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What is the most expensive book you own?

>> No.16130669
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>>16130653
14. Though typically I bite the bullet and get used. Why throw a ton at 1 when it could get you 2 in good shape

>> No.16130670

All the Bibles i own were gifts from relatives.

>> No.16130682

I own several 100+ year old volumes of classic French literature. The entire works of Proust, Molière, Voltaire, etc.

Probably about 50 or 60 of these books in all. In near perfect condition. Some are more valuable than others.

Came with an inheritance. It's all in French, though. Total value is probably around 10k.

>> No.16130688

PBO Neuromancer worth ~80 USD

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>>16130653
My MacBook

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>>16130653
out of print relatively rare collection of writings by konrad bayer, goes for between 80 to somewhere around 100 euros. I dont really care about expensive editions but there were no cheaper alternatives and i couldnt find the text online

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>>16130653
I don't even know anymore. Probably the first American edition of No Longer Human, which I bought mainly because it was pretty.

>> No.16131086

>>16130653
I own like 14 textbooks one of my neihgbors gave me it was science, physics, mathematics related stuff. All of the books must have cost around 300 each when they were purchased

>> No.16131113

my quads book.

>> No.16131123

>>16131086
No idea why this scam is still allowed to be perpetrated.

>> No.16131147

>>16130653
Are folio Society books worth getting?might buy one of some book I really like

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>>16130653
A mint condition first edition copy of Space Marine by Ian Watson. Its got to be worth at least £100.

>> No.16131193

>>16131147
No, they're reddit-tier.

>> No.16131200

>>16130980
based!

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I have one of these but I've never seen a sale listing online so I've got no idea how much it's actually worth

>> No.16131315

>>16131193
What publisher would u recommend?something in the $50-150 range

>> No.16131333

>>16131113
get mogged, little man.

>> No.16131343

what's the story behind those "birds of america"? is it just for laundering or do they have historical value?

>> No.16131360

>>16130653
my welcome to the nhk paperback novel mint so its worth a couple hundred probablys

>> No.16131399

>>16131343
They are valuable. Audubon was the first to really publish an exhaustive book on American birds. He actually hunted many of them using very fine shot so he could accurately paint them.

I'd imagine quite a few of those birds probably don't exist anymore so it would be a neat book to have.

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>>16131315
University presses and fine-press publishers like Arion press

>> No.16131419

>>16130653
>buying books you can't even read without them falling apart.

>> No.16131678

>>16131412
Arion press is way more than $50-15

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Don't really want to admit how much this collection set me back.

>> No.16132222

>>16130653
Most likely my first printing of "Roughing It" by Mark Twain. I inherited it from a library.

>> No.16132259

>>16130653
Im the guy who bought all of these under different pseudonyms, AMA.

>> No.16132324

Either my college reference books with ridiculously inflated prices or some of my old ones from the 17th and 18th centuries

>> No.16132347

>>16130653
my copy of history and class consciousness was like $60, somewhat ironically

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Barring textbooks, the most expensive ones I have are around the $100-$110 range. Those are
>Huainanzi (first unabridged English translation
>Hermetica II
>Bibek Drebroy's Mahabharata in 10 volumes
>Complete Works of Aristotle (2 volumes)

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>the earliest copy of the Magna Carta was purchased by a man named Rubenstein

>> No.16132874

Sun and Steel by Mishima if you mean what's the most I've spent on a non textbook
Have an early copy of War and Peace that might be worth something but I haven't looked it up.

>> No.16132971

>>16130653
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, cost around $200. Second most is my Easton Press copy of Moby Dick.

>> No.16132975

>>16130653
I own a first edition copy of Hart Crane's The Bridge.
Not anywhere near as expensive, but Bottom's Dream ran me like 80 bones.

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it's frustrating since I used to collect early editions of Moorcock stories, but for me it's the Haruhi Suzumiya light novels

>> No.16132981

>>16130653
somebody redpill me on the birds of america

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>>16130653
R.L. Allan 7C, $169

>> No.16133370

>>16130653
The Ex Machina omnibus

>> No.16133849

Rare ethnomusicology book worth $400 and some ex-occidente/zagava which I should probably sell because I'm not that interested in them anymore.

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Warhammer nerds will apparently pay good money for this.

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Signed first edition of How to Bomb the US Govt

>> No.16134029

>>16130653
My copy of the Summa Theologica was around $160

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pic related

>> No.16134898

>>16130653
$200 dual language set of the Summa.
I bought this when I didn't have enough money to pay rent

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>>16131412
Is that book so good that people buy and keep hard bound copies of it? I haven't read it yet, just curious

>> No.16135016

I didn't pay much for it but it was a steal for a now-rare book: Count Stenbock - Of Kings and Things edited by David Tibet. Also some M. R. James non-fiction first editions and a second edition of his children's novel

>> No.16135122

>>16134979
Probably bait but yes, it’s is widely recognized as one of the pinnacles of literature

>> No.16135157

>>16135122
Nah I wasn't baiting, its just that lately I have been hearing that its overrated and for pseuds because it isn't as good as it is hard to read

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I got this one but i don‘t think it‘s actually worth that much.

>> No.16135615

Barring textbooks
Easton press collections (inherited)
Various hardcovers from the 1800s.
I had the opportunity to buy a copy of the Trapp Family Singers that was signed by all the children, but I was short on cash at the time. Still kick myself for missing the opportunity

>> No.16135728

>>16135157
Most ppl complain about the technical descriptions of whaling but a lot of them can be seen as allegories.it also has some of the finest english ever written.lastly it’s biblical in scope and everyone interprets it differently

>> No.16135757

>>16132981
Ancient wisdom is sowed between its pages
>Now, son...you will inherit my wealth, but first, you must understand what has come to be known as: the bird question

>> No.16135777

I recently spent nearly $500 on books, but I got 28 to show for the expenditure. One I really want is $200 used. I think I'll wait.

>> No.16135788

>>16132981
You want to know about the birds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwpWRN4FKiA

>> No.16135863

>>16135728
Would somebody who has no idea about the bible even be able to understand it?

>> No.16135964

>>16135863
Yes.it helps to be familiar with Jonah and the whale story though even though it is explained in Moby Dick.ahab’s quest of Moby Dick is sorta the opposite of it depending on ur interpretations and what u come to believe the whale and ahab symbolize

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>>16132619
>so many important Christian works of literature and art in the hands of Bergs and Steins, Greens and Golds, Baums and Blatts

>> No.16135981

>>16135964
So I will read that story from the Bible before starting this. Thanks.

>> No.16136306

>>16135981
Np.there is a preacher in Moby Dick who preaches the story of Jonah which gives the reader all the important info

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>>16131333

>> No.16136459

>>16135975
>>16132619
lmao get pwn3d goyfag

>> No.16136697

A late 19th century edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays bound in alligator skin.