Author Unknown: On The Trail Of Anonymous (Signed)

Don Foster

ISBN 10: 0805063579 / ISBN 13: 9780805063578

Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2000

About this Item

Stated First Edition (also with Number Line to 1). Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. This book is in excellent condition. Take a look at the photographs. The covers are spotless. They have little to no wear (slight wrinkling at the spine ends). The book is square, tight, and very solidly bound. The pages are exceptionally clean. I didn't see any soiling. No dogeared corners. No markings or attachments. The Dust Jacket is in excellent condition. It has a few very minor imperfections, a slight scuffing at the top of the middle edge and a light horizontal crease near the top edge of the rear cover. The jacket is NOT price-clipped. The flaps look great. The dust jacket will be fitted with a protective cover. Don Foster is a Professor of English literature at Vassar College. He has assisted with dozens of criminal investigations involving anonymous or pseudonymous writings, including the Unabom case, the "Army of God" bombings, and the Jon-Benet Ramsey homicide investigation'. 'Foster has invented an entire field of investigation: literary forensics. He solved a puzzle in Shakespeare's sonnets that had stumped scholars for centuries. He stumbled onto another literary mystery, a funeral poem written for a 1612 murder victim and was able to establish that the poet 'W.S.' was William Shakespeare. Just days later, he was invited to try to crack the case that at the time was a national obsession: who was the anonymous author of Primary Colors? In less than a week, Foster unmasked Joe Klein'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Author Unknown: On The Trail Of Anonymous (Signed)
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805063579
• ISBN 13: 9780805063578
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Law

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Synopsis

An English professor and literary detective describes his work in the field of literary forensics, explaining how his study of the use of language can help determine the writer behind a variety of anonymous documents, and discusses his successful efforts to identify the author of Primary Colors and his contributions to several high-profile criminal cases. 50,000 first printing.

About the Author

Don Foster is an English professor at Vassar College and lives in Poughkeepsie, New York.