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Travis McDade

Travis McDade
Travis McDade is the country’s foremost expert on rare book, map, and document crime; he teaches a class at the University of Illinois called Rare Books, Crime & Punishment. His Kindle Single about the David Breithaupt thefts from Kenyon College, called Disappearing Ink, has just been released, as has the paperback version of his book Thieves of Book Row.


The Unseen Theft of America’s Literary History

There Are Thieves in the Archives, and We Don't Even Know It
October 8, 2015  By Travis McDade
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