Johannes Gutenberg is famous for having designed and built the first printing press to incorporate movable type and mechanized inking and for using his invention to produce the Gutenberg Bible.

A lone volume later sold for $5.4 million in 1987, and experts now estimate a complete copy could fetch upwards of $35 million at auction.

inventor Johannes Gutenberg

The Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible, the Mazarin Bible or the B42) was among the earliest major books printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe….Substantially complete copies.

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A Gutenberg Bible,. the most coveted of all books and one of the rarest in the world, has been sold by Hans P., Kraus, the New York book dealer, for $1.8 million to the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. West Germany.

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10 of the Most Rare Books of All Time

• The Gutenberg Bible.
• The Birds of America.
• The Codex of Leicester.
• Don Quixote.
• Tamerlane and Other Poems.
• Ptolemy’s Geographia Cosmographia.
• On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard.

Here Are Some of the Oldest Surviving Books in the World

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• The Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarius, 6–7th century.
• Gärima Gospels, 390–570.
• Codex Sinaiticus, 330–360.
• The Nag Hammadi library, 3–4th century.
• Dead Sea Scrolls, 2nd century BCE–1st century CE.
• The Etruscan Gold Book, 6th century BCE.

Value: The value of an old leather Bible in very good condition with no family records or other factors that would increase its value might be worth about $10 to $20 dollars. If the Bible contains family records, or other important factors it could be worth from $20 up to a large amount.

While some may prefer to keep cherished copies of the Good Book for sentimental reasons, if a Bible is truly worn or damaged beyond use, it can be disposed of in whatever manner one’s conscience dictates.

The Saturday Early Show’s Collectibles Expert Tony Hyman explains that, in general, most Bibles don’t have much collectible value. That’s especially true of those printed in the 20th century unless they say, right on the title page, “limited edition” and are autographed by the artist.

20 Iconic Books You Probably Own That Are Now Worth A LOT Of Money!

• The Hobbit (1937), J.R.R. Tolkien.
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997), J.K. Rowling.
• The Cat in the Hat (1957) Dr.
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Arthur Conan Doyle.
• The Bible (1600 – 1630)

Top 100 best selling books of all time

Rank	Title	Volume Sales
1	Da Vinci Code,The	5,094,805
2	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	4,475,152
3	Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone	4,200,654
4	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	4,179,479

Officially, the rarest Ladybird book – so rare, it seems, that not one collector has even seen one – is a special printing of ‘The Computer’ from the ‘How it Works’ series (series 654) which was produced privately for the Ministry of Defence in 1972.

Little Golden Books’ value ranges from $1 to $25 Mint- condition first editions of the series that was originally published in 1942 bring the highest prices. Some titles were published for many years. The most valuable is a first edition. Check the book’s first two pages.

A few facts: The eighth book in the initial Little Golden series, The Poky Little Puppy, ranks today as the best-selling children’s book of all time with over 14 million copies sold. The first price increase for Little Golden Books occurred in 1962 when they went up to 29 cents.

The first 12 titles were printed in September 1942 and released to stores in October:

• Three Little Kittens, by Marie Simchow Stern.
• Bedtime Stories, illus.
• Mother Goose, by Phyllis Fraser, illus.
• Prayers for Children, by Rachel Taft Dixon.
• The Little Red Hen, illus.
• Nursery Songs, by Leah Gale, illus.

Values for Dr. Seuss First Edition Books

Year	Book Title	VG-
1955	On Beyond Zebra	$800
1956	If I Ran The Circus	$800
1957	The Cat In The Hat	$2,400
1957	How The Grinch Stole Christmas	$1,200

Seuss books are up there with some of the most annoying books to read to children. But instead of sucking up the tongue twisters and celebrating how iconic classics like Green Eggs And Ham, Cat In The Hatand The Lorax (just to name a few) are, one school has decided to ban the author.

On March 2, 2021, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced that McElligot’s Pool and five other books would be withdrawn from publication because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong”. Seuss books, though none were the books removed. eBay also delisted the title for “offensive content”.

The district cited research that found “racial undertones” in his work, CNN reported. Some users online mistook the announcements as a full ban on Seuss’s work. Others noted that recognizing the racist history of the novels was not the same as “canceling.”

The theme of the Sneetches is that everybody should be treated equally no matter what they look like. The metaphor of the story of the Sneetches is racism and tolerance. A group of Sneetches (bird like creatures) that had stars on their bellies, treated the non-star-bellied Sneetches as inferior.

“The Sneetches” – Be proud of who you are If the sneetches taught us one thing, it was the importance of not conforming. The story follows a clan of imaginary creatures all striving to ascend through the ranks of class and social status.

The Plain-Belly Sneetches Had none upon thars. Those stars weren’t so big. They were really so small You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all. When the Star-Belly Sneetches had frankfurter roasts Or picnics or parties or marshmallow toasts, They never invited the Plain-Belly Sneetches.

The Sneetches are Penniless but Happy The end of “The Sneetches” is all about lessons learned. But, the Sneetches do learn their lesson that day. They decide that “no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches” (Sneetches. 96), showing that they’ve put aside their prejudices.

The Butter Battle Book is an allegory for the nuclear arms race and the state of mutually assured destruction (MAD) that occurred during the Cold War. This story thus lends itself to a discussion with children about the concept of war itself, the moral issues related to war, and the outcomes of retaliatory acts.

It started because the Yooks eat their bread butter-side up and the Zooks eat their bread butter-side down.

They eat bread “butter side up,” choosing capitalism. They are led by Chief Yookeroo, who represents the presidents (Eisenhower and Kennedy) during the Cold War. Zooks eat bread “butter side down,” which represents communism. This is brought out after Daniel fails, which represents the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Butter Battle Book was banned from some libraries in Canada and the United States because it satirized the Cold War.