{"id":253,"date":"2008-04-03T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T18:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/anglo-icon-scores-from-the-grave-again\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T18:43:04","slug":"anglo-icon-scores-from-the-grave-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/03\/anglo-icon-scores-from-the-grave-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglo Icon Scores From The Grave Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the NY Daily News<\/a><\/em>
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‘Twist’ my arm! Dickens tome brings $229G<\/h2>\n

BY CHRISTINA BOYLE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 3rd 2008, 4:00 AM<\/p>\n

A\u00a0first edition\u00a0of\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a>‘ “Oliver Twist<\/a>” sold for a record $229,000 at\u00a0Christie’s<\/a>\u00a0auction house in\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\"OliverAn anonymous American collector bought the copy of the 19th century novel about a young orphan who falls in with a band of pickpockets and thieves.<\/p>\n

First published in 1838, the copy at auction was inscribed by the author to a friend and fellow novelist,\u00a0William Ainsworth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A total of 208 lots went under the gavel, part of the\u00a0William Self<\/a>\u00a0family collection.<\/p>\n

The previous record for a Dickens item was held by a copy of “A Christmas Carol” that sold for $160,000 in 1996 at\u00a0Sotheby’s<\/a>\u00a0in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the NY Daily News ‘Twist’ my arm! Dickens tome brings $229G BY CHRISTINA BOYLEDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, April 3rd 2008, 4:00 AM A\u00a0first edition\u00a0of\u00a0Charles Dickens‘ “Oliver Twist” sold for a record $229,000 at\u00a0Christie’s\u00a0auction house in\u00a0New York\u00a0Wednesday. An anonymous American collector bought the copy of the 19th century novel about a young orphan who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}