On Wednesday, eleven volumes of an expensive historical book were stolen from the Reading Public Library.
According to library director Frank Kasprowicz, a security guard at the library found security stickers on a shelf that had been taken from books.
Assistant library director Mike Najarian says security footage showed two people who came into the library, went to a corner, removed security devices on the books and walked out with them.
Najarian says he assumes the two culprits previously scoped the books out based on the ease with which they walked directly to the location of the books.
They took eleven volumes of "The Passing Scene," by George Meiser, a Berks County historian.
The assumption is that the books will be sold on Ebay, but Najarian says they have not seen the library's copies on there yet.
The thieves did not take the oldest or newest volumes of "The Passing Scene."
Najarian says there were another two attempts Saturday morning in other Berks County libraries on the same books. These individuals were not the same actors as the Wednesday robbery at Reading Library.
George Meiser, the writer of the books, says he is not surprised by the robbery seeing as some of the books have disappeared from various libraries before and some sell for as much as $250 on Ebay.
Reading Police are investigating.
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