BOOK WORM; Bored librarian sold rare works on eBay.Byline: By JAN DISLEY A LIBRARIAN sold rare books stolen from work, including a 16th century edition of Chaucer, after getting hooked on eBay. Norman Buckley, 44, turned to the internet for company after his girlfriend left. He flogged his own stuff then took home two or three books at a time from the library to auction. Among his haul of 455 books, posters and papers worth EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 210,000 was a EUR50,000 copy of Geoffrey Chaucer's works. Buyers worldwide snapped up 44 books including a 1654 edition of John Donne's poetry for EUR2,500. Buckley never spent the EUR16,300 he made. He did it for a "buzz", Manchester crown court heard. He was caught when dealer spotted a Manchester central library Manchester Central Library is a circular library next to the extended Town Hall in Manchester, England. The design was the result of a competition held in 1927 for a new library and town hall extension; the winner was E. Vincent Harris. seal on a photo of the Donne book listed on eBay. When police raided his flat they found more than 400 works. Denise Fitzpatrick, defending, said: "Alone in his flat he turned to the internet for entertainment. Then he began to take books on a scale akin to kleptomania kleptomania (klĕp'təmā`nēə) [Gr.,=craze for stealing], irresistible compulsion to steal, motivated by neurotic impulse rather than material need. No specific cause is known. ." Buckley, of Hulme, admitted theft. He was jailed for 65 weeks, suspended for two years. He will do 250 hours community service. j.disley@mirror.co.uk CAPTION(S): HAUL: Buckley and some of the stolen books THIEF: Buckley stole from work |
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