![MAURER, DAVID W. 1906-1981. The Big Con. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1940].](http://images2.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2012-08/27/8606893-5-1.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "MAURER, DAVID W. 1906-1981. The Big Con. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1940]. Estimate: US$ 2,500 - 3,500 £1,700 - 2,300 €1,900 - 2,700")
MAURER, DAVID W. 1906-1981.
The Big Con. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1940].
Original red cloth stamped in gilt, dust jacket. Free endpapers and first and last blanks toned and foxed, top edge foxed, verso of jacket lightly spotted and neatly repaired; still, an unusually bright, attractive copy.
FIRST EDITION of Maurer's important underworld study, a source for the Paul Newman and Robert Redford film, The Sting.
Original red cloth stamped in gilt, dust jacket. Free endpapers and first and last blanks toned and foxed, top edge foxed, verso of jacket lightly spotted and neatly repaired; still, an unusually bright, attractive copy.
FIRST EDITION of Maurer's important underworld study, a source for the Paul Newman and Robert Redford film, The Sting.
Estimate:
US$ 2,500 - 3,500
£1,700 - 2,300
€1,900 - 2,700
£1,700 - 2,300
€1,900 - 2,700
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