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The Vendetta: Special Agent Melvin Purvis, John Dillinger, and Hoover's FBI in the Age of Gangsters
by Alston Purvis
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1586487418
- ISBN 13
- 9781586487416
- Seller
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Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
363 Pages. First Edition by the full number line. Softcover.
This is a very complete look into one of the early FBI's greatest agents, Melvin Purvis, written by his son.
The book's exterior has creases on the spine and on the front cover and has two worn corners and wearing areas on both the top and bottom edges. The interior book, however, is in a Fine condition with no visible extraneous markings, detriments, or other distractions throughout the book and it remains tightly glued into its cover.
If you should order this very interesting book from us, it will be carefully wrapped up and then mailed right away in a new padded envelope to you and will come with our honest appreciation for your order.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mountain Gull Trading Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1034
- Title
- The Vendetta: Special Agent Melvin Purvis, John Dillinger, and Hoover's FBI in the Age of Gangsters
- Author
- Alston Purvis
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1586487418
- ISBN 13
- 9781586487416
- Publisher
- Publicaffairs
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 05/05/09
- Pages
- 363
- Size
- 5 3/8" x 8 1/8"
- Keywords
- First Editions; Crime; FBI; Melvin Purvis; Gangsters
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Biographies; Crime Books;
Terms of Sale
Mountain Gull Trading Company
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About the Seller
Mountain Gull Trading Company
Biblio member since 2019
Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey
About Mountain Gull Trading Company
Mountain Gull Trading Company has been in business for over 20 years. We used to specialize in books on specific areas of American History as our store started as one that sold books to historical reenacting participants at historical reenactments, yet now we have evolved to carrying books on numerous other subject areas in addition to our American History core.
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- Fine
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