Excluding textbooks for classes, I bought this for ~$300 (several several years ago as a special treat)
Most of my collection is thrifted/bought from garage sales (for a quarter to a dollar usually) but I do have a handful of nicer ones.
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I bought a signed leather bound edition of Ender's Game for $220 in 2001. I sold it in 2019 for $1500. I also have all but one of Donald Grant editions of Stephen King's Dark Tower books (the one I'm missing cost $600 in 2001 and is likely many thousands now) for roughly $100 each back in the early 2000s. Most are worth a few hundred now. I have a lot of old Stephen King first editions that are worth a few hundred each.
I was gifted a first edition The Pearl by Steinbeck that is worth $3000 now. It was a special gift from my mom, so I'll never sell that. I also know whatever she did pay back then would have been a lot for her, so it's even more special.