Whats the most you ever spent on a “rare” book

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The stuff I collect has no value. I've never felt the love of collecting unique treasures. I've suffered the cold and rain waiting all night to buy concert tickets when I was younger so I understand wanting something badly enough that you'd make a sacrifice for it (in this case hard earned cash). I'm interested to hear some of the items and costs, if more are forthcoming. I've never heard of 'Faithful' but that Stephen King book of kingricefans' sure is covetable!
 

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The stuff I collect has no value. I've never felt the love of collecting unique treasures. I've suffered the cold and rain waiting all night to buy concert tickets when I was younger so I understand wanting something badly enough that you'd make a sacrifice for it (in this case hard earned cash). I'm interested to hear some of the items and costs, if more are forthcoming. I've never heard of 'Faithful' but that Stephen King book of kingricefans' sure is covetable!

Faithful is non fiction book by King and another author about a Boston red sox baseball season.

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Most I've ever spent a any book is £10. The closest I've got to a rare book is when I was looking for a copy of the colorado kid, every copy I found in England was £30+ for an ok condition paperback. I had to get a copy from America shipped for a total price of £5.55, that's the most I've spent on a non new Stephen King book.
 
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MarkS73

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I've collected limited editions for a while but in the end felt it was'nt worth the money. They just stood there collecting dust. I've sold them all. Nowadays i'm satisfied with a nice hardcover, does'nt really matter wich edition. I have a signed hardcover of Heart-Shaped box by Joe Hill and a signed first edition of The Passage by Justin Cronin, not worth a huge amount of money but i like the fact that they actually helt the book and signed them :)
 

GNTLGNT

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Faithful is non fiction book by King and another author about a Boston red sox baseball season.

faithfulLETTERED01LARGE.jpg


Most I've ever spent a any book is £10. The closest I've got to a rare book is when I was looking for a copy of the colorado kid, every copy I found in England was £30+ for an ok condition paperback. I had to get a copy from America shipped for a total price of £5.55, that's the most I've spent on a non new Stephen King book.
...that is it, and mine is also a Publisher's Lettered Copy......
 

GNTLGNT

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I've collected limited editions for a while but in the end felt it was'nt worth the money. They just stood there collecting dust. I've sold them all. Nowadays i'm satisfied with a nice hardcover, does'nt really matter wich edition. I have a signed hardcover of Heart-Shaped box by Joe Hill and a signed first edition of The Passage by Justin Cronin, not worth a huge amount of money but i like the fact that they actually helt the book and signed them :)
....I collect what I like, and to each their own....I certainly don't have the budget to snap up the myriad of limited, rare or highly sought after tomes-nor do I feel the compulsion....but I don't expect people to understand me collecting Deadpool action figures and Jeep stuff either.....
 

DiO'Bolic

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Not a rare book but one of my daughter's college books cost me $385. The bill that semester on books was almost $900. What a racket!!! And last semester when she signed up for an elective class, the professor emailed all students in the class (about 20 students) that they needed to purchase a special book she was having the publisher create specifically for that class. I thought what would a special hardcover textbook, with a run of about 20, cost me? I didn't wait to find out. I called her and told her since the class was only an elective she should drop it and pick another. :(
 

kingricefan

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Not a rare book but one of my daughter's college books cost me $385. The bill that semester on books was almost $900. What a racket!!! And last semester when she signed up for an elective class, the professor emailed all students in the class (about 20 students) that they needed to purchase a special book she was having the publisher create specifically for that class. I thought what would a special hardcover textbook, with a run of about 20, cost me? I didn't wait to find out. I called her and told her since the class was only an elective she should drop it and pick another. :(
You should check thriftbooks.com for those school books. A friend of mine was able to purchase almost half of the required text books for her daughter's college courses.
 

Spideyman

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You should check thriftbooks.com for those school books. A friend of mine was able to purchase almost half of the required text books for her daughter's college courses.
Not sure of Dio's situation, but many colleges/universities are now requiring new books. Or getting around the used book idea by requiring the latest edition.
 

DiO'Bolic

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You should check thriftbooks.com for those school books. A friend of mine was able to purchase almost half of the required text books for her daughter's college courses.
Not sure of Dio's situation, but many colleges/universities are now requiring new books. Or getting around the used book idea by requiring the latest edition.
There is a new college racket going around that makes purchasing used books a defunct tradition (many but not all). Many professors require students do a lot of work online and information to do that work is only accessed online with a special key code. That key code is included with the purchase of a new textbook and the key is only valid for one use and limited to a timeframe. So you can purchase a used texbook but the keycode won’t work. My daughter said a lot of new students don’t realize the college scam and purchase used books that are worthless in order to do the required work. They end up having to purchase a new textbook anyway... so they’ve ended up buying both a used and new book for the course.
 

kingricefan

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Jul 11, 2006
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There is a new college racket going around that makes purchasing used books a defunct tradition (many but not all). Many professors require students do a lot of work online and information to do that work is only accessed online with a special key code. That key code is included with the purchase of a new textbook and the key is only valid for one use and limited to a timeframe. So you can purchase a used texbook but the keycode won’t work. My daughter said a lot of new students don’t realize the college scam and purchase used books that are worthless in order to do the required work. They end up having to purchase a new textbook anyway... so they’ve ended up buying two books for the course.
Wow, that's a harsh way for colleges to make their students pay for new books.
 

Spideyman

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There is a new college racket going around that makes purchasing used books a defunct tradition (many but not all). Many professors require students do a lot of work online and information to do that work is only accessed online with a special key code. That key code is included with the purchase of a new textbook and the key is only valid for one use and limited to a timeframe. So you can purchase a used texbook but the keycode won’t work. My daughter said a lot of new students don’t realize the college scam and purchase used books that are worthless in order to do the required work. They end up having to purchase a new textbook anyway... so they’ve ended up buying both a used and new book for the course.
Has your daughter become an advocate to expose the new college book scam? ;)
 

DiO'Bolic

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Has your daughter become an advocate to expose the new college book scam? ;)
She's still keeping her options open on becoming a statistics and calculus professor after she gets her masters degree, which will help her get a paid PHD. The math professors have put her on a special tutoring committee this semester that pays her more money than simply straight tutoring. She like being a bigwig. She probably doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds her. ;):)
 

Spideyman

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She's still keeping her options open on becoming a statistics and calculus professor after she gets her masters degree, which will help her get a paid PHD. The math professors have put her on a special tutoring committee this semester that pays her more money than simply straight tutoring. She like being a bigwig. She probably doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds her. ;):)
:thumbs_up::thumbs_up:
 

mal

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There is a new college racket going around that makes purchasing used books a defunct tradition (many but not all). Many professors require students do a lot of work online and information to do that work is only accessed online with a special key code. That key code is included with the purchase of a new textbook and the key is only valid for one use and limited to a timeframe. So you can purchase a used texbook but the keycode won’t work. My daughter said a lot of new students don’t realize the college scam and purchase used books that are worthless in order to do the required work. They end up having to purchase a new textbook anyway... so they’ve ended up buying both a used and new book for the course.
Colleges are more big business than in the past. Screw the education part just give us your money. Pretty sad.