If you could only have one book...

This behemoth might be my pick! $15 plus tax at my local used bookstore.

But then again I am mainly a US Coin guy.

What would your pick be?

We can even go 1 fiction and 1 non-fiction book. Not sure about the fiction category, will have to mull that one....

 

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Fiction: "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Non-fiction: "in the Garden of Beasts" by Erik Larson
If only one coin book it would have to be the "Red Book".
If you're only referring to books about coins or currency, please advise. Thank you.

 

Gutenberg Bible - 1st Edition

 

Ah, Erik Larson is a great author- I've read his work "Devil in the White City".

However, if I could have one book, it would be Mark Twain's "Adventures of Tom Sawyer"



As for a coin book, the one I've been accustomed to using is also the Red Book of US Coins. I was first given the 2006 Red Book and later purchased the 2016.

 

A mega red book like yours......just in the newest edition.

 

For a coin book probably bowers encyclopedia of us coins. For fiction probably either the 3 in one edition of lord of the rings trilogy or the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe

 

I would want a first edition in English of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

 

A New York times Bestseller!

 

Mega Red Book

 

Been a while since I thought about the Gutenburg bible. Isn't it written in Greek?

 

Latin

 

Assuming you meant coin related books, I have to go with the Red Book, in LARGE PRINT.

 

For coins, the Red Book, otherwise a King James Bible.

 

The Gutenburg Bible I thought it was German because it was written in Germany and its only 8 pages long. EXPENSIVE

 

The Mega red book would be my 1st choice if it was limited to just coining
But at this tumultuous changing times
I would have to go with the following

 

The Gutenberg Bible is the first book printed by using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe. With around 180 original copies made, only 48 have survived and just 31 remain in perfect condition. One of these copies was sold for 4.6 million Euros in auction in 1987. That's 5.016 million dollars.

 

My vote, for his friend



For coins, the first edition of Red Book (I have the reprint, but it's not the same thing )

petronius

 

Fiction: A tie between Douglas Adam's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Melville's Moby "Richard" (trying not to get censored by the mods).

Non-Fiction: anybody's bike book

Numismatic: Red Book

 

Non-fiction: The Bible (Gutenberg would be fine).
Fiction: Voltaire's Candide

Note 1: I pass on a coin book because coin books become obsolete. Good historical information but ....

Note 2: Good to see that no one, so far, listed The Bible under "fiction."

 

Note: 1- In the Red Book only the prices are obsolete, there is so much more information in the Red Book beyond prices that will never be obsolete because they are facts.

Note 2: please don't go there (one way or the other).