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Count Libri (1803-1869)
The word “book” translates to “libri” in Italian. It seems apt that one of the most sensational book thieves of all time is Count Guglielmo Bruto Icilio Timoleone Libri-Carruci della Sommaia, shortened to Count Libri. An…

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Alois Pichler (1833-1874)
Hot on the heels of Count Libri’s crimes, Alois Pichler stole thousands of books from the Imperial Library in St. Petersburg, Russia from 1869-1871. Born in Germany and trained as a theologian, Pichler took a job as…

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Thieves of Book Row (1926-1930)
In the first decades of the twentieth century, Manhattan’s famous Book Row consisted of six city blocks filled to the brim with second-hand bookstores. A variety of interesting personalities ran these stores; some…

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James Shinn (1936-2005)
The book thief James Shinn had the most profound and direct influence on Stephen Blumberg. Blumberg admitted that he was fascinated by Shinn “like a moth drawn to a flame.” Born in 1932, Shinn was a lifelong thief, and in the…

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Greg Priore (1956-present)
Many biblioklepts steal for pleasure, others out of greed; yet others, such as Greg Priore, steal out of necessity. Though Priore did not live an opulent lifestyle, he was deep in debt and juggling private school tuition…

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The University of Mostar Library after being bombed by Serbian nationalists.

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Imaginative drawing of the Library of Alexandria.

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