Library thief caught selling rare books on eBay

By Steve Weber | Published: October 29, 2006

An antiquarian book expert thought it looked too good to be true — a 1654 volume of John Donne’s poetry up for sale on eBay. And he was right, that book and over 400 others were stolen from Manchester Library in England — busted!

The pilfered books included a 16th Century Chaucer edition valued at nearly $70,000.


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