A book of psalms from 1640, believed to be the first book printed in the United States, sold for a record $14.2 million after being put up for auction by a Boston church that Samuel Adams attended ...

An overdue library book returns 119 years later There are overdue library books. Then there's An Elementary Treatise on Electricity , which was last checked out in Massachusetts in 1904.

The printed book is always going to be valuable.” 3 The copy was acquainted by the New Bedford Library in 1882 and presumably changed hands dozens, if not hundreds, of times before it was ...

A book thought to be the oldest surviving printed book in the world has gone on display at the British Library. The Diamond Sutra, which bears the date 868 AD, was found in a walled-up cave in ...

Augmented reality could play a major role in initiating the comeback of printed books, according to new research. Researchers from the United Kingdom’s University of Surrey have unveiled the ...

According to St. Onge, the book has 645 pages, is printed in red and black ink, is "quite sturdy"and "very small." "It's about seven centimetres high and it's quite a small, thick little book. It ...