BOSTON — When the leadership at Old South Church decided it was time to upgrade their cathedral, they turned to a fundraising option most likely available only to a Colonial-era institution like this ...

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. A 1640 book of psalms translated from Hebrew sold for a record breaking $14.16 million at auction on Tuesday. Known as ...

A nearly 400-year-old book — believed to be the first ever published in America — went for $14.165 million at a record-setting Manhattan auction Tuesday night. The tiny Bay Psalm Book was printed in ...

A book of psalms from 1640, believed to be the first book printed in the United States, sold for a record $14.2 million after being put up for auction by a Boston church that Samuel Adams attended and ...

NEW YORK (CNN) — A rare copy of the first book printed in what is now the United States of America may sell for as much as $30 million when it comes up for auction in November, according to Sotheby’s.

NEW YORK - A tiny psalter from 1640 believed to be the first book ever printed in what is now the United States is going up for auction with expectations of selling for as much as $30 million. Only 11 ...

The Blade/Amy E. Voigt Buy This Image David Redden, vice chairman of Southeby's, holds the Bay Psalm Book for the library staff to see. The Blade/Amy E. Voigt Buy This Image Kelly Ross Brown, left, ...

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The first book printed in what later became the United States of America is expected to set a world record at auction on Tuesday. The Bay Psalm Book is valued not only as an object of extreme rarity, ...