i've got a book about the vampire ball vampires mr dracula himself and it's also autographed
by the original creator and author mr braum stoker it's worth money lots of money i hope
i decided to come to the pawn shop today to sell my autographed copy of braum stoker dracula
the kids are going to college i need money how'd you get it i bought it at a charity auction okay
remind me asking what you paid for it uh less than what you're gonna give me for it
all right this is the guy that put dracula on the map he didn't invent the vampire though that had
that's been around for years and years and years the interesting thing about the book is that
the original idea came from vladimir brom stoker made him a vampire but the real vlad the impaler
impaled over a hundred thousand people on the way into a city i don't know that's weird in my
book i don't have any idea you can imagine just the smell of that awful bram stoker pretty much
invented the modern day vampire story the vampire genre is huge these days and that wouldn't happen
if we didn't have dracula first it's all original no torn pages yeah everything's in good shape so
what do you want to do with this i'd like to sell it any idea on how much you want around 15 000.
problem is you don't have a first edition those first editions were printed in europe
it was a first edition what you're asking for all day long
and i don't know what his signature's worth signed copies of this book go for crazy amounts of money
so it's worth getting checked out let me get my buddy drew down here to check out the signature
okay and once he does that then we'll work on some numbers okay good i'm really excited that
he's bringing an expert to try to authenticate the book to see if it's real where i can get my money
dracula book i got an american first edition
allegedly signed by braum stroker wow how about that the guys usually call me down
when they have questions for signatures then books documents or any type of memorabilia
brahma stoker actually wrote over a dozen books but this is by far his most famous book
i mean how many movies we made about this yeah i mean it was actually not the original book
there was a book apparently written 30 40 years beforehand and it never caught on like this book
it's definitely the most famous horror book ever written no doubt about it well what do you think
corey the signature may not be authentic uh you know me man if it doesn't have paperwork with it
or anything i call you well let's take a closer look at the signature and see if it's authentic
okay if their signature's authentic it's going to be worth a lot of money
one thing that's interesting is before the turn of the century he would write his capital b
in kind of like an arm type shape
the upper stems get the little switchback type loops here t-bars well let's see this is uh
this is authentic there's no doubt in my mind good no no doubt it's a autographed copy of
braum stoker dracula one of a kind i'm really excited let's talk numbers now you know what his
signatures are going for the condition of the book is not very good pages are not missing but there's
a lot of wear i fight i put a retail on it really i would have to say four or five thousand dollars
okay absolutely appreciate you coming down but thank you thank you take care it's not the 15
that i was hoping for but uh make me an offer i wanna say two thousand dollars yeah a little more
how about uh three thousand gotta pay for college got cars to buy and the man just said four or five
thousand he did say four or five thousand we're talking about auction and retail prices though
i'll tell you what i'll do uh i'll do 2 300 for you and that's the best i can do 25.
23.50 that's my best offer
deal let's go write it up man i'm walking out of the store today with 2 350
i'm happy glad i came to the pawn shop