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AbeBooks’ most expensive sales in October 2009


1. The Scots Musical Museum by James Johnson – $8,500
The pivotal collection of Scottish music compiled by Johnson with contributions, both musically and editorially, by Robert Burns – published in 1792 as four volumes, this bound in two. The collection gained international recognition after arrangements by Haydn and Beethoven.

2. Oeuvres by Pierre de Ronsard – $7,435
The complete first volume of the first edition of Ronsard’s poetry; bound with an incomplete copy of the second volume and the preliminary matter of the third volume. Ronsard (1524-1585) was known as the Prince of Poets in his native France. Published in Paris in 1560.

hobbit-tolkien-second-edition3. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien – $6,500
A signed second edition (printed in 1956) of Tolkien’s fantasy masterpiece.

4. The Bonefish Brigade by Zane Grey – $5,000
Privately published in 1922, this was a special edition with “Christmas Greetings” and a candle design printed in red and green on the upper cover. This was Zane Grey’s personal copy with his library blind-stamp on the front free endpaper.

5. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer; Frank Lloyd Wright; Yukio Futagawa – $4,500
The complete 12-volume monograph of Wright’s work. Published 1984, first American edition.

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