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Thief-Taker General: The rise and fall of Jonathan Wild
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0091017505I3N00
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Thief-Taker General The rise and fall of Jonathan Wild
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # 73844
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THIEF-TAKER GENERAL
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Hutchinson, 1970
ISBN 10: 0091017505
ISBN 13: 9780091017507
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Seller: Austin Book Shop LLC, Richmond Hill, NY, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Slightly Frayed DJ. First Edition. 338pp. Illus. (loc 266/1). Seller Inventory # 22315
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Thief-Taker General: The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Wild
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # 9970245
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Theif-Taker General
Published by
Hutchinson, 1970
ISBN 10: 0091017505
ISBN 13: 9780091017507
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Seller: Amnesty Bookshop - Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # ABE-1764776926761
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THIEF-TAKER GENERAL: THE RISE AND ALL OF JONATHAN WILD.
ISBN 10: 0091017505
ISBN 13: 9780091017507
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Seller: Oast Park Books, Southend -on- Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
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1970. Hutchinson. First. Hard Cover. Book-VG. DJ-VG, slightly smaller than book! 9.5x6. 338pp 18 b/w illus + frontis. Ex-Libris, public. Seller Inventory # 40036