Then by all means spend the grand and get it. Personalizations only add to the price if the author is well known - I've seen paperback copies of The Hobbit go for thousands because Tolkien dedicated it. Again, unless the author is well known rarity means nothing. If it did then there are tens of thousands of authors out there who's book only sold a couple of copies that should be making a fortune. So a copy of a book from a printing of 200 by Joe Blow is worthless, while a copy of a book with a printing of 200 by Robert Penn Warren may not be. A special printing again isn't of interest unless the author is well known. And if fancy bindings rings your bell then I've got a pair of leather shoes I'll sell you for a lot less than $1000.
But I could be wrong. There is a reason why he's priced it at a thou, and I'm assuming it's because he has an appraisal to back it up. If he's legit then he'll provide a copy of it and it may turn out to be a steal at the price. Somehow, I'm not optimistic.
AGE/size of edition frequently means NOTHING in valuing books. (fyi, i have several books, well over a century old, which are NOT meaningful to anyone except those of us who are interested in that particular "niche".=====> THE HISTORY OF CAMP COUNTY, TEXAS, for one such book.)
don't you however "get" that a limited edition/numbered/leather-bound book with MANY personalizations by the author AND by WW2 veterans of privateers is NOT a used cookbook,auto repair guide,romance novel, etc??? instead it is a HISTORICAL document/keepsake/oddity.
otoh, i do NOT have a spare $ 1000.oo "laying about" to buy the book with. (IF i was rich, i would certainly "look at" buying it.)
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as for the fair-minded folks on these threads, "bubba" is NOW just ridiculed as the LIAR that he demonstrably is.
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