The Folio Society's $2,200 Game of Thrones Book Sells Out Fast

eBay is already lighting up

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By RC Staff

15 July 2026

Key Points

The Folio Society’s 30th Anniversary Game of Thrones edition retailed for $2,200 and sold out today
At least one copy has already sold on eBay
Only 1,000 signed copies exist worldwide and this is a final sale item with no refunds

To celebrate 30 years of Game of Thrones, the Folio Society spun up a one-of-a-kind edition of the book that started everything. Bound in “dragon leather” with sprayed gold edges and a signature from George R.R. Martine, this is a must-have for Game of Thrones fans with deep pockets. The books started at $2,200 and it didn’t take long for them to sell out. Now resellers are looking to turn a profit from the release.

Game of Thrones 30th Anniversary Editions

The Folio Society’s 30th anniversary edition of A Game of Thrones is the publisher’s most ambitious fantasy release to date. The 872 page single volume is bound in a dragon skin textured leather, illustrated throughout by longtime series artist Jonathan Burton, and packed into a clamshell box with a hidden compartment holding a linen map of Westeros. George R.R. Martin personally signed the limitation page on every copy.

Retail sat at $2,200 for a run capped at exactly 1,000 copies. As we covered when the edition was first announced, this release is strictly final sale, meaning buyers who cannot flip their copy are stuck holding a very expensive book with no recourse.

Folio Society Game of Thrones Anniversary

That combination, a tiny print run, an author signature, and one of the most successful fantasy franchises of the last three decades, is exactly the kind of release that gets collectors moving fast. It sold out quickly.

Folio Society Game of Thrones Books Resell

Less than 12 hours after the sellout, at least one copy has already resold on eBay for $2,662. On paper that is a $462 markup. After eBay’s standard fees, which run around 13.6 percent, the seller is looking at roughly $362 in platform costs alone. Factor in secure shipping for a heavy leather bound book housed in its own clamshell case, and this seller likely walked away with well under $100 in real profit once everything is accounted for.

That is a real result, but it is not the kind of number anyone else holding a copy should expect to repeat by moving this fast.

Folio Society limited editions are not sneakers. This publisher’s collector base tends to buy slowly and hold longer, and a real secondary market for a release like this usually takes weeks or months to mature, not hours. We saw a version of this play out with Folio’s recent Moby-Dick limited edition: 750 copies at $750 retail, with a resale market settling in around $1,200 once things leveled off.

Game of Thrones carries a much bigger price tag to start, which means resellers need a larger dollar markup just to match the profit percentage Moby-Dick buyers saw. A seller flipping this book for $2,662 right out of the gate looks more like an early cash out than a signal of what the book is actually worth.

Bottom Line

Given the hard 1,000 copy cap, Martin’s signature, and Game of Thrones’ massive built-in fanbase, a real market should build over the coming months as buyers who missed the drop start hunting for a copy. Sellers who list high and hold stand to do considerably better than this one did.

If you copped one of these, there is no rush to sell. Moving a book this expensive within hours of a sellout usually means leaving money on the table, and since this is final sale, you cannot get a refund if you change your mind and decide to hold instead. List high, be patient, and let the real market for this edition show up before you commit to a price.