- Biography, Book collecting, Thieves, Bibliomania
In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him.
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Classical in form, resolved, contemporary and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Allison Hoover Bartlett
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books, Penguin USA, Inc., Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101140307
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