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who has stolen approximately US$ 200,000 worth of rare books and manuscripts. Gilkey used Modern
Library's List of 100 Best Novels as a guide to what items he would steal. Unlike most book thieves who steal for a profit, his motives for the thefts were personal: he saw an expansive library as a sign
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chronicling Gilkey's thefts and methods, stated that he felt he deserved the books. She also noted that Gilkey would tell her the details of a theft after the statute of limitations on that crime had expired. Since Gilkey kept these books for his personal collection none of these books ever surfaced
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He was a thief who allegedly used a stolen credit card number to buy the original bestseller and reserve a room at the hotel where he planned to pick it up, police say. Now investigators say they have connected the man, John
Charles Gilkey, to at least one other similar rare-book theft in the Bay
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