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Roll said the manuscripts, which Lame Duck has owned for four years, are probably the only original copies of the stories. The “Menard” manuscript was listed in the store’s catalogue at $450,000, and the “Babel” script was listed...
News of the missing manuscripts traveled fast in the small community of Borges collectors, and Wronoski and Roll have received e-mails expressing concern from manuscript collectors across the country...
Though the two lost manuscripts were insured, their loss nevertheless comes as a great blow to the Lame Duck bookstore, which moved into its space in Harvard Square just last year. The Borges collection is one of its most prized possessions, according to Roll. Among many other Borges gems, their collection still holds a handwritten manuscript for “The Garden of Forking Paths,” another of the author’s major stories. That manuscript is listed at $450,000. The reason it is safe, Roll said with relief, is that it stayed in Cambridge during...
...doesn't get more surreal than that. This is like a Borges short story," Roll said about the fact that the manuscript was found on the morning that the Crimson' story was published...
Roll said the manuscripts, which Lame Duck has owned for four years, are probably the only original copies of the stories. The “Menard” manuscript was listed in the store's catalogue at $450,000, and the “Babel” script was listed...