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American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles (SIGNED and DATED)
by Thomas Keneally
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385501390
- ISBN 13
- 9780385501392
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About This Item
New York / Boston: HarperCollins, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. SIGNED and DATED by the author "May 3, 2002", the first day of publication, directly on the title page in blue ballpoint pen and inscribed "To Lennie / Enjoy this strange tale." First edition, first printing, with "First Edition / May 2002" stated on the copyright page with full number line beginning with "1". Dust jacket has the publisher's $27.50 price on front flap. FINE book in NEAR FINE dust jacket. Both the book and the dust jacket are nearly pristine and as new. But the book has a very slight bump at the top corner of the rear spine fold with matching slight creasing and a tiny closed tear at the top edge of the rear panel of the dust jacket. The jacket also has a slight touch of wear along the top spine edge. Otherwise both the book and the jacket are in extraordinary flawless condition with no sunning or wear. Book's interior is pristine and pages appear unread. Jacket will come protected in a new archival mylar cover. .
Synopsis
Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple that wins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author of Schindler's List, creates a biography that is as lively and engrossing as its subject.Dan Sickles was a member of Congress, led a controversial charge at Gettysburg, and had an affair with the deposed Queen of Spain--among many other women. But the most startling of his many exploits was his murder of Philip Barton Key (son of Francis Scott Key), the lover of his long-suffering and neglected wife, Teresa. The affair, the crime, and the trial contained all the ingredients of melodrama needed to ensure that it was the scandal of the age. At the trial's end, Sickles was acquitted and hardly chastened. His life, in which outrage and accomplishment had equal force, is a compelling American tale, told with the skill of a master narrative.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Odysseus Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3891
- Title
- American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles (SIGNED and DATED)
- Author
- Thomas Keneally
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385501390
- ISBN 13
- 9780385501392
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York / Boston
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- collectible, signed, 1st edition
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- History; Signed Editions; First Printings;
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