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Author McDade, Travis

Title Thieves of Book Row : New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It
Published New York : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages)
Summary No one had ever tried a caper like this before. The goods were kept in a secure room under constant scrutiny, deep inside a crowded building with guards at the exits. The team picked for the job included two old hands known only as Paul and Swede, but all depended on a fresh face, a kid from Pinetown, North Carolina. In the Depression, some fellows were willing to try anything--even a heist in the rare book room of the New York Public Library. In Thieves of Book Row, Travis McDade tells the gripping tale of the worst book-theft ring in American history, and the intrepid detective who brought i
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Subject Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Manuscripts
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Library resources
SUBJECT Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 fast
Subject New York Public Library -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT New York Public Library fast
Subject Rare books -- History -- 20th century
Thieves -- Literary collections
Art thefts -- New York (State) -- New York
Rare books -- New York (State) -- New York
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Art thefts
Library resources
Rare books
Thieves
New York (State) -- New York
Genre/Form History
Literary collections
Manuscripts
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199922666
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9780199922673
0199922675