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A William Faulkner letter that was purchased over the Internet last
month for $1,200 by a Portland collector turned out to have been
stolen from Southeast Missouri State University. The dealer selling the letters said he acquired them from a
grocery clerk who said he inherited them from his grandmother\'s
estate, police said.

\"It\'s a really shining statement about what art means, made by
somebody who made as striking a contribution to literary art as
anyone in American letters.\"

This article certainly makes me feel better about loosing a few copies of Consumer Reports and Go Ask Alice a year. It could be worse!
From Reuters. Thieves have stolen the celebrated book in which the 17th century English physicist Issac Newton formulated his famous law of gravity

Posing as readers, the thieves stole a rare first edition of Isaac Newton\'s \"Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica\" from the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, a library official told Reuters Sunday

I\'m interested what the theives plan to do with the book. It\'s not like they can post this one on eBay. Any purchaser of said book would need to keep it on the down low too. Could it be that the thieves stole it for their own enjoyment?Read the full story.

Someone is stealing first edition books from libraries in Tennessee, and reselling them. They know who the man is and are hoping he\'ll be arrested soon. The Tennessean has More Here.
The Elk Valley Times has More on This Story.

CTNow.com says the guy who stole more than $1.5 million worth of books and one-of-a-kind manuscripts from Yale University\'s rare book library is going to prison for 15 months.

\"I\'ve never seen a crime of this nature come before me,\" Superior Court Judge Roland D. Fasano said. \"It\'s a significant crime and certainly unusual.\"