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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