A guest on Monday night’s episode of Antiques Roadshow, now in its sixteenth season on PBS, brought the show’s expert appraisers a very rare item — a copy of Gone… Read more »

A rare engraved print created by Paul Revere—he of the Revolutionary War “midnight ride” fame—has been found in a 19th century book at the Brown University library, according to this… Read more »

The Huffington Post points us to the video below of legendary rapper Snoop Dogg pitching his latest effort—Rolling Words, a book of his lyrics printed entirely on rolling paper. According… Read more »

What would Hippocrates do? No, really. That’s a question Alain Touwaide, Scientific Director of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions at the Smithsonian Institute, has asked himself. According… Read more »

A 500-year-old book, which has been missing from Archbishop Marsh’s Library in Dublin for more than a century, has been returned. The book was one of a 5 volume set… 2 / Read more »

One would think that Hollywood bibliophiles would be flashy collectors, using the purchase receipts of valuable books to demonstrate some intellectual inner life that the tabloids usually strip them of.… 3 / Read more »

The burning of the ancient Royal Library at Alexandria ranks among history’s greatest tragedies and depending on the era and bias of the historian “recording” its loss, blame has been… Read more »

Helen Abdouch, 84, of Omaha, Nebraska is suing Hadley, Massachusetts bookseller Ken Lopez for selling an autographed copy of Richard Yates’ 1961 novel Revolutionary Road that was inscribed to her,… Read more »

If you were idly speculating whether Super Man would side with the 99% you can now be certain that the “Man of Steel” is decidedly of the 1%. A long-lost,… Read more »

Two years ago, Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy wrote about a few pricey holiday gifts that bibliophiles will swoon over, such as a first edition of Ulysses published in 1922… 3 / Read more »