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BIBLIO’s most expensive books sold from April to June 2025 |
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We're excited to present a selection of rare and collectible books that have found their way from BIBLIO's shelves into customers' prized collections. This list features ten high-end books sold on BIBLIO during the second quarter of 2025.
Among these stunning editions are a signed first American edition of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, a second edition of Leaves of Grass, and a signed copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls. |
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Signed first US edition of Woolf's To the Lighthouse — $12,000 |
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The first American edition of To the Lighthouse, published in New York by Brace and Company in 1927, is one of the most sought-after of Woolf’s landmark novels, especially if signed, such as this copy sold on BIBLIO by BCL The Book Collection Library. |
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The White Dove Review, issues 1-5. Ed. Ron Padgett — $5,000 |
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A rare complete run of The White Dove Review, comprising the five issues published in 1959–1960. The issues include works by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, LeRoi Jones, Robert Creeley, Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and others. The White Dove Review was founded in 1959 by poet Ron Padgett when he was a teenager. The inaugural issue features Jack Kerouac's poem "The Trashing Doves." |
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The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty.
Photocopied Corrected Manuscript — $4,500 |
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1972. Photocopied copy of the manuscript, displaying extensive corrections, apparently sent out by Welty's agent, Russell & Volkening. The Optimist's Daughter received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. |
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