Garage sales are a treasure trove for book enthusiasts seeking rare finds. Among the stacks of old novels and dusty tomes, you might just stumble upon a valuable first edition or a signed classic.

It didn’t seem like an auspicious purchase at the time: a discarded library book bought for £1 (about $1.20) at a rummage sale, one of a handful picked up to read on vacation. Except the book happened ...

Rare Books L.A. transformed Union Station into a bustling fair where more than 50 antiquarian booksellers showcased literary treasures and collectibles. Items ranged from a $225,000 first edition of ...

Rare Books LA Union Station is celebrating Halloween with ghostly tales and haunted halls from Saturday, Oct. 5, to Sunday, Oct. 6, this fall. Guests and ghouls are welcome to wander through the ...

Update, Sept. 5 • A first edition copy of the Book of Mormon was sold Thursday night, with a winning bid of $240,000, the auction house Potter & Potter Auctions reported on its website. That’s double ...

AN EXTREMELY rare edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit sold for a record £3,000 – leaving Scots charity shop staff stunned.

A first edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”, with some errors and signed by author J.K. Rowling, is going up for a private sale at Christie’s in London, with the auction house ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WJW) – Multiple rare first editions of ...

How much would you spend on a single copy of a book that you really really want? I am not a rare book collector, but every so often I treat myself to a (relatively) rare first-edition copy of a book ...