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  Title

  The one-cent magenta : inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world First edition.

  Author

  Barron, James, 1954-  

  Publisher:

  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,

  Pub date:

  2017.

  Pages:

  276 pages ;

  ISBN:

  9781616205188

  Item info:

  1 copy available in Adult nonfiction shelves.
  1 copy total in all locations.

  • 9781616205188
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    Call number	Copies	Material	Location
    769.569881 BAR	1	Adult non-fic hardcover	Adult nonfiction shelves

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  The one-cent magenta : inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world First edition.
  Barron, James, 1954-
  
  
  

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  The one-cent magenta : inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world First edition.
  Barron, James, 1954-
  

  Personal Author:

  Barron, James, 1954-

  Title:

  The one-cent magenta : inside the quest to own the most valuable stamp in the world / James Barron.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Physical description:

  276 pages ; 19 cm

  General Note:

  "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."

  Contents:

  Stamp World -- Travels with David -- One cent (1856 : printed, sold, and forgotten) -- Six shillings (1873 : found by a twelve-year-old) -- £120 (1878 : Glasgow and London) -- £150 (1878 : the man in the yachting cap) -- $32,500 (1922 : the plutocrat with the cigar) -- $40,000 (1940 : the angry widow, Macy's, and the other plutocrat) -- $286,000 (1970 : the Wilkes-Barre eight) -- $935,000 (1980 : "the man showed up") -- $9.5 million (2014 : "I expected to see magenta, and I saw magenta").

  Summary:

  "When it was issued in 1856, it cost a penny. In 2014, this tiny square of faded red paper sold at Sotheby's for nearly $9.5 million, the largest amount ever paid for a postage stamp at auction. Through the stories of the eccentric characters who have bought, owned, and sold the one-cent magenta in the years in between, James Barron delivers a fascinating tale of global history and immense wealth, and of the human desire to collect"-- Provided by publisher.

  Subject term:

  Rare postage stamps--Guyana--History.

  Subject term:

  Stamp collectors--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Stamp collecting--History.

  Subject term:

  Stamp collecting--History.