Thieves Of Book Row New Yorks Most Notorious Rare Book Ring And The Man Who Stopped It

by Travis McDade

2013 216 pages eng

The goods were kept in a secure room under constant scrutiny, deep inside a crowded building with guards at the exits. In the Depression, some fellows were willing to try anything-- even a heist in the rare book room of the New York Public Library. McDade tells the gripping tale of the worst book-th…