9780517540763 - Great forgers and famous fakes: The manuscript forgers of America and how they duped the experts de Outlet-book-company-staff-random-house-value-publishing-staff (11 resultados)

Condición: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, highlighting of text, writing in margins. No missing pages.

Condición: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. The item is showing use from the previous owner but works perfectly. Signs of previous ownership which could include: tears, scuffing, notes, excessive highlighting, gift inscriptions, slight water damage, a missing dust jacket, and library markings.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. B books about books: This regular size hardcover is fine an a near fine price clipped dj. Blue spine, light silver title.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 'The Manuscript Forgers of America & How They Duped the Experts.' 278pp. Many illus. By an authority in autographs. Contains some important lessons for lawyers. (loc 264/1).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Very Good dust jacket, gray with brown border. Small tear at head of spine and corner rub wear. A mylar dust jacket has been added. The Near Fine binding is red cloth over boards with black cloth-backed. Two small red ink marks on outside page edges on bottom and top. Does not affect any text. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 9.5" tall x 7.8" wide. Stated: First Edition About the book (from the dust jacket) Charles Hamilton calls the faked signature "easy to identify,"' 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 his 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 Cosey forgery above is identified on page 6). The fascinating stories of forgers their works include: --the poet who forged hundreds of -the multimillionaire Robert Frost manuscripts?the multimillionaire industrialist and founder of RCA who got his start as a forger?years later got fooled by his own fake?the American Nazi who forged Howard Payne's ""Home, Sweet Home"--a round-dozen forgers of Abe Lincoln's handwriting--the historian who faked a document to create a new national Independence Day--the great financier turned forger who fabricated even the autographs of his own friends---Thomas Chancellor, who sold a "unique" pocket bible inscribed by Stonewall Jackson and promptly sold eight more --Eugene Field II, the man who forged his father's poems---Clifford Irving, who came close to pulling off the hoax of the century with his autobiography of Howard Hughes. About the author (from the dust jacket) Charles Hamilton, the world's foremost authority on autographs, has made full use of his more than half a century in the manuscript field to detail these histories, using over 400 illustrations showing the differences between genuine and fake. Along with a chapter on "Thirteen Rules for Spotting Forgeries,'' this entertaining and intriguing book will be invaluable for collector, dealer, and scholar alike and will delight everyone with its accounts of literary and historical sleuthing.

Condición: good. 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Slightly Frayed. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with red gilt spine lettering and burgundy paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 278pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Red remainder dot on bottom page edges. Superb, tight and bright first edition of this absolute classic on autograph forgery detection -- and tipped to front flyleaf is an archival, decorative-edged bookplate signed large and bold by Hamilton in black fineline. Rather uncommon and a must-have reference.