Article: At $11,000, Andrew Hoyem isn't selling your ordinary Bible.

Byline: Marja Mills

CHICAGO _ Booth by booth, the buyers made their way around the recent Navy Pier art show, considering whether to spend thousands on this abstract painting or that modern sculpture.

They sipped espresso. They spoke in low tones. Everything about a certain type of buyer looked expensive and discreetly competitive: the black clothing that draped just so. The salon hairstyles. The surgically smoothed skin around the eyes.

Same goes for the women.

Unlikely territory to be shopping for a Bible, but then, there in Booth D121, Andrew Hoyem was selling no ordinary Bible.

Years in the making, perhaps the last of its ...

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