£2IOO BOOK
BOUGHT FOR 2s Gd
A BUNYAN RARITY
LONDON, Dec. 21. A first edition of John Bunyan’s “Book for Boys and Girls” was sold to-day for £2IOO. Only one other copy of this edition is known to exist, and that is in the British- Museum. The book was, with a number of others, bought by a woman for half a crown some years ago. Recently her daughter, who is a post office vorken, showed it to a local librarian, and he submitted it to Hodgson and Co., the book auctioneers. They recognised it as a rarity, and submitted it at auction.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10299, 7 January 1927, Page 5
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102£2100 BOOK Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10299, 7 January 1927, Page 5
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