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This Harry Potter book with tea stains and folded corner auctioned for Rs 38 lakh - What makes it special?A rare first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, originally bought for just 10 pounds in 1997, has sold for 36,000 pounds (approximately Rs 38 lakh) at an auction in Staffordshire, UK. The book, one of only 500 copies from the first print run, was purchased by Christine McCulloch as a gift for her son Adam. The family only realized its value during the 2020 lockdown, after reading about the rising prices of first editions.
- Brace yourselves! A new The 'Hunger Games' book and movie is in the works!
Scholastic announced Thursday that "Sunrise on the Reaping," the fifth volume of Collins' blockbuster dystopian series, will be published March 18, 2025.
- 2,000-yr-old book, written by the 1st Christian monks, may fetch $2.6 mn at auction
The Crosby-Schoyen Codex - written in Coptic on papyrus around 250-350 AD, and produced in one of the first Christian monasteries - has an estimated sale value of $2.6 million to $3.8 million, according to Christie's.
- Harvard says it's removed human skin from binding of 19th century book
The book, 'Des Destinees de L'ame,' meaning 'Destinies of the Soul,' was written by Arsene Houssaye, a French novelist and poet, in the early 1880s.
- Agatha Christie's typewriter & manuscript of last Poirot novel unveiled at exhibition
The cover of the faded and fragile manuscript has the book's title 'Curtain' written in capital letters in Christie's own hand along with her name and address -- Greenway House in Devon, southwest England -- in spidery longhand.
- Irish author John Boyne reflects on his most popular work 'The Boy In Striped Pyjamas'
The book is the story of Bruno, the nine-year-old son of a senior SS officer at Auschwitz, who develops an unlikely friendship with Shmuel, an imprisoned Jewish boy.
- First book on history of modern Indian art is finally here!
Replete with beautiful photographs of the artists' works, the Gems of Indian Art, Volume 1, documents a part of the extraordinary collection that enjoys international renown for its exceptional quality and the prestigious provenance of many of its works personally collected by the Khullar family from all over the world.
Proof copy of the 1st Harry Potter novel get fetches $13,000 at UK auction
Love to read? 'White Mughal' author William Dalrymple lists some must-read books you can dig into in 2024
- Sahitya Akademi Awards: Neelam Gour’s novel ‘Requiem In Raga Janaki’ wins in English language category
The award was presented in the shape of a casket containing an engraved copper plaque. It also included a cash prize - a lump sum of Rs 1,00,000.
- Poet Sukrita Paul Kumar bags Tagore Literary Prize
Founded in 2018 by US-based publisher Peter Bundalo, the award is a platform for world peace, literature, art, education and human rights.
- Booker-winning author Paul Lynch was not confident about his seminal novel ‘Prophet Song’
The novel, which Atlantic Monthly Press will release in the United States on Tuesday, follows Eilish, a biologist and mother of four whose busy domestic life in suburban Dublin is shattered when the secret police show up at her home looking for her husband, a senior leader of a teachers union.
- New edition of 'Tintin in the Congo' addresses racist depiction of Africans
'Tintin in the Congo' by Belgian comic strip artist Herge, the second volume of 'The Adventures of Tintin', was first published in 1931.
- Excl: Overworked force in the field & compromised top leadership hurting brand equity of Indian police, says Maharashtra’s 1st woman commissioner
Meeran Chadha Borwankar, who served as an IPS officer for 36 years, feels that police reforms are needed both at the top and at the police station level. An overworked force, with lack of tech support is hurting the men in uniform.
- Bill Gates shares 2023 reading list: Indian-American doc's book on cell biology; Scot scientist debunks climate change myth with data; spl mention to WWII drama
The tech tycoon shared a list of books that he enjoyed reading in the year gone by.
'His Dark Materials' author Philip Pullman honoured with Bodley Medal at Oxford University
Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah says many works of ‘Golden Age’ British authors were openly racist
- How a Leo DiCaprio meme turned 'The Great Gatsby' into an all-time bestseller in France
The novella, considered the defining account of jazz age America in all its high spirits and tawdry excess, was actually written mostly in France, where F. Scott Fitzgerald spent much of the 1920s.
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