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 ...

Since the publication of "Carrie" in 1974, Stephen King has knocked out over 60 books (which have been turned into 59 movies) ...

Galileo is believed to have published his book on Kepler's Supernova in 1605. However, another famous polymath beat Kepler to the publisher a year earlier. In 1605, a dialogue titled Dialogo in ...

A woman has purchased a signed first edition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale at a yard sale for just $1. Ashley, who is from Winnipeg, Canada, was out shopping on May 28 when she stumbled on ...

They Met at Gettysburg” is a reissue that gives a general’s perspective to events leading up to the famous Civil War battle.

A man named Harry Potter, from Waterlooville, Hampshire in the UK, has sold his first edition printing of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" for approximately $38,000. Harry Potter / Hansons / ...

A first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first book in J.K. Rowling's world famous wizarding series, has sold for over $57,000 at auction in the U.K. The book was kept in ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...