Word: papanastassiou
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...Suspicious that such a rare book should just appear like that, the bookseller contacts authorities. Then, donning a bulletproof vest, he goes to lunch with the mysterious professor at the Princeton Club, ostensibly to consummate the deal. At the conclusion of the sale, undercover agents arrest Greek-born John Papanastassiou, 34, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. At his Riverside Drive apartment, police cart off 95 more rare books and manuscripts, while Papanastassiou, in jail, insists that "the crux of the matter lies elsewhere." Most of the 267 missing books are still at large...
...Papanastassiou case is a dramatic example of a war being waged on libraries at a time when funds are short for all staffing, especially security. Stealing rare volumes is not new, but as prices have risen for all sorts of collector's items, the cash incentive has increased. Rare maps have disappeared from Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library. Two years ago, California State University at Long Beach found that 27 volumes of early editions of Captain James Cook's Voyages of Discovery, valued at $30,000, had vanished. At the University of California at Riverside...
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