UPDATE: We are pleased to report that these items have been recovered and returned to their owner. The following three items were stolen last week and offered yesterday in Phoenix: Noritané, Ninagawa. KWAN KO DZU SETSU. NOTICE HISTORIQUE ET DESCRIPTIVE UR LES ARTS ET INDUSTRIES JAPONAIS:  ART CERAMIQUE (10 PARTS IN 5 VOLUMES). Tokyo and Yokohama: Ahrens and Co; C. Levy, 1876 - 1878. First Edition. 5 volumes, oblong 4to, each with between 5 and 11 leaves of Japanese lithographic text. French text. Original multi-colored wrappers titled on front covers. Housed in blue cloth folding case with bone clasps, paper title label to front cover. All volumes in near fine to fine condition; case is unevenly faded. Toke, Monroe Tsa. THE PEYOTE RITUAL: VISIONS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF MONROE TSA TOKE. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1957. First Edition. Folio, 67 pages. Hardcover. As New w/original prospectus and return envelope laid in. Adams, Ansel (Introduction by Paul Brooks). ANSEL ADAMS:YOSEMITE AND THE RANGE OF LIGHT (SIGNED). London: Thames & Hudson & New York Graphic Society, 1979.First British Edition. SIGNED by Adams. As New in like dust jacket. If you have any information on these items, please contact James Bryant at 831-643-2754 or carpediem@pacbell.net. [more UPDATED: Three Books Stolen in the Southwest]

Happily, this item was recovered in 2014. The following item has been reported missing: 1791 version of Boydell's “Illustrations to Shakespeare-Proofs and Etchings”, Volume II. The book is large, maybe 20” by 20” and weighs around 20 pounds. The loss occurred approximately July 9, likely in the Memphis Area while it was being transported for rebinding. If you have any information on this item, please contact ABAA Headquarters at hq@abaa.org or 212-944-8291. [more Missing: 1791 version of Boydell’s “Illustrations to Shakespeare-Proofs and Etchings”, Volume II]

The following item has gone missing during transit from the UK to the US: Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand-born British physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1908   Autograph Letter Signed ('Rutherford') from 'the father of nuclear physics' Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, inviting the anthropologist J. H. Driberg to dinner in Cambridge. On letterhead of Newnham Cottage, Queen's Road, Cambridge. 17 January 1937. 1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. He invites Driberg to dine with him 'in Trinity on Tuesday Feb 2 on the occasion of the Candlemas Feast. He gives further details before ending 'I hope you can come.' If you have any information regarding this item, please contact Gerard Stodolski at gs@gajs.com [more Missing: Ernest Rutherford Letter]

This item is still missing as of 5/28/2019. The following item was reported stolen: Mellis, Daniel. Nothing Beside Remains. Chicago, IL: Daniel Mellis. Limited Edition. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Black cloth boards. 4to. np. Numbered limited edition, one of 25 copies. Fine. If you have any information regarding this item, please contact Brian Cassidy at (301) 589-0789. [more Stolen: Limited Edition of 'Nothing Beside Remains']

Update: these have been recovered as of 5/28/2019. Georgetown College (Georgetown, KY) are missing two volumes from their archive. The volumes are records of the Board of Trustees of Georgetown College. The first volume dates from 1837-1866, the second goes from 1866-1912. They are handwritten and noticeably deteriorated. The volumes would have gone missing sometime between 2007 and 2011. If you have any information on them you can contact the staff archivist, Sandra Baird, at Sandra_Baird@GeorgetownCollege.edu. [more Missing: Georgetown College Board Records]

This item is still missing as of 6/2/2019. The following item was reported missing: Title: Devil May Care - Bentley Edition Author: Sebastian Faulks Description: Signed, number, limited edition bound in "burnt oak" leather. This book is numbered edition 233 out of 300 produced. If you have any information on this item, please contact Alan Tong at alan@picotech.com [more Missing: 'Devil May Care' Bentley Edition]

This item is still missing as of 5/25/2019. The following autograph is missing: Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (1860-1903) Autograph Note Signed on visiting card (business card size), both sides, signed on verso. If you have any information on this item, please contact: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books & Musical Autographs Phone: 510-525-2420 email: jbmuns@aol.com [more Missing Hugo Wolf Autograph]

The following items were recently stolen from Wentworth & Leggett Rare Books. If you have any information on these items, please contact Barbara Wentworth at 919-688-5311 or 919-479-1938. 1. Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures London 1913 limited edition signed by Arthur Rackham http://www.wentworthleggettbooks.com/Pages/Item/Illustrated.aspx index 73 of 90 to 76 of 90 2. 6 vol set of Fox Hunting stories by R.S. Surtees Handsome half leather embosed Original cover and spine tipped in the back of each volume Illustrations by John Leech and Phiz http://www.wentworthleggettbooks.com/Pages/Item/Illustrated.aspx index 38 of 90 to 41 of 90 3. The Viscera of the Human Body Edited by Jones Quain M.D. and W. J. Erasmus Wilson Full leather cover medical atlas Folio Hand colored plates London 1840 http://www.wentworthleggettbooks.com/Pages/Item/PrintsMedical.aspx index 54 of 85 to 85 of 85 4. D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover Florence, Italy (1928). Pirated edition. Mulberry-colored boards and paper spine label same as original edition 5. Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty...Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland (we're pretty sure this is the title) by William Gilpin late 1700's 2 vol full deep olive green leather many aquatints fore-edge painting on each vol special lined slipcase fore each vol [more Books Stolen in North Carolina]

The following item has been reported stolen: Title : A View of the Harbour Authors : Taylor (Elizabeth) Date of publication : 1947 Publisher : Davies, London Description : Original dark blue cloth, lightly faded backstrip lettered in white, free endpapers browned, crease to rear pastedown. The front free endpaper is inscribed by the author ‘To my old enemy, Norman, with love from Elizabeth Taylor 1947. “I strove with none, for none was worthy of my strife; Reason I loved, and, next to Reason, Doubt; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; and put it out.” E.M.Forster after Landor’ If you have any information on this item, please contact Blackwell's Rare Books at rarebooks@blackwell.co.uk or 01865333555. [more Stolen: 'A View of the Harbour' (1947)]

This item has been recovered as of 5/24/2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. In Two Volumes. Authors : HAMILTON, Alexander, James Madison & John Jay. Date of publication : 1788 Publisher : J. and A. McLean,, New York Description : 2 volumes octavo. Volume I measuring 168 × 115 mm, volume II 185 × 110 mm. Uncut in the original publisher's boards, volume numbers stamped to spines. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed solander case. Somewhat rubbed, chipping at the spines, some stripping from the lower board of volume I, and light pen trials to the upper board of volume II; joints cracking, repaired; volume I slightly browned and spotted, small pieces torn from the fore-margins of pp157-8, pp221-2, gathering R a little crumpled in the head margin, a binding fault, text creased but no loss; some pencilled marginalia and notes to the rear free endpaper; ink-stamp removed from the title page of volume II, otherwise lightly toned, but clean and largely unopened. If you have any information on this item, please contact Pom Harrington at pom@peterharrington.co.uk or +44 (0)20 7591 0220. [more Stolen: The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed]