The date is set and you may view “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” today at the Sotheby’s auction house.
The much debated work of J.K. Rowlings will go to the highest bidder at the Sotheby’s charity auction on December 13, 2007.
The estimate: $103,000.
“The Tales of Beedle the Bard,” leather bound with silver mounts, is one seven copies made by Rowling, who gave the other six to people associated with the success of the Potter series, Rowling said in an introduction to Sotheby’s catalog. The copy on show at Sotheby’s will be sold to benefit the Children’s Voice, a charity co-founded by Rowling and Emma Nicholson, a member of the U.K. House of Lords.”
“Living authors’ unpublished manuscripts are rarely sold at auction, so they’re hard to value. A computer printout of a novel by U.K. mystery writer Ruth Rendell sold for about 2,500 pounds in July, Sotheby’s said. Rowling’s work is illustrated with ink drawings.”
Interested? Read the article here:
www.bloomberg.com
December 13th, 2007 at 11:36 am
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