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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.
Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.
In 2011, Armstrong's net sales were $2.86 billion, with operating income of $239.2 million. [17] Armstrong Cabinets was sold by Armstrong World Industries to American Industrial Partners on October 31, 2012. Armstrong spun off its flooring business into a new company, Armstrong Flooring (NYSE: AFI) on April 1, 2016.
If you own a copy of this famous Mark Twain book with a typo, you could be sitting on $160,000
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The Spiral Staircase is not Armstrong's first attempt at a memoir, and is in a way a rewrite of her first two books: Through the Narrow Gate and Beginning the World, which she no longer felt gave an accurate portrait of her experience. [1] Beginning the World especially Armstrong felt was "the worst book I have ever written" because it was too ...
The other toy was an offshoot of a trend of toys in the 1970s based off none other than Stretch Armstrong. And although the seller only had the head, the toy is rare enough that it was still worth ...
This was an economy measure, intended to reduce the costs incurred in building to the Armstrong design. It incorporated fewer but heavier wrought-iron coils but retained the Armstrong forged breech-piece. Only 26 were made. Mark III in 1866–1867 eliminated the Armstrong forged breech piece and hence fully implemented the Fraser economy design.