The Confessions of Artemas Quibble: Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers.
by TRAIN, Arthur
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Full blind-embossed leatherette. 227pp. Frontispiece, 7 full-page plates (as called for). Very good. Wear and small edge chips at head and tail of spine. A tight and attractive later printing (first published 1911) of this courtroom thriller by a pioneer of that genre, a New York County assistant district attorney (1875-1945) who authored many legal fictions and immortalized attorney Ephraim Tutt.
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- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
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- Title
- The Confessions of Artemas Quibble: Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers.
- Author
- TRAIN, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1926
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- Books; American Literature;
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