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Matchbook cover, World War II, Uncle Sam. A "matchcover", or "matchbook cover", is a thin cardboard covering that folds over match sticks in a "book" or "pack" of matches. Covers have been used as a form of advertising since 1894, two years after they were patented, and since then, have attracted people who enjoy the hobby of collecting.
Eight copies of Audubon's The Birds of America have sold for more than $1 million. This is a list of printed books, manuscripts, letters, music scores, comic books, maps and other documents which have sold for more than US$1 million. The dates of composition of the books range from the 7th-century Quran leaf palimpsest and the early 8th-century ...
List of most expensive films. List of most expensive music videos. List of most expensive non-fungible tokens. List of most expensive photographs. List of most expensive albums. List of most valuable records. List of most expensive music deals. List of most expensive television series. List of most expensive video games to develop.
Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [13] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [14] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
Evidence of retouching of text on page 3; f1r. Retouching of drawing on page 131; f72v3. The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese. [ 18] The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438).
The book is written in three sections, the first (Book of Matches) containing 30 fourteen-line poems or sonnets.Each is meant to be read within the time it would take for a match to be lit and burn out, as Armitage states in the first poem, "My party piece:" [4]
Manchester United's record signing is Paul Pogba, who signed for the club from Juventus for a world record fee of £89.3 million in August 2016. [ 36][ 37] The signing of Anthony Martial for £36 million in 2015 set a world record for the transfer of a teenager, [ 38] and the £80 million paid for Harry Maguire in 2019 was a world record for a ...
Publication place. United Kingdom. Media type. Print ( hardcover and paperback) ISBN. 978-0806520001. OCLC. 38258131. The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith, a British poet, critic, and biographer.