Show Rarest Object Is ils Rare Book Most Finds Have No Actual Value NEW YORK The The most valuable book printed in America is the Bay Psalm book published in 1640 It has brought as high Ugh as and certainly would be worth upon the open market today Only 11 copies are known and It Itis Itis itis is unlikely that many more will come to light Theres There's always a sporting chance however that another may turn up There also is a chance that copies of other extremely scarce and valuable valuable valuable able books will materialize out of the attic or Aunt Berthas Bertha's trunk A lady wrote I recen recently ly read reada a news feature in our home town paper that old books are valuable My parents have quite a few such as here followed a list of titles tiles Wed like to know who to get in touch with and all the details Sadly it was necessary to inform the lady that h her r description of the books indicated they were worth worth- less Stories about rare and valuable first editions have been written for many years Every time one sees print mail mall Is heavy with letters from persons who are arc sure they possess copies of the described rarities es Authors have received hundreds of such communications and yet never once did they produce a real bibliographical find Invariably the correspondents had only the latest a and n d cheapest reprints of books valuable only in first edition form The number of ot persons possessing possessing possess possess- ing tug old f fa family a m mil i 1 y Bibles was astounding There seems to be a universal feeling that all old Bibles Bible just have to be valuable |