It’s a storyline that might have come from the mind of J.R.R. Tolkien himself. On December 19 it was reported that a thief had made off with rare first editions… Read more »

Rare book dealership AbeBooks.co.uk have announced their most expensive sales of 2019. Fantasize about owning some pricey antique tomes here! The list, which includes works by Dashiel Hammett, Mark Twain,… Read more »

Hwæt!* This week, the all-action, Grendel-battlin’, sea-voyagin’, crown-of-Geatland-wearin’ hero Beowulf was the subject of renewed debate. Authorship of the Scandinavian epic poem, which dates from between 1,200 and 1,300 years ago,… Read more »

Surprising absolutely no people, The Bard is unequivocally the most-Instagrammed author in the history of the App Which Shows You What You’d Look Like As A Cat.  So sayeth Maddy Foley over at Bustle, reporting on a study by… Read more »

Trench fever: It’s a pretty serious infection that’s spread by body lice. Symptoms include a fever that lasts five days and pain in the legs. Recovery can take months, and sometimes leaves lifelong… Read more »

As the world learned last week from an Amazon press release, J.R.R. Tolkien’s most beloved fantasy world is coming soon to a Prime subscription near you. Right after you’ve stocked… Read more »

Once upon a time there was a ring, and it was good. I mean, it was bad. Very bad. It was a ring to rule all the other rings… most… Read more »

For CNET, Gael Fashingbauer Cooper writes that nearly a quarter of UK Millennials say they’ve read J. R. R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, “when they have in fact just… Read more »

While he’s best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (which has a staggering 150 million copies in print worldwide), J. R. R. Tolkien was… Read more »

There was the Internet bubble, the housing bubble, and now, maybe, the rare book bubble. Amelia Murray reports for The Telegraph that the value of rare, first edition books has… Read more »