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The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
We've all heard stories people striking it rich with attic art and rare comic books. But old cereal boxes, lunchboxes and trading cards fetch surprisingly huge sums. Collectibles From the '70s ...
As the first post-war decade, the 1950s launched modern American popular culture and gave rise to some of the world's most coveted and valuable collectibles. Bill Ryze, a certified chartered ...
Many were formulaic, gimmicky, comic-book-style films. They drew upon political themes or public concerns of the day, including depersonalization, infiltration, or fear of nuclear weapons. Invasion was a common theme, as were various threats to humanity. [1]
A selection of Observer's Books including the first in the series, British Birds (1937), showing the wavy line pattern on the dustjackets. The Observer's Books are a series of small, pocket-sized books, published by Frederick Warne & Co in the United Kingdom from 1937 to 2003. They covered topics such as hobbies, art, history and wildlife.
Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...
Madeleine (1950) – British crime drama film based on a true story of Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of her lover, Emile L'Angelier [13] The Magnificent Yankee (1950) – biographical drama film examining the life of United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr ...
The 1950s might not exactly snap to mind, yet that period of time was a surprisingly creative one for coins. In fact, some of those coins can still help you make a lot of bank today.