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Disappearing Ink - Annotated by Travis McDade (Paperback)

Name: Disappearing Ink - Annotated by Travis McDade (Paperback)
Brand: Diversion Books
SKU: 1005631746
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Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems.
Author(s): Travis McDade
176 Pages
True Crime, Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions

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Book Synopsis

Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collections libraries in the country.

In October 1990 Kenyon College hired David Breithaupt as its library's part-time evening supervisor. In April 2000 he was fired after a Georgia librarian discovered him selling a letter by Flannery O'Connor on eBay, but that was only the tip of the iceberg: for the past ten years, Breithaupt had been browsing the collection, taking from it whatever rare books, manuscripts, and documents caught his eye--Flannery O'Connor letters, W.H. Auden annotated typescripts, a Thomas Pynchon manuscript, and much, much more. It was a large-scale, long-term pillaging of Kenyon College's most precious works.

After he was caught, the American justice system looked like it was about to disappoint the college the way it had countless rare book crime victims before--but Kenyon refused to let this happen.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .44 Inches (D)

Weight: .42 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 176

Genre: True Crime

Sub-Genre: Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions

Publisher: Diversion Books

Format: Paperback

Author: Travis McDade

Language: English

Street Date: September 8, 2015

TCIN: 1005631746

UPC: 9781682301487

Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-3416

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship weight: 0.42 pounds

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