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Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G0091017505I3N00
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Vendeur : Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Hutchinson, London, UK. 1970. 338 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This unusual work, chronicling the history of Jonathan Wild, represents an effort to come to terms with one of the more amazing characters of English social history. Wild was both part of the policy system in eighteenth-century England, and also one of the most adroit criminals of the age. In the 1720s, London suffered the worst crime waves in its history. Civic corruption took place on a staggering scale. The government's answer was to pay a bounty for the capture of robbers, thus creating a class of professional informers. Wild was applauded as the most efficient thief hunter and gang breaker in British society; but his own posse of thief catchers was basically a front behind which he was able to control the underground world, through a complex system of blackmail, perjury, and terror which the book details. All who opposed him were betrayed to the law, and in the struggle for power Wild sacrificed several hundred of his own people to the hangman. No one since his time, with the exception of Lavrenti Beria of the late Stalin era GPU so nearly succeeded in bringing the underworld under the control of one system of power. At one level, this is a biography of the world's first supercriminal. At another, it is a sociology of criminal behavior and its political consequences. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 338 pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 73844
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Vendeur : Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, Etats-Unis
Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good, Slightly Frayed DJ. First Edition. 338pp. Illus. (loc 266/1). N° de réf. du vendeur 22315
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Vendeur : Anybook.com, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Etat : Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:0091017505. N° de réf. du vendeur 9970245
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Vendeur : Amnesty Bookshop - Brighton, Brighton, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Dust jacket has damage on inside flaps, otherwise excellent. Please note that, depending on destination, we may request a payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. AbeBC2549. This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1764776926761
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Vendeur : Oast Park Books, Southend -on- Sea, ESSEX, Royaume-Uni
1970. Hutchinson. First. Hard Cover. Book-VG. DJ-VG, slightly smaller than book! 9.5x6. 338pp 18 b/w illus + frontis. Ex-Libris, public. N° de réf. du vendeur 40036
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