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9051092 No.9051092 [Reply] [Original]

What is the most you've ever paid for a book? What is the most you would pay?

>> No.9051098

>>9051092
50 bucks for La reserche by proust, all volumes in one

That's as far as I'm willing to go, if a book is more expensive than that I'll just pirate it

>> No.9051782

25€ for Romance of the three kingdoms.

>> No.9051820

Seriously considering picking up a first edition Gravity's Rainbow at a bookstore near me for ~250 dollars.

>> No.9051825
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£40 for this. I'd get it back if I wanted to sell it on.

I'd struggle to hand over 3 figures for a book.

>> No.9051827

>>9051092
Someday I'm going to pay 1000$ bucks for a replica of the voynich manuscript.
Someday.
I stopped paying more than 3 dollars for a book when I discovered second hand book stores. And then less when I bought a kindle and discovered calibre. I physically can't do it. I get panic attacks. It's awful. But I save so much money.

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>>9051827
it never occured to me that i could actually buy that... guess i know what will be on my wishlist next christmas

>> No.9051875

>>9051866
Yeah. You can pay 100$ for an okay copy, but some printing house got the rights to it, and made about 800 original copies, each page hand painted and everything. Ugh. Fuck me so hard.

>> No.9051903

>>9051092
Would pay under a grand for trauma treatises since the Crimean War or signed first editions of 20th century great works like listed in the modern Library

>> No.9052041

>>9051092
About tree fiddy

>> No.9052062

Paid a lot for some academic books I needed for course.

Aside from that spent about £50 on a signed first edition of The Handmaid's Tale and about £25 on shipping from canada I think roughly.

Would happily spend over a hundred if it was one of a few that I loved and read growing up and would still re-read and pass onto my kids etc. But would have to look and feel nice, just because its a first ed etc

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currency in my country is fucked so is bad to compare but about U$ 33,00 for barnes & noble KJV.

>inb4 luxurious, tacky, pomo

just wanted a kjv with doré's illustrations, hard cover, thick paper and actually readable font-size. and also, the other 'regular' shitter versions of KJV I found were almost as expensive, so why not pay a bit more for something nice that will last my whole life and could be passed on to someone...

and its pretty comfy reading this edition