PORTRAIT OF A BAD MAN; the Life and Death of Ronald Chesney
by Tom Tullett
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Sixteen photographs. Original bookseller's label to front paste-down. Edges show spotting. Clipped jacket is grubby with min
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Evans Brothers, London - first edition 1956 Hardcover with dust jacket Sixteen photographs. Original bookseller's label to front paste-down. Edges show spotting. Clipped jacket is grubby with minor nicks. GOOD book in GOOD dust jacket Black cloth-bound hardcover, 8.75" x 5.5", with gold type to spine, and price-clipped jacket. Ronald Chesney, international smuggler, blackmailer & murderer, lived a fantastic career as a larger-than-life buccaneer in Britain, Tangier & Casablanca.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26000
- Title
- PORTRAIT OF A BAD MAN; the Life and Death of Ronald Chesney
- Author
- Tom Tullett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Sixteen photographs. Original bookseller's label to front paste-down. Edges show spotting. Clipped jacket is grubby with min
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Evans Brothers, London - first edition
- Date Published
- 1956
- Pages
- 196 pages
- Keywords
- murder smuggling ranson prison theft
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pegasus Book Orphanage
Biblio member since 2016
McCrae, Victoria
About Pegasus Book Orphanage
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