Money Savvy Adrian Zackheim and Adrienne Schultz at Portfolio beat several other bidders in an auction for Zac Bissonette’s first book via David Kuhn at Kuhn Projects. The author, a college sophomore and co-editor of AOL’s WalletPop.com, will argue that American parents and their high school children need to rethink their approach to choosing and paying for college.

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Money Savvy Adrian Zackheim and Adrienne Schultz at Portfolio beat several other bidders in an auction for Zac Bissonette’s first book via David Kuhn at Kuhn Projects. The author, a college sophomore and co-editor of AOL’s WalletPop.com, will argue that American parents and their high school children need to rethink their approach to choosing and paying for college.

A 97-year-old document that contains clues to the identity of Eleanor Rigby, the subject of one of the Beatles’ best-loved songs, sold for 115,000 pounds ($250,000) at auction.

Another Buffett John Glusman at Harmony beat four other bidders in an auction for Peter Buffett’s Life Is What You Make It; Richard Pine at InkWell sold North American rights. Buffett, who forsook the chance to join his father’s business to pursue his own passion for music, will write about values, identity and growing up as one of Warren Buffett’s sons; as a young man, he wa…

Another Buffett John Glusman at Harmony beat four other bidders in an auction for Peter Buffett’s Life Is What You Make It; Richard Pine at InkWell sold North American rights. Buffett, who forsook the chance to join his father’s business to pursue his own passion for music, will write about values, identity and growing up as one of Warren Buffett’s sons; as a young man, he wa…

Last week was a big one for Foundry, the literary agency founded a little over one year ago. Mollie Glick, who left Jean Naggar to join Foundry last month, made her first sale at the agency, conducting an eight-house auction for Lenore Skenazy’s Free Range Kids.

Elements of Graphic Style Norton senior editor Maria Guarnaschelli beat four other publishers in an auction for Dona Wong’s The Wall Street Journal Guide to Presenting Data, Facts and Figures; Lynn Johnston sold world rights. Aiming to be the Strunk & White of graphics, the book will instruct readers how to express themselves in a data-driven world in which the good graphics have become a…

Meister to Putnam Putnam’s Rachel Kahan won North American rights to a new novel by Ellen Meister in an auction conducted by Andrea Cirillo at Jane Rotrosen. The book, The Silver Line, tells the story of a suburban mom expecting her second child who discovers that she might be able to slip through a wrinkle in time and return to her single life.

A £1m Treasury note has fetched £78,300, twice the expected price, at an auction in London.

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