The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Game
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1940.
First edition, first printing. 300 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Fine with a little offsetting to endpapers, contents clean and bright, in an excellent unclipped dust jacket with hardly any sunning, light wear at tips and a little rubbing along spine folds, very Near Fine. An uncommonly attractive, sharp copy of a work often found in rough shape with sunned jackets. The well-written, engaging sociology work about con artists-- emphasis on the "artist"-- that was the basis for the multiple award-winning film The Sting featuring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Price: $5,000.00
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