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@lludwig wrote:753. What is the most valuable modern fiction manuscript and who was the author?
"2007: The Tales of Beedle The Bard
J K Rowling initially wrote and illustrated just seven handmade copies of The Tales of Beedle The Bard. The fictional book of children's fairytales, first mentioned in the final Harry Potter instalment, was bought to life by Rowling as a thank you gift to six people who helped her during the 17 years she worked on Harry Potter. The seventh copy was sold at auction in Sotheby's in 2007 for £1.95m, the highest selling price in history for a modern manuscript, and all proceeds were donated to Lumos, Rowling's charity for children in institutions."
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754. The first American bookplates date from the 1580's.
The first bookplate printed in what is now the United States has been widely attributed to Stephen Daye in 1642, but questions about the type ornaments used for the border have led to the opinion that it was not printed in America, and that the earliest bookplate printed in Massachusetts was for Samuel Philips in 1652.
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Answer in invisible ink: 3. The Birds of America by J. J. Audubon
In March 2000, Christie's sold the Fox-Bute copy of Audubon's Birds of America for $8.8 million and set a new world auction record for any printed book
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Answer in invisible ink:
4. Pocket Books no number The Good Earth
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Pocket Book Good Earth was later reissued as No. 11, which is not nearly as valuable.
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Answer in invisible ink: 5. Button Gwinnett
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