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]

This item is still missing as of 6/2/2019. Mace Neufeld reports that a 2 volume set of HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE PAPER CURRENCY OF THE AMERICAN COLONIES (1865) with numerous examples of colonial currency tipped into the volumes, was recently stolen from his library. The author was Henry Phillips Jr. The theft was reported to the Beverly Hills police on August 10, 2015. Mace Neufeld can be contacted at Bigmace@mnprods.com [more Missing in Beverly Hills: 2 vol Historical Sketches of the Paper Currency of the American Colonies]

Located! These items were recovered as of 10/3/2015. The following four items were allegedly stolen from the home of a collector in Georgia (USA) on July 18, 2015. Please contact us if you are offered any of these items. Abraham Lincoln-ADS on blue paper, twice signed by Lincoln for Weldon and Lincoln docketed 1856. Sinatra- Small Photograph Signed in green ink, early '60s Marlon Brando ALS ca 1992 Marilyn Monroe, ANS on Hotel Fountainbleu stationery, “Love and kisses”. [more Missing from Georgia: Autographs]

These items have been recovered and are no longer missing. These following were possibly left behind in one box in Madison, Virginia: Vols. 7,8, & 9 of the 1778 2nd edition of Johnson's annotated Shakespeare Two Thomas Wolfe novels in the Easton Press full leather edition "The Web & the Rock" "You Can't Go Home Again" Full 6 vol. Dumas Malone set of Thomas Jefferson, each signed Please contact Allan Stypeck at research@secondstorybooks.com or (301) 770-0477 if you locate any of these. [more Missing from Madison, Virginia]

UPDATE: RECOVERED From Michael Hackenberg, Chair of the Northern California Chapter of the ABAA: The rare book room at Moe's Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley has just reported to me the recent theft of the 1977 Sultan and Mandel photography book, Evidence by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel. Moe's reports the book missing as of Monday, July 8th. If offered this title and you suspect it is the signed, missing copy or if you have information on this copy, please contact Ken Eastman Moe's books (510) 849-2133 You can also contact Michael Hackenberg or the ABAA security chair Garrett Scott. [more Missing in Berkeley: Sultan & Mandel EVIDENCE (1977)]

UPDATE: RECOVERED, 6/29/15 Reported missing from a private library in Walnut Creek, California -- James Joyce's serialized Ulysses in the LITTLE REVIEW, housed in what sounds like a custom grayish-blue box lettered in gilt on the upper cover "Ulysses by James Joyce." The owner received these as a college graduation present from her father 55 years ago. She cannot speak to completeness/number of issues present or to any distinguishing marks. If you are offered or have any information on these items, please contact the owner, Anne Brown at (925) 788-0664. [more Missing: James Joyce’s Serialized Ulysses in the Little Review]

This item is still missing as of 5/31/2019. Orpheus Books in Redmond, Washington reports: On April 22, 2015, the following title went missing from our customer's doorstep in Roxbury, MA: Steve Holl. Steven Holl: Architecture Spoken. The book was inscribed and dated by architect Steven Holl on the title page: For Chuck & Linda, S. Holl 7/23/07. The book is a first edition in very fine condition with a clear archival mylar cover. Anyone offered this title should contact: Barbara Wight / Don Stutheit Orpheus Books 10425 170th Ave. NE. Redmond, WA 98052-2740 425-556-9376 [more Missing: Inscribed Steven Holl]

UPDATE (5/13): RECOVERED Adam Davis of Division Leap in Portland, Oregon reports: "Our car was stolen today from outside the shop. There were a couple hundred 8vo sized zines in the back, and two binders with ephemera. We don't have a list of the contents yet- but I would think this many zines hitting the market would be a bit of an anomaly. . . . There was a complete run of the zine Dishwasher, but aside from that I don't have an inventory of that material. "Some of the material will have my pencilled price at upper right hand corner of first blank, with a 5 Digit number at the lower tip of same Page beginning with a 1 or a 2. Local bookstores have been alerted." Please keep your eyes/ears/email reading open for queries about a quantity of this sort of material, esp. if you are in the PDX area. Please contact ABAA Security chair Garrett Scott, , or contact Adam directly at or (503) 206 7291 if you have any information. We will update this ABAA Security Blog with lists, law enforcement contacts, case numbers, etc. as they become available. [more Missing: Zines + ephemera in Portland, Oregon]