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The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
To keep the list manageable, only authors with estimated sales of at least 100 million are included. Authors of comic books are not included unless they have been published in book format (for example, comic albums, manga tankÅbon volumes, trade paperbacks, or graphic novels).
In Storm the main character is weather, and in Fire, a forest fire takes center stage. [12] In the same way, Stewart centers the first half of Earth Abides on the forces of natural and artificial selection. In freeing the landscape from humans, half of the book is devoted to looking at how the world would change in their absence.
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
One of the most valuable misprints can be found in the original 1885 edition of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, the classic tale of friendship and mischief along the ...
Passin' Through – Parmalee Sackett is mentioned as defending a main character in the book. Also, a main character is a Higgins. Son of a Wanted Man – Tyrel Sackett; Catlow – Ben Cowan marries a cousin of Tyrel Sackett's wife; Man from the Broken Hills – Em Talon is a main character in this book and was, in fact, born a Sackett. Mentions ...
[90] Such concealment of character identity has resulted in some disparity as to how critics identify the book's main protagonists; for example, while most find consensus that Festy King, who appears on trial in I.4, is a HCE type, not all analysts agree on this – for example Anthony Burgess believes him to be Shaun. [91]
Set in the bucolic college town Blacksmith, White Noise follows a year in the life of Jack Gladney, a professor at the College-on-the-Hill who has made his name by pioneering the field of Hitler studies (though he has not taken German lessons until this year). He has been married five times to four women and rears a number of children and ...