Anything with novelty can offer financial rewards to collectors. In publishing, it is rare for books with misprints to stay in the public sector long, according to The Richest. Most mistakes undergo corrections when the error is spotted, making the book with the blunder valuable to book collectors. Now, not all typos result in cash for the owners of the misprinted material. It depends on a multitude of conditions: the book, its popularity, and how rare the tome actually is.

Peter Harrington agreed that an error in a book won’t increase its value necessarily. He points out that “The Sun Also Rises” is worth money because of certain factors: a small print run of 5,090 limited the number of first editions available and it is often referred to as Ernest Hemingway’s best-rendered story. This book contains a mistake on page 181, where the word “stopped” sports an extra “p.” The publisher corrected it quickly. Books with the error show that the copy was printed among the first — and that is why the book becomes valuable, not because of the misspelling. 

The “Great She Bible,” from 1611, offers a similar circumstance. It is worth a great deal — not necessarily from the mistake it contains inside — but because it represents one of the first King James Versions. The Bible was found in 2015 at the St Mary’s Parish Church in Lancashire, England by Rev. Anderson Jeremiah and the Reverend Alexander Baker, according to the BBC, in a cupboard where it had been stored.

A one-letter mistake that changes everything

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