America's First Book up for Auction: Could Go for $30 Million >>Hollywood

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America's First Book up for Auction: Could Go for $30 Million Apr 17th 2013, 17:52 Boy, as the world switches to e-Readers, the price of print books is really skyrocketing. At least, one book is. The first book ever printed in America, in the year 1640, will be going up for auction later this year. The expected price tag? Up to $30 million! The Bay Psalms Book was printed in Plymouth Massachusetts, written by Pilgrims as a declaration of their independence from the Church of England. The book was last up for auction in 1947, where it sold for $151,000 (equal to $1.56 million today). The current record for a printed book sold at auction is $11.5 million, which was paid in 2010 for Birds of America, by famed ornithologist John James Audubon. What's the most you would pay for a book? I bet it doesn't approach $30 million!

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