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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.
The codex was sold to Bill Gates by Christie's auction house on 11 November 1994 in New York for US$30,802,500. [4] Until 2021, the codex remained the most expensive book ever sold. [ 11 ]
On "Pawn Stars," owner Rick Harrison was offered one of the most expensive books that'd ever been in the shop: The Book of Mormon. The appraiser said, "Rick, this by far the most valuable book you ...
The First Folio is one of the most valuable printed books in the world: a copy sold at Christie's in New York in October 2001 made $6.16 million hammer price (then £3.73m). [41] In October 2020, a copy sold by Mills College at Christie's fetched a price of $10 million, [ 42 ] making it the most expensive work of literature ever auctioned.
From baseball cards to entire towns, here are 10 of the most expensive things ever sold on eBay. Burgess Yachts. 1. Gigayacht. Sold for: $168 million.
A first edition copy of Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone was thought to be the highest price recorded
This page provides lists of best-selling books and book series to date and in any language. "Best-selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book, rather than the number of books printed or currently owned. Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. The books are listed according to the highest sales estimate as ...
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 ...