Item #21799 Forging his Chains: The Autobiography of George Bidwell, An Authentic History of His Unexampled Career in America and Europe, with the Story of His Connection with the So-Called £1,000,000 Forgery. George Bidwell.
Forging his Chains: The Autobiography of George Bidwell, An Authentic History of His Unexampled Career in America and Europe, with the Story of His Connection with the So-Called £1,000,000 Forgery

Forging his Chains: The Autobiography of George Bidwell, An Authentic History of His Unexampled Career in America and Europe, with the Story of His Connection with the So-Called £1,000,000 Forgery

Hartford: S.S. Scranton & Company, 1888.

First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 560 pp + illustrations, in publisher's maroon pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on front board. Ownership signature dated 1888 on front pastedown, two ink stamps of another owner on front free endpaper and flyleaf, some scuffing to boards. Binding tight, text clean. Bidwell was an American con man who masterminded a substantial theft from the Bank of England using forged bank notes.

Item #21799

Price: $75.00

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