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The Big Con: The Story of The Confidence Man and The Confidence Game by MAURER, David W - 1940

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The Big Con: The Story of The Confidence Man and The Confidence Game by MAURER, David W - 1940

The Big Con: The Story of The Confidence Man and The Confidence Game

by MAURER, David W

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Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Endpapers negligibly foxed, still easily fine in a bright and attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a moderate-sized accordion tear (which has been flattened) on the rear panel. A fascinating and exceptionally uncommon non-fiction account of con-men, and the definitive work on the subject. It was the primary reference used by David S. Ward for his original screenplay for the film *The Sting*. Maurer managed to effect a settlement with the studio when he showed that a single line from the book was identical to one of the stage directions. An important antecedent to one of the best films of the past few decades. The 1973 George Roy Hill-directed film featuring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay. Scarce in jacket.
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  • Publisher Bobbs-Merrill
  • Place of Publication Indianapolis / New York
  • Date Published 1940
  • Keywords Mystery, BooksIntoFilm

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slight crease on the spine else fine in a nice, very good plus, spine-faded dustwrapper with some rubbing at the extremities. The author's first book, basis for the George Hill film *Min and Bill*, with a screenplay by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson and featuring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery in their first foray as an unlikely romantic duo. Dressler won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Min over fellow nominees Irene Dunne, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, and Ann Harding. The Dressler-Beery partnership proved so appealing that they were reunited three years later in both *Tugboat Annie* and *Dinner at Eight*. Lorna Moon bore a son out of wedlock to director William DeMille, with the child being raised by Cecil B. DeMille. After the child was born, Moon was in dire straits and her close friends Frances Marion and Mary Pickford helped to get the book published, and successfully pushed to have… Read More
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Indianapolis / New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Modest wear to the boards, very good in an about very good dustwrapper with modest loss at the spine ends, and several internal mends. Basis for the 1939 William Keighley film featuring James Cagney as an unjustly imprisoned reporter, and George Raft as a hard-as-nails mobster he turns to for help. Exceptionally scarce in jacket.
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[Indianapolis]: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1912. First edition. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in original blind embossed brown cloth, near fine, in dustjacket with Coles Phillips design from full page image in text, edgeworn with piece from top corner of front panel and small chips to spine ends. First edition. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford. 1 vols. 4to. In Dust Jacket. This book features Coles' famous "fadeaway girl": a figure whose clothing matched, and disappeared into, the background.
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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slight crease on the spine else fine in a nice, very good plus, spine-faded dustwrapper with some rubbing at the extremities. The author's first book, basis for the George Hill film *Min and Bill*, with a screenplay by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson and featuring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery in their first foray as an unlikely romantic duo. Dressler won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Min over fellow nominees Irene Dunne, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, and Ann Harding. The Dressler-Beery partnership proved so appealing that they were reunited three years later in both *Tugboat Annie* and *Dinner at Eight*. Lorna Moon bore a son out of wedlock to director William DeMille, with the child being raised by Cecil B. DeMille. After the child was born, Moon was in dire straits and her close friends Frances Marion and Mary Pickford helped to get the book published, and successfully pushed to have… Read More
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The Big Con : The Story of the Confidence Man

The Big Con : The Story of the Confidence Man

by David Maurer

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The Big Con

by David W. Maurer

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Big Con, The

by Maurer,David W

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Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man

Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man

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The Big Con: The Classic Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Trick

The Big Con: The Classic Story of the Confidence Man and the Confidence Trick

by David W. Maurer

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by Maurer David W

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