Expensive Books sold, Why?, and Author's life Part-1
Books are helpful in life, this thing you all know but you tell me how person can love the book that the person can pay millions of dollars/ rupees. Yeah from this blog I am going to tell you about the Expensive Books sold, what is the value & why they are that much expensive. 10. The Canterbury Tales Author: Geoffrey Chaucer Original Price: $ 7.5 million ₹ 55.81 Cr. Inflation-adjusted price: $ 12 million ₹89.30 Cr. Price of this book is amazing, if the 10th number book price is this then think the price of 9,8,…1. Now, let’s see why they are that much expensive. Why: An extremely rare 1477 1st edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” sold for $7.5million(₹ 55.81 Cr.) in 1998 to the higher bidder, the late British billionaire & philanthropist John Paul Getty Jr. There are only a dozen known copies of the 1st edition in existence. Author life: Geoffrey Chaucer was born in 1342 in England, Chaucer’s father mainly made a living by produci