It's about history (Score 1)

So the real appeal of this item is that Cormac McCarthy wrote all of his novels on it. If your a Cormac fan that's very cool. You're buying a piece of history. I'm a big fan of Neal Stephenson, I'd probably pay a lot for the computer on which he wrote all of his novels. Oh wait, there is no such thing. I don't know if he writes on a computer or not but if he does he's probably had at least half a dozen by now. I might be able to get the one he wrote Snow Crash on, but that's nowhere near a cool as Cormac's typewriter. So the real difference is the length of association and all that that implies. That the machine lasted that long; that the writer liked it that well; that there is only one as opposed to a dozen or two. There's some appeal to the tool itself but the real value is in the association with the author. If Neal writes all his stories with the same cheap Mont Blanc pen (unlikely, but hey!) then there's some serious value to that pen.