The Illustrated Story of Crime Tapa dura - 1976

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Qui'excuse, post script, bibliography, acknowledgements and index. Photographic endpapers, showing a montage of newspaper headlines of crimes. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs, contemporary illustrations and cartoons. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper, showing The Chamber of Horrors at Madam Tussaud's in London, with white and red coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. " The lure and fascination of crime is perennial. The criminal, the outlaw from society, however fail all repellent his crime, is still an irresistible figure. Some great criminals are being transformed into folk heroes: Ned Kelly, for example or Al Capone. So what quality is it that gives the criminal an a heroic stature and a unique all of glamour and notoriety ? In this… Leer más

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976-10-07. Hardcover. Good.