In a nail-biting, down-to-the-wire bidding war, a version of a book that can be had for free in many hotel room drawers was sold last week at auction for $80,000. A first edition of the Book of Mormon ...

Collecting vintage first edition books has always fascinated me because of the unique blend of history, rarity, and value these treasures hold. Many of these editions capture the original essence and ...

HANOVER, N.H. — The librarians at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College are used to one frequent request from visitors. The most requested book in the library’s collection is the ...

Beneath tight brown paper, inside a bubble-wrapped box, nestled in plastic foam inside another sealed box, inside a package inside a FedEx envelope, the squat book sat — its plain red cover glowing ...

That result dominated the Dallas-based auction house’s entire 610-lot Rare Books Signature sale—and set a new record for the most expensive unsigned Tolkien books ever sold at auction, outdoing the ...

Surrounded by stacks of books, Don Scriven confessed that his quest to find first-edition copies of fictional works is an expression of his “nerdiness” and his lifelong fascination with the historical ...

A first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in J.K. Rowling's world famous wizarding series, has sold for over $57,000 at auction in the U.K. The book was kept in ...

Between 11:50 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 8, and 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 9, two thieves forced entry and made away with a collection of rare and valuable first editions from SN Books' warehouse in ...

A woman has purchased a signed first edition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale at a yard sale for just $1. Ashley, who is from Winnipeg, Canada, was out shopping on May 28 when she stumbled on ...

In a nail-biting, down-to-the-wire bidding war, a version of a book that can be had for free in many hotel room drawers was sold this week at auction for $80,000. A first edition of the Book of Mormon ...

(RNS) — The starting bid was $1, but the final 15 minutes of the weeklong auction were punctuated by rapidly rising bids in mostly $500 increments. (RNS) — In a nail-biting, down-to-the-wire bidding ...