ANNALS OF CRIME. The first editions of T. J. Wise

MacDonald, Dwight

Verlag: The New Yorker Magazine, New York, 1962

Beschreibung

Contained in The New Yorker, Nov. 10, 1962. Pp. 248(including numerous advertisements, mostly pictorial, several coloured); tall demy 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, edges a trifle rubbed, backstrip slightly chipped at extremities; some of the pages slightly browned, fore-corners of a few leaves faintly creased; The New Yorker Magazine, New York, 1962. *MacDonald's article, pages 168-205, is a comprehensive account of the Wise saga. It also contains the text of a 'Postscript' commissioned from John Carter by Carl H. Pforzheimer, intended for inclusion in Between the Lines: Letters and Memoranda interchanged between H. Buxton Forman and Thomas J. Wise. When that pamphlet was published by the University of Texas Press, Austin, in 1945, Carter's Postscript was not included. Pforzheimer owned some revealing correspondence between Wise and Harry Buxton Forman which he had shown to Carter in March 1935, stipulating that the contents remained unpublished until he gave his consent. In his Postscript Carter suggested that this 'withholding of evidence in so grave a matter as the responsibility of a fraud has not only obscured the face of truth and handicapped the progress of scholarship, but has even denied to innocent purchasers of the forgeries the grounds for legal action against their perpetrator, who lived for more than two years after the discovery of the decisive evidence' [p. 202]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 158062

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Titel: ANNALS OF CRIME. The first editions of T. J....

Verlag: The New Yorker Magazine, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1962