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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20061208
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NEW DELHI, India, Dec 8 -- Two years after the 1998 sale of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales set a world record for any first-edition book being auctioned for £4,621,500, Christie broke its own record with the sale of Audubon's first edition of Birds of America at £5.5 million. Today, connoisseurs across the world are willing to pay anything for first edition books.

In our quest for collectors of first-edition books, we met three such individuals; veteran journalist Raghu Nandan Dhar who couldn't resist the allure of rare first-editions, Pradeep Sebastian, a freelance writer, who is ...

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