Rare Book Monthly
Articles - December - 2007 Issue
AbeBooks' Charity Auction Includes Signed Harry Potter
This signed Harry Potter book and memorabilia will be auctioned off.
By Michael Stillman
Abebooks will be holding its third charity auction from December 6-11. This is a great opportunity to get a bid in on a wonderful gift, while aiding some worthy causes at the same time.
The featured item is a signed copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. This is not signed by Potter, but by his creator, J.K. Rowling. This is a first Canadian edition (from Raincoast), and was signed during Rowling's visit to Toronto earlier this year. It comes with a few other items of memorabilia from her visit. Any signed Rowling work is instantly a valued collectible.
Next up is a copy of The Door by Margaret Atwood. This is a signed, limited and numbered edition (just 150 copies) produced for PEN of Canada, an organization that works for freedom of expression all over the world. Number 1 was recently auctioned for $2,000 and number 2 for $1,800. This copy is number 4.
Lot 3 in this auction is an illustrated edition of The Life of Pi by Yann Martel. This, too, is a signed copy. This piece of storytelling is a modern classic, an international bestseller.
Finally, Lot 4 includes two books by Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss and Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. This two-for-one includes two author signatures, one in each book. The books were signed when Desai visited AbeBooks home in Victoria, BC, last October.
Proceeds from the auction will go to support the United Way's "Project Literacy" in Abe's hometown of Victoria, with the exception of the Atwood book, which will support PEN Canada. Don't miss your opportunity. To learn more, and place your bids from December 6-11, go to www.abebooks.com/auctions.
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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 83 – Westall & Owen. Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, 1st edition, 1828. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 88 – Blume. Rumphia, Botanicae de plantis Indiae Orientalis, 1835-1848. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 101 – Michaux. Histoire des arbres forestiers de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1810-1812. £700-1,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 102 – Miller & Shaw. Cimelia Physica, 1796 [but c. 1816]. £3,000-5,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 104 – Parkinson. Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants, London: Thomas Cotes, 1640. £800-1,200.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 159 – Plancius. Orbis Terrarum..., double hemisphere map, 1594-99. £5,000-8,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 217 – Illuminated Medieval Manuscript. From a Breviary, 14th/15th c. £3,000-4,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 224 – The newe Testament … By Wylliam Tyndall…, 1549. £3,000-5,000.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 238 – Douay-Rheims Bible. 3 volumes, 1582/1609/1610. £7,000-10,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Printed Books, Maps & Wisdens, English Bibles
1500-1800
22nd July 2026Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 336 – Ashendene Press. A Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, 1903. £1,000-1,500.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 393 – Sassoon. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, signed limited edition, 1931. £800-1,200.Dominic Winter, July 22: Lot 402 – Dylan Thomas. Twenty-Five Poems, 1st edition in d.j., 1936. £400-600. -
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2026 Summer Auction
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