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The Missing Books Register, established by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers in 2012 as the Stolen Books Database, is a registry of valuable and/or historically significant books that allows libraries and antiquarian book dealers to track purloined or missing materials. [1] It tracks works stolen or lost after 15 June 2010. [2]
Stephen Carrie Blumberg (born 1948 [1] in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is best known as a bibliomane who lived in Ottumwa, Iowa.After being arrested for stealing more than 23,600 books worth US$5.3 million in 1990 (equivalent to about $12M in 2023), he became known as the Book Bandit and was recognized as the most successful book thief in the history of the United States.
The great book theft (Danish: Det store bogtyveri) was the largest book theft in Danish history. Almost 3,200 works (books and similar), estimated in 2003 to have a value of DKK150-300 million (US$24–48 million), were stolen from the Royal Library in Copenhagen. The perpetrator was an employee at the library who stole the works between 1970 ...
Nearly 80 years after World War II ended, the search for books looted by the Nazis from some of the most respected Jewish libraries and institutions in Europe is not just alive but gathering pace.
The library has been subjected to theft for centuries. One of the earliest deterrents of library theft was the invention of chained libraries, where the books are attached to their bookcase by a chain, which is sufficiently long enough to allow the books to be taken from their shelves and read, but not removed from the library itself. As ...
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky. Published 25 years ago, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a seminal classic of young adult literature. In a series of letters to an unknown ...
Public libraries have a much different set of frequently stolen books. In the United States, how-to books are more often the targets of thieves, as are books about witchcraft, the occult, UFOs or astrology, according to Larra Clark, a spokeswoman for the American Library Association, who asked members which books were most often stolen.
Nine people were arrested in connection to the scheme, which saw “at least 170 books” stolen, police said. Group swapped rare library books for fakes, causing $2.6M in damage, Europe cops say ...