It’s every bibliophile’s dream. You go to a garage sale, rummage through a box full of books, then come home with a nice secondhand copy of whatever appeals to you. Then you get home, open the cover, and discover that your bargain book is actually worth millions of dollars. We live in a world where a book by Charles Darwin sells for $100,000 despite sitting on a bathroom shelf, and where the works of Poe sell for $662,000. So, take a glance at Mental Floss’s list of 10 very rare books and start dreaming.
Here’s the question: how much would the book have to be worth for you to sell it, knowing that the value is only going to increase over time? If it’s, say, that $37,000 copy of Harry Potter, I’m hanging onto it. If it’s something incredibly rare, like Da Vinci‘s Codex Leicester, which sold for $30 million dollars at auction, it’s going to Sotheby’s as soon as humanly possible. You can’t pass up that kind of cash. Well, maybe you can, but I can’t.
Tags: expensive books, rare books, 10 most expensive books, unusual books, rare literature, collectibles, very costly books