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Amazon won the auction at Sotheby's for the only copy available to the public of J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard. They paid £1,950,000.
The Telegraph reports:
Bidding for "The Tales of Beedle the Bard", of which there are only seven copies in existence, was frenetic at Sotheby's on Thursday and experts were shocked at the huge winning bid for the book, which had been expected to sell for £50,000.
Amazon has already
posted pictures and a review, with spoilers. I didn't read it in hopes that someday, I will get to read the stories. The book is just beautiful to behold. I chuckled when I read the book was decorated with moonstones. Several years ago Rowling posted a note on her site about having just read
The Moonstone by Wilke Collins for the first time. She described it as a "cracking read."
Don't you love the white gloves? It is a rare book, indeed.
Oh My Gosh! Guess how much J. K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Rowling’s original, handwritten book of wizard fairy tales that was mentioned in the final Harry Potter book) went for in the online auction! Can’t guess? Let me tell you. 1,950,000 Great British Pounds, which is almost $4 million US dollars!! Now those are some dedicated fans who were bidding. Wow.
According to CBBC, “The book was bought by a picture dealership from London called Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox. They are a company which normally buys paintings and drawings.” I wonder if that means that they intend to re-sell it to a Harry Potter fan?
The money from the auction will go directly to The Children’s Voice charity, created by J.K. Rowling, which helps children who most need an advocate in the world. So the money went to a worthy cause. But it still boggles my mind a little. How about you? What do you think?
I found this out via the Longstockings. My guess in their contest for how much the book would go for was $2 million. And I won! (I was the closest.) How fun. 
Now I get Lisa’s Graff’s ARC and chocolate! What could be better?
As you’ve probably heard, J K Rowling hand-wrote and illustrated a collection of wizard fairy tales–The Tales of Beedle the Bard–that was mentioned in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, a book that headmaster Dumbledore left to Hermione. Rowling created only seven copies, six of which she gave as thank-yous to people involved with her Harry Potter books. The seventh copy will be auctioned off, the proceeds going to Rowling’s The Children’s Voice campaign (which sounds really important and worthwhile–they want to make life better for young people in care across Eastern Europe and the world, and they aim to stamp out cruelty, neglect and abuse of young people).
The book will be auctioned off by Sotheby on December 13, with an opening bid of $62,000. (Rowling’s really getting a lot of publicity lately, eh? First Dumbledore being gay, then this, as well as .)
So, this is where the fun comes in. The Longstockings are having a contest to guess how much the book will go for. “Closest without going over gets an as-of-yet-undecided-but-most-assuredly-awesome prize from me.” So have some fun–get over there and make a guess.
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There's no way I would ever pay that much for a book but I would love to read it though :(