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from MSNBC<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In the book world, the rarest of the rare<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Would you pay $25 million for a Bible?<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

By Philipp Harper<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Every passion has its Holy Grail, and rare-book collecting is no exception.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Ask a group of bibliophiles to identify the rarest of all rare books,\u00a0 and a majority probably would cite the Gutenberg Bible of 1456, the first book ever printed.<\/p>\n

Assuming a collector could find a complete first-edition Bible, which had a run of several hundred copies, he could expect to pay anywhere from $25 million to $35 million, says rare-book expert Kenneth Gloss, proprietor of\u00a0Brattle Book Shop<\/a>\u00a0in Boston.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Gloss, a well-known appraiser who has appeared on PBS\u2019 \u201cAntiques Roadshow<\/a>,\u201d bases his estimate on the fact that a single volume of the two-volume Gutenberg set sold for $5.5 million about 25 years ago. Today, single pages from first-edition Bibles fetch $25,000 each.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Anyone who can afford to invest in the top end of the antiquarian market generally will do very well. Consider, for example:<\/p>\n

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