The fantasy collectibles market had another headline moment this week when a rare first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit sold at auction in Bristol, England, for $57,000. The book, discovered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can pick up a new paperback copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby for a few bucks at most any bookstore in the U.S. As of last week, for a few more dollars—$15—you can even pick up a copy ...

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 rare, first-edition copy of one of the Mormon community’s most holy books has been missing for nearly a week, and its owner would like to have it back so it can complete its religious mission. 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 ...

“It was really an extraordinary coincidence,” Carolyn Potter Ingersoll recalled of that lucky first find. She and her husband, William Boley Ingersoll, had gone on a pleasure outing to Baltimore with ...

(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 ...