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MAURER, DAVID. The Big Con. 8vo, publisher's red cloth, covers and spine bright and attractive, some spotting to top and fore-edges; dust jacket, light overall surface rubbing, few insignificant nicks, still bright with no chips or tears; internally clean but for some faint foxing to endleaves, pp. 265-68 roughly opened with small paper loss to blank margin of one leaf. Indianapolis/New York: Bobbs-Merrill, (1940)
scarce first edition in unrestored dust jacket. Secondary source material for the extremely successful 1975 Paul Newman and Robert Redford film The Sting. Maurer's fascinating account of the American underworld focusing on various confidence games, their perpetrators and marks. Stands with Jack Black's earlier account You Can't Win as a nonpareil chronicle of a distinctly American subculture now long-since vanished.
