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AbeBooks Reveals Top 10 Most Expensive Sales in 2010

Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville - published by The Arion Press. This edition printed in 1981.What’s the most you’ve ever paid for a book? Somebody paid $45,000 earlier this year.

AbeBooks has just posted their list of the top ten most expensive sales they made in 2010–revealing some eye-popping sums that were paid for rare books this year. The top five books follow below, follow this link to read the complete list.

1. Arabic Manuscript of Al Wajaza Fi Sihhat Il Qawl Bi l Ijaza – $45,000
2. Archive of Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, Articles and Ephemera by Oriana Fallaci – $28,994
3. Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville – $28,900
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon – $27,500
5. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming – $19,529

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