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 Penguarky Tunguin
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 Your Most Valuable Book
#8390312 - 05/11/08 07:17 PM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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What book of yours is the most valuable, money-wise?
Mine is a second-edition of Alfred Korybski's Science and Sanity, year: 1941. Last time I saw it on ebay was for $300.00
I bought it at a used bookstore for $20.00
I also have a few out-of-print New Falcon Publications stuff, the people that publish most of Robert Anton Wilson's stuff.
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 TheCow
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probably a textbook. I think I paid like 120-150 for some shit back in undergrad
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Oweyervishice
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Re: Your Most Valuable Book [Re: TheCow]
#8390328 - 05/11/08 07:19 PM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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TheCow said:
probably a textbook. I think I paid like 120-150 for some shit back in undergrad
Yeah my most expensive books are for school.
All my other books are probably worth like a dollar.
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Pimpz0r
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My grandfather's Mein Kampf. It really is a good read if you have time to kill and are interested in the Third Reich. 
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CherryBom
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Re: Your Most Valuable Book [Re: Pimpz0r]
#8390362 - 05/11/08 07:27 PM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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My collection of journals dating back to the early 90's. Old notebooks, sketch books, a pink diary with gold trim and a lock and key. My whole life is chronicled in those books and I hope that one day my grandchildren will read them.
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Mary Moon....
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b0red5tiff
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Re: Your Most Valuable Book [Re: CherryBom]
#8390365 - 05/11/08 07:28 PM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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my own book.
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razmablues
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my grandma's journal from her first year of teaching elementary school in Iran back... i don't know... in the 1940's?
she's deceased now, but that book is a good reminder of her for me.
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Geomancer
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First Edition of "The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic" which in addition to the generic signature in the first edition copies is also personally signed by Israel Regardie. Not sure how much its worth in dollars, but it is definitely a book that I would never even consider getting rid of.
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Gr8fulJ420
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I have a copy of De Quincy's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" printed in the late 1800s. There isn't a publication year in the opening pages like most books. However, there is a handwritten greeting on the inside cover indicating it was given to somebody for "Christmas, 1900"
I bought it off eBay years ago. Have no idea of it's worth. But as it is the only "antique" book I own, that would probably have the most value.
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astronaut
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Luigi Serafini - Codex Seraphinianus ($800, which really was a steal).
Probably one of my better investments, actually. I highly recommend this book to absolutely everyone remotely interested in psychedelia, surreal art, or absurdism.
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Re: Your Most Valuable Book [Re: Geomancer]
#8390396 - 05/11/08 07:42 PM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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Geomancer said:
First Edition of "The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic" which in addition to the generic signature in the first edition copies is also personally signed by Israel Regardie. Not sure how much its worth in dollars, but it is definitely a book that I would never even consider getting rid of.
Very nice!
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guruu
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First edition copy of The Grapes of Wrath, worth over three thousand dollars at least.
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Re: Your Most Valuable Book [Re: Z0S0]
#8390464 - 05/11/08 07:59 PM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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I have an old copy of Black Beauty that's worth a couple hundred bucks at least. I can't remember the year offhand, but it's pre-20th century and in very good condition.
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Re: Your Most Valuable Book [Re: mayfly]
#8390477 - 05/11/08 08:03 PM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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LSD My Problem Child, 1st. Ed. Hardback, signed by Author and translator.
Cost me 360 i believe several years ago. Other than that, i think my Calculus book was like 200, i bought it new for some reason.
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Penguarky Tunguin
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Re: Your Most Valuable Book [Re: Mojo]
#8390559 - 05/11/08 08:20 PM (3 months, 24 days ago) |
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Awesome.
Keep em' coming. 
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Most of my cook books...
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danlennon3
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I got a copy of oliver twist from the early 1880's
Also got the first edition of 2001 space oddyssey. some edition of opium eater from the 1800's... I got loads of old books which I have no idea the value.... In my basement I got a collection of about 300 books! This isnt including my personal collection that I have on my bookshelf
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kosmic_charlie
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Maybe Lost Moon--The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 because it's signed by Jim Lovell.
Or maybe my complete works of William Shakespeare just because it's all his writings in one mint condition, hard cover book. It was the most expensive book I had to buy in college and it was one of the few that I never sold back. I may never read it but it sure looks nice on my book shelf!
I've had my eye on this book for a while (in case anyone wants to get me an early birthday present):
http://www.maps.org/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=102
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