SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

[lludwig]

SATNROSE’S BOOK QUIZ

2. What is the most valuable printed book?

Answer in invisible ink: 2. Was The Gutenberg Bible; now it is the Caxton Canterbury Tales

Note: I think a complete Gutenberg would beat the Canterbury if offered up to auction. However, the Caxton Canterbury is currently the most expensive printed book ever to change hands. 13 million? I forget.....

[professorbooknoodle]

You? Give up? pish.

I believe oldbookshopnj has figured it out.

Mrs. Bee?

[professorbooknoodle]

heh heh

[oldbookshopnj]

639. Richard Monckton Milnes

[oldbookshopnj]

640. "Lady of the Lake"?

[professorbooknoodle]

Congratulations to oldbookshopnj for the answer to #639 .... You waited for an appropriate space ....

[satnrose]

Congratulations to oldbookshopnj for the answer to #640

[oldbookshopnj]

641. The first book illustrated by this artist, who is known for historical illustration, appeared in 1899 and was a juvenile fiction title set in the state that was home to him and to the book's author.

Who was he, and what was the book?

[oldbookshopnj]

Hint: The artist also illustrted books by Ellen Glasgow, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Clarence Mulford.

[selected-with-care]

641: Frank E. Schoonover

[selected-with-care]

Boy, do I have a reading comprehension problem today...


...for the part II of that:

A Jersey Boy of the Revolution

[oldbookshopnj]

Congratulations to selected-with-care for both parts of the question.

[oldbookshopnj]

642. What is the most valuable book of poetry published in the twentieth century?

[ksmrkt]

642.

Maybe W.H. Auden's Poems (1928 edition hand printed by Stephen Spender) ?

[noirtexas]

624


William Faulkner


The Marble Faun. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1924.

or

Vision in Spring, privately printed [Mississippi], 1921.

[ok-mrs-bee]

Gosh!

639. ? Professor, I apologise for leaving the question in the lurch.

I had major Internet connection problems for a week. You don't need to hear the details, but they are partly solved.

Much like Lady Catherine de Burgh, had I had the opportunity to answer, I would surely have got it right.

Is there a new question?