Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend
by Harold Schechter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0345476816
- ISBN 13
- 9780345476814
- Seller
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post falls, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
U S. A.: Ballantine Books. Fine/Fine. 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. 0345476816 381pp including bibliography and index Stated first edition with full number line A few illustrations The fascinating true crime story of two brothers--Samuel Colt the renowned gun maker and his criminal brother, John .
Synopsis
Harold Schechter is a professor of American literature and culture at Queens College, the City University of New York. He is widely celebrated for both fiction and true-crime writing, including The Devil's Gentleman and The Serial Killer Files . He lives in Brooklyn and Mattituck, Long Island, with his wife, the poet Kimiko Hahn.
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Details
- Bookseller
- First Choice Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94456
- Title
- Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend
- Author
- Harold Schechter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine/Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0345476816
- ISBN 13
- 9780345476814
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- U S. A.
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- Colt, Ohn, Caldwell, 1810-1842, Murder-new, York, (State)-new, York, Colt, Sammmuel, 1814-1862, Inventors-United, States, Gunmakers, True, Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;
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