Mistakes Were Made…

The very first copies of Huckleberry Finn had errors! Today these editions are considered rare and very valuable. Those copies can go for as much as $15,000 each and all because they had mistakes.

The dust jacket on Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises had an error stating that he was also the author of In Our Times. This led readers to think that In Our Times came before The Sun Also Rises. If you can find a copy with that error on the dust jacket and want to buy it, the price you would be asked to pay is anybody’s guess! But I am confident it would be in the 10’s of thousands.

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The Written Word

One of the earliest practices of man was writing. We have historical transcripts that date back centuries.

The oral word was used to carry story after story from fathers to children. But oral accounts can falter and vary. If you have ever played the childhood game of Gossip, then you know that when a phrase is first said, by the time it reaches the last ear, it has no resemblance to the original phrase.

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