Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1918 — Rare Books Bring High Prices. [ARTICLE]

Rare Books Bring High Prices.

Several high prices were realized for rare books at the sale of the Winston H. Hagen collection in flew York recently. John F. Drake, former partner of John W. Gates, paid $4350 for the first edition of Thomas Gray’s “An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” It was published in 1751, in England, and it is recorded that the author received no remuneration for the work from the publishers. The receipts from the sale amounted to s7fir 770.