Sunday, 6 December 2009

Check out those old books

No mystery about it -- Edgar Allan Poe's first book - a rare copy of the book sold at auction yesterday for a record $662,500.

"Tamerlane and Other Poems," published anonymously in 1827 -- when Poe was 18 -- went under the hammer at Christie's and set a record for 19th- century poetry books.

One of 12 copies in existence, the book went to an unidentified collector in the United States.


1 comment:

Charles Gramlich said...

hum, now some of my stories have been published in hard to find magazines. How come they haven't sold for this much yet? lol.