Author: HART, MATTHEW
Title: The Irish game
Description: London: Chatto and Windus 2004. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 192 pages; Physical desc.:192 p. ; 20 cm. Summary: Vermeer. Goya. Rembrandt. Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For decades Sir Alfred and Lady Beit had lived peacefully at Russborough House in Ireland. Until people started stealing their paintings.Of all the canvases at Russborough. it was Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid that most caught the public's imagination. Twice stolen. once by an IRA sympathiser and then by notorious gangster Martin Cahill. it risked being lost from view forever. unless the Garda. together with Scotland Yard and some seasoned international art detectives. could contrive the perfect sting.Matthew Hart tells the riveting story of the theft and recovery of some of the world's most important art. finding new leads and unexpected connections in the mysterious underworld of international art crime.ISBN: 0701177551. Weight in Kg appr.:

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