First Edition Books

[Annie456]

Anyone know what's the most money paid for a first edition of a book? I just learned that "To kill a mockingbird" signed first edition has a price tag of $30,000.00! Just wondered if anyone knew any other big-sellers?!

[jake-the-peg]

I think Alice in wonderland is the Biggie.

There were printing problems with the first edition and all were withdrawn apart from 23 that are known to exist.

In 1998 one sold for $1.5 million!

[mycatis]

I was going to say yesterday that I thought it would be Shakespeares first folio, but couldn't find the amount it went for, but I found it now- One of only five copies, dated 1623, sold at Christies in New York in 2001 for $6,166,000 (�4,156,947) blimey!!

[kaktus]

A couple of days ago a first edition of Thomas More's Utopia was sold at an auktion in Denmark for the neat price of 1,3 million DKR or �118,174

and that is a lot of money mycatis. That Thomas More can go home I think :)