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Thieves Of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring And The Man Who Stopped It (2013)

by Travis McDade(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0199922667 (ISBN13: 9780199922666)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

review 1: An academically rigorous addition to the "true-book-crime" shelf. I found it chilling to see how rampant and flagrant book-theft from libraries was in during the 30s (and probably still is more common than one might hope, though libraries are loathe to admit it). I regret the loss of New York City's "Book Row," but less so with the unappetizing specter of a den of bibliothieves this book conjures.
review 2: On 4th Avenue's Book Row, cut-throat competition was the usual business practice--especially at the height of The Great Depression. That's when bookseller Harry Gold trained a couple of guys living in Central Park to execute the biggest book heist in history: First editions of Moby Dick, The Scarlett Letter and Poe's early work, out of the New York Public Li... morebrary's rare-book collection. I've been remiss on book ratings lately but I learned something new and interesting on pretty much every page of this one (i.e. The NYPL's worst security issue in 1939: Theft of OVERCOATS ... ) Worth reading, maybe stealing ... less

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