NEW YORK – More people are turning to the Bible as a safe refuge from a struggling stock market and rising inflation, pouring large sums of cash into rare 1611 King James Bibles, centuries-old Matthew ...

What’s the price of salvation? How about $180,000, give or take? OK, maybe that’s not the price of salvation. But it does happen to be the price of a very old, very rare and very pricey edition of the ...

Albany County is seeking proposals from anyone interested in buying a 150,000-item library that includes sheet music and 17th-century publications.

An image of the Codex Sassoon, one of the most complete ancient bibles in existence that was sold at auction for $38 million in May. The record sale is one of many that are propelling the rare books ...

BALTIMORE — Joseph McGraw had doubts when his friend told him about a first edition of the King James Bible that was sitting in a downtown Baltimore office. But when the hulking book came off the ...

NEW YORK - When an appraiser was asked to evaluate the American Bible Society’s rare book collection in Manhattan, he came to an alarming discovery - an active mold outbreak was attacking nearly a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (AP) — First editions of some of the earliest Bibles and other religious texts to be printed in North America will be on ...

Danielle Steel and James Patterson, move over. You can’t hold a candle to the best-selling book of all time, the Bible, with billions sold through the ages. All translations are constantly in reprint.

Mike Morgan used to laugh when he told friends that on the salary of a mere church organist, he managed to amass one of the world’s best private collections of English language Bibles. But he did. He ...

A rare Bible from the battle of Bunker Hill will be exhibited at the Museum of the American Revolution when it opens in Philadelphia next year. The recently-acquired King James Bible is inscribed by ...

In a tome like the Bible, printing errors are probably pretty common. Scan through the Ten Commandments as laid out in a rare 1631 Bible, however, and you'll come across a rather unfortunate one: ...