The Twenty-two Thousand Dollar Book

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Oh. My. God.
no... I don't have a copy of this tucked away in my collection. I wish. But then, I also rather wonder at the price of what is, after all, only 40 or so years old...

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=719691369

Would you buy it if you had the money??

How much money would you have to have before this _didn't_ seem like too much?

Comments

[lilyfriend.livejournal.com]

Loved the book.. but I'm sure you can buy a very lovely, more recently printed copy for under $20. Even if you did have the money for that, you'd quickly go broke buying books for $22480 more than you need to. :)

[gillo]

Good grief. I'm not sure I'd ever come to see this as a reasonable price. Too many eons worshipping at the altar of the second-hand book shop, affordable version.

[umbrella-term.livejournal.com]

When I researched it last year, Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, published under her pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in first edition is going for opening bids of $9000 American on ebay. If you don't fuss over the name and want the first edition published posthumus, it's starting at $7000 USD. Can you believe it, considering it's only 40 years old as well?

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Good grief! It is a lovely book, of course, and I can see how most copies might have been ... over-loved for the collectors' market. But such a lot of money!

No, there are other books I'd want first, and other things than books, if I had that sort of money. I'd buy a reprint, though.