For the past 30 years, I’ve owned an extremely valuable book. It’s a second edition copy of Pride and Prejudice that’s more than 150 years old. Every now and then I have taken it gingerly out of its box, unfolded its acid-free wrapping paper and admired it. I have always been aware of how much money it is worth, and so I have treated it with tremendous care.

I may have been mistaken.

“I felt like a participant on an episode of Antiques Roadshow, ready to be stunned and amazed by how much my little book could........

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