"Yellow Kid" Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler (Classic Reprint)
- ISBN-10
- 0243118864
- ISBN-13
- 9780243118861
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-01-22
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Author
- Joseph R. Weil
Description
Excerpt from "Yellow Kid" Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler I ever met the Yellow Kld, I had heard of hlm. Hls ascmated me. I had a yen to know the mside story he abulous tales I heard and read ln the newspapers. Tarted to dlg, I learned that the Kld had been a figure 1rcles so long, that he had become a legend. Crtmmolo 'voted con51derable space ln thelr books to hrs explmts was thud person stuff, based on a mlxture of fact, rumor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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