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Ulverston's Gillam's setting in Stan film scenes
www.nwemail.co.uk
[NW Evening Mail] - Tea room owner Doug Gillam will star in the film, as his great, great, great grandfather John James Gillam, serving young Stan in the period scenes. After filming his scene yesterday, Mr Gillam said: “It was good fun.
Google News: Rare book is sold for £5 million
[The Star] - The four-volume first-edition copy of The Birds of America, by John James Audubon, had been expected to sell for between $7m and $10m US dollars at Christie's in New York. In the end it sold for $ the equivalent of £
World's Most Expensive Book To Be Auctioned
www.ibtimes.co.uk
[IBTimes.co.uk] - A rare first edition of John James Audobon's 'The Birds Of America' ( ) will be auctioned at Christie's in New York on 20 January and is one of only 120 complete editions known to exist, most of which are in institutions.
Google News: Precious book to be sold at auction
[The Star] - The copy of The Birds Of America by John James Audubon belonged to the sixth Duke of Portland. It is in four volumes known as the Duke of Portland's Set and features his own bookplate. The tome has been given a pre-sale estimate of seven to 10 million
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