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Practice to Deceive: The Incredible Story of Literary Forgery's Most Notorious Practitioners
by Joseph Rosenblum
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 158456010X
- ISBN 13
- 9781584560104
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Oak Knoll Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. xix+ 393 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrations. Fascinating look at literary forgers from late 17th-early 18th century George Psalmanazar, late 1700s "Ossian" James MacPherson, Thomas Chatterton, who invented a medieaval monk and his poetry, to Shakesperian forgers Collier and Ireland, erswhile Lord Byron descandant George Gordon Byron and probably the most devious and accomplished forger, Thomas Wise.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E15711
- Title
- Practice to Deceive: The Incredible Story of Literary Forgery's Most Notorious Practitioners
- Author
- Joseph Rosenblum
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 158456010X
- ISBN 13
- 9781584560104
- Publisher
- Oak Knoll Press
- Place of Publication
- New Castle, De
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- books., biblio, forgery. forgers, literary, shakespeara, ossian, thomas wise,chatterton
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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