LONDON — A proof copy of the first Harry Potter novel that was bought for pennies in a second-hand bookshop almost 30 years ago has sold at auction for 11,000 pounds ($13,900.) British auctioneers ...

High atop a shelf, away from her messy child and dog, sits one of Cassandra Henrichsen's prized possessions: an advance reader copy of “Katabasis.” Out from Harper Collins in August, Henrichsen's copy ...

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I have spent the past five years reading the descriptions of hundreds of books, trying to find things that are interesting and worthwhile for me to pitch as a freelancer. They are almost always bad.