At an auction in April 1978, one of these books sold for $2 million, then a record for a printed book
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Book believed to be first one printed in the US sells for record $14.2 ...  Nov 27, 2013 ... A book of psalms from 1640, believed to be the first book printed in the United States, sold for a record $14.2 million after being put up for auction by a Boston church that Samuel ... In April, Taylor called the book "spectacular" and said it is "arguably one of the most important books in this nation's history.".
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Definitive Online Guide:My Scorpions Collection: - BOOK & TOUR ...  A major success worldwide, Blackout sold over a million copies in the U.S. alone. ... NOTES: SCORPIONS 1978 Japanese tour programme, B4 size, glossy ... Dates within the book are April 23, 24 in Tokyo (Nankano Sun Plaza Hall), April 25 in ... management has concluded agreements for the tour, then printed before the...
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Bibliophilia - Still No Cure in Sight - NYTimes.com  Apr 14, 1991 ... On April 24, 1911, Henry E. Huntington confirmed his intention to form ... for a Gutenberg Bible, the most anyone had ever bid on a printed book. ... In all, $35.7 million was spent for more than 10,000 books and manuscripts, just short of the $37.4 million record for the contents of one library established in the...
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Gutenberg Bible Is Sold for Record $4.9 Million - latimes  Oct 23, 1987 ... A Gutenberg Bible sold in rapid-fire, tense bidding at auction Thursday night for $4.9 million, the highest price ever paid for a book.In total, the ... the room. Throughout the world, only 48 Gutenberg Bibles, the first books printed by movable type, survive. ... Fewer than 1% of Japan's population is Christian.
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Jeopary Questions page 557 - BALLET - TriviaBistro.com  PEOPLE: April 2, 1990: Hollywood stars protest this pesticide "Which Comes in on Medfly Wings and a Sprayer" ... PIECES OF APRIL: At an auction in April 1978, one of these books sold for $2 million, then a record for a printed book ... BOOK TITLES: After circling the globe between June 23 & July 1, 1931, aviator Wiley...
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The Ultimate Prize for Stephen King Collectors - AbeBooks  The Holy Grail for Stephen King collectors - a true first edition of Salem's Lot, ... The presence and condition of a dust jacket is critical to a book's value in the rare book ... Only a handful of copies featuring the original price escaped the revision ... A 1980 first edition signed by King with an aluminum-coated asbestos cloth and...
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HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY London Book Fair 2016 ... - Supadu  books, now comes the highly anticipated new title in the multi-million selling series. ... KILLING REAGAN has sold over 1.3 million copies .... When you start to follow .... China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower ..... In a month ..... At the start of 1922, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot, and D.H....
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AbeBooks: 10 Most Expensive Stephen King Books Ever Sold on ...  Ten Most Expensive Stephen King Books Sold on AbeBooks during its 10 year history. ... from the front cover and the shell cases entering the rear of the book - signed by ... A 1980 first edition signed by King with an aluminum-coated asbestos cloth ... Donald M. Grant has published limited duluxe editions of King's books.
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BBC News | UK | Guinness book 'a record'  Aug 2, 1999 ... The Guinness Book of World Records is attempting to set a global ... attempting to set a global record itself - for the biggest initial print run of ... The book, now in its 46th edition, is printed in 20 different languages ... 80 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling copyright ... Blairs' surprise over baby
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Scruples Two: Judith Krantz: 9780553561111: Amazon.com: Books  Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen years ... and Hollywood, picking up in 1978 with a pregnant Billy Ikehorn (of Scruples, ... has the goods on everyone, knowing each inside out, dishes it out with such ... of her books since Scruples up to her latest, Spring Collection, and hope she...
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World's Best Selling Book Reaches 100-Million Mark - Independent ...  World's Best Selling Book Reaches 100-Million Mark ... This confirms that, excluding non-copyright works such as the Bible and the ... It was first published in October 1955 by Guinness Superlatives, a subsidiary of Arthur Guinness Son Co.
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AbeBooks: AbeBooks' Most Expensive Sales in 2011  The sale of a signed first edition of Harper Lee's one hit wonder, To Kill a Mockingbird, for .... How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss - $9,482. First ... An eight-volume work listing representations of mythology in the plastic arts (ie: architecture, .... It features 363 detailed anatomical drawings by Henry Vandyke Carter.
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List of Best-selling Books - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia - Scribd  for books known to have sold over 10 million copies but do not have figures for their final sales data. .... 20 million[80] The Shack William P.14/12/2014 List of best-selling books . ..... The Telegraph: "Charles Dickens' second stab at a historical novel. its ..... houses that both wanted the manuscript. according to the Copyrights...
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Final analysis - Ken Jennings - Blog  Mar 27, 2007 ... He had the year's bestselling novel a record 7 years in a row with 7 different titles, ending in 2000. I thought that was pretty funny. Why?
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With rare vinyl records now selling for up to 8000... Do you have a ...  Apr 22, 2011 ... Original pressings of classic recordings are now being seen by experts ... Another valuable example is the Rolling Stones self-titled UK debut album ... investment in that they are only worth what you can get for them. ... if you really want to use your collection as a pension, you'll need to manage it properly.
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AbeBooks.com: Collectible Self Published Books  Of course, the most common motivation for printing a book privately is because ... $175,000 lying around the house then you could pick up a piece of American poetry ... That true first edition did not include the author's name but featured an ... A housewife in St Louis, Missouri, Irma Rombauer had 3,000 copies printed by a...
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jeopardy/1126_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | In 1954 a Syrian Orthodox bishop sold 4 scrolls through an ad in this financial daily paper | The Wall Street Journal. right: Pat.
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The Jenny Invert Plate-Number Block - Mystic Stamp Company  auctioned for $2.97 million, a record amount for a U.S. philatelic item. Less than ... U.S. stamps, swapped the unique plate block of the 1918 24 airmail error with .... It last sold at a 1989 Christie's auction for $1.1 million to Kerby Confer, at the time the highest price paid for a philatel- ic object. ... The image of an upside-down...
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Jeopary Questions page 2217 - POETS & POETRY - TriviaBistro.com  LITERALLY: Seen here in 1997, this author of military thrillers signed a 2-book deal reported at over $50 million dollars  SANDWICHES: This egg derivative is...
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Original Copy of Mao's Little Red Book Sold $435M at Auction ...  Original Copy of Mao's Little Red Book Sold $435M at Auction ... The original manuscript of the famous Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, ... The winner of this action-filled auction is the Taiwanese businessman, Tseng Shin-Yi, ... from 1964 to 1976, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung was published in over...
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Kerouac's `On The Road' manuscript sold for $2.4 million ...  The original manuscript of "On The Road," author Jack Kerouac's epic tale of disaffected youth wandering America, was auctioned Tuesday for $2.43 million, a record for ... May 23, 2001|By Items compiled from Tribune news services. ... for the 119-foot-long scroll filled with the single-spaced typewritten ... Fighting Over Jack