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The Devil and the Grafter: And How They Work Together to Deceive, Swindle and Destroy Mankind: an Army of 600,000 Criminals at War with Society and Religion

The Devil and the Grafter: And How They Work Together to Deceive, Swindle and Destroy Mankind: an Army of 600,000 Criminals at War with Society and Religion

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The Devil and the Grafter: And How They Work Together to Deceive, Swindle and Destroy Mankind: an Army of 600,000 Criminals at War with Society and Religion

by Woodbridge, Clifton R

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Chicago?: Unknown, 1907. Apparent First Edition. Hardcover. Poor+/None. Scarce. Three-quarter brown leather and green marbled boards with gilt titling on spine, 8vo., loss of leather on upper corner, cracking at hinges, miraculously boards still holding, but front pastedown paper torn 2 ins. at top. Front board bows up slightly at top. Binding is sound. Interior unmarked. Water stain to the corner of first 20 pages does not affect photos or text. Although there is a publisher's note, no publisher name or place given. Green marbled page edges. NOT a reprint or print-on-demand. BOOK INFO: The arch enemies of happiness and prosperity, the Devil and the Grafter: one is handled by the church; the other by the law. Leave it up to Woodbridge to herein expose the grafter's tricks. Woodbridge bills himself 'the World-Famous Criminologist and Detective, and the Incorruptible Sherlock Holmes of America,' who arrested 19,500 people. 'After eighteen years of heroic warfare and scores of hairbreadth escapes, in his unceasing battle with the devil and the grafter, Mr. Wooldridge tells in a graphic manner how wildcat insurance, fake mines and oil wells..ordinary gambling houses..fake banks, fortune tellers..and other criminals of all classes operate and how their organizations have been broken up and destroyed by hundreds. The work also contains Detective Clifton R. Wooldridge's Never-Fail System For Detecting and Outwitting All Classes of Grafters and Swindlers.' (from the title page) Illus. by B&W photographs of Woodbridge in costume and line-drawings with the devil's image superimposed in red. The book contains a trick of his own with the page numbers. Remarkable!

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Bookseller's Inventory #
7496
Title
The Devil and the Grafter: And How They Work Together to Deceive, Swindle and Destroy Mankind: an Army of 600,000 Criminals at War with Society and Religion
Author
Woodbridge, Clifton R
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Poor+/None
Quantity Available
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Edition
Apparent First Edition
Publisher
Unknown
Place of Publication
Chicago?
Date Published
1907
Pages
528

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