Update 1
“The Tales of Biddle and Bard” is published and you may buy it at Amazon.com. Please read my post (click on the link) The Tales of Beedle the Bard is Here: Collector’s and Standard Edition for more information.
What a world we live in! Nothing is predictable. The experts in some areas can’t assume and estimate, the buyers are on their own, the spectators in awe…Remember a news a few weeks ago about 7 books written by J.K.Rowling, where 6 were being given away as gifts and one was to be auctioned?
Read about it here: The Tales to be Auctioned .
The estimated price for the collection of fairy tales “The Tales of Biddle and Bard” handwritten and illustrated by J.K Rowling and mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was set to about $100,000. It was sold for almost 40 times more than the estimate, for nearly $4 million at the charity auction in London, on Thursday. ”The price for the leather-bound fairy tale, illustrated by Rowling with ink drawings, was a record for the author, for a children’s book and for any modern literary manuscript, Sotheby’s said. Manuscripts by living authors are rare in the auction room.” It’s been said, that the book will never be published.
The source: www.bloomberg.com
August 1st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
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