The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

Chapter 6

1 Ken Sanders. Interview with the author.

2 According to Sanders, a complete copy was recently sold for more than $1 million.

3 James Thorpe, Henry Edwards Huntington: A Biography (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994).

4 www.huntington.org (website of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens).

5 Barbara Pitschel, Head Librarian, San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum. E-mail correspondence with the author.

6 For a thorough account of the world’s violence toward books, see Fernando Baez, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books, trans. Alfred MacAdam (New York: Atlas, 2008).

7 Basbanes, A Gentle Madness, pp. 42-43.