£2l00 FOR A BOOK
JOHN BUNYAN RARITY. London, Dec. 24. A first edition of John Buny’an's “Book for Boys and Girls" was sold today for £2lOO. Only one other copy of this edition is known to exist, and that is in the British Museum. The book was, with a number of others, bought by a woman for half-a-crown some years ago. Recently her daughter, who is a post office worker, showed it to a local librarian, and he submitted it to Hodgson and Co., the book auctioneers. They recognised it as a rarity, and -submitted it at auction.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1927, Page 14
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98£2l00 FOR A BOOK Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1927, Page 14
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