forbes smiley ii couldn't stop coughing. no matter how much he tried to suppress it the tickle in the back of his throat kelp kept breaking out in hacking cough, drawing glances from the patrons around him. except for the low hum of the air condition sxgt clicking of fingers on keyboards making smiley painfully aware of the noise he was making. at one point he pulled a hank kerchief out of his pocket to muffle the sound. as he d an exacto knife blade wrapped aside fell softly onto the carpet floor. he folded the cloth and put it back in his pocket, oblivious to what had happened. he was in the binke, an annual gathering of hundreds of map collectors to buy, sell and trade antiquated maps. when people thought of forbes smile y as he was known as friends, dealers, clients and libraries, a few words sprang to mind, gra gar yous, jolly larger than life. he spoke to the family of a italian tenor. his voice was full of money. when he made phone calls he made sure to announce he was calling from the vineyard. his upper crest afek t

knife blade, they begant620q googling the names of the patrons in the:ccx library and recognized forbes smiley dealer in rare maps and this made them even more nervous. so they called the yale police department and as smiley left the library a plains clothes police officer was following close behind. this is a map i made for the book. i say that i made it. i actually thought originally i was going to make my own maps for the book. i thought if i was going to write a book about maps i should have my own maps. it took me ten minutes of drawing on paper to realize that wasn't going to happen. i hired an illustrator from the netherlands, which i was pleased by because the netherlands is where the golden age of© map-making was in 1500s and 1600s. this is a map he drew of the yale university campus. you can see right up here at the top is the library and smiley walked down the street, past the tower.sf british arts center. it was there that the police officer introduced himself and said he was with the library and asked if smiley had per chance inadvertently taken anything with him. smiley, even tho

despite his high flute ant name, e forbes smiley ii. he was always fascinated with history.s and even as a young boy, he would pshire read about history and studied miley history of the area, story. particularly the history of new boy, england.nd and he went to college in -- hampshire college in massachusetts and he made history a special. history and religion.special he was known for all sorts of eccentric things like reciting the iliad in the middle of iad campus and telling his friends about every church steeple they passed and the architecture of that church. after college he settled in new nt york. it was there he entered the map trade. he started at this department conve store, b. altman's department store, which no longer exists but had a small division that sold rare maps and atlases. it was conveniently located just a dozen blocks from new york public library. that's where his real education in maps began. and he became so fascinated by looking at the different maps and comparing them to each other bli and realizing which map m

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forbes smiley originals and profit just from the name alone. my knowledge, he hasn't gone and actually sold any of his work. >> thanks for the engaging talk. two quick questions. if there were a movie on the ed smiley story, who do you see playing mr. smiley, since you know him that well? secondly sitting with the archivalists of the united states sitting right in front of you, if you could procure any map in any way without punishment in the world, what would that be? >> got to be careful what i say here. in terms of the movie, you know, i sort of see william h. macy as the smiley character. that immediately springs to mind. maybe brad pitt as the investigative reporter telling his story. >> casting is being done as you speak. >> in terms of the map that i would take, if i -- if i could, it would probably be a map from yale that i uncovered during my research. it was by this gentleman by the name of john seller and there's only three copies in the world and it was a very early map of new england and it shows the -- the area of new england arou

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