Lin Yi saw that the boss went to pick up the books, so he stared at the stall twice, and never thought that someone would mistake him for the boss, so he asked him the price of the old book, and Lin Yi said, "I'm not, the boss will come over later." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

At this time, the fat boss came over with a sack and said to the man, "Take five pieces." The man looked at the pirated copy of "How Steel is Made" in his hand, shook his head, and put it down again. The fat boss muttered, "I can't even afford to spend five yuan, and I still want to read famous books and think beautifully." ”

For some reason, Lin Yi always felt that this sentence was said to himself.

"Brother, take a look, are you stunned?" The fat stall owner opened the sack and let Lin Yi look inside.

Lin Yi glanced at it casually, and immediately, his eyes straightened.

To say that there are many versions of this foreign literary masterpiece, such as the more collectible "printbook", Lin Yi made a small amount of money from this before, but to say that the most collectible and hottest thing is the contents of this sack.

At first glance, these foreign literary masterpieces are all green-skinned grid-shaped, which seems to be inconspicuous, but as long as you know the market and often play old books, you will know that these grid-like green-skinned books have a very good title, called --- "grid book"!

"Grid book" is the abbreviation of "Masterpieces of Foreign Literature Series" by book lovers, and can also be regarded as a "nickname" or "nickname". The biggest feature of this series of books is: on the background of green (mostly humanistic editions) or gray (mostly translated editions), the cover is decorated with a circle of exquisite ornamentation on the periphery, and a circle of simple single-line decoration on the inside; The most conspicuous part in the middle of the cover is a diagonal cross grid surrounded by a double line ring, and the intersection points of the grid are decorated with nodes that look like circles and squares (the nodes of the humanistic version are mostly square, and the upper version is mostly round). Authors, titles, and series titles are evenly and prominently distributed on the grid. The whole cover seems simple, but in fact it is elegant and generous, containing infinite beauty. The founder of this abbreviation is no longer known, but once it is called, it is recognized by everyone.

The publication of the "Masterpieces of Foreign Literature Series" can be traced back to the fifties of the last century, and later, due to the interference of factors such as "ten years - turmoil", the publication of this series of books was interrupted, and the publication continued after the turmoil, so the publication cycle of this series of books is very long, during which it has experienced social, political, economic, cultural and other changes, and the printing volume is very different, and it is very difficult to collect.

As far as Lin Yi knows, there are only three or four people who have collected this book nationwide. Because in the late 70s and early 80s, there was a craze for reading in society, many books were printed in large quantities, and some of the "grid books" published at this time, such as "Gulliver's Travels", "The Eve", "Father and Son", etc., were also everywhere, so the collection of this set of books may have increased rapidly at the beginning. However, after collecting dozens of species, it will become more and more difficult; And after reaching 100 species, it will be even more difficult.

There are several situations that are more difficult to find in this set of books:

First, books on drama and poetry have a relatively small print run due to their narrow readership. For example, only 3,000 copies of "Two Kinds of Hoptmann Plays" and "Selected German Poems" were only 2,600 copies.

Second, in the late 80s and early 90s, the atmosphere of reading in society was relatively weak, resulting in a small print run of some famous books. For example, only 2,550 copies of "Tristas und Ise" and only 4,000 copies of "Selected Novels of Francis".

The third is a type of book called "popular classics", which everyone knows and understands, so there is a lot of loss, and ordinary people are willing to keep it in their hands and not throw it out. Although these books have a larger print run, they are also more difficult to find; Even if you get it, it's often not in good condition. "Jane Eyre", "Resurrection", etc. are all in this category.

There are a few interesting statistics about this set of books:

The largest print run in this set of books was "Decamerons (Selection)", with 550,000 copies printed; The smallest print run was the Anthology of Ancient Roman Plays, which ran in only 1,070 copies.

Among this set of books, the one with the longest interval between the two volumes and the largest difference in print run is "Henry in Green". The first volume was published in 1980 with a print run of 200,000 copies, and the second volume was reprinted in 1983 with 7,800 copies; The second volume was published in 1983 and only 34,800 copies were printed. The first classical grid books were published in Sakundaro and Euripides in Two Kinds, published in September 1956. The earliest publication of the new grid after the Cultural Revolution was Oblomov, published in July 1979. When this set of books began to be published after the Cultural Revolution, due to the shortage of paper, some of the books were newspapers, the pages were thick, the body was bloated, and they were easily deformed.

Which ones are missing, it seems easy to judge: just look at the number of copies? Generally speaking, this is true, but not exactly. Age is also an important factor, and the prints of "Dong Bei and his sons", "Song of Cid", "Selected Persian Ancient Poems", and "Selected Plays of Calderon" in the 90s are only more than 2,000 copies, but due to their relatively recent age, these books are not as scarce as they are in the ranking of print runs.

There are also some books that have a lot of prints, but they are relatively high in scarcity. For example, "Resurrection" in 1988 had a print run of 30,000; "Selected Novels of Chekhov" in 1992, with a print run of 10,000; Some people think that the reason is the high popularity, but the 10,000 copies of "Selected Novels of Chekhov", which was published 14 years ago, no matter how popular, are not so difficult to find.

Of course, since you want to play this kind of grid book, you must understand the "missing book" in this large set, but there are too many missing books, what should I do? Then remember the top ten missing books of the previous grid book, in order---

1. "Selected Plays of Ancient Rome", with the least print run of 1070 copies, deservedly ranked first;

2, "Three Kinds of Gao Naiyi Tragedy", with a print run of 1,200 copies, is also the second least;

3. "Three Colosses of Goldoni", with a print run of 1,700 copies, slightly higher than "The Liberation of Jerusalem", but published four years earlier;

4. "Selected Short and Medium Stories of Thomas Mann", with a print run of 5,700 copies;

5. The Liberation of Jerusalem, 1,670 copies, published in 1993;

6. The Bassetshire Chronicle, according to popular saying, the nursing home and the cathedral are one kind, published in 1986 and 1987 respectively, with a print run of 4,300 and 2,650 copies, which is not easy to get together;

7. "Leily and Maggnon", 2,600 copies, published in 1988;

8. "Selected British Poems", with a print run of 3,800 copies, published in 1988, the frequency of this book appearing in the hole network is very low;

9. Selected Plays of A. Ostrovsky, 2,960 copies, published in 1987;

10. Selected Insertions of the Mahabharata (Volume II), print run of 3,000, published in 1987.

Since Lin Yi handled the old books, he has occasionally collected one or two grid books, but unfortunately, they are basically popular, and it is rare to see missing books, let alone the top ten missing books.

At this moment, Lin Yi didn't think much about these grid books when he saw them, and took out two copies to watch, which turned out to be "Red and Black" and "Madame Bovary".

It does not belong to the lack of books, big road goods, and the used book stalls sell at most 5 yuan and 8 yuan.

Lin Yi stretched out his hand again, and this time he took out a copy of "Notre Dame de Paris", and the other was the first volume of "Henry in Green", these two books are also ordinary goods in the grid book, and they are worthless.

Lin Yi lost his patience, although he didn't specialize in collecting this kind of book, but a sack turned out to be a big road goods, so it couldn't be said.

So he didn't give up, this time he grabbed three books at once, and then went to see them, and it turned out to be "Selected English Poems", "Three Goldonian Comedies", and "Selected Ancient Roman Plays"!

God, how is that possible?

Lin Yi's eyes widened, among the top ten missing books in the grid, he actually grabbed three copies at once!

Is this called "good luck", or is it a dream?

……

Lin Yi knew very well that among the top ten missing books in the grid book, as long as the quality was good and flawless, there were basically about 2,000 copies of the book, that is to say, he grabbed 6,000 things.

Is this a dream?

The fat boss saw Lin Yi holding the books in his hand in a daze, and thought that he was not satisfied with these books, so he said: "Now this world famous book, it's not easy to sell!" In the past, in the 80s, everyone loved to read it, and they all rushed to read it, especially those literary youths, who liked to nibble on a few books, not to mention what could increase their temperament, and they could also be used when they fell in love...... But now, young people should read online novels and fantasy novels, who still reads these. However, there is one sentence that remains the same, the times are changing, and masterpieces will always be masterpieces. Don't you see that those Xinhua bookstores are still full of these books? It costs twenty or thirty copies of a book, and the beautiful binding is similar to the content of my books. ”

Lin Yi was woken up by the fat boss's noise, so he suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked, "Then how much do you sell these books?" In order to remain quiet, Lin Yi also deliberately threw the three big books he was holding tightly into the sack again, and in order to prevent other book hunters from "cutting off the beard" halfway, Lin Yi also put back the big road goods that he took out. From the outside, you can't tell what's inside.

"Do you want it, or do you want it all?" The fat boss has a small calculation in his heart.

"How many copies do you have?" Lin Yi glanced at the sack.

"It's not much, it's just 80 copies, one is not much, one is not many."

"Well, what's the price of all that?" Lin Yi asked cautiously.

"It's not cheap." The fat boss blinked his shrewd little eyes and clicked his mouth.

Lin Yi's face sank, waiting for the fat boss Lion to open his mouth.

When the fat boss saw Lin Yi like this, he really thought that he was "not interested" in these books, so he sighed and said, "It seems that you still don't know the goods, brother." ”

Lin Yi's heart tightened, and he hurriedly asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

The fat boss smiled and said, "Don't you know, this kind of book is actually called a 'grid book'!" ”

"Grunt", Lin Yi seemed to hear the sound of his heart cracking, and said in his heart, "It's not good, is this also an expert?!" ”

(To be continued.) )