

Astonished by the gift, she enthusiastically opens the book and gasps, “Oh my God! This is… this is a first edition? I can’t accept this, it must have cost a fortune.” Noah replies, “It was a buck at a garage sale. In a bizarre and hysterical scene from the 2015 erotic horror film The Boy Next Door, written by Barbara Curry and directed by Rob Cohen, the character Noah, a creepy stalker played by Ryan Guzman, gives the character Claire, a high school English teacher played by Jennifer Lopez, an older-looking copy of the Iliad.

If you have ever wanted to own a first edition copy of the Iliad, here’s how to get one. I decided to take a look into this issue.

In 2015, a certain Hollywood film notoriously claimed that you can get an original, first edition copy of the Iliad for “a buck at a garage sale.” After the film came out, large numbers of people around the world began searching for places where they could buy their own first edition copy of the Iliad.
