Steps from the crowds of holiday shoppers streaming into Forever 21 and the Apple Store in Pasadena, in a second-floor walk-up, a trove of unique offerings waits for book lovers with very special gift ...

"Los Angeles Telephone Book (1882)" was priced around $13,000 at Rare Books L.A. (William Liang / For The Times) A dog-eared punk zine flutters near a vellum-bound folio. An out-of-print tome sits ...

When you call your publishing company 18 Greatest Golf, you have a lot of expectations to live up to. The newly released “18 Greatest Irish Golf Holes” meets and exceeds those, with specially ...

In this age of Kindle and Nook, when used bookstores are rapidly disappearing and real estate is at a record premium, one might assume that the world of rare book collecting should be declining as ...

From the Community Library Network: Just in time for Mother’s Day, the Friends of the Community Library Network is having a Book Sale on Saturday, May 3, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hayden Library, 8385 ...

Credit Sherlock Holmes and the Hardy Boys for this one. They hijacked David Kaye’s future when he was a boy, and introduced him to a life of adventure, mystery, and sleuthing found between the covers ...

Michael Jordan’s impact on basketball goes well beyond his achievements on the court itself, and a new book charts the outsized role Air Jordan had on basketball and culture at large. Air Jordan is ...

Shop proprietor and catalog author Mark Hime, who cofounded Biblioctopus in 1979 with his then-wife (he has since divorced and moved the operation from its original location in Idyllwild, Calif.), ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Todd Berndt, owner of Berndt Comics, has been collecting comic books and action figures for 40 years. “When I first started collecting, I was into superheroes,” Berndt said.

A dog-eared punk zine flutters near a vellum-bound folio. An out-of-print tome sits beside a scribbled screenplay. This last weekend, Rare Books L.A. transformed Union Station’s historic ticket hall ...