The world's most expensive book sold this week for $14 million at Sotheby's.
"The Bay Psalm Book", a translation of Biblical psalms, was printed by Puritan settlers in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640. It's the very first book published in this country.
I'm sure the printer was a week or so past his deadline, and Ye Olde Bookstore took 40% off the top. Some things have never changed.