How Many Zeros is 007 Worth?
Our friends over at Abe Books have announced their most expensive
rare book sales of 2012, which included a signed first edition of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale that sold for $46,000. (A 1953 first edition is currently for sale on Abe Books for $149,000; on Amazon.com, you can find a paperback edition for nine bucks).
Earning slightly more than James Bond's debut was a 1603 copy of an illustrated celestial atlas by Johann Bayer, which sold for $47,729. In third place was an original German edition of Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung (aka The Metamorphosis), which sold for $30,000.
Others on the list of top 25 most expensive books included copies of The Call of the Wild, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Old Man and the Sea, and, at #25, Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, which sold for $12,912.
Rounding out the rest of the top 10 on the Abe Books annual list are:
- A Latin Bible from 1491 ($26,200)
- Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak ($25,000)
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ($25,000)
- A Polyglot Bible from 1599-1602, edited by Elisa Hutter ($25,000)
- Livre d'Heures (Book of Hours) ($24,680)
- Cosmographia by Petrus Apianus ($23,681)
- Les Ruines de les Splus Beaux Monuments de la Grece by Julien David Le Roy ($23,530)
>To see the full list of most expensive books, including the top 25 and other sales in various categories (science, mathematics, art, photography, poetry and more) visit AbeBooks.com
Gines on January 09, 2013 at 09:07 AM
Me gustaría poder comprar ese libro para regalar