{"id":1093,"date":"2009-01-09T22:32:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T06:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/01\/09\/the-most-expensive-books-of-2008\/"},"modified":"2019-10-20T14:38:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T22:38:35","slug":"the-most-expensive-books-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/01\/09\/the-most-expensive-books-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"the most expensive books of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our own Victoria, BC’s ABEBooks.com<\/em> posts a list<\/a> of the most expensive sales through their system in 2008. The list is very interesting. The number one sale was for $17,216 for Etudes \u00e0 l’Eau-Forte<\/em> by Francis Seymour Haden<\/a>. Number two was $13,000 for L’Abou Naddara, Journal Arabe Illustre<\/em> (1878-1884) by James Sanua.<\/p>\n

Now, what do you think was number three? Would you believe Harry Potter?<\/p>\n

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Yes, a Harry Potter book sold for $12,874. It is a first edition, signed by the author and the artist of the dust jacket illustrations.<\/p>\n

The whole list is quite interesting, including the Most Expensive Sales of Religious & Theology Books in 2008, and several other categories. They even include "Ephemera" which are non-book items sold through ABEBooks. The most expensive Ephemera was George Bernard Shaw’s typewriter, going for $7,979.<\/p>\n

Another category of interest are the top three science fiction sales for 2008:<\/p>\n

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AbeBooks\u2019 Most Expensive Sales of Science Fiction & Fantasy Books in 2008<\/h5>\n

\"Nineteen<\/a> <\/p>\n

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  1. Out of the Silent Planet<\/em><\/a> by CS Lewis – $7,950 <\/strong>
    First edition of Lewis’s earliest and rarest works from 1938. <\/li>\n
  2. Edge Chronicles<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell – $7,000 <\/strong>
    A complete set of the children\u2019s fantasy series containing     Beyond the Deepwoods<\/em><\/a>, Stormchaser<\/a>, Midnight Over Sanctaphrax<\/a>, Cloud Wolf<\/a>, Curse of the Gloamglozer<\/a>, Last of the Sky Pirates<\/a>, Vox<\/a>, <\/em>and Freeglader<\/a><\/em>.  All titles are first UK editions with signatures of Stewart and Riddell. <\/li>\n
  3. Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em><\/a> by George Orwell – $6,780 <\/strong>
    First edition, first printing, of Orwell\u2019s 1949 dystopian classic featuring the red dust jacket. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    I think that should pique your interest. As a bibliophile, the list very much intrigued me.<\/p>\n

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    Our own Victoria, BC’s ABEBooks.com posts a list of the most expensive sales through their system in 2008. The list is very interesting. The number one sale was for $17,216 for Etudes \u00e0 l’Eau-Forte by Francis Seymour Haden. Number two was $13,000 for L’Abou Naddara, Journal Arabe Illustre (1878-1884) by James Sanua. Now, what do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,182],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-hD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}