The Rare Book Hub Top 500 Prices Paid at Auction in 2017
Another year has come to a close, meaning it's time to look back at the Rare Book Hub Top 500 auction prices in the field of books and paper for the year 2017. The high end of sales was a little softer this time. Nothing matched last year's high price of $5.6 million, let alone previous years when the Bay Psalm Book and Audubon's Birds of America pushed the top price into double digit millions. This year, the best that could be mustered was $1.8 million, the lowest high in many years. At the bottom, the slippage was more modest. Number 500 took in $71,700, a drop of 1.2% from $72,576 in...
