The following book has been reported missing: CRANE, STEPHEN. The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. New York: D. Appleton, 1895. 8vo, original tan buckram with red and black decorations and lettering. Four pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. First edition. BAL 4071, printing 1; Starrett 3, first state; Wright III, 1257. Inscribed on the front blank by Elbert Hubbard to his wife: "Bertha E. Hubbard / November 21, 1895 / from E. G. H." On the front paste-down is an original ink invitation in a calligraphic hand: "Come & take Pot Luck at the Sign of the Lanthorn and meet Stephen Crane - Tuesday Evening April the seventh at Seven o'clock - One Twenty Six William St. New York." Above the invitation is an ink drawing of a lanthorn. Later bookplate of San Francisco collector William M. Fitzhugh on the verso of the front free endpaper. Apparently other mementoes were once tipped into this copy: something was once removed from the front and rear paste-downs, leaving the usual marks. Cloth a little soiled; very good copy. If you have any information on this item, please contact John Crichton at (415) 398-0414 or books@brickrow.com. Still missing as of 5/24/2019. [more Missing: First Edition of 'The Red Badge of Courage']

The following item has been reported stolen from Ft. Lauderdale, FL: MALTA, Knights of.  Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem.  Giovanni Battista Rondinelli, editor.  , , , 203, pp.  With an engraved title-page and 38 full-page engraved plates, including thirteen with four portraits each (three in one case) of Grand Masters of the Order plus 21 with a large narrative scene enframed by woodcut borders. Folio, 325 x 220 mm, bound in full 17th-century vellum, gilt central arabesque and fillets on both covers, spine gilt in compartments, leather label lettered in gilt, a.e.g.  . If you have any information on this item, please contact Peter Kraus at (212) 772-8787 and reference Beth McGowan. [more Stolen:Knights of Statuta Hospitalis Hierusalem]

This item is still missing as of 5/28/2019. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Authors : Goya Description : Goya etching: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, approx size in frame 45cm x 35cm If you have any information on this item, please contact Alix de Francia at alix@alixpdf.plus.com or +44 (0)7890 365407. [more Stolen Goya Etching]

The following notebooks were stolen from a car in Lithia, Florida. They belonged to a collector/scholar and contained 40 years of research. If you have any information on either the notebooks or the ephemera they contained, please contact Loy Glenn Westfall at 813-990-9847 or Keywestrfall@aol.com. Inside the first  black three-ring notebook  is a one-of-a kind collection of Key West cigar labels. There is a white tagon the binding with "KEY WEST, A-K" on it. Along with the labels are  photographs and documentation on a number of the labels. They were filed alphabetically from a (A) AFRICORA to  "J"  and include rare labels such as CORTEZ, some factory  litho  labels (photo of a lector at a podium from a 1917 TOBACCO LEAF article), as well as  an 1853-1903 green  backdrop EL PRINCIPE DE GALES label. There are also  some GATO labels, including LA VISTA DE GATOVILLE. The second white three ring notebook has over 50-60 rare Key West duplicate labels. There are a number of SAN CARLOS  labels as well as others with the Key West name on them. All the labels are in plastic sleeves, and a number of them have documentation on a white sheet attached, some with the name Loy Glenn Westfall on the information sheets. [more Stolen Notebooks]

Below is the list of the books that De Caro has allegedly stolen from the Library of the Abbey of Montecassino. If you have any information about this material, please contact: Colonello Raffaele Mancino Carabinieri Comando Tutela Patrimonio Culturale Reparto operativo via Anicia 22 00155 Roma Italia tel. +39 06 585631 fax +39 0658563200 e-mail raffaele.mancino@carabinieri.it INCUNABLES Aliaco, Petrus de Concordantia astronomiae cum theologia... Augustae vindelicorum, Herardus Ratdolt, 1490 Aristoteles Opera Venetiis, per Aldi Manucii, 1495 Gaza, Theodorus Introductionae grammatices libri quator Eiusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequam pulcrtum Apollonii grammatici de constructione libri quator Herodianus de numeris Venetiis, Aldus Manutius, 1495 Lucretius Titus Carus De Rerum Natura. Studio Hieronymi  Avancii Venetiis, apud Aldum, 1500 Regimontanus, Johannes Astronomicon epitoma Venetiis, M. Romanurum, 1496 Regimontanus, Johannes Kalendarium magistri Joannis de Monteregio Augustae Vindelicorum, E. Ratdolt, 1489 16th CENTURY Platone Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera (Venetiis, in aedib. Aldi, et Andreae soceri , mense Septembri 1513) Alberti, Leon Battista Leonis Baptistae Alberti, viri doctissimi, de equo animante: ad Leonellum Ferrariensem principem libellus: Michaelis Martini Stellae cura ac studio inuentus, & nunc demum per eundem in lucem editus Basilea , 1556 Copernico, Niccol? Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri 6 Basileae,... [more Books Stolen from the Library of the Abbey of Montecassino]

The following was reported missing: FitzGerald, Edward. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.  London: George G. Harrap & Co., . 8vo, (110) pp. With 15 tipped-in illustrations by Willy Pogany. Full green morocco inlay binding by Riviere and Son. The top cover with central inlay (measuring 2.75 x 5.5-inches) depicting Eve in the garden beneath an apple tree, the serpent lurking behind. Gilt grape vines and grapes surround the image. The bottom cover bears a large gilt stamped serpent coiled around a chalice, again surrounded by gilt-stamped grapes and grape vines. Gilt extra backstrip. Gilt edges. Slipcase. Price, code, and the date 10/12 in the back. If you have any information regarding this item, please contact John Windle at 415-986-5826 or johnwindle@aol.com [more Missing Rubaiyat]

The following item was reported stolen on the weekend of December 1 in Seattle: Near fine copy of Maria Ward's THE MORMON WIFE: A LIFE STORY OF THE SACRIFICES AND SUFFERING OF A WOMAN. 1873. Hartford Publishing Company. Green cloth. 449 pp. Gilt on spine somewhat faded. Gilt on front board especially bright. Penciled price top corner of front free endpaper. If you have any information about this item, please contact Ezra Tishman at Aardvark Books at 1-800-434-6033 or thebookfinder@gmail.com. [more Stolen: THE MORMON WIFE: A Life Story of the Sacrifices and Suffering of a Woman (1843)]

The following item has been reported stolen: Title : 'Ignavia' (a print of a cartoon of Lord North) Authors : J Boyne Date of publication : 1 February 1784 Publisher : E Hedges, 92 Cornhill, London Description : A print of a cartoon of Lord North, size approximately A5, missing from Trinity College Oxford.  The title is 'Ignavia', and it has the artist's initials  J B - apparently this was J. Boyne. If you have any information regarding this item, please contact Christopher Tarrant at christopher.tarrant@trinity.ox.ac.uk or +44 (0)1865 279900 [more Stolen: 'Ignavia' (a print of a cartoon of Lord North), 1784]

The following item has been reported stolen: Title : King James Bible Date of publication : 1634 Publisher : Robert Barker, London Description : A heavy leather-bound Bible which has sustained damage over the years and appears to have had extensive and well-executed repair work, with excellent facsimile writing to replace lost text. If you have any information on this item, please contact Police Constable 7460 Chris Linzey at +44 7976 988437. [more Stolen: 1634 King James Bible]

Update: This item was recovered. The following item has been reported stolen: Title : De Sectione Rationis Authors : Apollonius Pergaeus, Edmund Halley Date of publication : 1706 Publisher : Oxford Description : title + viii + LIII + 168 pp. 8vo, library stamps of the Inner Temple Library, bookplate on recto of title of Herbert Jacob of St. Stevens in Kent, contemporary style panelled calf. If you have any information on this item, please contact Clive Farahar at clive@clivefarahar.com or 01249 811516. [more UPDATE: Stolen De Sectione Rationis (1706)]