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First Edition Alice In Wonderland Sells for $40,000

First Edition <em>Alice In Wonderland</em> Sells for $40,000

In the midst of the swelling anticipation for Tim Burton’s adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, there are perhaps more people than ever who are interested in the original book. An extremely rare first edition of Lewis Carroll’s nearly 150-year-old classic recently sold for $40,000 at California’s Profiles In History auction house....  read more

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A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh Book Sees Sequel After Eight Decades

A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh Book Sees Sequel After Eight Decades

Before Winnie the Pooh was produced as an icon in a plethora of Disney movies, cartoons and colorful picture books, he was drawn in the illustrations of E.H. Shepard as a rather English, rural and naked bear who lived in the Hundred Acre Wood, the setting of the children's tales penned by A.A. Milne in his 1928 book, The House at Pooh Corner....  read more

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