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Travis McDade

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I am the curator of law rare books at the University of Illinois College of Law. I have been researching rare book crime since about 2004 when I started writing my first book. (It was somewhat misleadingly titled The Book Thief, even though the thief in question stole more than just books. I also would have liked the title to make clear that the point of the narrative was the federal legal procedure that followed the theft, not the theft itself. One of the (many)lessons I learned with that book was that authors have little control over things like the title of their book.)

In 2008, I started teaching a class on rare book crime at Illinois, and have done so, about once a year, since then. I began what became Thieves of Book Row (a title I lik ...more

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	The Book Thief: The True Crimes of Daniel Spiegelman 3.79 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It 3.49 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disappearing Ink: The Insider, the FBI, and the Looting of the Kenyon College Library 3.79 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Torn from Their Bindings: A Story of Art, Science, and the Pillaging of American University Libraries 3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A remarkable number of the memoirs of booksellers are basically anecdote delivery devices.”
― Travis McDade, Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It

tags: memoir-bookseller-anecdote-humor

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