'The Man Who Loved Books Too Much' by Allison Hoover Bartlett

There are people who love books, people who love to collect books and people who love books, particularly rare ones, so much that they're willing to steal them. Books coveted by collectors can be quite valuable -- say, a first Italian edition of "Pinocchio" ($80,000) or the first-edition "Lolita" that Vladimir Nabokov inscribed to his friend Graham Greene, which fetched $264,000 at auction.

By Carmela Ciuraru

November 5, 2009