Antique-antiquarian auction in Moscow

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Because of the crisis, prices rose sharply in the ancient books

Moscow-antique secondhand market reacted to the global financial crisis has increased the prices of pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary book. This is evidenced by the outcome of antique, secondhand auction in Moscow.

Record trading book set Osip Mandelstam's "Stone" (1913), sold for 350 thousand rubles. with a starting price of 37 thousand rubles. The poem "Good" by Vladimir Mayakovsky (1927) in the color of the cover of constructivist El Lissitzky went for 28 thousand rubles. "Selected Poems of Ivan Bunin, published in Paris in 1929, were sold for 20 thousand rubles. Strong demand collections of verse by Anna Akhmatova. Her book "The White Flock" (1917) exceeded the starting price is almost fifteen times and was sold for 55 thousand rubles. The first three issues for 1909 art and literary magazine "Apollo" in publishing the cover went for 43 thousand rubles. with a starting price of 8.5 rubles. Results were presented at auction 277 lots.