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Excerpt from American Book-Prices Current: A Record of Books, Manuscripts and Autographs Sold at Auction in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, From September 1, 1912, to September 1, 1913, With the Prices RealizedFolio Shakespeare, and a Gutenberg Bible, and perhaps (though this is beyond belief) a Spanish Columbus letter. The ultimate pinnacle of book collecting will have been attained. He may fill out and broaden his collection, but greater heights he cannot achieve.We who watched the dispersal of the Hoe collection have marvelled at the huge advances upon the prices paid by him. But in counting up the profits we have left out of our reckoning that larger profit, not of dollars, but of months and years of Joy in possession which made up Mr. Hoe's half century of collecting. Mr. Hoe had a rough and unpleasing exterior and an overbearing manner, but back of that and back of the rest less, energetic business man there was the true collector, the true bibliophile, and we may be certain that the happiest hours of his long and busy life were those spent among his books.To a certain extent also this hobby of collecting fine books brings with it its own reward. The collector has the joys of acquisition and of possession, and at the end, if he has collected with discrimination, his library will sell for as much, or nearly. As much as he has paid - this at least (allowing for exceptions enough to prove the rule) is the record of the book-market for the last century. In other words he can eat his cake and have it too.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.