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September 28, 2007: Chaucer Sells for $186,000.00

"An undisclosed phone bidder paid a New York auction house $180,000 Wednesday for an 1896 volume of Geoffrey Chaucer's work."

'The Kelmscott Chaucer,' a pigskin-bound collection of works by the "Canterbury Tales" author is rare, with only 48 copies known to exist."

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