Search Results: the genteel murderer by norman charles

Collier AS 490, 1963. VG -. paperback

UsedVeryGood. Dust jacket has only light wear. Clean pages with no underlining or highlights.

New York: Macmillan. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. 1956. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 175 pp., Inscribed & signed by the author on the front free endpaper. .

NY: Macmillan, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing. Very good; dust jacket small edge tears, soil, chip missing, good. 8 vo. (xii) 175 pp. Frontis, black cloth-backed boards..

New York: MacMillan. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1956. First Printing. Hardcover. DJ has very small tears to the spine corners, very slight wear to the outer corners and spine ends, and very slight rubbing to the rear. ; Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, signed with first name only, to Carl & Betty [author Carl Carmer and his wife]. .

N.Y.: Macmillian Publishing Co,, 1956. 1st edition, so stated. Fine in dust jacket with some minor wear at folds, very light chipping at head and foot of spine, lightly soiled at rear. Although both corners of front flap are clipped, the $3.75 price is intact. Includes a frontis portrait plate. In this unique biographical adventure, Charles Norman has gone to original sources to give us Thomas Griffiths Wainewright's life, his homicidal activities, his ingenious forgeries, his suspenseful trials and final retribution. Thomas Griffiths Wainewright was a journalist, critic, wit, forger and murderer; a friend of Charles Lamb; he hobnobbed with Coleridge, Dickens, DeQuincey. Charles Dickens visited him in Newgate prison. He also murdered his uncle, his mother-in-law and his sister-in-law -- he was apparently averse to harming strangers.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Bock, Vera. Book.

New York: Macmillan, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.