Thieves of Book Row
New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2013. június 13.
- ISBN 9780199922666
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem240 oldal
- Méret 215x148x21 mm
- Súly 362 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 10 b/w halftones 0
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Rövid leírás:
In the late 1920s and early '30s, a book theft ring operating out of lower Manhattan was stealing tens of thousands of rare books per year up and down the east coast. But the investigation following a single theft in January 1931 from the New York Public Library brought it all to a halt.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
In the late 1920s and early 1930s a ring of thieves, taking orders from a group of second-hand book dealers in lower Manhattan, stole from every public library within a five-state radius. That meant hundreds of institutions and hundreds of thousands of books. The thieves were so unafraid of arrest—or even the slightest resistance to their looting—that they carried out these thefts with little attempt to hide them. Very few people seemed to care at all. In this
book, Travis McDade tells the story of the 1931 theft (and later recovery) of Edgar Allan Poe's Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems from the New York Public Library. The book brings readers into a vivid world in which Manhattan booksellers assumed such a theft would be an insignificant event. In fact,
the ultimate downfall of this large criminal enterprise was the thieves' underestimation of the libraries. Since most institutions offered no resistance to the wholesale thefts, it was assumed that all libraries were comfortable being victims. But the New York Public Library proved otherwise. The NYPL had a long history of theft detection and prevention, a history precipitated by an early rash of thefts. So by January 1931, when a young book thief ran out of the front door of the NYPL onto
Fifth Avenue, having just stolen three books—Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, and the extremely rare Al Aaraaf—from the fantastic rare book collection, the library was well equipped to react. From theft to conviction, McDade follows the story of NYPL special investigator William Bergquist, Book Row theft
ring organizer Harry Gold, and Gold's on-the-ground thief Harold Borden Clarke, while providing rich context regarding the rare book world in early twentieth-century America.
Thieves is an engaging cat-and-mouse account of porous libraries, scouts armed with 'gall, confidence, and oversized coats,' complicit salesmen and of G. William Bergquist, the dogged New York Public Library investigator who cracked the gang's most audacious caper: the theft in 1931 of first editions of The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick and a rare Edgar Allan Poe collection."
Tartalomjegyzék:
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Antics of the Leading Industrials
Chapter 2: The Accumulated Wisdom
Chapter 3: A Purloined Poe
Chapter 4: Scholarship and Investigation
Chapter 5: The Boston Scene
Chapter 6: Someone Qualified as a Bookman
Chapter 7: The People of the State of New York and their Dignity
Chapter 8: That's the End of the Rare Book
Epilogue
Index
