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119051Lyon A. Storck Éditeur 78 rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville et Paris G. Steinheil Éditeur 2 rue Casimir Delavigne. 1889. 110 pages. 3 planches hors-texte dont 1 dépliante. 245x16 Cm. Broché couvertures imprimées. Thèse soutenue le 21 juin 1889 par André Frécon à la faculté de médecine et de pharmacie de Lyon. Lauteur étudie les empreintes mettant en relief le rôle scientifique qu'elles jouent dans les expertises criminelles. L'ouvrage est illustré de quelques croquis dans le texte et comporte en outre trois planches : une empreinte de "pied intermédiaire" d'après Rohmer une planche dépliante montrant les divers points de la main humaine et enfin la dernière montre les "lignes papillaires du pied". L'exemplaire comporte un envoi autographe de l'auteur au Dr. Roux. Papier un peu bruni. Sinon; exemlaire en très bon état. Lyon, A. Storck Éditeur 78, rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville et Paris, G. Steinheil, Éditeur 2, rue Casimir Delavigne. 1889. unknown
1928205675New York: Boni and Liveright 1928. First edition. Small abrasion or erasure to front flyleaf; fine in a slightly edgeworn dust jacket with a couple of chips and a small ink spot on the front panel. 8vo 325pp; maroon ribbed cloth stamped in gilt. Developed out of the theories of Cesare Lombroso an analysis of criminality researched by Schlapp and written by Smith both of whom died shortly before publication. Boni and Liveright unknown
1927205647New York: Boni and Liveright 1927. First edition. Tips bumped otherwise fine and fresh nearly as new in dust jacket. 8vo 306pp; black cloth. McAdoo chief magistrate of the City of New York compiled this volume from original sources documenting several "notorious public characters murderers traitors pirates mutineers incendiaries defrauders rioters forgers highwaymen footpads pickpockets swindlers receivers and extortioners" as given in The Criminal Recorder of 1804. Tyburn was the infamous site of London's gallows. An exceptionally nice copy of a scarce book. Boni and Liveright unknown
199759160Richmond VA: For the Author 1997. 8vo. viii 150 a-l 151-310 pp. Including photo plates illustrations double-page map. Blue cloth gilt lettering w/ d.j. very slight closed tear at head of spine still F/NF copy inscribed by author to Norm Moore from the library of Norm Moore. First edition inscribed No. 20 of 750 copies printed. The Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency was created in the 1890’s by William Gibboney Baldwin as the Virginia & West Virginia Railroad Detectives later changed to Iron & Coal Police of West Virginia and in 1910 finally changed to Baldwin-Felts Detectives when Thomas Lee Felts became partner. This book is a history of the Agency who figured significantly in the 1906 Brownsville Raid the 1912 Hillsville tragedy the 1913 Colorado Coal Strike and the 1920 Matewan massacre along with the Hatfield & McCoys feud and chasing down moonshiners. For the Author, hardcover
191060774Dayton OH: Police Pension Fund Printed by Otterbein Press 1910. Tall 8vo. 244 pp. Photo frontisp. of police headquarters several photogravure portraits with photo plates throughout some illustrated ads including National Cash Register Co. Otterbein Press Dayton Journal etc. Pebbled blue cloth over beveled boards gilt lettering front cover & spine decorated endpapers minor edgewear rubbing to corners couple closed tears still VG copy w/ No. 457 limitation tipped-in and from the library of George B. Ewald 1863-1954 City of Dayton Ohio city clerk and later head of the Montgomery County auditor’s department. First edition of this very uncommon Progressive Era police department history issued to raise funds for the nascent pension fund for Dayton Ohio police officers in the first decade of the 20th Century. The Dayton Police Department was at the cutting edge during the Progressive Era not only hiring and incorporating African-Americans and Women into their police force but also one of the earliest in the U.S. to adopt the Bertillon System for criminal identification pre-dating fingerprint identifications by 15 years and in 1879 was one of the earliest to require photographs taken of all arrested “noted criminals and suspicious characters.†This work contains an excellent photograph of William Jenkins b. 1865 the first African-American hired by the Dayton OH police in 1898 and would continue serving with the city until 1917 when he was forced to retire after suffering serious injuries arresting four of six members of the notorious local “Alabama Gang†in November 1916. Renowned for running down suspects his left hand right hip and eye nerves were injured in the fight and after retirement became a security guard for National Cash Register. The second African-American was Ptl. Lucius Rice b. 1876 who had recently been appointed patrolman in 1909 after serving with Company C of the Ohio National Guard winning in 1908 the government medal for marksmanship rose to Sergeant in 1916 the first African-American to hold a supervisory rank and continued his career until killed in the line of duty after a 1939 shoot-out with a suspect. Of additional interest are the second and third Dayton OH police department employees Ida Van Skaik d. 1922 who served as jail matron onsite and traded off 12 hour shifts with the other Kate Allen who served until 1927 and was the first policewoman to receive a pension from Dayton OH. This pension fund-raiser even includes photo and biography of the Central Police Station African-American maintenance man Lewis Edwards b. 1867 who had previously worked as a railroad brakeman before his appointment in 1906. Worldcat locates 5 copies Dayton Metro Green County OH Hist. Connect. Western Reserve Wright State. Police Pension Fund, [Printed by Otterbein Press], hardcover
191763188Salem OR: Oregon State Penitentiary 1917. 12mo. 3.75 x 6.8 in. 76 leaves unnumbered. bound in reverse chronological order each w/ two photo mugshots of prisoners on each leaf. Printed tan softcover post-binder brass split-pins at upper fore-edge minor dustsoiling edgewear light finger soiling still a VG copy. First edition thus of this exceedingly scarce “Escaped Prisoners Wanted†Progressive Era handbook designed to be expanded by the recipient bounty hunter bail bondsman peace officer or railroad operator in the decade leading up to World War I. Each of the Wanted notices includes the prisoner’s mugshots identifying marks known relatives and addresses arrival date charges physical description along with the $ 50.00 reward for arrest and detention -- nearly an average worker’s monthly salary so a significant sum. Typical of the sparse crime statistics at the time about 40% of these escapees had been originally convicted of larceny a number of others of armed burglary arson many con artist forgers horse thieves along with attempted rape rape sodomy and even supporting prostitution as indicated by Louis Sassman who escaped Sept. 19 1912. Oregon State Penitentiary had undergone some reforms after the restrictive Victorian era and by 1911 included a State Parole Board Capital Punishment was abolished in 1914 a Flax Mill was established inside the 14-foot walls to provide employment revenue and cut down on escapes from work gangs in 1915. Many of the escaped prisoners had previously served time in Western prisons such as San Quentin Montana State Penitentiary Washington State Penitentiary and OSP such as Louis J. Arstell Escaped August 14 1913 Michael McMurray C.H. Drocker Herbert Merithew James O’Brien Tim O’Brien and others. Many were Irish German Russian Scottish and other immigrants. However there was a Klamath Modoc Native American Joseph Johnson sentenced in Klamath County for Burglary and Albert Thompson a Black Mexican-American convicted on burglary charges in Umatilla County who escaped Nov. 11 1911. Wardens during this decade included Berton K. Lawson 1912-1914; then Harry Minto 1864 who believed the Progressive Reforms should be rolled back and treated prisoners to beatings isolation and harsh discipline only to be killed by escapee Otto Hooker Sept. 27 1915 not included in this booklet as Hooker subsequently died and was no longer at large; and Charles A. Murphy 1916-1917. No copies in Worldcat 1 similar with only 71 wanted mugshots from Sept. 15 1911-Nov. 4 1924 located at U of O; See: Margaret Cahalan Historical Corrections Statistics in the United States 1850-1984; Oregon State Penitentiary Finds Work Provesits Worth: Flax Works Chief Industry at Oregon State Nationally Known Christian Science Monitor April 21 1926. Oregon State Penitentiary, paperback
193250644New York: Harper & Brothers 1932. 8vo. ix 3 271 1 pp. Black cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. fantastic Art Deco cover art of woman in green begin squeezed by giant red hand slight shelfwear NF/NF copy. First edition 2nd printing B-G on verso of this semi-fictional memoir of the events and resulting trial of Henry Colin Campbell the Cranford New Jersey Torch Murderer. Although he portrayed himself as a respected doctor in Montclair NJ with his wife Rosalea he actually had three other wives one of whom he had murdered and in 1929 had murdered Mildred Mowry with whom he had courted and married through a Lonelyhearts Club. Rosalea was the last wife to see him and spent a half hour before his execution. Harper & Brothers, hardcover
193460209London: Longmans Green and Co. 1934-1936. Two vols. 8vo. xv 1 303 1; vii 1 305 1 pp. Uniformly bound in red publisher’s cloth black lettering on spine vol. I w/ revolver illust. on spine both vols. slightly cocked minor shelfwear slight bumping to corners vol. II w/ faint tidemark w/ d.j.’s. hard-boiled cover art of white on black of gangster on front of vol. I and 2nd story burglar on 2nd minor chipping heads of spines edgewear creasing price crossed out on vol. II replaced w/ 7/6 in pencil on front flap still VG-/VG- set. Novographic reprint “Cheap†editions of this ostensible autobiographical memoir regaling the British readers with Guest’s 1901-1975 life of crime from early theft and burglary rings along with confidence scams in the UK to rum-running bootlegging and eventual incarceration in San Quentin Prison in California. While violent mob violence as experienced by Chicago New York and environs during Prohibition was largely nonexistent in Great Britain the British newspapers awed readers with never-ending tales of American armed robberies and Guest under his Spenser pseudonym stepped into advise the British public an invasion of American gangsters was imminent with peaceful Britain open for the pickings. He also published an account of being held as a German POW during World War I under “An aukward marine.†All early printings are scarce and dustjackets even more so. Longmans, Green and Co., hardcover
193462202London: Arthur Barron 17 Fleet Street 1934. 8vo. ix 3 355 pp. Plum-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear rubbing slight sunning to spine w/ d.j. lightning bolt design cover art chipping edgewear old tape repairs minor scuffing still VG/G copy. First edition of this second autobiographical memoir by the famed grifter con-man criminal thief and compulsive liar. Lucas 1903-1940 ran cons from age 14 until his death under 38 different aliases who managed to climb the British social ladder more than once and who entertained one and all with his tales of crime and managed to cover himself with a lucrative career as freelance journalist converted criminal and criminologist. In this memoir bearing both of his pseudonyms he managed to entice Sir Purves-Stewart into writing his foreword diagnosing the author with a personality disorder from alcoholism. When translated into French it was discovered by Surrealist poets and re-issued as “Moi et Moi.†Exceedingly scarce in original dustjacket. See: Matt Houlbrook Prince of Tricksters: the Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas Gentleman Crook 2016. Arthur Barron, 17, Fleet Street, hardcover
193460177New York: Rae D. Henkle Publisher 1934. 8vo. 320 pp. Black cloth pictorial cover art and striking Art Deco lettering in red front cover & spine w/ d.j. pictorial cover art by Nat Falk & lettering in red on black field very slight shelfwear an exceptional NF/NF copy. First edition of this Great Depression Era prison reform memoir detailing the life story of career criminal John Goode and his continued downfall and numerous incarcerations over a career of many decades. Moved abruptly to Colorado in the 1870’s Goode ran away from home in 1875 becoming a “second story worker†for a band of yeggmen in Denver; two years later was sent to reformatory in Massachusetts for robbery before escaping twice; indentured to a fishing schooner off the Grand Banks before escaping; rustled cattle in New Mexico looted gambling halls in Colorado herded sheep in Wyoming and eventually repeated in prison sentences in Ohio for Highway Robbery as well as running pickpocket ring in New York. Henkle 1883-1935 editor of the New York Herald and prison reformer along with journalist Thelma Roberts believed his story should be told and dedicated the book to Goode’s mother and “all those who understanding that boys are at hear adventurers romancers brave little crusaders and help them to find the paths of right adventuring.†Scarce in original dustjacket. Rae D. Henkle, Publisher, hardcover
192762643New York: George H. Doran 1927. Tall 8vo. 256 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Purple-coloured publisher’s cloth blue & black printed labels front cover & spine minor shelfwear occasional interior foxing w/ d.j. minor darkening to spine upper fore-edge reinforced w/ old paper repair still VG/VG- copy. Fourth edition of these memoirs by Carlin d. 1930 who was responsible for forming the Scotland Yard Cabinet of the “Big Four†later “Big Five†who better coordinated crime detection with system of chief inspectors and superintendents. Carlin investigated such cases as the Brixton Taxicab Murder the Treacle-Plaster Robbery the Berkeley Hotel robbery and many others. Very scarce in original dustjacket. George H. Doran, hardcover
192762200New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1927. 8vo. x 2 282 2 pp. Frontisp. 7 plates. Navy-blue coloured publisher’s cloth ruled borders embossed in blind on covers gilt lettering on spine minor spotting & foxing to fore-edges occasional interior foxing slight shelfwear w/ d.j. Art Deco woodcut engraving of two prisoners attempting escape through cell stone floor minor chipping head & foot of spine slight sunning to spine dustsoiling still VG/VG copy. First American edition of this work recounting the famous true escapes of Nevison the dashing highwayman who escaped from Leicester gaol; Haggart the Scottish thief and murder who escaped four times; Cartouche who escaped from the Paris police Force and George Kelly who managed to escape tom the Tower of London. Exceedingly scarce in original dustjacket. Henry Holt & Co., hardcover
196158426Seattle WA: Sheriff & Police Reporter 1526 Ballard Way January 1961. 4to. 23 1 pp. order form as pp. 21-22 has been partially excised from use. Gold-coloured printed softcovers illustrated ads on back cover minor shelfwear rubbing retaining 1/3 of original order former still VG- copy w/ mailing label of John Esparzo 1923-2021 former Walla Walla Kelso & Cowlitz County deputy sheriff and owner of Consolidated Insurance Service. First edition thus of this surprisingly scarce and well-annotated bibliography & trade catalogue containing hundreds of titles in police science medico-legal subjects criminal psychology juvenile delinquency firearms sexual deviancy and criminal investigation assembled by the local Sheriff & Police Reporter magazine. Available volumes range from Forgery and Fictitious checks by Julius Sternitzky to Hans Gross’s classic Criminal Investigation. Kraft-Ebing Pscyhopathia Sexualis & Clifford Allen’s Sexual Perversion make appearances as well as Karpman’s The Alcoholic Woman. The Sheriff & Police Reporter had previously issued an earlier bibliography in 1955 in a similar format. No copies in Worldcat. Sheriff & Police Reporter, 1526 Ballard Way, paperback
193254896Huntington WV & Washington D.C.: Prisoners Relief Society 1932. 8vo. x 342 pp. With numerous photo plates text illustrations. Textured blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering stamped on front cover & spine very minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art image of the West Virginia penitentiary gate minor chipping head & foot of spine wear to corners VG/VG copy. First edition of this gripping memoir by former prisoner convicted of manslaughter describing the deplorable conditions of West Virginia Penitentiary which Dudding describes as a vermin-infested “damnation.†Of particular interest are his extended essays on metabolic imbalances poor brain chemistry and drug abuse as contributing factors to crime along with unwanted pregnancies and marrying too young often resulting in delinquent progeny. Prisoners Relief Society, hardcover
194462941Charleston WV: L.D. Hatfield Jarrett Printing Company 1944. 8vo. 47 1 pp. With numerous photo illustrations. Illustrated tan softcovers lettering in red & black woodcut engraving of the Hills along the Tug Fork River minor dustsoiling age toning slight foxing to title page still a VG copy. First edition 1st issue w/ illustrated softcovers of this informative account by a descendant of the notorious “Captain Anderson Devil Anse Hatfield and the events surrounding and continuing the notoriously bloody feud in the Southern Appalachians covering Kentucky and West Virginia along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. Beginning with the murder in 1865 of Asa Harmon McCoy the families would exchange kidnappings killings lynchings and court cases over the ensuing decades eventually ending with the trial and conviction of eight of the Hatfield clan and their supporters. [L.D. Hatfield, Jarrett Printing Company], paperback
192360205New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1923. 8vo. viii 2 301 1 pp. Beige publisher’s cloth black lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art of London downtown at night minor dustsoiling shelfwear still NF/NF copy. First edition of this exaggerated work tracking the dope and cocaine dens and trade in London investigations from the CID con men and grifters card sharps women thieves and more by the Yellow Journalist Felstead. Much of his focus was on the supposedly “depraved†activities of the Soho nightclubs but mostly in order to sell papers amplified fairly typical “desparate petty & occasionally vicious†crime in the area. See: Simon Fowler in Mike Paterson’s London’s Crime Center London Historians’ Blog 2021. E.P. Dutton & Co., hardcover
193762195Philadelphia: David McKay Co. 1937. 8vo. 320 pp. Photo frontisp. Black cloth red lettering on spine slight shelfwear w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art of police evidence revolver nightstick & microscope by Charles E. Pont 1898-1971 noted cover art illustrator etcher and engraver minor scuffing to upper fore-edge small tears on back cover slight scuffing still NF/VG- copy. First edition of this anthology of true-crime criminology cases by the Hubin-listed author who has drawn the cases from Scotland Yard the FBI and others including such famed ones as the Urschel kidnapping Case the murder of Miss Holland in the Old Moat Farm which was a baffling Scotland Yard Case and many others. David McKay Co., hardcover
193560175Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Co. The Riverside Press 1935. 8vo. xii 2 433 1 pp. Half-orange cloth over black black lettering on spine minor shelfwear very slight wear to corners w/ d.j. wraparound Art Deco cover art by Cosimini couple minor closed tears edgewear VG/VG- copy. First Houghton Mifflin edition in English of these memoirs by the French criminal turned detective considered to be the originator of modern criminology founded the Brigade de Surete under Napoleon now the Surete Nationale and was the first modern private detective. His picaresque exploits inspired such writers as Edgar Allan Poe Victor Hugo Honre de Balzac Arthur Conan Doyle and so many others were originally issued with the assistance of an expansive ghostwriter in December 1828 selling over 50000 copies. Scarce in the original jacket. Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press, hardcover
198962162El Segundo CA: Upton & Sons Publishers 1989. Tall 8vo. 347 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo and text illustrations. Light blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering minor toning to fore-edges w/ d.j. cover art of Boone Helm grave marker & Tom Cover photo still VG/NF copy from the library of Tom Koenninger 1932-2010 former editor managing editor journalist for The Columbian newspaper and board member on the Vancouver National Historic Trust. First edition of this work tracing the life of gold miner vigilante and later Riverside CA founder and orchard grower Tom Cover. He and his partners had made the big gold strike in Virginia City Montana Territory gracked down and hung the Plummer gang including Sheriff Henry Plummer and Boone Helm witnessed the murder of John Bozeman and later settled in Los Angeles. Thrapp posits that the Helm family members finally exacted revenge upon Cover during a prospecting trip in 1884 into the Colorado Desert as he disappeared in Sept. 1884 and was never heard from again. Upton & Sons, Publishers, hardcover
2023Discovery-9783031191510Palgrave Macmillan 2023. Paperback. New. Palgrave Macmillan paperback
2023Discovery-9783031191510Palgrave Macmillan 2023. Paperback. New. Palgrave Macmillan paperback
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1981ZB393281Blackwell Pub. 1981-2002. volumes 18-19 21-28 30-33 37-40; complete volumes bound ex library; PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Blackwell Pub. unknown
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