Update, Sept. 5 • A first edition copy of the Book of Mormon was sold Thursday night, with a winning bid of $240,000, the auction house Potter & Potter Auctions reported on its website. That’s double ...

While browsing a thrift store in the U.K., one woman thought she had struck gold when she stumbled on a first edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for just £1.50 ($1.30), but her excitement ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matthew F. Erskine is a trusts and estates attorney. On August 4, 2025, the New York Time reported that a first edition copy of ...

HANOVER, N.H. — The librarians at the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College are used to one frequent request from visitors. The most requested book in the library’s collection is the ...

A 1938 first edition of the Superman comic book, once owned and later stolen from Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage, was sold for ...

DEAR ABBY: My father is an antiques collector. He spends every weekend at estate auctions and much of the rest of his time buying for shops. He is experienced and prides himself in knowing the value ...

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It was in 1543 that Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the 1,400 year dominance of Ptolemaic cosmology when he published De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of ...

A first-edition copy of the comic that introduced the world to Superman in 1939 has become the most expensive comic to date after selling for a staggering $9.12 million at Heritage Auctions on ...