Two years in the big house seems rather light for this rare book vandalizer? It probably will be one of those white collar prisons filled with dodgy accountants, executives from Enron and politicians who drink and drive. I imagine Farhad Hakimzadeh, an academic and publisher, won’t be given a prison library card.
When investigators examined 842 books he had looked at, they found 143 had been defaced. Police discovered the altered editions, along with several loose pages, in his library. He claimed he innocently bought the stolen pages at the Portobello Road antiques market.
Portobello market? Sounds like an excuse Dell Boy would come up?
“This tasty geezer down the market was flogging a page from Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum by Simon Grynaeus from 1537. I thought it was kosher like!”
Some of the most well-received gifts I gave away for Christmas this year weren’t even gifts, per se, but greeting cards. I picked mine up from the Frye Art Museum in Seattle giftshop – when I saw them, I couldn’t resist, and will likely go back for more. They’re greeting cards (pictured at left) that look like books – books from the actual shelves of the 
They also have giftwrap, notecards, gift tags (pictured at right) wallets, prints, and much more. 
