Word: auction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faulty copies of the Christian Science gospel, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, came up for auction sale in Manhattan last week. It was a first (1875) edition and contained many printer's errors. Mary Baker Eddy knew of 66. Economical, she disliked reprinting the whole volume; honest she listed the errata on a separate leaf. Because one of these errata leaves was in the book offered for sale last week...
Widener Library, it was announced last night, has just received from England nearly 1000 "Titles," of English literary and historical tracts of the seventeenth century. These books and pamphlets were puchassed by a friend at the recent auction sale of the famous Britwell Court library...
...days later, at Christie's famed London auction room, the Imperial Russian nuptial crown- composed of double rows of brilliants, surmounted by a diamond cross-was placed on sale by the Soviet Government, hawked, cried up from an initial bid of $25,000, auctioned off at last to a Parisian jeweler, M. Founess...
...contract auction bridge, what is meant by being "vulnerable...
Recently Kuhn, Loeb & Co. have revived their interests in the railroads of the northwest. They represented the buyers, at auction, of the $750,000,000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (TIME, Dec. 6) and have been one of the agents for Arthur Curtiss James, greatest railroad stockholder, in his gaining control of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific...