There’s this episode of Friends where Chandler buys Kathy — Joey’s flavor of the week and the girl he is completely infatuated with — an “early edition of The Velveteen Rabbit“. Joey asks if there was “any change from that $20”, to which Chandler snarkily replies “no, it came to an even $20”.
So, of course, I looked it up. The Velveteen Rabbit was published in 1922. I figured an “early edition” would be anything published before 1950, but in my travels I could only find First Editions from ’22 and then issues no earlier than 1975.
The cheapest first edition I could find, of course, was $17,436.69. I guess rent control in that building is better than I ever knew.
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I believe Chandler did get it from one of the author’s grandchildren, so maybe they weren’t aware of what it was worth. And maybe I need a girlfriend.