Tome raider foiled after dealer recognised first edition

  A tome raider faces having the book thrown at him after a dealer recognised the rare first edition he was trying to sell and knew the true owner. Colin Lynn, 48, swiped the signed 1949 edition of ‘The Sheltering Sky’ by American author Paul Bowles from Peter Harrington rare bookshop in Mayfair west London. The book is seen as highly influential in the development of the ‘Beat Generation’ literature Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac. Lynn stole…