This item is still missing as of 5/29/2019. The following item was reported missing from an apartment in Brooklyn: Duchamp, Marcel; Cage, John; Kubota, Shigeko (photographer). Marcel Duchamp and John Cage / Reunion. : Takeyoshi Miyazawa, . Oblong octavo, original blue cloth lettered in silver, clear dust jacket, blue endpapers. lllustrated with black-and-white photographs by Shigeko Kubota on rectos, acrostics by John Cage on versos. Hand-numbered 3 of 500 copies, inscribed by Shigeko Kubota on verso of front free endpaper: "David / with love Shigeko / 18 June '71." 33 rpm recording of the 1968 Duchamp/Cage Reunion chess match laid in. Tiny chips to spine ends of clear jacket. Housed in faded and scuffed blue card slipcase. First edition of this tribute to the celebrated 1968 chess match between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, hand-numbered 3 of 500, inscribed by photographer Shigeko Kubota. If you have an information regarding this item, please contact Heather at: Honey & Wax Booksellers 540 President Street, Third Floor Brooklyn NY 11215 917-974-2420 heather@honeyandwaxbooks.com honeyandwaxbooks.com [more Missing: Duchamp, Marcel; Cage, John; Kubota, Shigeko (photographer)]

The following item was reported stolen from Monsey, NY on 10/10/14: (Bible in Hebrew) Vocalized text. Integral blanks present. This is 17 parts in 8 volumes. Samll format; 113 x 68mm. 16th century calf with gilt arabesque centerpiece on covers, vellum pastedowns from medieval Latin manuscript (of an abridgment?) of the Sentences of Peter Lombard. From the collection of the Scottish politician bibliophile Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716) with his signature on the title pages. If you have any information regarding this item, please contact Gene Albert at 301-988-6700 (daytime) or 301-331-5060 (evenings). [more Stolen: 8 Volume Hebrew Bible - Second Estienne Hebrew Bible]

This item is still missing as of 5/29/2019. The following item has been reported stolen from a personal library in Texas: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence First Edition. Signed and numbered, No 249. If you have any information reagding this item, please contact Shannon Dorsey at (512) 922-2185 or shannonrose.dorsey@gmail.com. [more Stolen: Signed First Edition of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’]

UPDATE - The box of books have arived after two months of travel. A small box shipped from a bookbinder in Bath, England sent to Santa Monica, CA has gone missing. Five books were returned, four pamphlets by Thomas Taylor, "the Platonist", each rebound in new full calf, and a Chinese New Testament. Shaghai, c.1870 with a new calf back. If you are offered these items, please contact Ken Karmiole. [more Missing in Transit from Bath, UK to Southern California]

This item is still missing as of 5/29/2019. The following item was reported missing in transit: CUMING, Fortesque (1762-1828). Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and A Trip Through the Mississippi Territory, and Part of West Florida. Commenced at Philadelphia in the Winter of 1807, and Concluded in 1809 ... Together with a Notice of an Expedition Through Louisiana. Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum, 1810. 12mo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches). 504pp. (Pale dampstain at the gutter of the first signature). Original muslin-backed blue paper covered boards. Housed in a red morocco backed slipcase. Fine unsophisticated copy in original boards. If you have any information on this item, please contact Donald Heald Rare Books at (212) 744-3505 or Ilena@DonaldHeald.com. [more Missing in Transit: Cuming’s Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country]

UPDATE (12/8/14): BOOK RECOVERED Bromer Booksellers has reported a missing children's book (description below). If you are offered this item, please contact Bromer Booksellers at (617) 247-2818 or email shop manager Philip Salmon (phil@bromer.com). (Juvenile). W. BELCH'S HISTORY OF BEASTS. Newington Butts, London, W. Belch, c. 1820. 12mo. 8 ff. Illustrated with sixteen hand-colored engravings of various animals, arranged two per page. These are accompanied by a quatrain printed in the middle of the page, as well as the printed names of each animal. The printer Belch issued a number of children's books in this format, though this title is apparently unrecorded. Apart from some minor creasing to corners of covers and a few pages, this is a nearly fine copy of an ephemeral children's book. See an uploaded photo of the item here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bibliophagist/15128255901/in/photostream/ [more Missing: Belch’s History of Beasts]

At the request of the ILAB Committee, Munich-based auction house Zisska & Lacher (formerly Zisska & Schauer) has provided a list of the books confiscated or withdrawn from their auction No. 59 (May 2012) as material suspected of having been taken illegally from the Girolamini library. Because the computer belonging to the firm's former manager Herbert Schauer has been confiscated by the Bavarian police, no electronic copy of this list was available and Zisska & Lacher could only provide a hard-paper copy. ILAB has scanned and created a SEARCHABLE PDF document from the approx. 80-page list received from the auction house. A copy of the list may be found here (the file is 6MB – be patient in downloading): Zisska List This list is divided into three parts: 1. A short list of books confiscated by the authorities prior to the auction. 2. Approx. 50 to 60 items not included in auction 59 for unknown reasons. 3. Some 430+ lots with detailed descriptions of the books withdrawn from auction 59. ILLUSTRATIONS OF LOTS Zisska & Lacher has also provided ILAB with a file of illustrations of the catalogued lots of auction 59. The effort and cost to match these illustrations to this list would be prohibitive; however, the ILAB Committee will gladly forward the file to those who need to see it. Contact secretariat@ilab.org if you need a copy of the illustration file. ACTION TO TAKE The ILAB Committee believes it important that booksellers examine this PDF document in hopes of avoiding the d... [more Zisska & Lacher list of books from auction No. 59 (May 2012) possibly stolen from Girolamini Library]

This item is still missing as of 5/28/2019. The following item has been reported missing: Nelson Mandela's LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, signed by Mandela with the signature dated "25 5 95" (May 5, 1995). The book was displayed in a sealed bag with a strip that reads "Personally signed by Nelson Mandela." If you are offered or have any information about this item, please contact Atlanta Vintage Books at 770-457-2919 or avbooks@att.net. [more Missing: Signed Copy of Nelson Mandela’s ‘Long Walk to Freedom’]

This item is still missing as of 6/2/2019. An Alphabeticon : encyclopedia for the use of the lettered and unlettered. Edition C- 16 volume set of the Analphabeticon; Assembled by George Brecht and Rudolf Rieser in a random order using images sent in by artists like John Cage, Diter Rot, Jasper Johns, Wolf Vostell, Emmet Williams, and various fluxus artists.; Title from paper band on book cover. With color silkscreens on Japanese paper with Vellum covers. Editon of 28 copies only. Please contact Elayna Zucker, if offered at ez@zuckerartbooks.com. [more Missing: An Alphabeticon]

This item is still missing as of 5/28/2019. The following item was stolen in Cambridge, MA on 7/28/14: Bocher, Emmanuel. Le Macramé. Technique, Modèles divers, Procédés d'exécution. Paris, Librairie Damascène Morgand, 1919. 441 pp. B./w. ills. Soft cover. Folio. (Manuel des Travaux à L'Aiguille V). *Very rare. If you are offered this item or have any information regarding the book, please contact Nancy Stieber at nancy.stieber@umb.edu or (617) 547-0977. [more Stolen: ‘Le Macramé. Technique, Modèles divers, Procédés d’exécution.’]