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What's the Most You Paid for a Single Book?

-Carlos-

-Carlos-

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Have you paid top dollar for any single book?

If so, tell us the title/author, how much paid (if you dare) and what makes the book such a special publication. :)

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The highest amount of money I spent on a book was $38.00. The book? Guilty But Insane, a collection of essays written by novelist Poppy Z. Brite. I had desperately wanted to read the book for quite some time and sadly none of the libraries had a copy. I had no choice but to cough up the $38.00 and despite it being a quick read (only 170-something pages) I'm glad I purchased Guilty But Insane.

Now with that said... how much did you pay for a book, AquaBlue?
 
$35 for A Moveable Feast, First Edition, by Hemingway. The book is in mint condition. Ernest has to be my favorite writer.
 
£45.99, which is about $90. How To Program Java. I've never read it. :0
Most of my computer books are in the £30 to £45 range.

Fiction wise, it's probably £25 ($49) for the hardback of JG Ballard's Collected Stories, followed by £23 ($45) for a US import of Clive Barker's Forms Of Heaven.
 
I've spent $125 for books for homeschooling. That one was a history, literature, geography, Compostion, Government,and Fine Arts course that contained assignments for all 12 grades. Some of the support books for this course were books in the $35-$40 range..like Sister Wendy's Story of Painting..that one is an investment, since it is used by lots of other curriculums as well..it's just a great book.
Some other textbooks were in the $75 range..those were science and math courses.
 
Most of my textbooks fall in the $100 - $120 (Australian) range. Quite a lot to cough up, I think, particularly if you're as half-assed as me and only scan them weeks before exams.

Fiction-wise, I don't think I've paid over $10 for quite some time. In fact, the only new books I've boughht in the last few years (I mean brand new) have been the HPs.
 
Must have been something I bought at the university. I think I spent about US $95* on a law book once.

*Equivalent
 
£80 (~$150) for the Complete Far Side - the hardback, two-volume one. Also £52 (~$100) for a signed first edition (but third printing!) of Martin Amis's Money - which I later threw away in a fit of cathartic clearing-out.
 
Many of my textbooks are over $80.
Last month, I bought Alan Moore's Lost Girls. Originally it's about $75, but I have an employee discount at B&N, so I got it for $45 on employee appreciation week.

I think it's totally worth it, the artwork is amazing.
 
I had a chemistry textbook cost $350 when I was in college. :mad: I changed my major halfway through the semester and gave the damn thing away.

Shade said:
£80 (~$150) for the Complete Far Side...
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I really want to buy that, but I just don't have the money for it right now. I've seen it for about $100, but it is still a lot. Do you feel like you got your money's worth?
 
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield and that was almost $18. However, I would love to get my hands on a copy of Killer: A Journal of Murder. The cheapest price that I've seen for that book is $50.
 
I had a chemistry textbook cost $350 when I was in college
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Ouch. I don't recall ever spending that much money on a textbook. Somehow I have a feeling that will change in the fall...
 
The most expensive book I have bought to date was a textbook on Neural Networks which cost £85.99 (which I hardly ever used :eek: ).
 
mehastings said:
I really want to buy that, but I just don't have the money for it right now. I've seen it for about $100, but it is still a lot. Do you feel like you got your money's worth?
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Not really. I'd swap it for the three-volume hardback deluxe edition of the complete Calvin & Hobbes!
 
Have bought schoolbooks that costed up to 165 US dollars/84 british pounds each. (books are very expensive in Norway)

Thank Good, that my schooldays is over.
 
I can't even count the amount of money i've spent on textbooks... they are outrageously overpriced.

But as far as other books, I spent $90 on a vintage Poe book.
 
Shade said:
Not really. I'd swap it for the three-volume hardback deluxe edition of the complete Calvin & Hobbes!
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I'd rather have that one too. I love Calvin & Hobbes. It is so hard to spend that kind of money on comics, but I'm hopeful that I'll get both sets as birthday gifts some day.
 
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