The Bogey Man: The Exploits of C.J. Chuck, Australia's Most Unpopular Cop
by Kelly Vince
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1956. xii. 209 pages. B/w frontispiece and many other b/w photos. Slight foxing on endpapers and fore-edge. Inscribed to Harry Magney, a police superintendent in Sydney. Signed and dated by the author and C.J. Chuck. Scarce with these signatures. *"Engaged in the suppression of vice, illegal gambling, drug-running and sly-grog selling, he (Chuck) became a bogeyman to the racketeers and addicts because of methods of detection peculiarly his own" (from the foreword by the then NSW Attorney-General, W.F. Sheahan).. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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- Bookseller
- Tapsell's Books and Music (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8071
- Title
- The Bogey Man: The Exploits of C.J. Chuck, Australia's Most Unpopular Cop
- Author
- Kelly Vince
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Crime. Police. Vice. Drug-Running. Illegal Gambling.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australiana; Biography; True Crime;
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