This item is still missing as of 5/31/2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : Handwritten Civil War Diary of Arminius Wesley Bill Author : (Arminius Wesley Bill) Date of publication : Sep. 20 1861, to July 20, 1865 Description : The cover reads "Personal history during the Civil War. Arminius Wesley Bill DIARY Sep. 20 1861, to July 20, 1865. Three years and ten months." Also on the cover is a color drawing of two crossed flags and the quote "The flag I love shall float on high, and cover my coffin when I die." The book is heavily annotated with hand-drawn maps and newspaper articles. Contact : Wendy Connal Director, Bill Memorial Library 240 Monument St. Groton, CT 06340 Email : wconnal@billmemorial.org Phone : 860-445-0392 For full details, please click on the link to the www.stolen-book.org website. [more Stolen from Bill Memorial Library: Handwritten Civil War Diary of Arminius Wesley Bill]

These items are still missing as of May 31, 2019. Missing Books: Uranometria Nova Star Atlas & Companion Text On or about October 27, 2013 two books went missing from the home of Dr. Kevin B. Marvel in Tucson, Arizona. Please contact Dr. Kevin B. Marvel at kevin.marvel@aas.org or 703-589-7503. The Atlas Title: URANOMETRIA NOVA. STELLAE PER MEDIAM EUROPAM SOLIS OCULIS CONSPICUAE SECUNDUM VERAS LUCIS MAGNITUDINES E COELO IPSO DESCRIPTAE. AD. FR. ARGELANDRO. Author: ARGELANDER, Fr Description: First edition of this atlas (text not present) which the Dictionary of Scientific Biography describes in its lengthy biography of Argelander as "One of his finest works." Oblong folio, approximately 11-1/2 x 16-1/2 inches in original boards with cloth spine. Original title label on front cover. Lower right corner of rear cover and all adjacent paper (about 2 x 1 inches) worn, but without loss. Complete with all 17 plates. As the title says, the stars recorded are those which were visible to the naked eye. The support text is a small book with marbled covers. The description is below. Author: D. Fr. Argelandro (D. Fr. Argelander) ‚ Title: Uranometria Nova (Neue Uranometrie) ‚ ‚ Book Description: Subtitle: Stellae Per Mediam Europam Solis Oculis Conspicuae Secundum Veras Lucis Magnitudines E Coelo Ipso Descriptae. Binding and boards tight though showing signs of detaching, leather quite worn, egdes and marbled boards heavily scuffed, Ex-lib (from Lick Observatory - withdraw... [more Missing from Tucson, AZ (2013)]

Please contact ABAA HQ or Michael Hollander (ABAA member) if you believe you have been offered this item: NOTES ON BUDDHISM, by Thomas Latter, a pamphlet of about 20 pages. The item was mailed to a customer on March 3, but never reached its intended recipient. The package was last tracked in London. [more Missing from London, UK]

Thomas Patten of the New Canaan, CT Police Department reports the following item stolen from a private residence: Faded royal blue volume of Moby Dick housed in a protective beige colored box with a black band on the spine, against which the title was embossed in gold lettering. The container was clearly of more recent vintage than the volume (perhaps mid-20th Century). Inside the box, there was a program from a 1951 centennial commemoration of the publishing of Moby Dick that took place at the Princeton University Library. The Title page indicated that the volume was a first edition published by Harper & Brothers in New York and Richard Bentley in London in 1851. Also, on either the inside front cover or the first right hand page, the following was inscribed in pencil: No. 27 Christmas Present to Henry From His Mother Images below. If you believe you have been offered this item, please contact: Officer Thomas Patten New Canaan Police Department 203-594-3520 thomas.patten@newcanaanct.gov [more Stolen from New Canaan, CT]

These items are still missing as of 6/2/2019. A couple of books have "gone missing" from Black Swan Books in Richmond. Please contact Nick Cooke if offered. (1) Robert Craig. Rules and Regulations for Cavalry Sword Exercises; 1812 1st Edition; rebacked with a paper spine label ($1250); and (2) J. G. Barnard. The C.S.A. and the Battle of Bull Run; 1862, First Edition, in publisher's cloth with 5 maps and the signature of French engineer A. Loubat ($450). Black Swan Books 804-353-9476 [more Missing in Richmond, VA]

UPDATE: These items have been recovered! PLATO. The Republic of Plato. In Ten Books. Translated From the Greek by H. Spens. With a Preliminary Discourse Concerning the Philosophy of the Ancients By the Translator. Glasgow: Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1763. First Edition in English. Please contact us if offered, please. Heritage Book Shop 310-659-3674 [more Missing en route to Los Angeles, CA]

David Terry Reports Theft of 3,000+ Books "I owned a loft in Oakland, California that just sold. This past weekend, I moved all my contents out of the loft, including my lovingly-curated library of 3,000+ architecture books. Devastatingly, my moving truck filled with all these books has been stolen in Oakland this past Monday (February 29)--and yet to be recovered. Oakland PD says recovery is "unlikely," and that these types of truck-jackings are "epidemic" in the Bay area. The reason I am writing is so that you may alert your member stores, especially those with a large used book market, to look out for anyone trying to sell a large collection of signed U.S. presidential biographies OR high-end architectural books. Contact David if you have any questions. David M. Terry 4471 Dean Martin Drive The Martin 3302 Las Vegas, Nevada 89103< 510-813-9854, Mobile 866-214-4762, Fax" [more Missing from Oakland, CA]

Chicago colleague Larry Van de Carr's 2008 Silver Ford XLT van (with Illinois "environmental" license plates) full of his stock was stolen in Oakland, California. The inventory is largely rare science fiction (some signed), literature in dust jacket, a smattering of illustrated (Rackham, etc.) some Western Americana. Larry says he often lays descriptions slips into his books or prices near the upper right hand corner of the front free endpaper. If you are in the Bay Area and are approached under suspicious circumstances and offered material like this PLEASE do all you can to delay and call the police if you have reason to suspect these are Larry's books. Please contact ABAA Headquarters at hq@abaa.org or 212.944.8291 or Garrett Scott at garrett@bibliophagist.com if you are offered any items or have any information to provide. Update: Thanks to the quick thinking of staff at Moe's in Berkeley, one suspect has been apprehended, but only four of the books have been recovered. Please stay alert for these items. [more Missing from SF Bay Area]

These items are still missing as of 5/31/2019. Two items went missing from Pryor-Johnson Rare Books at Crawford-Doyle Booksellers. 1. Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. NY: Random House, 1965. First edition, first printing. Capote's own copy, which he had bound specially. Quarter-bound in grey buckram with blue-marbled paper sides; gilt-stamped title and date on spine; untrimmed; black top-stain. Fine. Signed by Capote on first free end-paper. 2. Vonnegut, Kurt.Cat's Cradle. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First edition. Signed by Vonnegut on first free end-paper, a medium-size (ca. 3” tall) inscription on the center of the page – possibly in green ink? Pryor-Johnson Rare Books at Crawford-Doyle Booksellers 1082 Madison Avenue, New York pryorjohnsonrarebooks.com pryorjohnsonrarebooks@gmail.com 1 (212) 452-1990 – 1 (646) 546-4883 [more Missing from New York City: In Cold Blood and Cat’s Cradle]

This item is still missing as of 5/31/2019. Missing from Boston Book Fair. Please contact Josh Mann if you are offered this item. The Dharma Bums Kerouac, Jack Hard Cover. New York: The Viking Press, 1958. 1st Edition. Fine / Dust Jacket Included. First edition, first printing. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in metallic green and silver; in the original dust jacket designed by Bill English, with an illustration of two mountain climbers to the front panel, portrait photograph of Kerouac by Keith Jennison to the rear panel. A fine copy, with a hint of wear to the spine ends, some light toning to the front endpapers, otherwise bright and fresh pages; unclipped dust jacket, with a hint of wear to the extremities, minor rubbing to the hinges, bright and clean panels with much less rubbing than usual. An excellent copy and very scarce in this condition. Joshua R. Mann B & B Rare Books, Ltd. Office: (646) 652-6766 Mobile: (917) 673-3439 jmann@bbrarebooks.com [more Missing from the Boston Book Fair: The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac]