The rarest copies are the 25 test presses, all of which were hand numbered.
Some rare copies of this book may still be found.
The volume selected was a rare copy of the Qur'an.
He soon began his own collection, which includes a rare copy of "Superman," a novel, not a comic book.
Later, he hunted down rare copies of a magazine published by Kurdish exiles in the 1920s.
These rare copies are selling for as much as $750 on some Web sites.
"Storing the rare copies in county libraries was a compromise."
In 1995, 250,000 library books were weeded, including old, rare and some last copies.
It sold 25,000 copies, rare for a book of poetry.
The rare copy has the traditional red vinyl cover, like 700 million others.