AbeBooks’ most expensive sales in April
Here are the most expensive books sold through AbeBooks in April. The most expensive one is not a book at all but a set of IT journals. Who’d have thought that some journals about software could fetch such a high price? A little further investigation revealed that there are quite a few sets of IT journals spanning the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s for sale on the site at some very impressive prices.
- Software: Practice and Experience - $9,652. Volumes 1-34 (1971-2004) from this respected software journal
- A Description of the East by Richard Pococke - $9,460. A key travel book on the Eastern Mediterranean, Pococke traveled extensively in the 1730s
- Poems by Wilfred Owen - $8,713. A 1920 first edition with a long manuscript from Owen’s former lecturer
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by Colin Matthew - $7,500. A huge set of 60 books with 50,113 biographical articles on key British historical figures
- Ulysses by James Joyce - $6,500. A pristine 1935 edition - #74 of 1500 copies signed by illustrator Henri Matisse
- American Life by Ronald Reagan - $6,325. Presented in an oak case, a first edition – one of 2000 copies signed by the late president
- The Querist by George Berkeley - $6,220. First London edition from 1936, this book has theories on politics and finance originally published in 1735-37.Â
- New Discovery of a Vast Country in America by Louis Hennepin - $6000. A description of the Americas from 1698, including the first published view of Niagara Falls
- Tibetan Painted Scrolls by Giuseppe Tucci - $4,800. A three-volume set from 1949 on Tibetan history and culture
- Illustrated Letters by Madame de Sevigne - $4,777. Madame de Sivigne, a French aristocrat (1626-1696), was a famed letter writer – one of 420 copies with original illustrations by Henry Lemarié
