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Antiquarian & Collectible Top 5
September 2007

#1* tie $14,000.00 LIGHT BLUE DARK BLUE -1ST - SIGNED -PLATH, HUGHES 1960
#1 tie $14,000.00 Stephen King's Firestarter, lettered Asbestos edition
#3 $12,700.00 **__GOSPEL, EVANGELIE, ideal condition, rare, 1780__**
#4 $10,050.00 Hobbit 1937 Tolkien 1st ed 1st imp HC DJ Allen & Unwin
#5 $9,900.00 1496 ILLUMINATED BIBLE Biblia Latina 1ST BRESCIA ED.!

* It is not possible to determine if this sale was completed. For more details see #1 below.

#1* tie
Light Blue Dark Blue
An Anthology of Cambridge and Oxford Writing

Described as signed by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, the book was listed by a UK seller and sold to a novice buyer in a BIN. It is not possible to determine if this sale was completed. Two months after the BIN took place, the buyer still had 0 feedback and the seller, who had 295 feedback with a 99.3% positive rating at the time of the BIN, was using a new selling name and had private feedback.

#1 tie
Firestarter
Stephen King

Sold as a Best Offer, the 1980 volume is letter H in the "lettered asbestos Firestarter" and was signed by Stephen King. The seller reports that there were only 26 volumes bound in asbestos.

#3
Gospel or Evangelie
1780

Listed by an Austrian seller in a private auction, the Ukranian printed volume is described as a "very large folio ... with old Slavonic editing by two different hands.... 4 engravings of Evangelists on copper by Goczemski." It sold as a BIN.

#4
The Hobbitt
J.R.R. Tolkien

In another private auction, a first edition copy of The Hobbitt in a first issue dust jacket sold as a best offer.

#5
[Biblia Latina]
1496

Listed by a US seller and described as "the earliest Brescia edition of the Latin Bible," the 1496 Bible was printed in Italy. It received 33 bids to sell for $9,900.

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