'Pawn Stars' Think They May Have Found A Very Valuable Book (VIDEO)

Monday night on "Pawn Stars" (Mon., 10 p.m. EST on History) Corey Harrison and Chumlee Russell had a book appraised that they thought could be a first edition of Walden by Henry David Thoreau.

A first edition would be a big deal -- the appraiser tells them one could sell for as much as $25,000. She checks the book out as the guys look on nervously.

The good news? It is a first edition. The bad news? It's an English first edition, which is not as rare and thus not as valuable. The last one she saw at auction had a guide price of $500 to $600 but eventually sold for only $100.

"Pawn Stars" airs Mondays, 10 p.m. EST on History.

TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.

Related on HuffPost:

Comments

[DelaneyRSchmitt]

01:09 AM on 01/13/2012

I went to the pawn shop because I wanted to transact deliberately....

[stixaz]

10:28 AM on 01/12/2012

I lvoe this show, it's educational and entertaining! Old man is the best.

[saj485]

03:40 PM on 01/11/2012

I'm sort of surprised that any of those people who Thoreau was.

[Dave Petersen]

12:34 PM on 01/12/2012

But I bet they can write a complete understandable sentence.

[saj485]

01:01 PM on 01/12/2012

HAHAHA UR SO FUNNY

[sokul1]

12:19 PM on 01/11/2012

please stop you video auto play. it locks up mu computer!

[PleaseNoPolitics]

05:14 PM on 01/10/2012

I went outside and watched the grass grow for 60 seconds...

It was so much more entertaining, I caught myself cheering...

[Bob Schwend]

04:28 PM on 01/10/2012

ROTFLMFAO!!!!

[sachfoxo]

03:57 PM on 01/10/2012

Good for them Ha ,Ha, Ha they cheated a man out of 20,000 last week That's what I call the Big Pay back, he, He He

[satellites]

03:44 PM on 01/10/2012

Must be a slow day. I'll never get that time back I wasted watching that.

[steved102565]

03:38 PM on 01/10/2012

Only an idiot doesn't know that a Pawn shop is out to make money. They are not going to offer you anything close to what your item is worth. They will try to take you every time so they can make a huge profit...then they brag about it. You people need to wake up. Anyone reading this should have the knowledge of looking on their computer to Google and see what the item/items that they want to sell is worth. From the comments that I have read, most of the people are in agreement that they rip you off...so think before you give it away.

[Bob Schwend]

04:29 PM on 01/10/2012

OR. Visit Craigslist free section. Costs nothing. Take it to the pawn shop. Laugh all the way to the bank.

[thebigbike]

01:44 PM on 01/11/2012

"Value" and "worth" are pretty elastic concepts. What are the conditions under which you set the worth? Retail in a high end store? local auction with the farm equipment and storage lockers? wholesale? For one thing, how quickly do you have to sell it? Would a guy on the street pay you the same price he'd pay for "it" in a store" ? Are there a LOT of people out there who would want it? Or is it only a few people who would want it as something special ? How much time and effort do you have to put in to find those folks and let them know what you have ? and make sure that what yo have is really what they want in it's details and conditions. If you are selling to some one who will re-sell it -- who does have a better access to the buyers who really have a high demand for that item-- that intermediate buyer will demand that the price he pays includes the probability (risk) of making a profit on the sale, which includes paying a share of the overhead of the business. What you makes on the coconuts you loses on the roundabout.

[DelaneyRSchmitt]

01:13 AM on 01/13/2012

EXCELLENT post, great explanation. Thanks for posting, I'm currently too tired to post something similar!

[newt2012]

03:35 PM on 01/10/2012

I enjoy watching Pawn Stars. This show has put new life back into the pawn shops.

[rodterry1]

03:31 PM on 01/10/2012

How did a TV show ever get this much attention? There has been a story about this show on HP for the last 3 weeks. Who is getting paid off here? Come on there has to be some money changing hands for it to have 3 stories in 3 weeks about the same dumb TV show,

[Shiggity]

03:26 PM on 01/10/2012

Also, Thoreau was a wackjob and everything he said was worthless

[WSteveBro]

03:44 PM on 01/10/2012

If Thoreau was a wackjob and everything he said was worthless, then why is a first edition of his book worth so much money. I believe the truth is that at least some of what he said is worth 25,000 dollars.

[Shiggity]

05:39 AM on 01/26/2012

Because a lot of people bought into his nonsense

[Bruce Forbes]

11:52 AM on 01/16/2012

Thoreau was anything but a wack job. He was a very smart philosopher. I may not agree with everything he wrote but he was a very provocative man. Have you even read any Thoreau??

[connartistry]

03:24 PM on 01/10/2012

personally, i do not like this show. Pawn shop, not sell shop. Not that i've ever seen them sell anything. oh well.

[carloarnone]

03:21 PM on 01/10/2012

HUFFINGTON POST IS STUPID. That is all i have to say about that.

[Bob Schwend]

04:31 PM on 01/10/2012

It's entertainment. And it's free. Can't beat that.

[carloarnone]

04:42 PM on 01/10/2012

I could easily

[PleaseNoPolitics]

05:10 PM on 01/10/2012

If Huff&Puff were a woman, I would beat her savagely...

No, not you Ariana...

[taggy21]

03:18 PM on 01/10/2012

THE FAT ONE LOOKS LIKE ROSIE O'D. IN DRAG..................