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Thieves are very active in the used & rare book business. Early yesterday morning (cold, rainy, & muddy conditions), I discovered that a thief had taken all the art, architecture, & photo books I had initially chosen from a table at a used book sale sited within a very affluent neighborhood nearby. Having thrown those 4 items in my double-bagged canvas bags with handles (the book business equivalent of a briefcase), I left the bags with my usually reliable scout and rushed off to the collectible table in search of OZ. Our mistake was not padlocking our acquisitions in an army duffle bag, which we've observed as common practice at the Smith College alumni book sale in Towson Maryland. I did acquire a $20 bill which had been used as a bookmark in the seventies by the initial reader of the copy of Merleau-Ponty's "Sense and Non-Sense" I picked at the same sale. Book thieves have been put out of business when I've snapped their photo and then made copies for area bookstores to post, so employees can demand that the thieves leave as soon as they enter. I can provide detail about a junkie "poet" whom Mayor "Bitch set me up" protected when bookstores attempted to press theft charges against him. Barry On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:53:50 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Well, yeah, but in my role as a member of a small press, I love the >Independents (hate the big boxes & never shop there), so I feel for >this guy (& did not know about this particular situation; maybe in our >cold climate it doesnt happen as much). > >Doug >On 9-Mar-08, at 9:25 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote: > >> http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=520472 >> >> "Some dangerous poem is always stalking you." >> --Heberto Padilla