# Book Aid International's first online auction raises £2,360

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/10/24/book-aid-international039s-first-online-auction-raises-2360/
- Published: 2008-10-24T14:15:31+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Book Aid International’s first online auction has raised at least £2,360. Celebrities,
authors and politicians donated copies of the book that has most inspired them, 
and signed them. A number of prominent illustrators also donated original artwork
to be auctioned.

 service.

A copy of ‘Suite Francaise’ by Irene Nemirovsky signed by Helen Mirren sold for 
£160, and ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ by Walter Murch, signed and inscribed by Alan
Rickman, sold for £377.65.

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Leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, selected and signed ‘Goodbye to
All That’ by Robert Graves which sold for over £100, and illustrations by Nick Sharratt
and Sian Bailey also both sold for over £100 each.

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