First Printed Book In North America: An earlier version of this post said the Bay Psalm Book was the first book printed in North America; that should be British North America, ...

The first book to be printed in the United States went up for auction in New York on Tuesday, selling for more than $14 million. That makes the “The Bay Psalm Book” the most expensive in the ...

First book ever printed in US sold at auction for $14M, breaking records. The preface of the Bay Psalm Book, believed to be the first book ever printed in the United States.

The current record for the highest-priced printed book is not a Gutenberg Bible or a First Folio of Shakespeare but a copy of John James Audubon’s “Birds of America,” which sold for $11.5 ...

A tiny hymnal from 1640 believed to be the first book ever printed in what is now the United States is going up for auction, and it could sell for as much as $30 million. Only 11 copies of the Bay … ...

The book is the first title to ever printed in English, according to the BBC, and is one of only 18 surviving copies in the world. At a recent auction, a bidding war caused the price to skyrocket.

The decision to sell a piece of North American history has sparked intense debate at Old South Church in Boston. The church's historian says the book is simply not theirs to sell.

A book coming up for auction, a first edition Liber chronicarum, was a groundbreaking book in several ways when it was published in 1493, being one of the first printed books to include numerous ...

Meet the brilliant businessman behind the first printed book. 2015-02-04T16:00:00Z Share. Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link. Save Saved Read in app ...

The book will be available Jan. 7 in limited edition with what the publisher, Riverhead Books, is calling the first-ever 3D-printed slipcover, the result of a collaboration with the 3D-printing ...