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BIBLIO’s most expensive books sold from July to September 2025 |
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 third quarter of 2025.
Among these stunning books are an inscribed first edition of The Lord of the Rings, a first edition of another of Tolkien's cult works, The Hobbit, and a limited edition of McCarthy's Blood Meridian. |
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Inscribed first edition The Lord of the Rings — $35,000 |
This is a beautiful set of the celebrated The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Mounted at the front of the first volume is a small leaf inscribed by Tolkien: "For Mr Hal Coomer in memory of a pleasant meeting & suffering shared, on Whitsunday, 1958. J. R. R. Tolkien." The two had appeared together on a radio program. |
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First edition copy of The Hobbit — $12,596 |
This is a first edition, first printing of Tolkien's best-known work The Hobbit. Bound in the publisher's original stamped green cloth, map pastedowns, and endpapers. |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — $6,000 |
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. First edition of the fifth novel in Harry Potter Series. Signed by five members of the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2003) film cast on the title page. |
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