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1979006424Cambridge. MA.: Harvard Univ Pr 1979. 193pp. 19th Century Philadelphia. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harvard Univ Pr 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
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
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
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
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
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
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2026x-0198945469Oxford University Press 2026. Hardcover. New. 256 pages. 5.75x0.91x8.86 inches. Oxford University Press hardcover
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
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
1341362701.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
200667609Westport Connecticut: Praeger Security. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0275985458 . Still stiff to open in glossy illustrated boards; about new; 411 pages; This volume is the second part of a major scholarly examination of the processes that turn individuals into terrorists. Edited by James J. F. Forest a terrorism studies expert and former West Point instructor it focuses specifically on how terrorists are trained the methods environments curricula and psychological/operational preparation involved in building terrorist capabilities. The book is an academic evidence-based work drawing on open-source intelligence declassified documents court records and expert analysis. It avoids sensationalism and focuses on understanding the mechanics of terrorist preparation to inform counterterrorism policy and prevention. . Praeger Security hardcover
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1996CY-1Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1996. Scholarly text presents a fascinating account of how illegal drugs are transported into and around the United States and throughout its neighborhoods. Criminologist and geographer George F. Rengert takes a unique approach to the problem of illegal drug distribution and U.S. drug markets. Using maps and charts to illustrate his findings Rengert applies spacial diffusion models to the illegal drug trade and explains why certain drugs are transported and found in different parts of the country. For example the highest concentration of marijuana plants is not on either coast but rather across the middle of the United Statesthroughout what is known as the corn belt. At the local level Rengert assesses the patterns and processes that interconnect drug sales and neighborhood deterioration and change.The book also addresses the important issues of how illegal drugs in this country operate on wholesale and retail levels and ways in which law enforcement at the federal state and local levels contend with this widespread problem. Using ethnographic material to provide real-life examples Rengert explores how drug dealers on the street expand spatially and predictably in their neighborhoods. He illustrates how this knowledge helps law enforcement in efforts to get these drugs off the streets. 147 pp. Illustrated. Dustjacket in mylar. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . Westview Press Hardcover
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19280006246New York: Dodd Mead 1928. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12 plates. Small quarto viii 660 pages; blue cloth water spots on cover. <br/><br/>The original 1665 appearance of THE ENGLISH ROGUE "was a forbidden book copies being printed secretly and sold furtively at alehouses and such places." The Censors disapproved it for indecency. Kirkman later enlarged it. ER was the first book of English prose fiction that was translated into a continental language and it provoked a flood of imitators. 12 plates. Dodd, Mead hardcover
