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Title Thieves of Book Row : New York's most notorious rare book ring and the man who stopped it / Travis McDade.
Author McDade, Travis.
Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  364.162 MAC    Check Shelves
Description xi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-210) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Rare books -- History -- 20th century.
Thieves -- Literary collections.
Art thefts -- New York (State) -- New York.
Rare books -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York Public Library -- History -- 20th century.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Manuscripts.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Library resources.
ISBN 9780199922666 (hardcover : acid-free paper) : $27.95
0199922667 (hardcover : acid-free paper)