Chapter 547. The first version of "The Goddess".
What kind of person is Lin Yi, I haven't seen any rare books, so I don't expect this boss to come up with any shocking books. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
But when the boss took out the baby, Lin Yi was still stunned for a moment.
Today he seems to have a special relationship with the Republic of China book, and the book that the other party took out turned out to be the Republic of China version of Guo Moruo's poetry collection --- "Goddess"!
As we all know, Chinese new poetry developed with the "May Fourth" cultural movement and the "poetry revolution". The cause of poetic emancipation began with Hu Shi and was completed by the poets of the Literary Research Society who practiced the idea of "literature for life". In 1921, the establishment of the Creation Society under the banner of Guo Moruo can be described as a "sudden rise of a new army", setting its sights on a "life full of defects". If we say that Hu Shi, who first advocated the "great emancipation of poetry", and his "Collection of Attempts", it can only be regarded as the boundary between old and new poems; Then, what can be called the pioneer and monumental work of the New Poetry Revolution is Guo Moruo and his poetry collection "Goddess".
According to Lin Yi's knowledge, "Goddess" includes Guo Moruo's main poems between 1919 and 1921, with a total of 57 poems in the same preface. Most of them are works written by poets when they studied in Japan. Among them, the representative poems include "Phoenix Nirvana", "The Rebirth of the Goddess", "Coal in the Furnace", "Sunrise", "Pen Standing Mountain Prospect", "Earth, My Mother! ", "Tengu", "Good morning", "Standing on the edge of the earth", etc. In terms of poetic form, it broke through the shackles of the old style and created a vigorous and unrestrained free verse style, which opened up a new world for the development of free verse after the "May Fourth" and became the foundation work of Chinese new poetry.
Because of this, in today's hot collection of "new literature" of the Republic of China, the first edition of Guo Moruo's "Goddess" is known as a rare book among rare books, and now it is sold for as much as 30,000 or 40,000 yuan. Unfortunately, the first edition in 1921 was very rare and extremely precious because of the small print run. This can't be the first version, right......
With a skeptical attitude, Lin Yi opened the copyright page of the book, and then he was stunned--- "Creation Society Book Series", Taidong first edition in 1921!
It turned out to be the first version!
Lin Yi's surprised expression fell into the boss's eyes. This boss also sells books to see people, and he has become a fine, as soon as he looks at Lin Yi's expression, he knows that this is an expert in playing new literature, otherwise he wouldn't have reacted so enthusiastically after reading the copyright.
You must know that this book is his "treasure of the stall", and it has been more than half a year since he received it, and he has never been reluctant to get it. Now that I have something at home and want to buy a car to drive, I am ready to exchange this baby for money.
At first, he was just peddling in his own circle, but unfortunately, the people who sold old books were very good, and when they heard the price he asked, they knew that there was no profit, so the book was shelved until now.
To say that this capital is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, there is no shortage of those rich people, this stall owner is thinking about coming out today to try his luck, and it just so happened that Lin Yi bumped into it.
Just when Lin Yi was taking a deep breath, a person came next to him, and when he saw him holding a book with a strange expression, he asked, "Brother, what are you looking at?" Let's watch it together. ”
Lin Yi smiled and asked him to look at the cover of the book, and said, "How about a book of tens of thousands of yuan?" ”
The man grinned and said, "Whatever you cheat--- you can pay tens of thousands of dollars for this thing, see for yourself!" "After saying that, I felt very smart to leave.
Lin Yi smiled slightly, turned back to the stall owner and said, "Look, tens of thousands of yuan can scare people away." ”
Of course, the stall owner understood what Lin Yi meant, and was bargaining with himself in disguise. However, he is not an ordinary seller, and he did not directly say to Lin Yi, I will give you less, but he started a family relationship with Lin Yi.
He said that his surname was Zhou, that he was 51 years old, and that his profession was, in the usual words, "a waste collector". He usually parks his tricycle at the entrance of the community to collect waste, and on Sundays he transports the recycled books, photos, badges, etc. to Huguo Temple and other places to set up stalls to sell. According to his words, he has done all the hard work, windy and rainy, exposed to the sun and rain, and has suffered all kinds of sins.
He repeatedly said to Lin Yi, I don't care about money, as long as the money I earn can support myself and make me happy.
He recalled the experience when he first stepped into this industry: he humbly asked a gentleman who had been engaged in collecting for many years, and asked him to come to his home to appreciate the objects he had collected, and when he saw a handwritten letter from Li Fugan, he pretended to like the letter itself, and bought it for a few hundred yuan, and after a long time he knew that Li Fujian was Ba Jin, and the letter was worth far more than a few hundred yuan. Lao Zhou said that his "joke" made him "make another qualitative leap in his understanding of people."
Speaking of this, the stall owner Lao Zhou changed the topic and turned to Lin Yi, saying: "Friend, why did I stop you just now, because when I saw you, you were the kind of scholar with a literary temperament; Looking at what you are wearing, you are not an ordinary person. Don't ask me how I figured it out, after selling old books for so many years, if I didn't even have this bit of eyesight, I would have drunk the northwest wind a long time ago. ”
Lin Yiwan'er didn't rub it anymore, so he said: "Uncle, you said so much, I'm embarrassed to talk to you anymore, well, you say, how much do you plan to sell this book?" ”
Lao Zhou, the stall owner, directly stretched out his fingers: "This number." ”
Of course, Lin Yi knew that this was not 3,000 yuan, but 30,000 yuan.
It's incredible to think about it, many real ancient book editions may not be able to sell for 30,000 yuan, but a Republic of China book can, and the prices of all kinds of old books in terms of collection are really incomprehensible.
But Lin Yi knows more clearly that for some big-name collectors, especially those who like to collect the new literature of the Republic of China, 30,000 yuan is actually not high.
Who made this book a "treasure" of a new collection of poems during the Republic of China, who made it look so good, and it was the first edition.
Seeing that Lin Yi seemed to be hesitating, the stall owner Lao Zhou said again: "I know that many people can't afford this price, and only those big players can afford it." If you think it's not worth it, friend, then I won't force you to --- the book, it's still mine, you can take a look and feast your eyes. As he spoke, he reached out and took the book back, and carefully put it into a plastic bag as if it were a treasure, and then put it into a letter, which showed that it was very precious.
Lin Yi's heart was a little hesitant, for a long time, he had become accustomed to picking up leaks from bookstalls, and he had never bought such an expensive book so "openly".
I wanted to go, but I couldn't move my steps, as if someone had cast a demon spell and froze my body.
You must know that in addition to collecting those rare books in Lin Yi's family, what he likes to collect most is the new literature of the Republic of China, and the harvest in this area seems to be a big success, there are all kinds of rare books, and this is Guo Moruo's "Goddess".
After thinking for a while, Lin Yi finally gritted his teeth and said to the boss of the week: "That's it, I'll give you a price, if you think it's okay, let's make a deal, if you feel like you're losing, then wait--- but it's safe to say that your book is a good book, and it is reasonable to sell it for 30,000 yuan, but there are not many people who can afford it." It is fate that a good book meets a good buyer. Otherwise, there is no market, and you can only keep trying your luck. ”
After saying so much, Lin Yi gave his final psychological reserve price, he said: "Twenty-five thousand yuan!" ”
Seeing this, the stall owner, Boss Zhou, thought about it for a while, Lin Yi's words just now can be said to be soft and hard, using psychological warfare.
First of all, I affirmed that this is a good book, and I also affirmed that it can be sold for 30,000 yuan; However, it takes a lot of time to meet people. It's just that what his boss Zhou lacks is time, and in order to buy a car and drive, he has sold a lot of things he likes. Nowadays, people love face, although he is a stall maker, he also wants to drive a strong face, so he is really short of money and is really anxious to use money.
As the saying goes, the goods are worth when they are sold.
Thinking of this, the boss gritted his teeth this week and said, "That's a good ---deal!" ”
25,000 yuan to buy a book of the Republic of China.
Those who bought old books next to them and watched the excitement immediately exploded. For those who know the collection of new literature of the Republic of China, it is better to understand. For those laymen, it is very strange and incredible.
Therefore, Lin Yi has become a "mallet" in the eyes of many people, and has become the "first stupid hat" of this Huguo Temple.
But soon, he found out that the real stupid hat was themselves...... (To be continued.) )