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THE GENTEEL MURDERER
by Norman, Charles
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- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
N.Y.: Macmillian Publishing Co,, 1956. 1st edition, so stated. Fine in dust jacket with some minor wear at folds, very light chipping at head and foot of spine, lightly soiled at rear. Although both corners of front flap are clipped, the $3.75 price is intact. Includes a frontis portrait plate. In this unique biographical adventure, Charles Norman has gone to original sources to give us Thomas Griffiths Wainewright's life, his homicidal activities, his ingenious forgeries, his suspenseful trials and final retribution. Thomas Griffiths Wainewright was a journalist, critic, wit, forger and murderer; a friend of Charles Lamb; he hobnobbed with Coleridge, Dickens, DeQuincey. Charles Dickens visited him in Newgate prison. He also murdered his uncle, his mother-in-law and his sister-in-law -- he was apparently averse to harming strangers.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Bock, Vera. Book.
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- Bookseller
- Murder By The Book
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019798
- Title
- THE GENTEEL MURDERER
- Author
- Norman, Charles
- Illustrator
- Bock, Vera
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillian Publishing Co,
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mystery, Crime, True Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRUE CRIME;
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Murder By The Book
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About the Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island
About Murder By The Book
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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