Nothing shows your devotion to literature like owning a rare first edition. Some online searching reveals the high cost of feeding this habit—prices and availability as posted at press time.
The Day of the Locust, $1,000
- By Nathanael West, Random House, 1939
- Second Story Books, Washington, D.C.
Parable of the Sower, $1,457.95
- By Octavia E. Butler, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993
- Skylarker Books, Dayton, Nevada
Play It As It Lays, $2,000 (signed)
- By Joan Didion, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970
- Second Story Books, Washington, D.C.
The Big Sleep, $5,500
- By Raymond Chandler, Alfred A. Knopf, 1939
- Neverland Books, Waalre, Netherlands
