Memoirs of bad speller Napoleon hit auction record
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Two hundred years after he crowned himself emperor of France, a handwritten draft of Napoleon Bonaparte's memoirs -- littered with spelling mistakes -- have fetched a record price at auction in Paris.
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A copy of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000. The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," published in 1997 and signed "Joanne Rowling" on the back of the title page, was sold to an anonymous private bidder for $40,326 at Christie's auction house.
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A copy of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000.  The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," published in 1997 and signed "Joanne Rowling" on the b...
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The old typewriter on which Christy Brown tapped out his autobiography 'My Left Foot' is to be auctioned in Dublin.
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A portrait by 16th century artist Raphael that went for $325 four decades ago sold at auction on Thursday for a record 18.5 million pounds ($37.3 million).
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A rare set of eight letters written by  George Washington to one of his generals in 1776 during the  Revolutionary War will be auctioned this month in New York,  Sotheby's said on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - One of the first editions of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic "The Hobbit" is expected to fetch over 30,000 pounds ($58,560) when it goes up for auction next month.
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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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The first auction of official "Star  Trek" memorabilia hit warp speed on Saturday when a determined  bidder paid $576,000 for a model of the legendary science  fiction franchise's starship Enterprise, helping drive the  total for the three-day sale above $7 million.
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A first edition of the debut Harry Potter novel by J.K. Rowling is expected to sell for up to 7,000 pounds at an auction on June 26.
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A book of fairy tales created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for nearly $4 million at auction Thursday. The buyer, Web retailer Amazon.com Inc., now owns one of only seven copies of "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," which is leather bound with silver mounts.
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A painting that hung for several years in a bank cafeteria has set a new record price for Australian aboriginal artwork, auctioneers Sotheby's said on Wednesday, confirming the ongoing boom for the genre.
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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 British woman is planning to auction a rare edition of a Shakespeare book that she inherited from a distant relative she didn't know existed.
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Copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard had been expected to fetch Â£30,000-Â£50,000 at auction
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A rare mint condition First Folio  edition of William Shakespeare&#039;s plays fetched 2.8 million  pounds (&#36;5.2 million) at an auction on Thursday.
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A Quran written in 1203, believed to be the oldest known complete copy, has sold for more than $2.3 million at an auction.