“The Tales of Beedle the Bard” sells for $4 million!
December 13, 2007 by Wendy Boswell
Can you believe this? J.K. Rowling’s tale titled The Tales of Beedle the Bard has sold for $4 MILLION DOLLARS!
A book of fairy tales created, handwritten and illustrated by J.K. Rowling sold for nearly $4 million at auction Thursday.
The buyer, London art agent Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, now has one of only seven copies of “The Tales of Beedle the Bard,” which is leather bound with silver mounts.
The book originally had been expected to sell for about $100,000. The standing-room-only crowd at Sotheby’s auction house applauded as bidding topped the 1 million pound ($2 million) mark.
The money will benefit The Children’s Voice, a charity co-founded in 2005 by Rowling and Baroness Nicholson, a member of Britain’s House of Lords.
I would say that this is the best Christmas present ever for JK Rowling; I know that this charity means a lot to her.
awsome i totally want to read it!!
That’s grt there’s not much on the tales of beedle the bard. So like erin i wnat to read it totally.
I have read at j.k.rowlings website that it was sold for 1.95 million and not for 4 million.