404, a media company founded by tech journalists, on Monday published the results of an investigation in which an unnamed rare books seller, who’d received an order for almost 1,000 physical copies, ...
A stack of rare books worth millions of dollars was finally returned to the heirs of New York City royalty Monday — decades after they were snatched by a mysterious bookworm, the Manhattan District ...
Libraries are turning to social media to connect with their communities – with brilliant, often hilarious results. On the way ...
Rare Books LA is partnering with the American Red Cross and the Mozaic at Union Station Apartments to host a blood drive on ...
March marks the last month of Rare Books 101 at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Along with opportunities to view significant historic acclaimed works that are always on display, visitors to ...
If you can truly appreciate an old book—and maybe even marvel at how its fragile, yellowing pages contain some of the earliest ways that people tried to make sense of the world around them—then ...
A trove of rare books and letters by literary legends like James Joyce, John Keats and Oscar Wilde — worth more than $3 million and stolen decades ago from the Whitney Estate in Manhasset — are back ...
Amazon is buying tons of rare books, cutting off their spines, and scanning them for AI training, according to 404 Media, which placed a tracking device in a rare book that ultimately arrived at an ...
What makes a book rare? Historically, books in great demand can gain this golden status through scarcity, condition, and even association with famous former owners. Other characteristics, such as ...
Seventeen rare books, worth millions of dollars, that were stolen from venture capitalist John Hay Whitney's Long Island home decades ago have been recovered. Whitney was an avid art collector who had ...