An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

inasio 22 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I have a nice copy, at least as of a few years ago you can get them for relatively cheap. I've been meaning to put scans of the text into OpenCV and play a bit to see if there's an underlying code. The number system in the page numbers has been cracked as far as I know.

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ggm an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Copies hung around my partners secondhand bookshop for years. This was in the 1980s. Properly shelved under "esoterica"

1st Ed. Now worth $6,000 oh well.

	▲	giraffe_lady 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		My local (but big city) library had a circulating copy until about five years ago. It mostly stayed in my home, once or twice a year someone else would request it and I'd give it back for a few months. It's in library use only now but I took great care of it lol.

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wewewedxfgdf 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It is so strange that books like this cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars to buy.

You might think the publisher would ........ publish some to sell.

	▲	pavel_lishin an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There might not be that much demand. My understanding is that a good printing of a book will only make money back in pretty large amounts; if there's only a thousand weirdos in the world who want to buy it (and I'm one of those thousand), it'll only barely break even, if that. Actually, I'm wrong, there is a newly published version that costs under a hundred bucks.
	▲	habitue 19 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The first edition is expensive. The current edition is ~$90 for a full color hardcover (expensive but not ruinius if you really want it)