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A flame-retardant copy of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale sold for $130,000 in an auction Tuesday.
Bidding for the sole fireproof edition began on May 23 at $50,000 and was expected to reach $100,000. All proceeds went to anti-censorship organization PEN America.
“To raise awareness about the proliferating book banning and educational gag orders in American schools nationwide, and to raise money to support PEN America’s crucial work to counter this national crisis of censorship, Margaret Atwood and Penguin Random House have partnered with the creative agency Rethink to make The Unburnable Book, a fireproof edition of Atwood’s prescient — and often banned — book,” the listing read.
FIRST EDITION OF HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE HEADED TO AUCTION
Materials provided by craftsman Jeremy Martin help it withstand temperatures 540 to 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the listing. The cover is made of aluminum Cinefoils, which film sets use to wrap hot lights, the pages themselves are white heat shield foil, and it is all bound together with nickel wire. Even the ink is flame retardant.
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PEN reports 1,586 bans of individual books across 86 school districts in 26 states.
