Thieves of Book Row : New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It / Travis McDade.

Thieves of Book Row : New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It / Travis McDade.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]

xi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

The goods were kept in a secure room under constant scrutiny, deep inside a crowded building with guards at the exits. In the Depression, some fellows were willing to try anything-- even a heist in the rare book room of the New York Public Library. McDade tells the gripping tale of the worst book-theft ring in American history, and the intrepid detective who brought it down. The goods: a first edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems. A fascinating look at the history of crime and literary culture.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-210) and index.

The Antics of the Leading Industrials
The Accumulated Wisdom
A Purloined Poe
Scholarship and Investigation
The Boston Scene
Someone Qualified as a Bookman
The People of the State of New York and their Dignity
That's the End of the Rare Book.

Great Britain -- England.

Z1029 .M33 2013

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