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"You want the number line to start with the number one—anything other than that probably won't work in terms of value." ... for example. Any signed book by J.K. Rowling is worth at least several ...
The Coptic Encyclopedia (1993) The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901–1906) Encyclopaedia Judaica; Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (1914; public domain since 2004) St. Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India (1973,82,2010) Encyclopedia of Mormonism (1992) Orthodox Encyclopedia (Serbe) Encyclopaedia of Islam
Here are five notable old books that are worth thousands of dollars. ... Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ typically commands a sale price of up to $20,000, and in some cases, even more ...
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.
As of 2007, old encyclopedias whose copyright has expired, such as the 1911 edition of Britannica, are also the only free content English encyclopedias released in print form. However, works such as the Great Soviet Encyclopedia , which were created in the public domain, [ citation needed ] exist as free content encyclopedias in other languages.
Despite this popularity, old copies are notoriously difficult to sell, [5] [6] and scholarly attention has been sparse. [7] [8] For much of their publication schedule, the volumes were issued four times each year. Each year the company produced a Volume 1 (winter), Volume 2 (spring), Volume 3 (summer), and Volume 4 (autumn).
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Maybe you've heard the story of a bowl someone in New York state bought for $3 at a garage sale in 2007. It was a little bowl, just 5 inches in diameter, with a big story behind it. A few years ...