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.

Before you donate or trash your old books, you might want to check if they’re valuable (even if you just want to maximize your tax deduction when you donate them to Housing Works). That’s a little ...

In 1960, the year the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair began, Harper Lee came out with “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Today, an inscribed first edition of that book sells for $50,000 — and what ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...