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The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket and boards have only slight wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The first biography of Adam Worth, the most famous criminal of the Victorian Age and the model for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's insidiously brilliant Professor Moriatry. Hardcover, xi, 336 pp., numerous photos, unclipped illustrated jacket. Minimal wear, no owner names or gift notes, clean text, tight binding, nice jacket.
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Very Good. Size: 8x6x1; [The Real Life Professor Moriarty] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Jacket creased. Clean, unmarked pages.
Edition:
No price on DJ, may be book club but is standard size
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Published:
1997
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13469939960
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Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling. 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! "