The Guardian’s Alison Flood reports that a long-standing trial over what was to be done with a collection of documents by Franz Kafka, as well as his good friend Max… Read more »

Earlier this week the New York Times ran an article about an event for book nerds that, frankly, sounds like a lot of fun. Rare Book School is held several… Read more »

It’s finally happening. We warned you. Out of Archer City, Texas, comes Larry McMurtry’s  giant Last Book Sale. According to the Austin Chronicle: Larry McMurtry is putting two-thirds of the inventory… Read more »

A priceless 12th-century illuminated manuscript, the Codex Calixtinus, considered one of Spain’s most important cultural and religious treasures, which was stolen a year ago from the cathedral of Santiago de… Read more »

A rare copy of Agatha Chrisie’s Poirot Investigates, the 1924 story collection featuring her soon-to-be-famous detective Hercule Poirot, went for a record-breaking sum at auction, according to this report in… Read more »

The rare first edition of the Book of Mormon stolen from an antiquarian bookstore in suburban Phoenix, Arizona (see the earlier MobyLives report) has been recovered after having apparently been… Read more »

A rare first edition of the Book of Mormon was stolen from the Rare and Out of Print Books and Art shop in Mesa, Arizona, over the Memorial Day weekend,… Read more »

A rare, 270 year-old book has been found in a vault at the oldest library in the South, the Charleston Library Society. “But after all this time the library won’t… 1 / Read more »

“Newly-discovered draft pages of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince — that may shed new, political insight on the classic book — have been put on display at a Paris… Read more »

Christie’s, the celebrated auction house in Paris, has scheduled for May 11th a substantial collection of curiosa. The noteworthy collection includes the pornographic illustrations from both low and high brow… Read more »