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No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn with small crease to lower edge and traces of storage. Very scarce in the UK. 208pp. Murder mystery based on an archaeological finding.
First edition, 8vo (205 x 135 mm), 48pp., some light spotting, orig. green upper printed wrapper, lower wrapper missing, disbound. "Mayberry, knowing Alger was returning with a sum of money, met him on the road in Harmony, Wisconsin, and killed him with a hatchet while riding with him. Wisconsin had abolished the death penalty, and a mob seized Mayberry after his conviction and hanged him in the streets."?McDale. McDale, The Annals of Murder.
12mo (150 x 85 mm) 12pp., several leaves mounted on stubs, new boards. Thomas Roe and Benjamin Miller, neither having reached the age of 23, were executed on Wednesday, April 2nd, 1823, for highway robbery. They were both natives of Nottingham, and together with a youth named Thomas Brooks, only 19 years of age, assaulted and robbed Samuel Marriot, a labourer, in the employ of Messrs. Simpson, Brick-hill Farm, near Arnold. They would have murdered their victim had not his cries have brought several persons to his assistance. Brooks was admitted evidence for the Crown and was saved.
12mo (150 x 85 mm) 37, [1]pp., several leaves mounted on stubs, new boards. Henry Sanderson, Adam Adie and Robert Bamford, were for murder, on Friday, March 22, 1822. Sanderson was out shooting pheasants, when he was apprehended by William Carr, gamekeeper to Sir Thomas Wollaston White. While wrestling with the gun Carr was shot, but he lived just long enough to identify his assailant. Adie and Bamford underwent the penalty of the law for the murder of John Timms, aged 17. The three, along with William Knight, were out on the town, after they decided to go poaching but only just got passed Trent Bridge before it began to rain. They then abandoned their plan and went to the Three Horse Shoes public house. Here they argued who was to pay for the drink consumed, Timms, having treated them all in the afternoon, refused to pay more than his share. On the way home the three robbed Timms of his watch and three shillings in silver. Knight then knocked him down, and Adie threw him over the battlements of the bridge into the river Trent. Adie and Bamford were executed after Bamford confessed, but Knight could not be identified, and was consequently acquitted. NOT found on JISC or OCLC.
220 pages. Fiction: Botts Runs For His Life; Weddings are For Women; Slum Kid; Murder Island; Anything for a Pal; Broken Promise; The Disappearance of Dolan (conclusion); Nothing to Lose (part 5 of 8). Articles: A New Trap for Runaway Husbands - the Fugitive-Husbands Law; Loveliest Wilderness in the World - Kew Gardens - color photos; The Amazing Mr. Churchill - Wonderful Winston, the Prisoner of War, part 3 of 8; So That's What You Dream About!; The Man Who Sets Off Atom Bombs - Dr. Alvin Graves; Sardi's - New York's Glamorous Hash House; The Pilots Who Lost Their Wings - Japanese Pilots; The Curious Ways of Manhattan Cliff Dwellers; Will Blood Flow Next in Morocco?; Our Most Arrogant Bureaucrat - Michael Straus, Commissioner of Reclamation. Ads: Studebaker Trucks; New York Life; Allis-Chalmers electric motors; Nescafe; American Gas Association ad features Mrs. Leslie Bonney of Cambridge, MA, Mrs. R.B. Butler of Tulsa OK, and Mrs. Geraldine Work of Santa Cruz, CA; Motorola radios; General Motors; Westinghouse Appliances; Ford cars; Inland Ice Cube Trays; Packard Cars - nice 2-page color-photo ad; General Electric Appliances; Eaton Truck Axles; Crosley Fridges - with Faith Baldwin; Handsome color United Air Lines ad; Great two-page color TWA ad; Nice two-page color Nash auto ad features the Ambassador Custom; Pall Mall cigarettes; Two-page color Chevrolet ad; Nice one-page color ad for Jarman shoes; Nice one-page Squibb ad shows faithful dog holding child's dress to prevent her from running into street; Nice one-page color ad for movie 'Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick' starring Dinah Shore; Two-page GMC truck ad; Color photo of Randolph Scott in ad for Stereo Realist 3D cameras; Olympic televisions; Permutit water softeners; Clorets; Johnston Lawn Mowers; Telechron clocks; Majestic Rotomatic lawnmowers; Homko mowers; Nice one-page two-color ad for Jacobsen power lawn mowers; Johnson outboard mowers; Nice one-page color ad for Fatima cigarettes features noted sportsman-engineer Paul Henry; Coke ad on back cover shows empty bottles and caps on counter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Gray leatherette cover with red spider web design on front and spine. 350 pages. 5 1/8"w x 7 5/8"h.
Features include: Five Hundred Miles to Freedom - the story of nine survivors of the Japanese capture of Rabaul; The Land Sharks - Would-be settlers in Canada fall victim to wonderful stories from plausible strangers of how to 'get rich quick'; Man-Eater - A former member of the Burma Frontier Service describes the eventful career of a tiger; Vale of the Gods - a curious blend of immemorial ritual and popular merrymaking in the Northern Punjab; The Ju-Ju Doctor - The facts of an amazing occurence on the Gold Coast; The Dragon - Author gets the scare of his live on an East Indian Island; The Sea-Dayaks of Borneo - Author finds the fromer head-hunters to be charming hosts; Section Man - A glimpse of the life of a track labourer on a Canadian railroad; The Poorhouse Tragedy - A puzzling American murder case. Exterior heavily worn with chips missing from spine and front cover partially detached. Contents good. Pencilled name upon back cover. Magazine
160p. Illustrated with numerous photographs. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Original dust jacket, worn and torn with some loss. Hardbound. Nice copy. CRIME BOX 1
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Trailing the Gun-Runners - Part II - The U.S. attempts to prevent the arming of revolutionaries in Dominica in 1906-7; Hunting Wild Goats By Seaplane and Motorcycle Near San Clemente - article with photos; Remanded - a perfectly blameless man is blamed for a crime; Full Speed Astern - 400 men aboard the steamer Remiji Maru are saved by the action of a young engineer on watch two days out of Hong Kong; The Wild Men of Borneo - Wonderful photo-illustrated account of a visit to the Dyaks; Photo and letter from a reader who, with five friends, dressed up in KKK outfits and brought along a relative in blackface to entertain at a fancy-dress ball in Leeds; Across Remote Yunnan - Part II - Capt. F. Kingdon Ward continues his journey through the little-known region where the frontiers of China and Tibet meet - article with nice photos; Two Men and a "Pink" - terrifying experience of two returned Canadian soldiers off the coast of Labrador aboard their vessel Terra Nova, nicknamed the Turn Over; "Gentleman" Girard - Frenchman Henri Girard made a profession of poisoning people whose lives he had insured; The Ghost Dancers of the Imst - unusual customs in the Tyrolian valley village of Imst - article with photos; Down the "Old Delph" - two men venture into a disused mine near Roby Mill in Lancashire; Marooned On a Precipice - Three mountain climbers, Karl Aichner, Alois Netzer, and Conrad Schuster, are stranded for six days in the Northern Tyrol; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [2] 180-264, 9-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear and some soiling to back cover. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Pages 93-108 (16 pages in this issue). Features: Why the Money Trust Wants War - Part IV, by Charles A. Collman - connections betwen Trust companies and munitions makers; President Wilson Should Take Counsel Against England Also for Violated Dignity, by William Bayard Hale; The War of 1920 (continued); United States Senator G.M. Hitchcock's Plea for an Embargo on Arms; Bravo Dr. Dumba!; The Sinking of the Hesperian - False Flag Attack?; Credit Where Credit is Due - President Wilson has resisted the demands of the war manufacturers to join the war; Pope Benedict renews his efforts to restore peace; Professor John A Walz Endorses this publication; News from Germany - floating hospitals; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
No publishing date. 12mo, 190 pages, no illustrations. Spine sunned. eng
344 pages. eng
8vo, 356 pages, not illustrated. eng
8vo, 308 pages, not illustrated. Page edges browned. eng
441 pages. eng
270 pages, slight fading to spine head and foot. eng
136 pages. Features: Can the new President (LBJ) overcome standpattism in Congress; LBJ Program in Action - photo feature; Unless We Lead We Will Falter; What Kind of Nation Are We? - thoughts in the wake of JFK's murder; Do White Men Have a Future in Africa? - T.J. Mboya of Kenya says yes, as long as they do their part in nation building; Visit to a Russian Village - photo-illustrated article on a trip to the Russian countryside, where few Westerners are permitted; The Importance of Angel Investors to Broadway Producers; Should it Take 34 Months for a Trial?; Today's American Ex-Pats are often businessmen, nor rebels; By 1966 Half of Us Will Be Under 25; The New York City Center of Music and Drama turns 20; Photos of Manhattan town home redone by architect James Stewart Polshek;On Human Rights - thoughts, new and old, as Human Rights Week begins; and more. Ads: one-page ad for Henry Mancini's soundtrack to the movie 'Charade"; Nice fashion ads; Bulova Accutron; 2-page ad for Look Magazine; Color ad for Sony consumer electronics; Cuesta-Rey Cigars; Wilkinson Sword Pruners; Loft's Little Fruit Cakes; Beautiful one-page color-photo ad for E.J. Korvette ladies' fashions - nautical theme; Unox Ham. First few pages rumpled, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy Book
Book is in excellent condition in brown quarter cloth covers and gilt print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear only, no tears.
354 p. A re-creation of the Moors Murders which occurred in Great Britain between November 1963 and October 1965. Hardcover Very good condition good
"... a definitive study of the changing patterns of murder from Elizabethan and Victorian times to our contemporary age" 288-p. bibliography, index. Shadows of old tape marks on end papers, else fine. Book
Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Book
191 pages, edges browned, cover design by Michael Peters, previous owner names on prelims, (Penguin Book C2524). eng
317 p. Edges foxed. Tall 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket, slightly soiled. Hardbound. Very good. Mountain Meadows massacre was a series of attacks in Utah on the Baker-Fancher emigrant wagon train. Composed almost entirely of families from Arkansas the group was bound for California on a route that passed through the Utah Territory during a turbulent period later known as the Utah War. After arriving in Salt Lake City, the party made their way south, eventually stopping to rest at Mountain Meadows. While the emigrants were camped in the meadow, nearby militia leaders made plans to attack the wagon train. Intending to give the appearance of Native American aggression, their plan was to arm some Southern Paiute indians and persuade them to join with a larger party of Utah militiamen, disguised as Indians, in an attack. During the initial assault on the wagon train, the emigrants fought back and a five-day siege ensued. Eventually fear spread among the militia's leaders that some emigrants had caught sight of white men, and had probably discovered who their attackers really were. This resulted in an order by militia commander for the emigrants' annihilation. Running low on water and provisions, the emigrants allowed a party of militiamen to enter their camp, who assured them of their safety and escorted them out of their hasty fortification. After walking a distance from the camp, the militiamen, with the help of auxiliary forces hiding nearby, attacked the emigrants. Intending to leave no witnesses the perpetrators killed all the adults and older children (totaling about 120 men, women, and children). Seventeen children, all younger than seven, were spared. W7
228p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
300p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good