We have received a report that the following books were allegedly stolen from a residence in Montgomery County, Maryland, in the D.C. suburbs.
Any information can be shared directly with Lance Salins at the Friends of the Montgomery County Library: [email protected].
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Published by Scribner's in 1925
Book measures about 5" x 7", no dust jacket
The book is in a handmade blue leather clamshell box with a clear top. When you open the box there is a drawer that has the book and a ribbon to lift out the book. There is a slight faded area the size of a thumb print on the front cover.
It can be identified by the following textual points:
It has "chatter" on p. 60, line 16, "northern" on p. 119, line 22, "it's" on p. 165, line 16, away on p. 165, line 29, "sick in tired" on p. 205, lines 9-10, "Union Street station" on p.211, lines 7-8
Tales of the Jazz Age - F Scott Fitzgerald
Published by Scribner's in 1922
Approximate size 5 1/2" x 7" bound in dark green cloth
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Published by Bobbs Merrill, 1943
First edition in first issue red cloth with 'First Edition" stated on the copyright page
With gilded titles on the spine and front cover
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Published 1957
bound in green cloth has First Printing on the copyright page
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Published in 1985 by Random House
Has First Edition on the copyright page, ex-library new end paper
A is for alibi by Sue Grafton Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982
Signed a first edition
B is for burglar by Patricia Cornwell
Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985
Stated first printing
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Published by Alfred A Knopf, 1934
States first edition on the copyright page
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Published by Harper's, 1950
dust jacket has a repair at the bottom of the spine
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
Published by Harper Brothers
This is a two volume set bound in orange cloth
It is signed by Lew Wallace along with a presentation letter
binding needs repair
Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell
Published by Charles Scribner's, 1994
States first