The state of the million-dollar book deal
What does it take to land a million dollar book deal lately? Well, so far in 2012 there’s been the case of the celebrity memoir (Cissy Houston, Whitney’s mother), the… Read more »
This little piggy went for £60,000
An extremely rare set of watercolors by Beatrix Potter was auctioned off at Sotheby’s in London today, for a whopping £60,000, or about $95,000. The set of four watercolors (on… Read more »
Rare comic fetches record-breaking $1.6 million at auction
The cover of a rare Tintin book sold for a record-breaking €1.3 million ($1.6 million) at a recent auction in Paris, at the Artcurial auction house. Hand-drawn by Tintin’s creator,… Read more »
Massive rare manuscript auction at Sotheby’s
Next month, international auction house Sotheby’s will auction off a collection of extremely rare and valuable leaves of manuscript, in a collection they call “The History of Script.” The sixty… Read more »