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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.
For example, a first edition of Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton can fetch equivalent to a down payment on a house. However, the first illustrated folio edition of 1688, technically a later edition, is worth a fraction of the first edition, but still fetches in the thousands of dollars as an illustrated book from the era in which Milton lived.
The first edition of a facsimile reprint is the reprint publisher's first edition, but not the first edition of the work itself. The Independent Online Booksellers Association has A First Edition Primer that discusses several aspects of identifying first editions including publishing and specific publishers way of designating first editions.
As new means that the book is in the state that it should have been in when it left the publisher. This is the equivalent of mint condition in numismatics. Fine (F or FN) is "as new" but allowing for the normal effects of time on an unused book that has been protected. A fine book shows no damage. Very good (VG) describes a book that is worn ...
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Early editions of the books use a different format: The Valuetale of y: The value of x. So the first edition of the Helen Keller book is called The ValueTale of Helen Keller : the value of determination. The books were quite popular in homes, elementary school libraries, pediatrics offices, and sunday schools across North America.
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