On an evening walk in Chicago's North Center neighborhood back in early March, Sparky — Robert Miller’s golden brown mutt ...

A rare book annotated by Scottish philosopher and economist Adam Smith is to go on display in his home town in Fife. The book ...

It took the patient sleuthing of a rare books and manuscripts curator from the Newberry Library to unravel the mystery of the ...

Also on display is a snuff box and pewter inkwell said to be used as Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, as well as a glass ...

Two first-edition copies of Harry Potter were sold for eye-watering amounts at auction in Lichfield yesterday (November 27) - ...

Remember that scene from Disney's animated classic "The Beauty and the Beast," where Belle gasps in awe at the towering shelves and endless rows of books in the Beast's magnificent library? That was ...

Seasons of Want and Plenty” is set in the 1860s, the decade during which Alaska slipped away from the Russian Empire, and ...

A rare first edition of a Harry Potter book has sold for £36,000. Christine McCulloch bought the copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for her son Adam in the 1990s. She said she paid about ...

This copy of the 16th-century text is owned by a private collector. Until recently, historians weren't aware that it existed ...

A reviewer’s life is not without its rewards. For once in a blue moon a book comes along that possibly wouldn’t be a first pick in a bookstore but reveals itsel ...