UPDATE (2/19/15): MATERIAL RECOVERED Missing in transit, shipped from San Francisco via US Priority Mail on 2/2/2015, a copy of the Matisse Verve, this copy missing approx. three inches of the binding at the head of the spine. If you are offered this copy or otherwise encounter it, please contact Michael S. Hollander (ABAA) in San Rafael, California, by phone at (415) 572-4224 or mshollbks@gmail.com. [more Missing in Transit: Matisse Verve]
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The Texas State Library has compiled a list of missing material, including early Texas Republic material and maps missing from its archives. A link to a PDF list of missing material may be found at the Texas State Library website here. This site also includes information on ownership markings and the text of state law on the right of recovery of Texas public records. [more Texas State Archives Missing Materials]
Lost in transit: A signed Abraham Lincoln document appointing Christian Frederick Moller assistant Danish Consul in 1864. The document was framed and matted with portraits. See a rough image of the item here: http://www.bibliophagist.com/gscott/images/items/LincolnMoller.jpg Island Movers in Hawaii packed the item in its own custom wooden crate. One of the owners of the document saw the item packed. The crate was shipped from Hawaii on Oct. 10, 2014 (as part of a larger shipment of other household effects) to Northern California. The crate with the Lincoln document has not arrived, though the balance of the shipment arrived safely on December 12, 2014. If you are offered this piece or hear any information about the item, please contact Steve Gilley at (808) 497-7402. You can also contact Detective Andre Peters of the Honolulu Police Department Theft Detail at (808) 723-8902 (7:00 AM-3:45 PM HAST); refer to case 15002083. [more Missing in Transit: Abraham Lincoln Signed Document]
UPDATE (12/8/14): BOOKS RECOVERED A package of books has one missing in transit from California to Maine and contained the following items: (San Francisco) Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist Church. *The Baptist Church Cook Book*. First Edition. San Francisco: 1910. (Oakland) *The Ladies' Superior Cook Book*. First Edition. Oakland: Enquirer Publishing, 1899. (San Francisco) *Corona Club Cook Book.* Cloth. First Edition. San Francisco: 1910. (Los Angeles) *California Congress of Parents and Teachers, Los Angeles Tenth District: Tested Recipes*. Los Angeles: 1934. (Kansas) Daughters of the First Presbyterian Church. *Good Things to Eat.* Salina, KS: Padgett's Printing House, 1922. (Arizona) *Presbyterian Ladies' Aid Cook Book.* First Edition. Phoenix: c.1900. (Nebraska) *The Loup City Cook Book: A Collection of Tried Recipes, Compiled by the Ladies of Loup City, for the Benefit of the Baptist Church.* First Edition. Loup City, NE: Standard Gauge Print, 1909. (Utah) Pratt, P.P., ed. *Home Economy, Etc.* Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged. Salt Lake City: P.P. Pratt, 1895. (Utah) *Recipes Compiled by the Ladies of St. Mark's Guild 1886, Revised 1909.* Revised Edition. Salt Lake City: Ackerman & Co., 1909. (Wyoming) Woman's Club. *Parco Cook Book.*. First Edition. Parco, WY: Woman's Club, 1930. (Colorado) *Choice Recipes Compiled by the Ladies of St. Mark's Guild.* First Edition. Victor, CO: Leary-Poole Job Print, c.1900. (Colorado) Guild of All Saints Mission. *“Columbine”: A... [more Missing in Transit: Package of Rare Cookbooks]
This item is still missing as of 5/31/2019. A collector in the Los Angeles area reported the theft of the following item: Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton First Edition (1st Issue) in dust jacket. The book is housed in a blue half leather clamshell box. The dust jacket is unrestored and has a small tape repair on the verso of the jacket near the foot of the spine. A photo of the book is below. If you have any information concerning this book, please contact Mike Hurey at mhurey@kleinberglerner.com or at (310) 871-2646. [more Stolen: ‘Age of Innocence’, First Edition in Dust Jacket]
This item is still missing as of 5/29/2019. The following item was reported missing from an apartment in Brooklyn: Duchamp, Marcel; Cage, John; Kubota, Shigeko (photographer). Marcel Duchamp and John Cage / Reunion. : Takeyoshi Miyazawa, . Oblong octavo, original blue cloth lettered in silver, clear dust jacket, blue endpapers. lllustrated with black-and-white photographs by Shigeko Kubota on rectos, acrostics by John Cage on versos. Hand-numbered 3 of 500 copies, inscribed by Shigeko Kubota on verso of front free endpaper: "David / with love Shigeko / 18 June '71." 33 rpm recording of the 1968 Duchamp/Cage Reunion chess match laid in. Tiny chips to spine ends of clear jacket. Housed in faded and scuffed blue card slipcase. First edition of this tribute to the celebrated 1968 chess match between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, hand-numbered 3 of 500, inscribed by photographer Shigeko Kubota. If you have an information regarding this item, please contact Heather at: Honey & Wax Booksellers 540 President Street, Third Floor Brooklyn NY 11215 917-974-2420 heather@honeyandwaxbooks.com honeyandwaxbooks.com [more Missing: Duchamp, Marcel; Cage, John; Kubota, Shigeko (photographer)]
The following item was reported stolen from Monsey, NY on 10/10/14: (Bible in Hebrew) Vocalized text. Integral blanks present. This is 17 parts in 8 volumes. Samll format; 113 x 68mm. 16th century calf with gilt arabesque centerpiece on covers, vellum pastedowns from medieval Latin manuscript (of an abridgment?) of the Sentences of Peter Lombard. From the collection of the Scottish politician bibliophile Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (1653-1716) with his signature on the title pages. If you have any information regarding this item, please contact Gene Albert at 301-988-6700 (daytime) or 301-331-5060 (evenings). [more Stolen: 8 Volume Hebrew Bible - Second Estienne Hebrew Bible]
This item is still missing as of 5/29/2019. The following item has been reported stolen from a personal library in Texas: Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence First Edition. Signed and numbered, No 249. If you have any information reagding this item, please contact Shannon Dorsey at (512) 922-2185 or shannonrose.dorsey@gmail.com. [more Stolen: Signed First Edition of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’]
UPDATE - The box of books have arived after two months of travel. A small box shipped from a bookbinder in Bath, England sent to Santa Monica, CA has gone missing. Five books were returned, four pamphlets by Thomas Taylor, "the Platonist", each rebound in new full calf, and a Chinese New Testament. Shaghai, c.1870 with a new calf back. If you are offered these items, please contact Ken Karmiole. [more Missing in Transit from Bath, UK to Southern California]
This item is still missing as of 5/29/2019. The following item was reported missing in transit: CUMING, Fortesque (1762-1828). Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and A Trip Through the Mississippi Territory, and Part of West Florida. Commenced at Philadelphia in the Winter of 1807, and Concluded in 1809 ... Together with a Notice of an Expedition Through Louisiana. Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear & Eichbaum, 1810. 12mo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches). 504pp. (Pale dampstain at the gutter of the first signature). Original muslin-backed blue paper covered boards. Housed in a red morocco backed slipcase. Fine unsophisticated copy in original boards. If you have any information on this item, please contact Donald Heald Rare Books at (212) 744-3505 or Ilena@DonaldHeald.com. [more Missing in Transit: Cuming’s Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country]