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The World's Most Expensive Books

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 9, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 18.

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The World's Most Expensive Books

The highest price — $50,000 — ever paid for any book was paid by H. E. Huntington, at the great Hoe sale in New York, April 24. It was for the first book and Bible ever printed from movable types — the Gutenberg Bible. Bernard Quatrich paid $20,000 fourteen years ago. He sold it to Hoe for $22,500. For the third book ever put in English type by English printers, a work compiled by Juliana Berners, printed by Caxton 1486, Mr. Huntington paid $12,000.