'Scarlet Letter' Sets Auction Record
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The oldest known copy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" was auctioned Thursday for &#36;545,100, a record price for an American 19th-century literary work, Christie's auction house said.
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US author Truman Capote's first novel, which he claimed to have destroyed, will go up for auction on Friday.
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An auction of more than 700 items belonging to singer and actress Cher raised over $3.5 million -- more
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New records were set on Thursday for  works by Gauguin, Modigliani and Mondrian at Sotheby's auction  of Impressionist and modern art which achieved the biggest  total since 1990.
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An auction of more than 700 items belonging to singer and actress Cher raised over $3.5 million -- more than double pre-sale estimates -- as celebrity collectors snapped up her possessions.
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A rare piece by renowned Chinese artist Xu Beihong has smashed the record for a Chinese oil painting, selling for HK$53.9 million (US$6.9 million) at a Christie's auction in Hong Kong on Sunday.
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A rare edition of "The Grapes of Wrath," John Steinbeck's epic 1939 tale of Depression-era poverty, sold at auction for $47,800.
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A rare signed first edition Harry Potter book is expected to fetch up to Â£12,000 at auction.
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A recently discovered painting by Sir Winston Churchill is expected to sell for Â£250,000 at auction.
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The "Mona Lisa" of baseball cards has sold for a record $2.35 million(1.2 million pounds).
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Barbie in Midnight Red, dating from 1965, sold for a record 9,000 pounds on Tuesday as collectors from around the world gathered to bid for a piece of a unique private collection of 4,000 Barbie family dolls.
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LONDON -- A British woman is planning to auction a rare edition of a Shakespeare book that she inherited from a distant relative she didn&#39;t know existed.
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The sale broke the artistâs record and underlined the enduring market influence of the workâs latest owner, the collector Charles Saatchi.
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The record price for a painting by contemporary British artist David Hockney was smashed again after one of his most familiar works fetched 2.6 million pounds (3.8 million euros, 4.8 million dollars) at a London auction.
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A work by artist Damien Hirst, famed for preserving a shark in formaldehyde, on Thursday became the most expensive by a living artist ever sold at auction, the auctioneers said.
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A rare signed first edition Harry Potter book sells for Â£19,700 at Christie's auction house in London.
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A painting attributed to Adolf   Hitler fetched 10,500 pounds ($20,000) at auction in Britain on   Tuesday, despite art experts' doubts that the watercolors on   sale were the work of the Nazi leader.