Clean first edition, first printing, SIGNED by authors, in clean unclipped dust jacket, with nice photo of both authors laid in. Clean yellow boards with brown cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. Bumped upper corner tips. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper as follows: "To Fran Heller, Thanks for all your interest and hard work. - Heln and Al Borowitz - April 13, 1991." All pages and edges are clean. Illustrated with glossy black and white plates. 272 pages with Index. Clean bright jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A tale of embezzlement and political intrigue, recounting the stormy history from id-nineteenth-century acquisition to late-twentieth-century rediscovery of the famous Campana art collection and the scandal spawned by the criminal offenses of its founder, Giovanni Pietro Campana. Title: PAWNSHOP and PALACES Author Name: BOROWITZ, Helen and Albert Edition: 1st Edition ISBN Number: 1560980109 ISBN-13: 9781560980100 Location Published: Smithsonian Institution Press: 1991 Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: u Jacket Condition: Fine Inscription: Signed by Author(s) Type: Book Categories: SIGNED Editions, Art, true crime Seller ID: 034118 Keywords: campana art collection, crime, first edition, giovanni pietro campana, signed by author albert and helen borowitz, true crime
