The old bookshop still stands in Jinnah Super Market, Islamabad. Credit: Mashal Baloch It is a quite small shop, but the owner claims to have over 60,000 books, some of them now out of print. With ...

A growing cohort of young enthusiasts is helping to shape the future of an antique trade. Kendall Spencer, an apprentice at DeWolfe & Wood Rare Books, at the New York International Antiquarian Book ...

As a graduate student in Laramie, Wyoming, in the 1990s, Sarah Mentock spent many weekends hunting for bargains at neighborhood yard sales. On one of those weekends, she spotted “The Lord of the Isles ...

Many Old Order Amish read books and newspapers. If you don’t spend your time watching the world fall apart on the internet or TV, you have more time to read printed matter. Every Old Order family owns ...

Subsequent investigations revealed that at least 20 Bangla and English books from Jahanara Imam's personal library had been sold by Bangla Academy by weight as scrap.

Thousands of historic books are in jeopardy over a massive bug infestation that could annihilate centuries-long of historical records. The Pannonhalma Archabbey in Hungary is a Benedictine monastery ...

Old books can be beautiful to look at. But handle with care — they just might be toxic. The covers of Victorian-era books are already known to sometimes have pigments that contain toxic heavy metals ...

In April, the National Library of France removed four 19th century books, all published in Great Britain, from its shelves because the covers were likely laced with arsenic. The books have been placed ...

What could evoke the scent of love more than delicate flowers pressed between the pages of a cherished book, handwritten letters that tug at the heartstrings, a time when stories were whispered in ...