Skip to content

Hoaxers and Their Victims.

Hoaxers and Their Victims.

Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Click for full-size.

Hoaxers and Their Victims.

by Yapp, Nick

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
See description
ISBN 10
0860517810
ISBN 13
9780860517818
Seller
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
Item Price
£9.52
Or just £8.57 with a
Bibliophiles Club Membership
£20.11 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 12 to 30 days

More Shipping Options

Payment Methods Accepted

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • PayPal

About This Item

London: Robson Books, 1992. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), black & white photos centre spread, spine lettering jacket little faded (flaps little foxed), minor edgewear. 231 pp. Nick Yapp provides an entertaining examination of hoaxes and hoaxers, including the famous Cottingley Fairies, Piltdown Man and the Hitler diaries. Includes chapters on the psychology of both hoaxers and victims, and on the prevalence of hoaxing. And what is the blurred boundary line between faking and copying a painting?

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the specific copy you purchased!

Details

Bookseller
Bookhome Sydney AU (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #
17641
Title
Hoaxers and Their Victims.
Author
Yapp, Nick
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0860517810
ISBN 13
9780860517818
Publisher
Robson Books
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1992
Keywords
criminology, deception, fraud, hoaxes
Bookseller catalogs
CRIMINOLOGY;

Terms of Sale

Bookhome Sydney

Parcels posted within Australia by Australia Post. Overseas parcels from Australia posted by Air Mail with full tracking (about 10 to 30 days delivery, but delays in post possible). Expertly wrapped. Genuine guarantee. We request extra postage for heavy books.

About the Seller

Bookhome Sydney

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales

About Bookhome Sydney

Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Octavo
Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...

This Book’s Categories

tracking-