Earliest known printing of Harry Potter, 1997
Earliest known printing of Harry Potter, 1997
An extensive archive of casting and production materials, spanning six decades of American filmmaking. 1960s-2023.
23 manuscript notebooks, 2,868 pages. Apple's first COO, 1983–1995, together with 1,000+ business documents annotated by Jobs, Sculley, and others.
26 manuscript broadcast journals, over 12,000 pages, documenting more than 3,500 episodes of her daily radio program, 1935–1954.
Further holdings available. Inquiries welcome.
Coming soon: Working storyboards by Buckminster Fuller integrating the geometric, planetary, and social foundations of Spaceship Earth, with Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Jiang Qing circled at the center; an Einstein mini notebook documenting a key phase of work toward General Relativity; an inscribed first printing of The Great Gatsby, and more.
Coming soon: signed and inscribed first printing of The Great Gatsby
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Diane Keaton’s copy of the Annie Hall script (est. $2,000 to $3,000, sold for $394,200). Photo courtesy of Bonhams.
Are Prices Real?
June 12, 2026Bonhams Auctions dedicated a sale this week to a "curated selection" of items owned by the great Diane Keaton and one item in particular caught the eyes of Jeremy and Michael. Her own copy of the Annie Hall script? Pretty cool, we thought. But how much is it worth? We had our own guesses, but (at least) two bidders had very different ideas. All of which led to the big question: What do prices really mean in our wonderful world of rare books and manuscripts? Are prices even real?