First Edition Where The Wild Things Are
Maker: Harper & Row
Original Price: $1.99*
Worth Today: $20,000*
Maurice Sendak was an illustrator and author. He was most famous for writing, Where the Wild Things Are, which has gone on to become one of the most famous children’s books of all time. There was a spike of renewed interest in the author in 2012 after he passed away, and vendor Abebooks.com confirmed to news outlets that it sold a signed first edition of Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963,for $25,000 in May of that year.