The original cover for The Blue Lotus, a novel in cartoons by the Belgian artist Hergé, has re-surfaced and will be going to auction in November. Hergé, whose real… Read more »

If you thought that decoding a blog written by the Federal Reserve—as we did in this space last week—was weird, you ain’t seen nothing yet! We nearly fell out of… Read more »

I like rare books and I cannot lie, but like most of us, I’m too poor to ever own any rare books. But I can window-shop! I can read and dream… Read more »

Posted by Bauman Rare Books on Wednesday, August 15, 2012   Bauman Rare Books in Las Vegas is giving tourists a new way to celebrate their success at the slot machines.… Read more »

Calling all crazy cat lovers! Are online cat videos and memes not fulfilling your feline fanaticism? Ailis Brennan of Go London reports that this November, the British Library is offering a… Read more »

On November 26, just after you recover from your Thanksgiving food coma and are ready to enter the kitchen again, a new cookbook store will open in Brooklyn.  The bookstore… Read more »

Were you aware that women’s inequality extends to the bookshelf?  It does. The literary canon is well-known for being predominantly male, and that trickles down to everything book-related: from which… Read more »

“The Papal Ass” and other olden horrors are on view now at the library’s exhibit De Monstris. … Read more »

Great news for people who hate scumbag book thieves: the culprits of the Pittsburgh Carnegie Library book heist have finally been caught. As a devoted MobyLives reader, you’ll remember this… Read more »

It’s a question that comes to mind more often than I’d like. I am consistently enamored and curious about the inherent value and excitement fans exhibit when they get the… Read more »