The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art
Toronto: Viking Canada, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #004663
Quarter teal cloth, grey cloth boards. xiii, 220 pp. [4] pp. colour plates. B&W photos in-text. Light rubbing to spine ends, a few scuffs to fore edge of text block. Some light bumping to extremities of dust jacket, else a fine copy. In the annals of art theft, no case has matched - for sheer criminal panache - the heist at Ireland's Russborough House in 1986. The Irish Game places the great theft in the context of Ireland's troubled history and follows the thread that led, as a direct result of Martin Cahill's desperate adventures with Russborough art, to his assassination by the IRA.
Price: $30.00