Last Best Books specializes in rare, out-of-print books, from first edition Hemingway to 1940's gardening manuals.

As a graduate student in Laramie, Wyo., in the 1990s, Sarah Mentock spent many weekends hunting for bargains at neighborhood yard sales. On one of those weekends, she spotted “The Lord of the Isles,” ...

Old books can be beautiful to look at. But handle with care — they just might be toxic. The covers of Victorian-era books are already known to sometimes have pigments that contain toxic heavy metals ...

In April, the National Library of France removed four 19th century books, all published in Great Britain, from its shelves because the covers were likely laced with arsenic. The books have been placed ...

What could evoke the scent of love more than delicate flowers pressed between the pages of a cherished book, handwritten letters that tug at the heartstrings, a time when stories were whispered in ...