The Most Wanted Man; The Story of Ronald Biggs

Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: Photographic. author's note, acknowledgements and list of illustrations. Map illustrated endpapers, showing a map of the world and the routes taken by Ronald Biggs, in various countries, to avoid recapture after his escape. The text is illustrated with 16 black-and-white photographs, facsimiles of documents between pages 136 and 137. Black coloured boards with red titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with black and red titles to the front panel and backstrip. Colour photograph of Ronald Biggs to the rear dustwrapper panel. The story of Ronald Biggs and his many years of travelling to escape recapture after escaping an English jail in 1965. He participated in "The Crime of the Century" -- The Great Train Robbery in 1963 and its this robbery, its trial and its aftermath which is at the centre of this book. Rubbing of the book edges and panels. The top edge of the front panel has become a little torn. Cracking of the hinge between page VIII and 3. Tanning of the textblock edges and pages. Chipping of the dustwrapper corners with creasing of the panels. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with handling marks also present. There is a 4 inch tear to the lower left-hand corner of the front panel, and, in which a previous owner has supported with tape – and that the tape has bled to be seen on the front. Foxing to the verso. A previous owner has placed numerous newspaper clippings about Ronald Biggs loosely into the book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VIII, 296 pages, last page blank,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Britain; Law & Criminal Studies. ISBN: 0246108347. ISBN/EAN: 9780246108340. Inventory No: 0129660. . 9780246108340