Whats the most you have even spent on a book? Or the most expensive book you have ever received as a gift?
I clock in at 90 dollars or so. A friend managed to track down an out of print collection of short stories called 'The Azathoth Cycle' and gave it to me as a Christmas present
She was the best.
What about you, /lit/?
>>8095529
Do textbooks count?
I spent $90 on a math book once. I think that's the most.
I pirate all the super-expensive piece of shit ones that my university requires for courses.
if you count college textbooks then like 400 bucks once
if you only mean literature, then I think I capped out at 40. I got that pretty Frank Miller cover of Gravity's Rainbow.
>tfw when I take full advantage of my university library
>>8095529
Excepting textbooks, maybe Katai Tayama's The Quilt and Other Stories for $35.
If textbooks dont count I bought that Everyman's Edition of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire vol 1-6 in like 2005 for like $85.
>>8095529
I own three of the Folio Society's Letterpress Shakespeare that were a couple of hundred pounds each
I have often been tempted to buy something outrageous like the book in pic related- a bargain at £1750- but I have never been brave/foolish enough to do it. If anyone visits London I highly recommend visiting the Taschen shop and going into the downstairs gallery. There is some eye-popping stuff down there. Combine it with a visit to Maison Assouline.
>>8095529
Between Welcome to the NHK (the novel) and volume 1 of the BLAME! manga, one was like $50 and the other like $70. I don't remember which was which. I haven't spent too much on big boy books, but I do really want to purchase Women & Men, so that will be about $200
>>8095529
90 grand at a store out in Vegas
>>8095637
Okay, story time. Go.
>>8095778
No real story. They had a first printing run on Moby Dick for 90k so I bought it. I auctioned it off a few years later and it only got sixty. Oh well, bad luck
