In the summer of 1974 at a garage sale in the Salinas Valley, the seed was sown for what would grow to become a vast and rare collection of John Steinbeck books and recordings recently donated to UC ...

“It was really an extraordinary coincidence,” Carolyn Potter Ingersoll recalled of that lucky first find. She and her husband, William Boley Ingersoll, had gone on a pleasure outing to Baltimore with ...

This first-edition copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was once in circulation at a library in England. Richard Winterton Auctioneers Today, Harry Potter is a household name—but the Boy ...