Thieves of Book Row : New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199922666
- 0199922667
- 9780199922673
- 0199922675
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Manuscripts
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Library resources
- New York Public Library -- History -- 20th century
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
- New York Public Library
- Rare books -- History -- 20th century
- Thieves -- Literary collections
- Art thefts -- New York (State) -- New York
- Rare books -- New York (State) -- New York
- Livres rares -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Voleurs -- Anthologies
- Vol d'objets d'art -- New York (État) -- New York
- Livres rares -- New York (État) -- New York
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology
- Art thefts
- Library resources
- Rare books
- Thieves
- New York (State) -- New York
- 1900-1999
- 364.1628002097471
- Z1029
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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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