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• "Through Looking-Glass" first edition sells for $115,000 (Reuters)

  
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  Reuters - A first edition of Lewis Carrolls classic book "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" -- dedicated to the real life Alice who inspired the story -- was sold at a U.S. auction for $115,000, auctioneers said on Thursday.
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• Which Austen Heroine Held Her Position in Society at Christies Yesterday?

  
  Jane Austen Today — Authority: 495
  Why the handsome, clever and rich Miss Emma Woodhouse of course who garnered a whopping sum at Christies auction in New York. Read about all six Jane Austen first editions that went on the auction block realizing a six figure Kings randsome at Austenprose . Miss Woodhouse is certainly in the news lately with the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harry Potter book to be auctioned for kid’s charity

  
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  By Andrea McCallum A FIRST edition of a Harry Potter book is expected to conjure up thousands of pounds for an Edinburgh children’s charity. The rare signed copy has been given to Radio Forth’s Cash for Kids appeal from the city council who had 30 stored in their secret chambers. Best-selling author J.K. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Charles Darwin’s First Edition Of The Origin Of The Species Discovered On A Dusty Bookshelf

  
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  The rags (meant only figuratively here) to riches story will have another real life incident added to its list of anecdotes. Latest buzz in the news world tells us that an extremely lucky and ignorant British family had the first edition of Charles Darwin’s the ‘Origin of Species’ eating dust on their bookshelf. ...
  4 weeks ago

• California, Alice, and Bond… James Bond

  
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  Not to mention E.B White , J.R.R. Tolkien , Richard Adams , L. Frank Baum , C.S. Lewis , A.A. Milne , J.K. Rowling , and H.G. Wells …. The Southern California auctioneer, Profiles in History , will be auctioning a valuable collection of children’s literature, as well as some collectibles for adults, on ...
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• Intellectual Stimuli For The Avid Toilet Reader

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  It aint Dawkins but he raises some interesting points! In one of the most bizarre rare book finds in Britain, a first edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species has been discovered in a toilet. Yes, the book was sitting on a bookcase in a unnamed family’s  guest lavatory in Oxford (some would argue ...
  4 weeks ago

• Darwin 1st edition found on toilet bookshelf

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 166
  LONDON - An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwins "On the Origin of Species" found in a familys guest lavatory in southern England.
  4 weeks ago

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