Maker: Charles Scribner’s 
Original Price: $2*
Worth Today: $400,000*

The Jones Brothers is a rare-book hub based in the UK, and it made headlines when it sold a first edition of The Great Gatsby, a famous, classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, for thousands. The first-edition Gatsby was sold in the same dust jacket it had in the 1920s.

Jones said that “rarity, cover art, and story” led to the valuable nature of this first edition. There was a typo on the back of the book’s dust jacket that says, “jay Gatsby,” with a lowercase, not an uppercase letter. A stamp correction was used to fix the error, but the rarity had already been compounded.