Steinbeck book auction nets &#36;200,000
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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 hand-written, illustrated book of  wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched a record  1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) at auction in London on  Thursday, nearly 40 times its expected price.
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Jackson family memorabilia brought in about half a million dollars on the first of a two-day auction at the Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino, auctioneer Guernsey's said Thursday. The auction, which wraps up late Thursday, displayed more than 1,100 lots, mostly costumes, documents, awards and other memorabilia.
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The honour carries a cash prize of 25,000 euros (some $32,000). The awards panel described the book as "a work in which a long history of literary creation and critical and theoretical reflection unfolds with ...
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A hand-written and illustrated tale of wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched 1.95 million pounds ($3.98 million) -- nearly 40 times its expected price -- at auction on Thursday.
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A signed proof of Ernest Hemingway's novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls," will be offered at auction in November.
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A handwritten copy of author JK Rowling's new book, which will never be published, sells for almost Â£2m.
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The world's only set of signed Harry Potter books are expected to raise Â£20,000 for charity.
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Rare works by Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope are to be sold at auction.
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Pittsburgh Pirates reliever Salomon Torres' two-year contract will pay him &#36;2.6 million, including a &#36;200,000 signing bonus.
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Jaret Wright and the Yankees closed in on a three-year contract Tuesday night worth &#36;20 million to &#36;21 million, the first major move by New York to revamp its aging rotation.
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An auction of items from Johnny Cash's estate took in &#36;1.24 million on its first day as collectors paid as much as 15 times the expected amount for the late country music star's belongings.
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The final book in the Harry Potter series sold a record 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale in the U.S.
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The defense-related work is estimated to be worth $200 billion.
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Peter Angelos could sell the Orioles for almost $200 million more than he paid for the team under terms of a deal he is negotiating with baseball, sources said.
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Online auction firm eBay says a first edition copy of a Harry Potter book could fetch up to Â£20,000.
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LOS ANGELESÃÂ  -- O.J. Simpson's scuttled book about the hypothetical murder of his ex-wife appeared for sale on the Internet on Wednesday, attracting bids of $1,500 within the first two hours.