Items related to Great Forgers and Famous Fakes

Great Forgers and Famous Fakes - Hardcover

 
9780517540763: Great Forgers and Famous Fakes
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
Charles Hamilton recognizes a faked signature and believes it to be easily identified, and so will the reader of this book-once he knows what to look for. This is information of immense value to the collector and historian. Well-executed forgeries and fakes have fooled dealers and collectors for more than a century. This thoroughly documented book, containing hundreds of examples that show how to identify the best that the most skillful forgers have produced, will provide the expert and the amateur with tools for self-protection. Great Forgers and Famous Fakes is also a chronicle of the careers of America's most adroit and colorful manuscript forgers, telling who they were and how they swindled their victims. The fascinating stories of forgers and their works include: -the poet who forged hundreds of Robert Frost manuscripts -the multimillionaire industrialist and founder of RCA who got his start as a forger-and years later got fooled by his own fake -the A! merican Nazi who forged John Howard Payne's "Home, Sweet Home" -a round-dozen forgers of Abe Lincoln's handwriting

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From the Author:
There is a darkling romance in the crime of literary or historical forgery. To fabricate the handwriting and thoughts of another person requires much more than adroit penmanship.

No European forgers ever put quill to foolscap who could equal the ingenious fabricators of America.

About the Author:
Charles Hamilton, world's foremost handwriting expert, forensic document examiner, and literary historian made full use of his more than half a century in the manuscript field to detail the secrets of forgers and famous fakes using over 400 illustrations. Hamilton, the author of eighteen books, passed away in 1996. His recent books are William Shakespeare & John Fletcher, Cardenio or The Second Maiden's Tragedy, The Hitler Diaries; and In Search of Shakespeare.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780944435403: Great Forgers and Famous Fakes: The Manuscript Forgers of America and How They Duped the Experts

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780944435403
Publisher: Glenbridge Pub Ltd, 1996
Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Rh Value Publishing
ISBN 10: 0517540762 ISBN 13: 9780517540763
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0517540762

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 112.19
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Rh Value Publishing
ISBN 10: 0517540762 ISBN 13: 9780517540763
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Grumpys Fine Books
(Tijeras, NM, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Prompt service guaranteed. Seller Inventory # Clean0517540762

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 112.50
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Rh Value Publishing
ISBN 10: 0517540762 ISBN 13: 9780517540763
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Save With Sam
(North Miami, FL, U.S.A.)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Brand New!. Seller Inventory # VIB0517540762

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 116.81
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds