Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Duplicates of books which brought fabulous prices in the sale of the Kerne library in New York last month are now on exhibition in the Widener Memorial Room. All of the books have been picked from the Harry Elkins Widener collection, the duplicates of the more expensive books in the Kerne sale being selected. Hardly a volume duplicated in the present Widener exhibit sold for less than a thousand dollars in the recent New York sale...
...book in the Kerne collection which brought a high price was one of the first editions of Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". The duplicate of this volume which sold for $11,000 in New York, is now on exhibition in the University library. Still another duplicate of the New York sale now being exhibited in Widener is a copy of the first edition of "The Scarlet Letter". This volume brought $1,175 in New York, chiefly because of Hawthorne's autograph on the frontispiece. The Widener volume, however, not only has an autograph, but a word of greeting written in Hawthorne...
...finest books on exhibition in the Memorial Room is a copy of "Beauty and the Beast". This book is illustrated with high colors, every two or three pages containing a bright plate. The copy sold in the New York sale did not contain as many illustrations, yet brought a very high price...
...author's greeting to the person to whom the book was presented. It is believed to be the only volume of his writings that Poe ever presented to anyone, and would probably bring one of the highest prices ever paid for a book if put up for public sale...
Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, presented last week to the Library of Congress a large collection of 16th Century manuscripts concerning the conquest of Mexico and Peru by Cortez, Pizarro and their successors. The documents included a bill of sale of Alvarado's armada to Pizarro and Almagro for 100,000 gold pesos; also, the Cabildo book of the City of the Frontier of the Chachapoyas telling of the assassination of Pizarro by Almagro...