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Collection of Aesop's tales fetches high price at auction

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20041007
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AP Worldstream
10-07-2004
Dateline: LONDON
A seller of rare books paid 16,675 pounds (US$29,700, euro24,200) Thursday for a 15th century collection of fables by the famed storyteller Aesop.

"Lifestory and Fables," published in Italy in 1497, is one of three copies known to exist, said Dominic Winter Book Auctions, which had predicted the book would sell for between 2,000 and 3,000 pounds (US$3,560 to US$5,300, euro2,900 to euro4,400).

"We had a 'hare and tortoise' bidding situation and, unlike Aesop's famous fable, the hare won," said auctioneer Chris Albury. "The tortoise was an American who ...

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