Hidden in libraries and private collections around the world, these first editions are worth record-breaking sums.

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A collection of first-edition books and jazz memorabilia belonging to the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts will go up for auction in September. More than 500 items, including a first edition ...

That result dominated the Dallas-based auction house’s entire 610-lot Rare Books Signature sale—and set a new record for the most expensive unsigned Tolkien books ever sold at auction, outdoing the ...

Book lovers who have missed getting their fix of fine leather books, rare first editions and children's collectibles need look no further than the Book Collector and the Old Tin Soldier Shoppe, once ...

Barbara Basbanes Richter comes by her love of collecting books honestly. Processing Content Her father, author Nicholas A. Basbanes, is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for "A Gentle ...

First editions hold a special place in the world of rare books. They represent the earliest form of a text before revisions, reprints, and mass-market changes. While many first editions are modestly ...

“It was really an extraordinary coincidence,” Carolyn Potter Ingersoll recalled of that lucky first find. She and her husband, William Boley Ingersoll, had gone on a pleasure outing to Baltimore with ...