Our Bright Young Booksellers series continues today with Josh Knight, proprietor of Manchester Rare Books in England:

The only known set of unbound gathered sheets for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone will lead Heritage Auctions' May 8-9 Rare Books auction.

A campaign to keep the Lake District home of William Wordsworth open to the public rather than being privately sold has been backed by some of the UK's best known creative names.

Sotheby's' auction dedicated solely to all four Shakespeare Folios will mark the first time they have been offered as a single lot since 1989.

Inscribed first edition books by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, and more than 35 association copies as well as autograph letters and original artworks created for some of his most famous stories are going under the hammer at Bonhams' online auction running until April 29.

The Reading Agency’s State of the Nation in Adult Reading 2025 report released for World Book Day today indicates a growing reading crisis among adults who report distraction as one of the most common barriers to reading for pleasure in the UK. According to select findings from its upcoming…

More than 100 works by artists who inspired illustrator Maurice Sendak as well as almost 30 original works by Sendak himself will go under the hammer at Christie's.Maurice Sendak, Artist, Collector, Connoisseur includes a live auction on June 10 which would have been Sendak’s 97th birthday, and an…

An original hand-edited manuscript leaf by Henry David Thoreau for his work Cape Cod will be offered by Nate D. Sanders Auctions on April 24, 2025. 

Held by Cultural Collections at the University of Leeds, the earliest-known English book about cheese has revealed its fascinating - and sometimes nauseating - contents to the public for the first time after a new transcription has been made available online.

Here's what I'll be watching this week in the sale rooms:On Tuesday, April 22, New England Book Auctions sells 225 lots of Fine Books & Ephemera.