When Lin Yi saw the boss coming to pick up the book, he stared at the stall again. Unexpectedly, someone mistakenly regarded him as the boss, so he asked him about the price of the old book. Lin Yi said, "I'm not, the boss will come over later."

At this time, the fat boss came over with a sack and said to the man, "Please take away the five pieces." The man looked at the pirated copy of "How Iron Is Made" at hand, shook his head, and put it down again. The fat boss muttered, "I can't even bear to spend five pieces, but I still want to read classics, and I think it's beautiful."

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

"Brother, look, are there anyone in a daze?" The fat stall owner opened the sack and asked Lin Yi to look inside.

Lin Yi took a casual look and immediately his eyes went straight.

There are many versions of this foreign literary masterpiece, such as the "prints" with more collection value. Lin Yi made a small amount of money on this before, but the one with the most collection value and the hottest transactions is the things in this sack.

At first glance, these foreign literary masterpieces are all green-skinned grid-shaped, which seems not very eye-catching, but as long as you know the market and often play with old books, you will know that these grid-shaped green-skinned books have a very awesome title, called "Grid Book"!

"Grid Book" is the abbreviation of "Foreign Literature Classics" by book fans, and can also be regarded as "nickname" or "love name". The biggest feature of this series is that on the background of green (mostly humanistic versions) or gray (mostly the upper translation version), the cover is decorated with a circle of exquisite patterns on the outer side, and the inner part is a circle of simple single-line decoration; the most conspicuous part in the middle of the cover is an oblique cross grid surrounded by double-line rings, and the intersection points of the grid are decorated with nodes that look like round and solid square (mostly the humanistic version nodes are square, and the upper translation version is mostly round). The author's name, book title and series title are distributed uniformly and conspicuously on the grid. The entire cover seems simple, but it is actually elegant and generous, containing infinite beauty. The founder of this abbreviation is no longer verified, but once it is called out, it is recognized by everyone.

The publication of the "Foreign Literature Classics" can be traced back to the 1950s. Later, due to the interference of factors such as "Ten Years-Up" and the publication of this set of books was interrupted and continued to be published after the turmoil. Therefore, the publishing cycle of this set of books was very long, and it experienced changes in society, politics, economy, culture, etc., with a huge difference in print volume, making it very difficult to collect.

As far as Lin Yi knows, only three or four people collected this book nationwide. Because in the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was a craze for reading in society, and many books were printed in large quantities. Some of the "grid books" published at this time, such as "Gulliver's Travels", "The Eve of the Eve", "Father and Son", etc., were also everywhere. Therefore, the variety of books may increase rapidly at the beginning. However, after collecting dozens of them, it will feel that it is getting more and more difficult; after reaching a hundred, you will feel that it is difficult to walk.

There are several situations where this set of books is hard to find:

First, the books on drama and poetry are relatively small due to their narrow readers. For example, "Hoptmann Drama Two" only prints 3,000 volumes, while "Selected German Poetry" only prints 2,600 volumes.

Second, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the reading atmosphere in society was relatively weak, resulting in the small print volume of some classic works. For example, "Trisdon and Isser" only printed 2,550 volumes, and "Selected Franz Novels" only printed 4,000 volumes.

The third is a type of book called "major works". Everyone knows and understands them, so they suffer a lot, and most people are willing to keep them in their hands and not throw them out. Although this type of book is printed in large quantities, it is also difficult to find; even if you seek the quality, it is often not good. "Jane Eyre" and "Resurrection" all belong to this category.

There are several interesting statistics about this set of books:

The largest print volume of this set of books is "Decathague (Selected)", which has printed 550,000 volumes; the smallest print volume is "Selected Ancient Roman Drama", which has printed only 1,070 volumes.

Among this set of books, the longest time interval between the first and second volumes, the most significant difference in printing volume was "Henry in Green". The first volume was published in 1980, with 200,000 volumes printed, and 7,800 volumes were reprinted in 1983, with 7,800 volumes reprinted in 1983; the second volume was published in 1983, with only 34,800 volumes printed. The first classical grid version was published in 1956. The earliest new grid version of the Wen-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-Ge-G

Which ones are missing? It seems easy to judge: Isn’t it enough to just look at the number of prints? Generally speaking, this is the case, but not exactly the case. The age is also an important factor. The number of prints of "Dongbei and Sons", "Song of Sid", "Selected Persian Ancient Poems" and "Selected Dramas of Calderon" published in the 1990s are only more than 2,000 copies, but due to the relatively close age, the scarcity of these books is not as high as their number of prints.

There are also some books with a large number of printed copies, but their scarcity ranks relatively high. For example, the number of "Resurrection" in 1988 was printed 30,000; the number of "Chekhov Novels" in 1992 was printed 10,000; some people believe that the reason is that it is its popularity, but no matter how popular it is, it is not so difficult to find.

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

1. "Selected Ancient Roman Dramas" has the lowest number of prints, which deserves to be ranked first;

2. "Three Tragedies of Gonaiyi" has 1,200 copies of the prints, which is also the second fewest;

3. "Three Types of Comedy in the Goldonians", with 1,700 copies, slightly higher than "The Liberation of Jerusalem", but it was published four years earlier;

4. "Selected Short and Medium Stories of Thomasman", with 5,700 copies of prints;

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

6. "Basett Chronicles", according to popular sayings, nursing homes and cathedrals are one of them, published in 1986 and 1987 respectively, with 4,300 and 2,650 copies of the prints. It is indeed not easy to get them all together;

7. "Lelie and Majenon", 2,600 copies printed, published in 1988;

8. "Selected British Poetry", printed 3,800 volumes, published in 1988. The frequency of this book appears on Kongwang is very low;

9, "Selected Dramas of Ya-Ostrovsky", 2,960 copies of the prints, published in 1987;

10. "Selected Interludes of Mahabharata (Volume 1 and 2)", prints 3,000, published in 1987.

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

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

It is not a shortage of books, and it is sold at a large road product. It costs at most 5.8 yuan to be sold at a used book stall.

Lin Yi reached out again, and this time he took out one copy of "Notre Dame de Paris" and the other copy was "Henry in Green" volume 1. These two copies are also ordinary products in grid books and are not worth the money.

Lin Yi lost his patience. Although he did not collect such books specifically, he was actually a sack of goods, which was unreasonable.

So he didn't give up. This time he grabbed three books at once and then went to see them. They turned out to be "Selected British Poetry", "Three Types of Cordonian Comedy", and "Selected Ancient Roman Drama"!

Oh my God, how is that possible?

Lin Yi widened his eyes and found out three of the top ten missing books in the grid!

Is this called "strong luck", or is it dreaming?

...

Lin Yi knew very clearly that among the top ten missing grid books, as long as the quality is good and flawless, one book is basically about two thousand, which means that he has grabbed 6,000 things in one hand.

Is this a dream?

When the fat boss saw Lin Yi holding the books in his hand in a daze, he thought he was not satisfied with these books, so he said, "Now the world's classics are not easy to sell! In the 1980s, everyone loved reading them and rushed to read them, especially those young literary people who liked to read a few books, not to mention that they could increase their temperament, they could also use them when they were in love... But now, young people should read online novels and fantasy novels, who still read these? But there is a saying that remains unchanged. Times are changing, and classics are always famous works. Haven't you seen those Xinhua Bookstores full of these books? One book costs twenty or thirty, and the beautiful binding is almost the same as the contents of my books."

Lin Yi was awakened by the fat boss' noise and asked excitedly: "Then how much do you sell these books?" In order to remain calm, Lin Yi deliberately threw the three big books he had clutched in his hand into the sack. In order to prevent other Taobao bookmakers from "stopping the slap" halfway, Lin Yi put back the big goods he took out. From the outside, he couldn't tell what was in it.

"Are you picking and asking for it all?" The fat boss had a small plan in his mind.

"How many books do you have in total?" Lin Yi glanced at the sack.

"Not many, only 80 books, not many, not many, not many."

"Well, what's the price if you want it all?" Lin Yi asked carefully.

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

Lin Yi's face darkened, waiting for the fat boss Lion to speak loudly.

Seeing Lin Yi's appearance, the fat boss really thought he was "not interested" in these books, so he sighed and said, "It seems that you still don't know anything, brother."

Lin Yi felt nervous and asked, "What does this mean?"

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

"Suddenly", Lin Yi seemed to hear the sound of his heart cracking, and said to himself, "No, is this an expert too?"

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Chapter completed!