e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Choice Review
Library Journal Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
McDade, Travis.
Subjects
Kindred, Robert.
Book thefts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Art thefts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Print dealers -- United States -- Biography.
Academic libraries -- Security measures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Books -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Scientific illustration -- History.
Illustrated periodicals -- History.
Browse Catalog
by author:
McDade, Travis.
by title:
Torn from their bind...
by call number:
364.16280961 M478t
Search the Web
McDade, Travis.
Kindred, Robert.
Book thefts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Art thefts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Print dealers -- United States -- Biography.
Academic libraries -- Security measures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Books -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Scientific illustration -- History.
Illustrated periodicals -- History.
MARC Display
Torn from their bindings : a story of art, science, and the pillaging of American university libraries / Travis McDade.
by
McDade, Travis.
University Press of Kansas, 2018.
Call #:
364
.16280961
M478t
Subjects
Kindred, Robert.
Book thefts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Art thefts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Print dealers -- United States -- Biography.
Academic libraries -- Security measures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Books -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Scientific illustration -- History.
Illustrated periodicals -- History.
ISBN:
9780700626366 (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-224) and index.
Contents:
That meanest of all thieves -- The Texas scene -- Setting out -- Among a kindred nation -- A homecoming of sorts -- You have to make a buck wherever you can -- Contains numerous color prints -- Any and all interest -- The last full measure -- Rare, lovely, and of obvious interest to collectors -- Epilogue.
Summary:
In 1980, an antique print dealer was going broke from competition and lack of supply. Then he discovered all the high-quality antique prints he could ever want--for free--on the shelves of American university libraries. Torn from Their Bindings tells the story of Robert Kindred's brazen theft of irreplaceable antique illustrations and maps from academic libraries across the country--a crime spree that left the irredeemable wreck of countless rare books in its wake. Travis McDade's account of Kindred's pillaging and the paper trail that led to his capture unfolds with the drama of a true crime page-turner--whose pages are replete with the particulars of archival treasures, library science, print preservation, and the history bound up in the cultural heritage plundered by Kindred. Along the way we observe the nature and methods of the book thief, defacer of priceless volumes and purveyor of purloined pages, and acquire a wealth of knowledge about the antique prints he favored. Told by an author devoted to the preservation of books, the story is propelled by an informed curiosity and just outrage from its suspenseful opening to its ironic conclusion--the ultimate fate of Kindred's spoils.
Genre:
Biographies.
Holds:
1
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
364.16280961 M478t
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.