DU CANN, C. G. L. The Young Person's Complete Guide to Crime
DU CANN,Charles Garfield Lott. The Young Person’s Complete Guide to Crime. London: Grant Richards & Humphrey Toulmin. 1929. 12mo. First edition and only. Publisher’s black cloth with paper-covered boards and paper label spine, in the matching design dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, gently bumped around the spine tips, the paper a trifle nicked, the binding tight and square. A couple of small spots to the textblock edges, the contents largely clean, with an attractive bookplate for Harry Henry to the front endpaper, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (3/6 net) and complete, most edges rubbed and very slightly nicked, with a couple of neat tape repairs to the verso.
A handsome copy of this uncommon volume, one of a series of three similar books by the publishers, and this like those an impish self-help satire commending crime as a career—”the real truth is that crime is a highly respectable, semi-skilled, sheltered occupation”. For those who, when reaching middle age, haven’t quite made ‘it’, a journey into crime is a wholesome option and if caught, is prison life so poor an alternative? The satire is piercing and the prose Swiftian. A devilish little book. Uncommon in jacket.
DU CANN,Charles Garfield Lott. The Young Person’s Complete Guide to Crime. London: Grant Richards & Humphrey Toulmin. 1929. 12mo. First edition and only. Publisher’s black cloth with paper-covered boards and paper label spine, in the matching design dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, gently bumped around the spine tips, the paper a trifle nicked, the binding tight and square. A couple of small spots to the textblock edges, the contents largely clean, with an attractive bookplate for Harry Henry to the front endpaper, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (3/6 net) and complete, most edges rubbed and very slightly nicked, with a couple of neat tape repairs to the verso.
A handsome copy of this uncommon volume, one of a series of three similar books by the publishers, and this like those an impish self-help satire commending crime as a career—”the real truth is that crime is a highly respectable, semi-skilled, sheltered occupation”. For those who, when reaching middle age, haven’t quite made ‘it’, a journey into crime is a wholesome option and if caught, is prison life so poor an alternative? The satire is piercing and the prose Swiftian. A devilish little book. Uncommon in jacket.
DU CANN,Charles Garfield Lott. The Young Person’s Complete Guide to Crime. London: Grant Richards & Humphrey Toulmin. 1929. 12mo. First edition and only. Publisher’s black cloth with paper-covered boards and paper label spine, in the matching design dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, gently bumped around the spine tips, the paper a trifle nicked, the binding tight and square. A couple of small spots to the textblock edges, the contents largely clean, with an attractive bookplate for Harry Henry to the front endpaper, else clean. The dust jacket unclipped (3/6 net) and complete, most edges rubbed and very slightly nicked, with a couple of neat tape repairs to the verso.
A handsome copy of this uncommon volume, one of a series of three similar books by the publishers, and this like those an impish self-help satire commending crime as a career—”the real truth is that crime is a highly respectable, semi-skilled, sheltered occupation”. For those who, when reaching middle age, haven’t quite made ‘it’, a journey into crime is a wholesome option and if caught, is prison life so poor an alternative? The satire is piercing and the prose Swiftian. A devilish little book. Uncommon in jacket.