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This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have been sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century St Cuthbert Gospel , to a 21st-century autograph manuscript of J. K. Rowling ...
List of most expensive books and manuscripts; List of most valuable celebrity memorabilia; List of most expensive celebrity photographs; List of most expensive domain names; List of most expensive films; List of most expensive music videos; List of most expensive non-fungible tokens; List of most expensive photographs; List of most expensive albums
Books of this magnitude are usually produced by large teams of people in order to be made. The thickest single-volume book in the world, World-2023 ESN Publications and London Organisation of Skills Development Ltd , with a page count of 100,100 containing and 7,862 articles, required a team of 292 participants.
It is unknown whether she borrowed the book from the library, though at least four books written by her are in the library's collection and she often visited it. The fine would have been $11,929.44 with inflation. It went into the Rare Books collection as a book from before the closure of the State Library's lending library in 1971. [8]
A really interesting list, but shouldn't it be called something like "List of printed books and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million"? A copy of the Codex Sinaiticus was bought for the British Museum for £100,000 in 1933 which, with inflation, surely makes it more expensive than some of the items on the list, but it fails ...
Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as reported in reliable, independent sources. According to Guinness World Records, as of 1995, the Bible was the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. [1]
Major English dictionaries; ... Most expensive books and manuscripts; ... Time's List of the 10 Best Graphic Novels; The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time; Subject lists
This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [1] [2] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023.