We are offered books for sale every day. After more than two decades, there isn’t much we haven’t seen.That is, except for a Gutenberg Bible ! Well, heaven’s above, wouldn’t you know we were finally offered one yesterday by a local collector who had been holding on to this rarest of gems for some 50 [...]

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Copy of Poe’s 1st book sells for $662K in NYC

A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s first book has sold for $662,500, smashing the previous record price for American literature.

The copy of “Tamerlane and Other Poems” had been estimated to sell Friday for between $500,000 and $700,000 at Christie’s auction house in New York City.
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