The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps

by Michael Blanding

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Maps have long elicited a special fascination -- both as practical tools and as beautiful works of art. But to collectors the map trade can be cutthroat, with quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. This is the story of antiquarian map dealer E. Forbes Smiley, who for years doubled as a map thief until he was finally arrested for slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library.
  • ISBN10 1592408176
  • ISBN13 9781592408177
  • Publish Date 17 July 2014 (first published 29 May 2014)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 6 April 2017
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Gotham Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 302
  • Language English