mr. Ouyang was also cool, and quoted: "2,500 yuan, the least." ”

Lin Yi's eyelids jumped, this price exceeded his psychological price, no, it should be greatly exceeded.

Seeing that Lin Yi was silent, Mr. Ouyang explained: "Sir, this price is actually very low, you can check it, in 2007, this book has been auctioned for 2,000 yuan on your used book online." Now, in the past four years, the price of the unsold area has reached 3,000, 5,000 ......"

Lin Yi began to be confused, why is this book so expensive? In addition to the Hong Kong edition, out-of-print, small print, and Dong Qiao's inscription, what are the unique features of the book's content? Could it be that the book has really been hyped to such a situation now?

Seeing that Lin Yi seemed to be hesitating, Mr. Ouyang took out two more books from the bookshelf and said enthusiastically: "These two are also Mr. Huang's books, which I used to collect, if you like it, I will give it to you cheaply." ”

Lin Yi looked at it, but it was a copy of "Silhouette of Modern Chinese Writers" and a "Book Hunting Notes".

These three books, in order of publication time, are: "Silhouettes of Modern Chinese Writers" (1972, unprinted), "Book Words" (1973, 2,000 copies), and "Hunting Notes" (1979, 5,000 copies).

According to Mr. Ouyang, Huang Jundong's book is all involved in rare book editions, character stories, book stamps, woodcut prints, and Western literary circles, and all kinds of book lovers of different tastes can find resonance from his book words. Huang Jundong's book can jump from "The First Version of New Literary Works" to "Does Liu Jingting Have a Script to Inherit"; jumped from "One Hundred Books of Zhou Zuoren's Later Years" to "The Knowledge of Food and the Problem of Sleep"; Jumping from "Lu Xun's Works in Japan" to "Sicilian Poet Guo Xin Modu"; Jump from "From the Flipbook to A-Ying" to "The Death of the Old Spanish Writer Azorin". In contrast, many mainland writers are not as liberal as Huang Jundong in terms of breadth and interest.

Of course, speaking of this, Mr. Ouyang still said very cautiously that this was his family's words and could not be taken seriously.

Lin Yi smiled and said that it didn't matter, he was also a monk halfway through the house, and he knew very little about this aspect.

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In fact, Lin Yi has also been in contact with Huang Jundong's books before, especially in the past few years, taking advantage of the "book talk fever", several publishing houses in the mainland have reprinted Huang Jundong's books, one is "Keliang Shuhua" (Keliang is Huang Jundong's pen name) by Shaanxi Publishing House, and the other is "Book Hunting Notes" published by Yunnan Publishing House.

Lin Yi has seen three miswritten books, one is the very best-selling Mr. Wu Xingwen's "My Book Ticket Journey", which is still published in the well-known Sanlian Bookstore, and there is a place in the text that mistakenly prints Lu Xun as "Lu Xun"; the other is "Silverfish Collection", which is conspicuously mistaken as "Lu Xun" on the catalog page; It's a pity that the caption on page 568 of Huang Jundong's "Book Talks" is even more funny: "Lu Xun took a photo with his classmates when he was studying medicine in Sendai, Japan, and the leftmost one is Yu Xun ,......" Lu Yuhai's allusion really has a modern version.

In comparison, the "Keliang Book Talk" published in Shaanxi and the "Book Hunting Notes" published by Yunnan Publishing House are even more flattering, not only because there are many typos, the paper is poor, and the binding is even more dirty. But such a "poor" book can be sold for more than 50 yuan, and many readers are really "blind".

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Mr. Ouyang didn't know what Lin Yi was thinking, and thought that he was moved by what he said, so he continued, if these two books are all about it, you can give a friendship price-

"Silhouette of Modern Chinese Writers" published by Hong Kong Youlian Publishing House in 1972, one edition and two printings, the number of prints is unknown, and the paperback edition with two protective covers can be said to be in perfect condition, with a minimum of 1200 yuan;

Hong Kong Ming Window Publishing House published in 1979 "Book Hunting Notes", the cover has Qi Baishi as a "night reading map", the first edition of only 5,000 copies printed, the minimum 1,500 yuan.

Bring the book worth 2,500 yuan in Lin Yi's hand, and the three books totaled 5,200 yuan.

But—

Mr. Ouyang changed his words again, saying that Lin Yi came to the used bookstore for the first time, and he was from the mainland, and in order to take care of the friendship of mainland compatriots, he would give a discount of 200 yuan, only 5,000 yuan.

After listening to Mr. Ouyang's offer, Lin Yi almost bit his tongue, before he heard that this used bookstore has a monthly turnover of more than 100,000 yuan, and he didn't believe it, but now, he believes it!

Three books, 5,000 pieces –

Two words - awesome! (To be continued.) )