The Van Meegeren Mystery: A Biographical Study

First edition.  204pp, plus black and white plate illustrations.  Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. 8vo.  Cloth a little rubbed and rounded at spine ends, slight sheflwear, sunned on spine.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. This is the story of Dutchman Han Van Meegeren (1889-1947), an art dealer who sold fake paintings to Nazi leaders during the second world war: he considered himself a national hero rather than a Nazi collaborator, with one of his fakes taking in Hermann Goring himself.