Crossing the auction block in New York tomorrow is this incredibly neat piece of library ephemera: a ca.

Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire, England, the home of designer and writer William Morris (1834-1896), reopened to the public on April 1, after a 30-mont

A very busy week is coming up in the auction rooms.

It’s April and that means it’s National Poetry Month, the perfect time to share this news from Louisiana State University’s Special Collections: “The Wyatt Houston Day Collection of Poetry by African Americans, the most important private colle

Earlier this month, the UK’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport issued a temporary export ban on an early seventeenth-century music manuscript.

Sara Gran, LA novelist and screenwriter, has a new bibliomystery out entitled "The Book of the Most Precious Substance

An Elizabethan-era book has been discovered in an unlikely, yet absolutely perfect, location: “under straw in the eaves of a thatched cottage in north Wiltshire,” according to the UK-based auction house that is

More than a few auctions on tap this week. Here's what I'll be watching:

This is the second of our two-part, shorter-than-usual Rare Book Week preview; part I covered book fairs, part II covers auctions and exhibitions.

At a time when most fictional detectives seem to have some kind of unusual quirk, terrible relationship history, or appalling skeleton in the closet, it’s nice to come across the virtuous and jolly Sergeant Wigan who leads the way in