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The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon 's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
Columnist David Murdock still has his family's prized 1965 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, and recalls pleasant hours reading it.
The first edition of World Book (1917) contained eight volumes. New editions have since appeared every year except 1920, 1924, and 1932, with major revisions in 1929 (13 volumes), 1947 (19 volumes), 1960 (20 volumes), 1971 (22 volumes), and 1988 (new typeface and page design, and some 10,000 new editorial features). [12]
According to Guinness World Records, as of 1995, the Bible was the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. [1] Sales estimates for other printed religious texts include at least 800 million copies for the Qur'an and 200 million copies for the Book of Mormon. [2]
Probert Encyclopaedia – online topical encyclopedia consisting of almost 100,000 short entries, published by Mathew Probert and based in the United Kingdom; World Book Encyclopedia – designed for family use; the world's best selling print encyclopedia
1976-S Silver Proof Deep Cameo Bicentennial Quarter: sold for $2,760 in 2007. 1976 Clad Bicentennial Quarter Regular Strike: sold for $1,821 in 2023. More From GOBankingRates
The World Book Dictionary is a two-volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia.It was originally published in 1963 by Field Enterprises under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart had known and ...
I actually have the G volume from the 1959 set. From the front page: THE WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA In Eighteen Volumes and Reading and Study Guide. AppleMacReporter 01:15, 9 December 2006 (UTC) By the early 1970s the Reading and Study Guide was Volume 22. Naaman Brown 13:54, 15 July 2011 (UTC)