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A Rum Affair : A True Story of Botanical Fraud
by Sabbagh, Karl
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374252823
- ISBN 13
- 9780374252823
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo, 276 pages, clothbacked boards
This investigation of an elaborate botanical hoax perpetrated on the Isle of Rum, reads like a detective novel. "A poignant story of a long-dead botanist who achieved fame literally by planting his evidence - Tim Radford in The Guardian." WITH, a copy of the Advance Reading Copy.
This investigation of an elaborate botanical hoax perpetrated on the Isle of Rum, reads like a detective novel. "A poignant story of a long-dead botanist who achieved fame literally by planting his evidence - Tim Radford in The Guardian." WITH, a copy of the Advance Reading Copy.
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- Seller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 002351
- Title
- A Rum Affair : A True Story of Botanical Fraud
- Author
- Sabbagh, Karl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374252823
- ISBN 13
- 9780374252823
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- SCOTLAND, SCIENTISTS, BOTANY, 0374252823, Royal Botanic Gardens, John William Heslop-Harrison, fraud in science, botanists, scientific fraud, John Raven,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...