EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

And how much did you pay for it ?

I bought a oop private press for about $30, iirc. Still haven't read it. It's tucked away so I can't even tell you the title. There are fewer than half a dozen that I've paid more than $5 for; those are the few I've bought new because I both know that I love them *and* I want to support the author. For example Visiting Tom: A Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace and a couple of others from Michael Perry.

Once I was travelling through a non English speaking country,and I came across,Who Moved My Cheese.It was pretty much the only English book there,and I bought it.It was priced around 30 dollars,and turned out to be very disappointing.

Oh dear, bad luck.

It might have been less,was a long time ago.These days,I'm still tempted by expensive books,while browsing online and have bought quite a few.

Study tomes for the CPA exams.

Special edition of 'The Secret History' by Donna Tart.
Bought it for sentimental value.
That sentimental value declined real fast when I saw my bank account.

I bought a leather bound facsimile edition of The Kelmscott Chaucer (1896) from Easton Press for $600.

The most expensive books I have ever bought were textbooks! $100+

In the 80s, if my college texts COLLECTIVELY cost $100 in a semester, it was because an instructor or two required a text they had written (which were always the most expensive ones). But I feel ya.

lol

For Christmas last year, I bought my daughter a book that was slightly more expensive than the most expensive textbooks I bought in college: The Folio Society’s edition of Wu Ch’êng-ên’s Monkey. It’s a gorgeous book.

Definitely my college textbooks. They were always well over $100 and required for each class.

Pony wrote: "Definitely my college textbooks. They were always well over $100 and required for each class."

I was very fortunate to have text rental when I was in school. You had to buy lab manual and some instructors required a few miscellaneous books. But mostly it was part of tuition. You checked the books out of the book store at the beginning of the semester and returned them at the end. You could mark in them and only had to buy those you thought you would want to keep for your major.

a leather back copy of all edgar allen poe novels, tales and poems. it had a raven coming out of it and was carved!!!! went for £60 at waterstones, got it for my birthday and well worth the read. it even had a built in bookmark

Jan wrote: "Pony wrote: "Definitely my college textbooks. They were always well over $100 and required for each class."

I was very fortunate to have text rental when I was in school. You had to buy lab manual..."

Oh, that would have been nice!

I have a signed copy of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince in my bookshelf, but sadly the cover is a bit torn (It's a hardback)
I'm not sure how much it could be worth 🤷‍♂️

I bought from Grim Oak Press the Prince of Thorns trilogy signed, art inserts, leatherbound, etc. as a gift for my husband.

One Christmas my husband gifted me the hardback copy of Diana by R.F. Delderfield. This was back when it was out of print and not available as e-book. He knew this was the first adult book I read at age 12 (I'm now 76). He found it online for $75. I almost cried when I opened the package. A few years ago it finally became available for Kindle which I bought. As I now have age related Macular Degeneration we decided to donate the hardback copy to the library used bookstore. I hope it found a good home:)

spoko wrote: "For Christmas last year, I bought my daughter a book that was slightly more expensive than the most expensive textbooks I bought in college: The Folio Society’s edition of Wu Ch’êng-ên’s [book:Monk..."

wow!!! these are fabulous