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Here is the latest Book News from Yahoo News. ‘Harry Potter’ author’s chair sells for $394,000 in NY The chair on which British author J.K. Rowling sat to write the first two volumes of her best-selling “Harry Potter” series sold at auction in New...

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens are nice; bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens are nice, too, but brown paper packages tied up with strings… these are definitely rare book collector Martin Stone’s favorite things. Collectors and bibliophiles...

PBA Galleries – February 8 – 8.00am Sale 553 – At Oakland Sunday, February 8, 2015 8:00 AM Pacific Time Rare Books & Manuscripts with Early Medical Works from the George Bray Collection At the Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel – Room 201 on Level...

Like something out of Skyline Cruisers, a collection of thieves broke into a London warehouse and absconded with $2.5 million worth of stolen swag last month, according to a recent Guardian report. But it wasn't jewels or cash that the thieves got away...

Photo: Unique edition of the Codex Atlanticus as it was in the 1600. The book is a box made by Pompeo Leoni to collect all the pages. Made by Mario Taddei in the 2007. courtesy Wikimedia Commons, illustration unrelated to the theft. In a scene befitting...