Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, Hampshire, has acquired a portrait miniature of Jane Austen’s close friend and mentor Mrs Anne Lefroy.

The Missouri Botanical Garden has acquired a rare first edition of Mark Catesby’s The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands.

Nimbus Rare Books is offering one of only 15 specially-bound copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone presented by J. K. Rowling to young readers in 2012 as part of the 15th anniversary celebrations for the book.

Two-part September 23 event will also feature Matisse, Milne, Vonnegut and Cather; rare-book consignments accepted through September 9

A typed and signed Ernest Hemingway letter discussing his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls including his description, "...when you are writing the best book you ever wrote..." will go under the hammer at Nate D. Sanders tomorrow.

The Charles Dickens Museum today reveals the author's views on summer in the city, his favourite holidays and ingenious efforts to cool off during a hot British summer. Running through September 27, a new display in the study at Dickens’s London home at 48 Doughty Street, now the Charles…

A near complete run of The Wipers Times trench newspaper written and printed by soldiers during the First World War has sold for £7,000 in the Books, Maps and Manuscripts sale at Tennants Auctioneers.

An important African Americana collection has nearly tripled its pre-sale estimate at the latest Freeman’s Books & Manuscripts auction.

Our ongoing look at new books that have recently caught the eye of our print and online editors this month.Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad by Jeff Jarvis

The Grolier Club's forthcoming Henry Wessel – Photographs and Books exhibition will feature more than 65 photographs including Wessel’s Incidents and Traffic portfolios in their entirety, as well as highlights from Wessel’s full body of work from more than four decades.