taylor captain meadows (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Good condition hard cover, with fair condition jacket, some wear to cover and spine, internally clean and tidy and in a good readable condition.

Red Cloth. Zustand: FIne. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: in fine dust jacket. First Edition. "Confessions of a Thug uses the tools of fiction to tell a story of fact. Captain Taylor, in the service of the Nizam of Hyderabad for most of his career, was one of the pioneer investigators into Thuggee, which sprang from worship of Bhowani, the destroyer goddess of the Hindus. Her disciples were rewarded with the "right" to kill by strangulation. In effect this worship was an excuse for murder and profit. It was not until 1560 that Thuggee had been stamped out.

Small 8vo. x, 277, (1) pp. Publisher's russet cloth backed printed boards, gilt lettered to the spine. Some wear to the boards, light spotting to the front and rear leaves, else very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 7.5 x 5", half brown leather, gilt spine lettering, marbled boards, xxiv, 324, 338; 424pp. EX-LIBRARY (Stratford-Upon-Avon, never checked out) with library numbers in gilt on the spine, leather scuffed/scraped, boards rubbed, corners and spine tips bumped and worn, inner hinges cracked, outer hinge of volume III cracked, scattered spotting and soiling else good. A novel set in India based on the true events of the thugs/thugees who were robbers, con men and murderers who were greatly feared by residents and travelers alike. An immediate bestseller. FIRST EDITION. Complete sets are very SCARCE.