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...ever seen." Last month 125 people, mostly librarians, aspiring writers and voracious readers, signed up for the second annual "Key West Literary Tour & Seminar." Key West's most fully realized art form is the party, and this one lasted four days. From the Thursday-night book auction to Sunday's "Meet the Authors" coffee, it was a celebration of words...
...crucial American images, the very essence of Yankee emotion in the face of natural sublimity, the icon before which many people (up to a few months ago) would have sacrificed James Watt on a stake. No doubt it would make $3 million or more at auction today...
...bidding at Sotheby's in London lasted only two minutes, but when it was over the 12th century illuminated German manuscript known as "The Gospels of Henry the Lion" had fetched a glittering $11.7 million, the highest auction price ever paid for a work of art. The pristinely preserved, 13½-in.-by-10-in. medieval masterpiece contains more than 1,500 exquisite illustrations and 41 full-page miniatures, but its value is not merely aesthetic to its new owners, a consortium of buyers that included the West German government. The acquisition, says Banker Hermann...
...early 1930s their creator went bankrupt. In the late 1950s an art nouveau boom sent dealers scouring the attics of old mansions and manors for castoff Tiffany lamps. Would-be collectors may weep: a lamp much like Cobweb, which originally cost about $500, fetched a record $360,000 at auction three years...
...Democrats are all trying so hard to have distinct platforms that their campaigns have degenerated into "a kind of auction--the candidates raise an issue and say how they will bid to get votes," McCarthy said...