Expensive Reads
Posted Fri, 07/14/06
The following bit of interesting information comes courtesy of Abe Books (also known as Advanced Book Exchange), which I frequently patronize.
The Most Expensive Signed Books Ever Sold on Abe Books:
1984 by George Orwell ($26,500)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway ($17,500)
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker ($15,000)
The Mime of Mick, Nick, and the Maggies by James Joyce ($15,000)
The Lost Plum Cake by CL Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll ($12,352)
I, Me, Mine by George Harrison ($10,897)
Men at Arms and Officers & Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh (pair sold for $10,700)
Sylvia Plath ALS by Sylvia Plath ($10,000)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ($9,577)
Post Office by Charles Bukowski ($8,000)
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