Macintrye Ben (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A VG+ copy in a VG+, unclipped mylar protected dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and square.

Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xi, [3], 336 p. Frontis. Notes. Index. From Wikipedia: "Adam Worth (1844 8 January 1902) was a German-born American criminal. Scotland Yard Detective Robert Anderson nicknamed him "the Napoleon of the criminal world", and he is referred to as "the Napoleon of Crime. It has been speculated that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used Worth as the prototype for Sherlock Holmes' adversary, Professor Moriarty. In his "Books Alive" column in The Chicago Sunday Tribune (26 Dec. 1943), Vincent Starrett wrote, "Worth was the original of Prof. Moriarty. This information, which isn't generally known, was revealed by Conan Doyle in conversation with Dr. Gray C. Briggs of St. Louis, Dr. Briggs once told me." Biographer Macintyre traces the inspiration for Macavity, the Mystery Cat, in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats to Doyle's rendition of Moriarty. Andrew Lloyd Webber, in turn, based his hit musical, Cats, on T.S. Eliot's work, including the character Macavity, who Demeter & Bombalurina declare, is "the Napoleon of Crime! " Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling. No price on DJ, may be book club but is standard size.

Hardcover. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Accompanying the major exhibition at The Imperial War Museum, London. Numerous interesting colour & black and white photographs illustrate the detailed text. Useful index. Tiny scratch on rear cover.

Condition: Good.

Condition: Acceptable.

fester Einband. 336 S., Opbd., Gr. 8°, 23,5 x 16 x 3 cm, leichte Lagerspuren, sonst ordentlich - sauber, fest und vollständig. Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann in folgende Länder KEIN VERSAND mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien. Sprache: EnglischG 628 gr.

Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket. 8vo pp. 355. book.