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Eight copies of Audubon's The Birds of America have sold for more than $1 million. This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century ...
Authors of comic books are not included unless they have been published in book format (for example, comic albums, manga tankÅbon volumes, trade paperbacks, or graphic novels). Authors such as Jane Austen, Miguel de Cervantes, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Rick Riordan, Ernest Hemingway, Jack ...
Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide,[13] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [14] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
One of the most valuable misprints can be found in the original 1885 edition of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, the classic tale of friendship and mischief along the ...
"The world's most lucrative crime fiction prize." [20] 75,000 US$75,000 Cundill History Prize: Non-fiction and history: Canada English "the world's largest non-fiction purse" [43] 55,270 €50,000 Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero: Short story collection Spain Spanish "the largest in the world for a competition of this kind". [44 ...
Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:02 PM. Typos can do more than damage the credibility of a publication. Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because ...
Daniel Leab. Children. 3. Parent. Roger M. Kyes (father) Katharine Kyes Leab (17 March 1941 – 16 February 2020) was an American publisher, expert on rare books and manuscripts, and co-owner and editor-in-chief of American Book Prices Current, known as "the grande dame of book auction data." [1] [2] [3]
The New York Times. number-one books of 2020. The American daily newspaper The New York Times publishes multiple weekly lists ranking the best-selling books in the United States. The lists are split in three genres—fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists.