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Banvard's folly : thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity and rotten luck
by
Paul Collins
About this title: History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins. But what about the others with similarly revolutionary ideas, but who plummeted into oblivion? Here are the extraordinary, and inspirational, lives of thirteen 'losers' who achieved great heights in their lifetimes only to then meet crushing defeats. There is the man who discovered N-rays only to be eclipsed by X-rays; the 'Fenian Ram', a submarine built by Irish immigrants in Mahattan to cross the Atriantic and sink the British fleet; the Frenchman behind a doomed universal language based on musical tones; the unknown and ...
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Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
by
Collins, Paul
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UNITED KINGDOM
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: New. THIS IS A PAPERBACK. Dusty with some rubbing or bumping. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. read more
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Banvard's Folly
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Paul Collins
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Very Good. No major defects-unabridged, clean, complete, not falling apart; some light wear. A perfectly good reading or reference copy. read more
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Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
by
Paul Collins
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Good. PAPERBACK COPY. Clean and tight, covers lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine creased. Clean and sound with some reading wear. Over twenty years selling secondhand books. read more
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Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
by
Collins, Paul
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Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardback with dust wrapper.
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Fine in Near Fine (Clipped) jacket. 13 inventors and innovators who didn't quite make it. Illustrated with mono photos. read more
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Banvard's Folly
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Collins, Paul
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: Picador, London
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Near Fine in Good jacket. Clean, bright copy in price-clipped jacket. Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck. A study of thriteen people who have been world famous, and lost their fame, or failed miserably in some way or the other. Previous Radio 4 Book of the Week. Next post UK dispatch. read more
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Banvard's Folly
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Collins, Paul
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: 2001. Picador. First GB. VG/VG. 9x6. 287pp. 16 b/w illus. read more
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Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
by
Paul Collins
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
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Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
by
Paul Collins
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UNITED KINGDOM
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Fine. "Publisher: Picador Date of Publication: 2001 Binding: Hard Cover Edition: 1st Uk Edition Condition: As New/As New Description: 8vo-over 7"-9" tall 0330486888 Subtitle; " Thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck". " read more
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Banvard's Folly
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Paul Collins
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UNITED KINGDOM
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Very Good in Very Good Wrapper jacket. [Book Condition: Very Good / Dust Wrapper: Very Good Wrapper] read more
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Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
by
Paul Collins
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UNITED KINGDOM
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Very Good in Very Good Wrapper jacket. [Book Condition: Very Good / Dust Wrapper: Very Good Wrapper] read more
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Banvard\'S Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
by
Paul Collins
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UNITED KINGDOM
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: PICADOR
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Published by Picador in 2001. Hardcover. Number of pages: 304. Condition: Very Good. May show some slight signs of wear. #8297152 #29902 1WHI3-H 8297152 (#L74) read more
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Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
by
Paul Collins
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UNITED KINGDOM
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: PICADOR
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Hardback with D/J. USED, BUT IN GOOD CONDITION. 15829B3WHI3D* 7899617 1 (#25393-H32-39) read more
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Banvard\'S Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
by
Paul Collins
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UNITED KINGDOM
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: PICADOR
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Ex-Library Published by Picador in 2001. Dust jacket. Number of pages: 304. Condition: Very Good. May show some slight signs of wear. Ex-library book (usual stamps and marks). #25900 3WHI3X-D 8211709 (#G03-23) read more
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Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck (Isbn: 0330486888 / 0-330-48688-8)
by
Paul Collins
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Binding: Softcover
Date Published: Picador 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: BRAND NEW paperback. B/W photos. History will remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins: but what of the others with similarly revolutionary ideas. Among them, the eccentric panorama painter John Banvard, the delusional physicist Rene Blandlot ( who discovered the N-Ray) and the tragically overconfident Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland. read more
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Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
by
Collins, Paul
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UNITED KINGDOM
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hard Cover in a Dust Jacket
Publisher: Picador, London, United Kingdom
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Fine/Very Good (price clipped) 0330486888 8vo, 289 pages, illustrated. read more
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Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
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Collins, Paul
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Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Macmillan General Books, London, United Kingdom
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 0330486888 This book is in very good condition and is in its dust wrapper, which is also in very good condition. read more
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Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, & Rotten Luck
by
Collins, Paul
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USA
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 1st printing, 2001
Description: Very Good/Very Good hard cover. 12mo, boards, 286pp, illus. edgewear, scratches, crease marks, dust jacket. light shelfwear cover. stress at gutter title page, else, tight, clean, text. history. read more
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Banvard's Folly
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Paul Collins
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Good. Text is clean with some moderate exterior wear. read more
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Banvard's folly: thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity and rotten luck
by
Collins, Paul
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USA
Binding: Hard cover
Publisher: Picador, London
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780330486880
ISBN: 0330486888
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. x, 286 p., [16] p. of plates: ill., ports.; 23 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits. Includes bibliographical references. read more
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Banvard's Folly. Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck
by
Collins, Paul
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Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Picador, London
Date Published: 2001
Description: Octavo Size. MINT copy in like Dustjacket. A New Copy. Dustjacket protected in plastic sleeve. Illustrated with b/w plates.283 pages. read more
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Banvard's Folly Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck
by
Collins, Paul
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Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: Picador USA, New York, NY
Date Published: 2001
Description: TextIllus, B/W Photos, Illus. NEW! ! W/Dust Jacket 286pgs It's NEW! ! NO ink names, DJ tears etc. This is a NEW book. ISBN 312 26886 6. read more
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Banvard's Folly Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck
by
Collins, Paul
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USA
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: Picador USA, New York, NY
Date Published: 2001
Description: TextIllus, B/W Photos, Illus. NEW! ! W/Dust Jacket 286pgs It's NEW! ! NO ink names, DJ tears etc. This is a NEW book. ISBN 312 26886 6. read more
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Banvard's Folly Thirteen Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity, and Rotten Luck
by
Collins, Paul
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USA
Edition: 1st Edition 1st Printing
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: Picador USA, New York, NY
Date Published: 2001
Description: TextIllus, B/W Photos, Illus. NEW! ! W/Dust Jacket 286pgs It's NEW! ! NO ink names, DJ tears etc. This is a NEW book. ISBN 312 26886 6. read more
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Banvard's Folly: Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
by
Collins, Paul
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USA
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 23/11/2001
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