If you happen to have one of these rare comic books, you may have a super-fortune on your hands. Whether you're collecting comics or you scored a great find at a flea market or garage sale, it pays to ...

So many things have changed from our childhoods to what kids experience today, but one delight remains the same — searching through a bookshelf for those glittering gold spines. Little Golden Books, ...

Learning how to appraise old and rare books, buying and selling them and earning a living while doing it is as rewarding as it is challenging. Old does not necessarily mean rare, and to differentiate ...

A book known to exist in only a few copies may have significant monetary value if collectors and libraries prize it. First editions of important literary or historical works and initial reports of ...

Last March, Heritage Auctions sold a signed and inscribed first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby from 1925 for $162,500 at a rare book sale in New York City. On Sunday, I took a break ...

An image of the Codex Sassoon, one of the most complete ancient bibles in existence that was sold at auction for $38 million in May. The record sale is one of many that are propelling the rare books ...

A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage is now freely available online as a full issue PDF and individual articles. Visit the RBM website for complete contents of RBM and its prece ...

A literature loans ‘boom’ has seen British booklovers cash in up to £125,000 for loaning out their collections of rare books.

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 ...