{"id":16310,"date":"2016-01-25T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=16310"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:37:11","slug":"abe-books-3rd-most-expensive-sale-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=16310","title":{"rendered":"Abe Books 3rd Most Expensive Sale in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16311\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory.jpg\" alt=\"charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory\" width=\"400\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory.jpg 400w, https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0by Roald Dahl \u00a0sold for a mind-boggling <em><strong>$25,000.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hey wait, I had that edition, it&#8217;s still on my mom&#8217;s shelves back in Philadelphia!<\/p>\n<p>The $25,000 copy was a first edition from 1964 that had been signed and inscribed by the author with the words <em>&#8220;For Jane and Alex with much love Roald Dahl October 1964.&#8221;<\/em> The bookseller was Raptis Rare Books located in Brattleboro, Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>Published in September 1964 by Knopf, just 10,000 copies of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were published and they sold out within a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This copy is by far the most expensive Roald Dahl book to sell via AbeBooks and probably the most expensive Dahl book to ever be sold. I am going to so SO rich.<\/p>\n<p>See entire list via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/rare-books\/most-expensive-sales\/year-2015.shtml?cm_sp=home-_-tile_2_4_L_header-_-mostex\">Abe Books<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\u00a0\u00a0by Roald Dahl \u00a0sold for a mind-boggling $25,000. Hey wait, I had that edition, it&#8217;s still on my mom&#8217;s shelves back in Philadelphia! The $25,000 copy was a first edition from 1964 that had been signed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=16310\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1108,1109],"class_list":["post-16310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charlie-and-the-chocolate-fatory","tag-most-expensive-book-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16313,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16310\/revisions\/16313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}