The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers meets for their biennial congress this week in Melbourne, Australia. Rare book dealer Rick Gekoski, from London, will be taking his $A450,000 copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses, inscribed by the author, D. H. Lawrence’s own copy of The Rainbow, worth $A120,000, and T. S. Eliot’s first American book of poetry inscribed to Virginia Woolf, worth $A27,000. Gekoski explains:

“I wanted to put something up on my stall that would interest people. And in that sense, my motives are not really commercial, although they are not uncommercial. I want people to come and see the books, because two things could happen. One is that they could buy a book. The second is that they could sell me a book.”