Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It (Hardcover) by Travis McDade

from libri_amor

The Amazon review of 'The Thieves of Book Row' by Travis McDade describes the book as a "griping tale" and "fast-paced, true-life thriller". Even for Amazon this description is a bit of excessive hyperbola. 'Thieves' is certainly not a Baldacci or Berry thriller in real-life. More accurately McDa...

from freddlerabbit

Thieves of Book Row is clearly well researched and supported, and the pages contain a pretty fascinating tale of a part of American East Coast history I'd bet few people know much about. McDade gives us an overview of the stolen book trade, intelligently discusses some of the economic factors beh...

from SamSattler

Travis McDade's Thieves of Book Row covers a remarkable number of years (much of the 1920s and 1930s) during which East Coast public and university libraries were systematically looted of their most precious books. What makes the organized thievery so remarkable is that major New York book dealer...

from bknrd

A fun and interesting read about the early days of the 20th century in the book trade. This was a time where books were stolen from libraries then they were scrubbed of all labels and marks and made their way into the secondary book trade.

from kellyslist

Interesting story about the early days of the rare book business. I had no idea that so many libraries were plundered so easily by book thieves in the beginning of the twentieth century. As a librarian now in a public library, I can see how simple it must've been to take advantage of the open sta...