Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at ...
On the corner of Bloomsbury Way stands a genteel yet fairly anonymous London townhouse, overlooking the leafy splendour of Bloomsbury Square. In keeping with the cultural geography of this little ...
Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security. By Rachel ...
In the late 2010s, so-called “lifetime editions” of Pushkin sold for remarkable sums. In 2018, an 1829 edition of the narrative poem Poltava went for £32,500 – more than double its estimate – at an ...
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