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According to Roll, the recent trip to the expo in Germany was typical: a courier delivered trunks containing the manuscripts to the Lame Duck booth in Hamburg, and at the end of the weekend, the books were taken down from display, repacked, picked up by the courier, and shipped back to Cambridge...
...handwritten short story manuscripts by the Argentine modernist writer Jorge Luis Borges, held until recently in a safe in Harvard Square’s Lame Duck Books, have been lost and presumed stolen...
They were last seen on Nov. 12, at an antiquarian book fair held in Hamburg, Germany, where they were exhibited in a private booth by John W. Wronoski, the owner of Lame Duck Books...
According to Saúl Roll, a longtime employee at the bookstore, which sells rare books, art, and manuscripts, the Borges drafts are probably the only original copies of the stories in existence. The manuscripts, which have been in the Lame Duck collection for four years, were listed in the store’s catalogue at $450,000 and $500,000, respectively...
...someone who knew what they were,” Roll said, pointing out that none of the other items Lame Duck had brought to Hamburg—all of which were less valuable than the Borges manuscripts—went missing...