The map thief
the gripping story of an esteemed rare-map dealer who made millions stealing priceless maps
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Word Count
150,750 words, Guess
Page Count
603 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemapthiefgripping0000blan
- ISBN-101410471144
- ISBN-139781410471147
- Library of Congress Control Number2014015524
- OCLC Control Number879248495
and 3 more
- Better World BooksW7-BVI-044
- Better World BooksP7-CYK-999
- Open LibraryOL27806119M
Classifications
- DDC364.16/289120973
- LCCZ286.M3 B53 2014b
Description
Maps have long elicited a special fascination -- both as practical tools and as beautiful works of art. But to collectors the map trade can be cutthroat, with quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. This is the story of antiquarian map dealer E. Forbes Smiley, who for years doubled as a map thief until he was finally arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library.
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- Thorndike Press large print crime scene
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