The legendary rapper Jay-Z is auctioning off a signed black leather Pinel et Pinel briefcase filled with custom metal library cards, each showcasing an example of his album artwork from across the ...

Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has found a fittingly poetic way to give back to his hometown: He’s auctioning off a case full of custom library cards to raise funds for the Brooklyn Public Library. The ...

IT TOOK THATCHER Wine a year to amass 2,000 well-preserved white vellum and cream-colored leather-bound books for a “gentleman’s library” in the Northern California estate of a private equity manager.

Richard Schlesinger peruses the volumes of a custom-designed library: If you judge your books' covers to be just a bit blah, then Thatcher Wine can change everything. He is to a library what a tailor ...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kinsey Marable was working as a banker at Goldman Sachs, spending a week out of every month in London. “Walking around there, I found out-of-print-book shops, a ...

The Haley Book Bike with display shelves folded out. The number of libraries with bicycle-based outreach programs has grown steadily in recent years, in part because these programs can make a big ...

A personal library has long been a fascinating status symbol. Most people have cars, many people have pools, some have private gyms, but few have a room dedicated solely, or primarily, to the ...