A SELF MADE THEIF
Published by Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York,, 1929
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.MURDER BY THE BOOK
AbeBooks seller since April 23, 1997
Condition: Used
US$ 35.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
First Edition, so stated. Light spine lean. Black cloth with red lettering at spine and front wit Crime Club gunman at front. Covers lightly rubbed, soiled. Previous owners name at front endpaper with a small review glued to front endpaper which has wrinkled a few pages. Now housed in crystal clear protective archival jacket Scarce title. Set in New York City. "It’s a cinch to stick up a bank nowadays" boasted Frank Heberdon, socially prominent young lawyer. Goaded by his friends into making the attempt he just escapes capture due to the help of a beautiful and mysterious girl. A strange and inescapable force lures Frank on to this life of crime, and he finds his lovely rescuer in a denizen of the underworld where they join forces. The development of Frank’s criminal career and the way he goes from theft and blackmail to drugs and finally murder makes as thrilling and absorbing a tale as Hulbert Footner ever wrote—with a smashing surprise at the very end. -- PUBLISHER.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- A SELF MADE THEIF
- Author
- Footner, Hulbert
- Publisher
- Crime Club By Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York,
- Publication year
- 1929
- Condition
- Good-Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Crime Fiction, Mystery and Crime, New York City, XBX 62
MURDER BY THE BOOK
Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since April 23, 1997
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MURDER BY THE BOOK was opened in 1978. When in Rhode Island come by and stop in for a visit. We are less than 1/2 mile from the airport. HOURS: Appointment Only
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MURDER BY THE BOOK
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