They will, no doubt, be hanged . . .
Dennis Johnson
Two men caught in a police sting operation trying to sell early copies of the new Harry Potter book (see last week’s MobyLives news digest) have been arraigned in a… Read more »
Two men caught in a police sting operation trying to sell early copies of the new Harry Potter book (see last week’s MobyLives news digest) have been arraigned in a… Read more »
“A 17th-century book seized by the Nazis was returned to Rome’s Jewish community on Monday,” reports an Associated Press wire story. “The pocket-size religious book, published in Amsterdam in 1680,… Read more »
Just after Saul Bellow’s death last month, his son Daniel Bellow received an empty envelope in the mail with his father’s return address on it. It was stamped “Received unsealed”… Read more »
An aggressive, nationwide campaign by New Zealand police to stop the theft of rare books is landing some New Zealand booksellers in court. As a story from New Zealand wire… Read more »
For those wondering what books kids in New Zealand are stealing from the public libraries, the answer is: “Books of Nazi insignia, or about heavy metal rockers,” according to an… Read more »
In Jerusalem, 38-year-old Ya’acov Oksankrug was arrested for “allegedly stealing thousands of prayer books and paperbacks Bibles and then selling them at rock-bottom prices,” according to a Jerusalem Post report… Read more »
Four college students have been indicted on charges of stealing a first edition of Charles Darwin’s Origin of the Species and sketches by John James Audobon from the library of… Read more »
A inquiry made under Britain’s new Freedom of Information Act has revelead that “More than 8,000 items ranging from 16th century maps to copies of the Beano have gone missing… Read more »
Amidst continuing accusations of plagiarism, a biography of Henry Kissinger by Danish TV journalist Frank Esmann has been pulled off bookstore shelves for a second time in Denmark. As an… Read more »
“French scientists and historians are trying to unravel the secrets behind a cache of documents hidden nearly two centuries ago inside one of Paris’s best-known equestrian statues,” reports an Agence… Read more »