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RAYNER, RICHARD Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist
New York, Doubleday. 2002, 1st Edition, 1st Printing. 0385499493 hard Cover with dust jacket. This 6.5 x 9.5 hard cover book has the author's name and title in gold lettering with a black and white photo of Oscar Hartzell on the cover. The extraordinary story of Oscar Hartzell has been all but forgotten and never told in full until now. Author Richard Rayner employs a wealth of original research and previously unseen documents to recreate a saga that stands out both for the sheer longevity and outrageousness of Hartzell's con and for what its amazing twists and turns tell us about the tens of thousands of solid American citizens who, crushed by the Depression, believed to death in the most outrageous frauds. 224 pages. 1st edition, 1st printing. Clean, unmarked copy with tight binding. Fine/Fine.
Offered for US$ 11.50 by: Connie Popek, Bookseller - Book number: K196