One morning in December 2004, four men embarked on a daring heist. Their target: several volumes of some of the world's rarest books, later valued at more than $5.7 million in total, located in the ...

A brazen daylight robbery of some of the world’s rarest books from a university library in Kentucky was carried out by an unlikely set of suspects. The four men weren’t seasoned criminals. Instead, ...

Paoli’s Matt Meyers discovered the world of comic restoration when he started selling his own collection of comic books. In 2013, he and his wife, Emily, started restoring the books themselves. Last ...

HAY-ON-WYE, Wales, June 3 (Reuters) - Prices of the rarest books are rising as the Internet drives the trade off dusty shelves and into the digital age, a leading expert said this weekend. Sign up ...

There may be a room with the rarest books in the world somewhere under Moscow. We are discussing ancient Chinese texts. Lost works by Virgil and Cicero. Manuscripts from the Library of Alexandria.

The cost of the rarest books is starting to rise just as ebooks chase paperbacks off the shelves, thanks to web searches. Matthew Haley, head of the books, manuscripts and photographs department at ...

Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security. By Rachel ...

MoMA is on a quarantine-inspired roll. First, the venerable New York museum began offering free online art classes. Now, it’s giving art lovers the chance to buy some truly special monographs right ...