Rare surviving items of Charles Dickens’ clothing, including the linen shirt collar worn by the writer when he suffered his fatal stroke in 1870, are to go on display. Other items being... Read more »
Firefighters in Sicily have rescued about 400 rare books from a library in Niscemi that hangs on the edge of a mudflow, after a devastating landslide in January tore away an entire... Read more »
A rare first edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit that was found during a house clearance has sold at auction for £43,000. Bought by a private collector in the UK, the book... Read more »
He had just unleashed one of the most famed gothic horror books on the world, a blood-curdling classic that chilled readers and has inspired countless authors, film-makers and video game developers ever... Read more »
A “rare, unique and incredibly exciting” collection of original letters and drawings sent between the creators of Winnie-the-Pooh are set to go under the hammer this week, after being discovered in a... Read more »
The Little Red Book, a talisman of 20th-century Maoism, may have fallen out of favour in China after the Cultural Revolution, but its popularity with collectors shows no sign of abating. The... Read more »
A rare watercolour depicting the aftermath of a climactic moment in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is to go on display at the author’s country home after conservation work. The painting, The... Read more »
A rare copy of the first issue of The Amazing Spider-Man has sold for more than £1m. The comic, published in March 1963, reached a record-setting $1.38m (£1.1m) at auction. It is... Read more »
Salman Rushdie made a rare public appearance since he was stabbed and attacked at a literary event last year when the author collected an award on Wednesday night at the Václav Havel... Read more »