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200223902NY: Putnam. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0399149325 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Putnam hardcover books
200535567NY: Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0192805991 . A later printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
200425305Amherst: Prometheus Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 1591021995 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Prometheus Books hardcover books
1994000984Random House 1994 1994. Book. As New. Cloth. As New/As New. First Thus. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. ISBN:0-679-42922-0. Mint copy of the movie editon with wrap around band. Random House, 1994 hardcover books
1971WRCLIT37158Boston: Little Brown 1971. Cloth. Frontis illustrations facsimiles. Second printing. Extremities rubbed else near fine in lightly edge-worn dust jacket. Little, Brown hardcover books
606368not signed of David Hemmings as police inspector Foxborough being mortally stabbed by Peter Jonfield in the 1979 film "Murder By Decree." Photograph is on single weight stock; 10 1/8" x 8"; very good minor signs of handling; 1979. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
199621931NY: Knopf 1996. First edition first prnt. One of an unspecified number of copies issued by the publisher with a tipped-in page signed by Ellroy for promotional purposes. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cove. Ellroy's first memoir. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
606339not signed from the 1979 film "Murder By Decree." 1. 1/2 length shot Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes in his laboratory. 2. 1/2 length shot of David Hemmings as Inspector Foxborough. Photographs are on single weight stock; 10 1/8" x 8"; very good minor signs of handling; 1979. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
1971WRCLIT39646Boston: Houghton 1971. Cloth. Illustrated. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author at a later date. Near fine in rubbed dust jacket with light wear to the tips and spine ends. Houghton hardcover books
1994005811Random House 1994. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mint copy in like jacket. $23.00 on flap.Stated First Edition.Beautiful copy. Random House Hardcover books
1824BB056Murder Trial<br /><br />Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare . the coroner's inquest the trials of the prisoners and the execution. By George Henry Jones.<br /><br />London 1824.<br /><br />With 3 landscapes 2 folding plates finely lithographed by C J Hullmandel.<br /><br />8vo iv344pp; half-leather marbled boards spine label "Thurtell's Trial" lightly scuffed very solid and clean throughout.<br /><br />First edition.<br /><br />William Weare was a solicitor of Lyon's Inn and a gambler. His killer was John Thurtell 1794–1824 a sports promoter amateur boxer a former Royal Marine officer and a son of the Mayor of Norwich. Thurtell owed Weare a gambling debt of £300 an immense sum at the time equivalent to £24500 in 20151. Thurtell believed Weare had cheated him of the money. Whatever the truth when Weare demanded payment Thurtell murdered him rather than pay up. He invited Weare to join him and his friends – Joseph Hunt a tavern landlord and William Probert a former convict and alcohol merchant – for a weekend of gambling at Probert's cottage at the site of Oaks Close off Gills Hill Lane subsequently popularly known as Murder Lane23 Radlett. On 24 October 1823 they journeyed from London in Thurtell's horse-drawn gig but Weare was killed in a dark lane just short of their destination. The gruesome and callous events created such public sensation that it attracted numerous ballads and theatre shows at the time along with comment by the essayist Babington Macaulay and the crime used variously in the work of Sir Walter Scott William Hazllitt and Robert Louis Stevenson. After the trial one of the accused was hanged and another Joseph Hunt was transported to Botany Bay Australia.<br /><br />Charles Joseph Hullmandel 1789–1850 studied art and printmaking and is considered amongst the most important figures in the development of British lithography. He developed a method for reproducing gradations in tones and for creating the effect of soft color washes which enabled the reproduction of Romantic landscape paintings of the type made popular by J. M. W. Turner. Hullmandel's essay <i>The Art of Drawing on Stone</i> 1824 was an important handbook of lithography issued the same year as this account of the trial.<br /> books
24075np nd. 9 1 blank pp. Caption title as issued. Spine reinforced. Light dusting a few chips to blank upper margins. Good. <br/><br/> Jim West was convicted of first degree murder for killing George McNelly; he was sentenced to life. This his appeal brief was filed by his attorneys Sheeks & Sneed and R.L. Brockenbrough. West's claim of self-defense had failed at trial although the jury heard testimony that McNelly told West "I will see you before Saturday night and put more holes in you than there is in a sifter." His lawyers argue "Deceased had armed himself and prepared himself to kill West and flee the country. In his attempt to kill West he was killed himself-- a blessing to civilization and to society. unknown books
1837666621837. Sold by Knight Sweetings Alley Cornhill 1837. Sold by Knight Sweetings Alley Cornhill 1837. Broadside with Portraits of the "Edgeware Road Murderer" and His Female Accomplice Broadside. Murder. Greenacre James 1785-1837. Gale Sarah d. 1837. James Greenacre and Sarah Gale Charged with the Murder & Mutilation of Hannah Brown. Sketched from Life At the Bar of the Old Bailey 12th April 1837. Warranted Written Only 10 Minutes Before Sentence Was Passed! London: Sold by Knight Sweetings Alley Cornhill 1837. 11" x 7-1/2" broadside. Lithographed images of Greenacre and Gale above reproductions of their signatures text to left of signatures and below. Moderate toning light edgewear a few faint dampstains and few creases. $350. Known as the "Edgeware Road Murderer" Greenacre planned to marry Hannah Brown for her money. However his mistress Sarah Gale convinced him to kill her dismember her and hide her body parts in various places. They would then take her money and escape to America. This plan fell apart after police found her head in Regent's Canal. The case of Greenacre and Gale generated a good deal of popular interest. His execution was attended by an enormous crowd. No copies located on OCLC. unknown books
182119533Concord N.H.: Published by Hill and Moore 1821. First edition. Paper stock rather toned and a little foxed throughout; a very good copy. Removed pamphlet lacks wrappers 9.25 x 5.75 inches 72 pages untrimmed. Mrs. Ayer had charged Farmer with fathering her child. He beat her to death with a cudgel and tried to burn her house" McDade. McDade 300; American Imprints 7000. Neat contemporary autograph ownership signature at the head of the title page. Published by Hill and Moore, unknown books
1847714041847. A Murder in Richmond: McDade 711 Murder. Richmond VA. Myers William R. The Letters and Correspondence of Mrs. Virginia Myers Which Have Never Before Been Published or Even Read in Court to Dudley Marvin Hoyt Who was Murdered at Richmond Sept. 28th 1846 by Wm. R. Myers and Two Others. Together with a Denial of the Truth of Mrs. Myers' Letter of Explanation of November Last From Alta Vista. Likewise Added a Short Biography of D.M. Hoyt By a Relative of the Deceased. Philadelphia: S.n. 1847. 63 pp. Main text in parallel columns. Octavo 9" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers. Front wrapper edgeworn chipped and partially detached rear wrapper lacking. Light browning to text light foxing to a few leaves final leaf lightly edgeworn and partially detached. $450. Only edition. "Dudley Hoyt had been intimate with Mrs. Myers in a hotel in Richmond Virginia. Her husband with his brother and a friend called on Hoyt and presented him with a paper to sign promising to leave the city never to return. He refused and Myers shot him. All were acquitted" McDade. OCLC locates 7 copies in law libraries Harvard Library of Congress Northwestern University of Cincinnati University of Richmond US Supreme Court Worcester County Law Library. McDade The Annals of Murder 711. unknown books
182018774Boston: Published by Thomas G. Bangs 1820. First edition. Outer leaves somewhat stained cheap paper toned throughout; small tears from the title page with no loss of text; small flaw to one leaf touching the text but with no loss of sense; a good sound copy. 12mo untrimmed sheets stab-stitched with early but likely unoriginal coarse thread 7.88 x 4.94 inches 35 pages. Early Irish immigrant violence in New England. Per McDade "Even the great Daniel Webster could not save Powers who was condemned for killing Kennedy with a broadax and burying him in the cellar. He was provoked because Kennedy would not pay for the passage money which Powers had advanced to bring him to this country." Faint early ink ownership signature across the head of the title page. McDade 768; Sabin 12932. Published by Thomas G. Bangs, unknown books
1881714701881. New York: M.J. Ivers & Co. 1881. New York: M.J. Ivers & Co. 1881. "The Terrible Fate of the Trusting and Unfortunate Jennie E. Cramer": McDade 666 Murder. Malley James Defendant. The Beautiful Victim of the Elm City. Being a Full Fair And Impartial Narrative of All that is Known of the Terrible Fate of the Trusting and Unfortunate Jennie E. Cramer: Giving All the Particulars that can be Ascertained about Miss Annie Blanche Douglass Walter Malley And James Malley Jr. As Alleged Participants in this Terrible Social Tragedy. New York: M.J. Ivers & Co. 1881. 64 pp. 3 full-page woodcuts woodcut text illustrations. Octavo 9-3/4" x 6-1/4". Stapled pamphlet in pictorial wrappers untrimmed edges. A few chips and some wear to spine ends and corners of wrappers light browning to text. $650. Second and final edition. "This is a New Haven Connecticut case in which Jennie Cramer was found dead face down in water. This account goes only as far as the corner's charge against Malley. He was cleared and the death may have been accidental. Edmund Pearson credits this case with starting the famous series of dime novels in which was introduced one of the most celebrated detectives of paperback fiction: Old Cap Collier Pearson Dime Novels Boston 1929 p. 139" McDade. McDade The Annals of Murder 666. unknown books
1811700261811. With Verses Addressed to "The Fair Sex" Murder. Williams John. The Winchester Tragedy; A Full True And Particular Account of a Most Bloody Murder! Committed on the Body of Mary Thomas Near Winchester In the County of Hants By John Williams A Young Farmer In the Same Neighborhood On Sunday Last. London: Printed and Sold by T. Evans c.1811. 8 pp. Woodcut illustrations on title page and p. 6. Octavo 7" x 4". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet. Light soiling and edgewear light toning. A well-preserved copy of a rare title. $650. Mary Thomas not yet 18 fell in love with John Williams a young farmer who lived near Winchester. Williams promised to marry her when she became pregnant. However he shifted his attention another young woman who recently inherited 200. He was determined to marry her. Mary and the unborn child complicated his plans. One night he put his arms around Mary as if to kiss her then pulled out a concealed knife and cut her throat in a most dreadful manner. He then dragged the body to a ditch covered it with brambles and returned home. The investigation led to Williams. Despite the evidence of his guilt he persisted in denying the crime until he was confronted with Mary's body. He was so shocked that he confessed his guilt. The two crude woodcuts depict Williams being taken through town by horse and cart surrounded by a baying crowd and the second shows him hanging from the gallows. The pamphlet concludes with verses "Addressed to the Fair Sex." Two editions listed in COPAC one of ours at the British Library. unknown books
1892712761892. London & New York 1892. London & New York 1892. A Contemporary Opinion on a Sensational 1889 Murder by a Female Physician Densmore Helen. Maybrick Murder Case. The Maybrick Case: English Criminal Law. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.; New York: Stillman & Co. 1892. 148 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 5". Stiff textured wrappers gilt title to front. Some rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners front cover beginning to detach at ends fading to edges of rear cover. Presentation inscription from author to front free endpaper light toning to text. $750. Only edition. In 1889 Florence Elizabeth Maybrick 1862-1941 a American-born socialite was convicted for fatally poisoning her husband James Maybrick a Liverpool cotton merchant with a history of drug abuse. Despite scanty evidence pointing to her guilt and several procedural irregularities she was sentenced to death. Public outrage led the Home Office to commute her sentence to life in prison. She was released 15 years later. This case attracted a great deal of attention and generated a large bibliography. Densmore a medical doctor believed Maybrick was innocent and deserved a retrial. Written while Maybrick was in prison her study argues that Mr. Maybrick poisoned himself. OCLC locates 7 copies in law libraries Columbia Duke Harvard Library of Congress University of Minnesota University of Missouri Yale. unknown books
1899713181899. Worcester OH 1899. McDade 334. Very uncommon. Worcester OH 1899. McDade 334. Very uncommon. Murder in Canton Ohio: McDade 334 Murder. Albaugh Thurlow K. 1868-1937. George Annie E. b.1859. Saxton George D. 1848-1898. Canton's Great Tragedy: The Murder of George D. Saxton Together with a History of the Arrest and Trial of Annie E. George Charged with the Murder. With Biographical Sketches of George D. Saxton and Annie E. George. With Illustrations. Wooster OH: Press of Clapper Printing Co. 1899. ii 308 pp. 14 leaves of plates. Illustrations. Octavo 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Softbound book in pictorial wrappers. Moderate soiling rubbing to extremities with wear to spine ends and corners small hole to front wrapper moderate browning to text faint dampstaining to fore-edges of a few leaves near rear of text. $750. Only edition. "Saxton who was shot on October 7 1898 was the brother of Mrs. William McKinley wife of the President. Mrs. George was acquitted" McDade. The title page ascribes this book to "Coe" which was the pen name of Albaugh K. Thurlow a notable Ohio theater owner and manager. OCLC locates 15 copies 6 outside of Ohio 2 in law libraries Harvard University of Minnesota. McDade The Annals of Murder 334. unknown books
1830714231830. One of the Men Who Murdered Captain White: McDade 564 Murder. Citizen of Danvers. Crowninshield Richard 1804-1830. Biographical Sketch of the Celebrated Salem Murderer Who for Ten Years Past has Been the Terror of Essex County Mass. Including a Full and Authentic Account of His Daring Exploits; Together with Many New and Interesting Particulars of the Late Murder. Boston: Printed for the Author 1830. 24 pp. Woodcut frontispiece and title-page vignette. Octavo 9-1/4" x 6". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet untrimmed edges. Negligible light soiling to exterior light toning to text faint dampstaining to upper half of text block faint dampspotting to several leaves. A scarce title. $750. First edition. The murder of Joseph White a wealthy retired sea captain a conspiracy by a relative Joseph Knapp who hired his brother Frank Knapp and the brothers Richard and George Crowninshield was one of the most famous trials of the 1830s. Joseph Knapp received immunity for turning in the Crowninshields. George Crowninshield had a good alibi that prevented his conviction. Richard Crowninshield escaped justice by hanging himself. After a second trial John Francis Knapp was convicted and sentenced to death. Biographical Sketch is a record of Richard Crowninshield's misspent youth. A second edition with a slightly different title was published in 1845. Both are scarce. OCLC locates 13 copies of the first edition 3 in law libraries Social Law University of Missouri Yale. McDade The Annals of Murder 564. unknown books
1850714841850. Boston: Printed for the Proprietor 1850. Boston: Printed for the Proprietor 1850. "The Female Murderess!": Driven by the Culture of Slavery Two Full-Page Woodcut Illustrations Murder. Walters Ann Smith 1812-1844. Dudley Enos G. d.1849. Runkle Mary. Life and Confession of Ann Walters The Female Murderess! Also the Execution of Enos G. Dudley At Haverhill N.H. May 23d 1849. To Which is Added the Confession of Mary Runkle Who Was Executed for Murder. Boston: Printed for the Proprietor 1850. 32 pp. Two full-page woodcut illustrations. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in green printed wrappers large woodcut image of Walters to front untrimmed edges. Light soiling to exterior moderate edgewear. Light toning to text somewhat heavier in a few places. $950. Although OCLC records an "Ann Walters 1812-1844" McDade believes her story is a work of fiction that incorporates details of a dozen different murders. He also doubts the veracity of the Runkle case. Walters ran a tavern on the Delaware-Maryland border where she liked to murder traveling slave traders and steal their slaves money and other valuables. Her murder of a slave-trader is depicted in one of the woodcuts. Her depravity is blamed in part on the morally corrosive effects of slavery: "Although born in a free country where slavery is abhorred Canada she soon imbibed a taste for the traffic in slaves as our readers may easily perceive that her location was in a slave state where morality is not very exalted as such a course could not have been carried on in a free state so long without meeting the eye of detection." Walters began her career by killing her child and husband she then became the leader of a criminal gang. OCLC locates 4 copies in law libraries. Harvard Social Law University of Missouri Yale. McDade The Annals of Murder 1036. unknown books
1850714671850. New Haven: Edward Downes Storer & Stone 1850. New Haven: Edward Downes Storer & Stone 1850. A Rare McDade Item Murder. McCaffrey James 1813-1850. The Life and Private History of James Mc'Caffrey Who Was Convicted at New Haven on the 29th day of April A.D. 1850 Of the Murder of Ann Smith on the 29th day of October 1849 And Sentenced to be Hung at New Haven Conn. On the Second Day of October A.D. 1850. Written at His Request And According to His Dictation. New Haven: Edward Downes 5 Exchange Place Storer & Stone Printers 1850. 32 pp. Octavo 9" x 6". Stab-stitched pamphlet in pictorial wrappers. Some soiling and a few minor stains binding slightly cocked moderate rubbing a few minor creases and tears to edges of wrappers spine abraded rear wrapper partially detached but secure. Moderate toning and light foxing to text corners of a few leaves dog-eared. $1350. Only edition. "McCaffrey was convicted of killing an elderly couple Charles and Ann Smith of New Haven while he was negotiating to buy their tavern" McDade. OCLC locates 3 copies American Antiquarian Society Trinity College University of Michigan. McDade The Annals of Murder 644. unknown books
1832713351832. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Douglas and Kent 1832. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Douglas and Kent 1832. A Murder Related to Labor Unrest in the Newcastle Mines Broadside. Murder. Great Britain. An Account of the Shocking Murder Committed on the Body of John Errington A Bound Pitman At Hetton Colliery In the County of Durham On Saturday April 19 1832 By Receiving Two Shots One of Them in the Chest And the Other in the Groin. To Which is Added the Names of Those Who are Apprehended And Sent to Durham Gaol On Suspicion of Being Implicated in the Murder. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Douglas and Kent Printers 1832. 13-3/4" x 6-1/4" broadside mounted on 13-1/4" x 8" sheet bottom inch of broadside folded lower corners cropped. Single-column text below headline sections separated by rules. Negligible light toning. A well-preserved copy. $1500. An account "taken from the Newcastle Papers" of 28th April during the miner's strike of 1832 an early example of Indsutrial-Era unrest that resonated throughout Great Britain. At that time a number of strikers evicted from their homes gathered in the town where they lit bonfires discharged firearms and antagonized their opponents. Errington a strikebreaker was found dead in the street with two wounds from a marble-firing musket. Several strikers were charged with his murder and taken to Durham Gaol which was far enough away from Newcastle to discourage any rescue attempts. In the end the evidence was insufficient and they were released. No copies located on OCLC Library Hub or at the British Library. unknown books
1846712801846. Boston: Published by the Compiler 1846. 2nd ed. Boston: Published by the Compiler 1846. 2nd ed. The First Use of Sleepwalking as a Defense in a Murder Trial Murder. Bickford James Compiler. The Authentic Life of Mrs. Mary Ann Bickford Who Was Murdered in the City of Boston On the 27th of October 1845. Comprising a Large Number of the Original Letters and Correspondence Never Before Published. Boston: Published by the Compiler 1846. 48 pp. Octavo 7-1/2" x 4-3/4". Disbound stab-stitched pamphlet original pictorial wrappers retained and securely affixed to text block. Light soiling and a few smudges and stains to wrappers "20" in small hand to head of front wrapper small library bookplate to its verso. Light toning to text light foxing to a few leaves. $1500. Second edition published the same year as the first. In 1845 Albert Jackson Tirrell 1824-1880 murdered Mary Ann Bickford 1824-1845 with whom he had a relationship in the brothel where she lived. The case was scandalous and widely publicized especially after Tirrell's lawyer Rufus Choate 1799-1859 successfully argued that Tirrell was innocent because he had been sleepwalking during the killing. This was the first time a defense based on sleepwalking was used in a murder trial. The letters collected by her brother in the Authentic Life document Mary Ann's relationship with her husband James Bickford and her relationship with Tirrell who is shown to have been abusive and manipulative. The OCLC listing for the second edition held by the New York Historical Society Library notes that "the color of the cover appears to be the only difference between the two editions." OCLC locates 16 copies of both editions 3 in law libraries which have the first edition Harvard Library of Congress Yale. McDade The Annals of Murder 986 edition not stated. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 13108. unknown books
