Expensive Books.
♦ It may be taken as a ourioas sign of the times when a bookseller adverfcisos in the newspapers the wares he has to sell, and when the price of the first two is several thousand apiece. Mr Bernard Quaritch appro* priated a column of The limit on October 28th for the purpose of advertising. The price of the first was £5000, of the second £5250 of the next £400, another was £1500. another £2500, another £900, and B-u'erat were £500 and £400 each ! Nearly a hundred books were advertised, and not one of them was priced below two figures It is probable that such an occurrence haa never before been met with in the history of the world.
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Manawatu Herald, 23 December 1897, Page 2
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120Expensive Books. Manawatu Herald, 23 December 1897, Page 2
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