PEN America is holding an auction at Christie's (NY) tomorrow, First Editions/Second Thoughts, hoping: " to raise substantial funds to support PEN's mission to defend freedom of expression and to celebrate literature that such freedom makes possible".
It's pretty neat:
It's pretty neat:
Through annotations including notes, essays, drawings, photographs, letters to the reader, and inserted memorabilia, each contributor has transformed a first edition of a classic work into a distinct new artifact for one lucky buyer.See also the nice spread at The New York Times, where you can peek inside each of the 75 books up for auction.