November 17, 2000
Book Crook Hooked
A close call with a set of valuable rare books has some questioning the Centre College library's open-door policy.
The Grace Doherty Library regularly welcomes outsiders. But on a Saturday in early October, the library received a most unwelcome visitor. A man asked to see Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's A History of the Indian Tribes of North America, a three-volume work with 120 hand-colored lithographs that was printed in the 1830's and 40's. Then he sat down with the books in
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