Sentence examples similar to auction book from inspiring English sources

Agents soon realized that they could auction books to publishers and not settle for the first bid.

A somewhat less topical, more lyrical version of Detective Miller, Mr. Conlon is working on a hotly auctioned book about his experiences, to be published by Riverhead Books.

An original watercolor illustration by the children's author Beatrix Potter has set an auction record for a book illustration, BBC News reported.

Given the thousands of dollars that autographs like those in the volume would bring at auction, the book could be worth a large amount of money.

After a four-day auction, the book was bought by two divisions of Random House: Alfred A. Knopf in the United States and Canada, and Hutchinson in Britain.

Mara Hoffman, senior specialist in western manuscripts at Sotheby's, who will auction the book on 6 December, says the strong royalist bias of the images indicates that it was made for a nobleman of the royal household.

The Atlantic Monthly's June issue had on its cover "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber," and, after an auction, a book based on it was sold to W. W. Norton for an advance of more than $300,000.

At the auction, Vesalius' book brought $1,652,500, nearly three times its high estimate.

Then, after a mid-range sale of Impressionist and Russian art from the nineteenth century (May 30), the house offers an auction of books and manuscripts (June 3), featuring a trove of letters and books by Albert Camus from the collection of Patricia Blake, a young American college student wooed by the French author during his 1946 New York sojourn.

At an auction of books, manuscripts, and Americana (Dec.

A resurgent interest in bold wallpaper stems partly from new data available in auction catalogs, books and exhibitions, and on Web sites.