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First appearance of this prescient series of fictional letters, spanning sixteen months between 1932 and 1934, between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his gentile business partner who has returned to Germany in the formative years of the Nazi regime. Simon & Schuster published the first book edition in 1939 and a film noir version followed in 1944. Subsequent stage play performances have continued globally until recent years. The magnum opus of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor [1903-1996], she was assigned the nom de plume Kressman Taylor by her husband and Story's editor Whit Burnett who, per an online reference, felt the concept of murder by mail was too strong to appear under the name of a woman. Occupies pages 20-32 of this 104 page magazine which is clean and unmarked with respectful wear. Front cover beginning to loosen and must be handled gently. Two-inch openings at head and foot of front cover at spine. A quality copy of this stunning literary achievement. Book
1914659851914. New York 1912-1914. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" frame. New York 1912-1914. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" frame. "His Famous Wig Composed Entirely of Split Hairs and Adorned with the Ceremonial Crimson Tape" Robinson Boardman 1876-1952. Becker-Rosenthal Murder Trial. Mr. Justice Precedent. New York 1914. 21" x 15-1/2" gouache image on 26" x 19-1/2" sheet image signed twice and inscribed by Robinson caption in pencil below image most likely in another hand laid down on illustration board. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" wooden frame glazed. Light soiling a few minor stains and four crop-marks to margins outside of image which could be covered with a matte image fine. Several minor scuffs and nicks to frame. A unique item relating to a notable trial. $4500. This piece was created to illustrate "Leaden Footed Justice in New York State" an article that appeared in the Special Feature Section of the New York Tribune on Sunday March 1 1914. The caption reads: "Mr. Justice Precedent wearing his famous wig composed entirely of split hairs and adorned with the ceremonial crimson tape." The caption refers to the protracted nature of the Becker-Rosenthal Murder case which began on October 7 1912 restarted on May 2 1914 and finally concluded after a series of procedural events in 1915. The case involved a group of corrupt police offices led by Charles Becker who ran a protection racket on illegal casinos. Becker hired gangsters to kill a casino owner and rival gangster who was threatening to expose the racket. A breathtaking example of police corruption the investigation and trial was front-page news in New York for months. In the end Becker was sent to the electric chair at Sing Sing. This was the first time a police officer received the death penalty. The case lived on for several years in the popular imagination; it is mentioned for example in The Great Gatsby 1925. Robinson the creator of this illustration was a distinguished artist illustrator and cartoonist. A native of Nova Scotia he studied art in Boston and completed his training in Paris at the Academie Colarossi and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts both in Paris. "Mr. Justice Precedent" shows his affinity acquired in Paris for the work of Daumier Forain and Steinlen. Robinson produced work for several newspapers and periodicals. He created "Mr. Justice Precedent" when he was an editorial cartoonist for the Tribune a posit. unknown books
1849717871849. Unrecorded Account of an Attempted Murder in Oxfordshire Broadside. Murder. Great Britain. Attempted Murder of a Wife by her Husband Near Banbury Oxfordshire. Reading: Jones Printer 1849. 14-1/2" x 10" broadside triple-column text below headline and woodcut image of a man stabbing a woman flanked by six stanzas of verse. Light toning and edgewear vertical and horizontal folds the latter with early repair fold line to lower right-hand corner light foxing to margins negligible faint dampstain to left-hand margin touching a bit of text. $3850. James Layton under stress from financial distress began to entertain paranoid delusions that his wife conspiring against him. This led him to shoot and stab her while they were on a walk near Banbury. Responding to the sounds and commotion a group of men came to the scene and apprehended Layton. His wife later died of her injuries. The subsequent trial ended in a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity. This appears to be an unrecorded broadside. No copies located on OCLC or Library Hub. unknown books
1914659851914. New York 1912-1914. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" frame. New York 1912-1914. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" frame. "His Famous Wig Composed Entirely of Split Hairs and Adorned with the Ceremonial Crimson Tape" Robinson Boardman 1876-1952. Becker-Rosenthal Murder Trial. Mr. Justice Precedent. New York 1914. 21" x 15-1/2" 53.3 x 39.4 cm gouache image on 26" x 19-1/2" 66 x 49.5 cm sheet image signed twice and inscribed by Robinson caption in pencil below image most likely in another hand laid down on illustration board. Image in 30-1/2" x 24" 77.5 x 60.9 cm wooden frame glazed. Light soiling a few minor stains and four crop-marks to margins outside of image which could be covered with a matte image fine. Several minor scuffs and nicks to frame. An exceptional unique piece of original artwork capturing a defining moment in American legal and criminal history. $3500. This striking original gouache was created to illustrate "Leaden Footed Justice in New York State" a feature article published in the Special Feature section of the New York Tribune on Sunday March 1 1914. The penciled caption reads:"Mr. Justice Precedent wearing his famous wig composed entirely of split hairs and adorned with the ceremonial crimson tape." The caricature was a scathing commentary on the notoriously protracted bureaucratically tangled legal proceedings of the Becker-Rosenthal Murder case which centered on NYPD Police Lieutenant Charles Becker who ran a massive protection racket targeting illegal Manhattan casinos. When gambling house owner Herman Rosenthal threatened to expose Becker's corruption to District Attorney Charles S. Whitman Becker hired a gang of underworld executioners including "Gyp the Blood" and "Lefty Louie" to gun Rosenthal down outside the Hotel Metropole. The investigation and subsequent trials completely dominated New York front pages. Becker's first trial began on October 7 1912 resulting in a conviction that was subsequently overturned on appeal by the New York Court of Appeals due to judicial bias. His highly anticipated second trial began on May 6 1914 just over two months after this cartoon appeared. Becker was convicted a second time and after his appeals were exhausted in 1915 went to the electric chair at Sing Sing-marking the first time in U.S. history a police officer was executed for murder. The case profoundly shook the public psyche and entered the cultural lexicon most. unknown
1836665381836. Concord NH 1836. Concord NH 1836. "Oh! Lust Accursed Lust! 'Twas This for Which I Did the Deed" Broadside. Murder. Private Individual at the Bar. Abr'm Prescott's Confession of the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran of Pembroke N.H.--June 23 1833. Concord NH.: S.n. 1836. 17" x 11-1/2" broadside. Two-columns of verse in twenty stanzas within woodcut ornamental border text headed by large woodcut vignette of a coffin. Light browning and a few minor stains faint horizontal and vertical fold line chipping to edges section lacking from bottom margin just touching bottom right corner of border a few tears along fold lines with no loss to text later repairs to verso. $2500. Abraham Prescott was found guilty of the murder of Sally Cochran in two separate trials held in Concord in September 1834 and September 1835. Despite a well-crafted insanity defense he was sentenced to be hanged on December 23 1835 in Hopkinton New Hampshire. The execution was postponed to January 6 1836. The verse account in this broadside presents the murder as a crime of passion: "Oh! lust accursed lust! 'twas this for which I did the deed; Forfeiting heaven and life and bliss Forfeiting all I need." See McDade The Annals of Murder 769. OCLC locates 7 copies American Antiquarian Society Brown Dartmouth Harvard Peabody Essex Museum University of Michigan Yale. unknown books
GOR003933804Paperback. Very Good. paperback
186436882np 1864. 4to. Written in ink and signed at the end by Royce on the verso of a single leaf. Several small holes text unaffected a few closed tears two archival tape repairs. Very Good. <br /> <br /> This unusual insightful document illuminates the laws of war applicable to the Civil War. Royce's Petition seeks justice for Confederate Captain Frank R. Gurley. Royce sent it to the Confederate Commission of Exchange. Its author Confederate Captain Moses Strong Royce was captured in Tennessee and imprisoned at Nashville. Gurley Royce's cell-mate had killed Union General Robert McCook of Ohio near Huntsville Alabama in August 1862. <br /> In October 1863 Union forces captured Gurley and charged him with murdering McCook. Gurley Union officials claimed was a guerrilla who shot McCook while the General was lying in an ambulance. Southerners claimed that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a regular soldier in the Confederacy's 4th Alabama Cavalry; and that he killed McCook according to the laws of war. <br /> Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper fanned the flames claiming that lawless Confederate guerrillas murdered the general; feelings ran high. "US General Grant wrote CS General Hardee in December of 1863 and said that although Gurley was a member of the Confederate army that did not preclude him from being tried for having committed a foul murder" online Huntsville-Madison County Public Library essay 'Frank B. Gurley's 1866 Diary'.<br /> Having escaped from prison in March 1864 Royce pleads Gurley's case. "He was confined in a cell for sixty-eight days and allowed only about one hour a day for exercise and was put upon trial for the killing of Genl. McCook. He was obliged to employ counsel to defend himself at an expense of 2500 dollars in greenbacks. The evidence produced completely exonerated him of anything like murder and the argument of his counsel was a complete vindication of his right as a soldier and an officer to do all that he did in bringing Genl. McCook to his death. <br /> "When the trial was nearly ended four communications by flag of truce were sent to the court and were there read - one from Lt. Col. Hambrick one from Genl. Forrest one from Genl. Hardee and one from Genl. Johnston" assuring that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a duly enrolled member of the Confederate military forces. Nevertheless Gurley was found guilty and sentenced to death.<br /> "The undersigned believes that if an effort were to be made by the Confederate Commission of Exchange to have Capt. Gurley exchanged the Federal authorities would immediately send him forward for that purpose and as a friend of Capt. Gurley the undersigned respectfully requests General Johnston to use his influence in procuring the exchange of Capt. Gurley. Respectfully submitted M. S. Royce." <br /> Even after War's end the dispute continued. Gurley having been released from prison in an administrative snafu was re-arrested charged but finally released and placed on parole in April 1866. unknown
186436882np 1864. 4to. Written in ink and signed at the end by Royce on the verso of a single leaf. Several small holes text unaffected a few closed tears two archival tape repairs. Good. <br/><br/> This unusual insightful document illuminates the laws of war applicable during the bitter American Conflict. Royce's Petition seeking justice for Gurley is directed to the Confederate Commission of Exchange. Its author Confederate Captain Moses Strong Royce was captured in Tennessee and imprisoned at Nashville. His cell-mate Captain Frank R. Gurley had allegedly murdered Union General Robert McCook of Ohio near Huntsville Alabama in August 1862. In October 1863 Gurley was captured and charged with the murder. Gurley Union officials claimed was a guerrilla who shot McCook while the General was lying in an ambulance. Southerners claimed that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a regular soldier in the Confederacy's 4th Alabama Cavalry; and that he killed McCook according to the laws of war. <br/> The pages of Harper's Weekly and Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper fanned the flames claiming that guerrillas or lawless Confederate cavalrymen caused the general's death; feelings ran high. "US General Grant wrote CS General Hardee in December of 1863 and said that although Gurley was a member of the Confederate army that did not preclude him from being tried for having committed a foul murder" online Huntsville-Madison County Public Library essay 'Frank B. Gurley's 1866 Diary'.<br/> Royce advises that he escaped from prison "on the 1st of March." War Department Records claim Royce was a still a prisoner at Nashville on April 6 1864. That Record doubtless relied on outdated information. Having escaped in March 1864. Royce pleads Captain Gurley's case. "He was confined in a cell for sixty-eight days and allowed only about one hour a day for exercise and was put upon trial for the killing of Genl. McCook. He was obliged to employ counsel to defend himself at an expense of 2500 dollars in greenbacks. The evidence produced completely exonerated him of anything like MURDER and the argument of his counsel was a complete vindication of his RIGHT as a soldier and an officer to do all that he did in bringing Genl. McCook to his death. When the trial was nearly ended four communications by flag of truce were sent to the court and were there read - one from Lt. Col. Hambrick one from Genl. Forrest one from Genl. Hardee and one from Genl. Johnston" assuring that Gurley was not a guerrilla but a duly enrolled member of the Confederate military forces. Nevertheless Gurley was found guilty and sentenced to death. original italics are printed here in capital letters.<br/> "The undersigned believes that if an effort were to be made by the Confederate Commission of Exchange to have Capt. Gurley exchanged the Federal authorities would immediately send him forward for that purpose and as a friend of Capt. Gurley the undersigned respectfully requests General Johnston to use his influence in procuring the exchange of Capt. Gurley. Respectfully submitted M. S. Royce." <br/> Even after War's end the dispute continued. Gurley having been released from prison in an administrative snafu was re-arrested charged but finally released and placed on parole in April 1866. unknown books
1836665381836. Concord NH 1836. Concord NH 1836. "Oh! Lust Accursed Lust! 'Twas This for Which I Did the Deed" Broadside. Murder. A Private Individual at the Bar. Abr'm Prescott's Confession Of the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran of Pembroke N.H.--June 23 1833. Concord NH.: S.n. 1836. 17" x 11-1/2" 43.2 x 29.2 cm broadside. Two columns of verse in twenty stanzas within woodcut ornamental border text headed by large woodcut vignette of a coffin. Light browning and a few minor stains faint horizontal and vertical fold line chipping to edges section lacking from bottom margin just touching bottom right corner of border a few tears along fold lines with no loss to text later repairs to verso. $1950. Abraham Prescott was convicted of the murder of Sally Cochran following two separate highly publicized trials held in Concord New Hampshire in September 1834 and September 1835. Despite a robust and well-crafted insanity defense mounted by his counsel Prescott was sentenced to death. Originally scheduled to be hanged in Hopkinton New Hampshire on December 23 1835 his execution was delayed and he was ultimately executed on January 6 1836. This rare broadside features a verse account that explicitly frames the murder as a crime of passion capturing the sensationalized public sentiment of the era: "Oh! lust accursed lust! 'twas this / For which I did the deed; / Forfeiting heaven and life and bliss / Forfeiting all I need." OCLC locates 7 copies American Antiquarian Society Brown Dartmouth Harvard Peabody Essex Museum University of Michigan Yale. See McDade The Annals of Murder 769. Burt American Murder Ballads 66-67. unknown
1786696801786. Liege: Lemarie 1786. 4 engraved plates. 1st ed. Liege: Lemarie 1786. 4 engraved plates. 1st ed. Illustrated Account of a Belgian Priest With a Gambling Addiction Who Committed Several Murders Murder. Pierlot Jacques 1750-1786. La Vie de Jacques Pierlot Pretre & Marguillier de la Paroisse de Vervier Ville de la Principaute de Liege; Avec tous les Details de son Crime De sa Degradation & De son Supplice. Liege: Chez Lemarie 1786. 52 i.e. 50 pp. Etched portrait frontispiece. Four etched plates. Octavo 6-1/2" x 4". Nineteenth-century quarter sheep over marbled boards gilt fillets and title to spine marbled endpapers. Moderate rubbing to extremities with some wear to spine ends and corners recent owner bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to text faint dampstaining to head of frontispiece and title page clean tear to lower inner corner of title repaired on verso bottom line of caption cropped on second plate final two leaves cropped and re-hinged. Laid in is a copy of the 17 March 1786 Avertissemens de Liege a handbill of local publisher advertisements including one for this publication. $1850. Only edition. A sensationalistic chapbook about a Belgian priest with a gambling addiction who murdered a creditor and members of the latter's household. He was sentenced by an ecclesiastical tribunal to degradation permanent removal from clerical office which was carried out in a public ceremony then sentenced by a municipal tribunal to be tortured and strangled. The plates depict his degradation and punishment. Chapbooks such as this one were an expression of the anti-clericalism that was a vital part of Enlightenment Francophone culture in the years preceding the French Revolution. OCLC locates 12 copies 1 in North America Library of Congress. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
Feature article by Albert Einstein entitled "Why Do They Hate The Jews?" offers his views on the subject and includes a large black and white profile photo of the man himself. Additional features include: Local Ghost Makes Good - Jesse James Makes Restitution in Pineville; Coach Ralph Furey explains why football stars are not born (article with several photos of football stars of the day); Speak No Evil (short story); Hangin' Crazy Benny (short story); Uncertain Wings (short story); Via All Oceans (short story); You Liked a Parade (short story); None But The Brave (part 5 of 6); Murder for Christmas - part 3 of 10 of this serial by Agatha Christie; Great cover art by Robert O. Reid features young lovely eyeing the dessert table; and more. 70 pages. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Moderate evidence of moisture exposure. A sound vintage copy of this exceptional issue. Boni, Russ & Laurence 396. Magazine
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
1872712841872. Jealousy Fraud Accusations and Murder: McDade 919 Murder. Stokes Edward S. 1841-1901. Fisk James Jr. 1835-1872. Life Adventures Strange Career And Assassination of Col. James Fisk Jr. The Fisk-Stokes Tragedy. All about Miss Mansfield. Those Rich Rare And Racy Letters and Many Oddities Now for the First Time Made Public. Philadelphia: Published by Barclay & Co. 1872. ii 19-111 1 pp. 12 full-page engraved woodcuts. Complete. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in pictorial wrappers. Binding slightly cocked light soiling rubbing to corners with light wear spine ends abraded wrappers just beginning to detach at ends. Moderate toning light foxing to a few leaves. $1500. Only edition. "Jim Fisk.was a financial wonder in New York in 1872. Edward Stokes had been associated with him in the oil business but they had become engaged in a bitter legal battle which originated when Stokes stole Fisk's mistress Josie Mansfield. In retaliation Fisk had charged Stokes with embezzling oil company funds; Stokes replied with a charge of false imprisonment. Then Mansfield threatened to publish letters from Fisk revealing some of his transactions. On January 5 an injunction was issued restraining the publication of the letters; on the next day Josie Mansfield was exposed to a humiliating cross-examination in police court on her relations with Fisk. Stokes in a rage followed Fisk to the Broadway Central Hotel where he shot him on the stairs. After two trials the state could only convict Stokes of third-degree manslaughter" McDade annotation to 917. OCLC locates 11 copies 2 in law libraries Library of Congress Yale. McDade The Annals of Murder 919. 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
1986002561Paris, Association des Cahiers Roger Nimier, 1986
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: A Bandit's Bride - Part I - Pancho Villa, the bandit-Revolutionist of Mexico, rescued the heroine of this exclusive narrative from a loveless marriage with a Mormon and married her himself - one of the most remarkable stories of love, battle and intrigue ever published; Unknown Animals of the African Wilds - J.A. Jordan describes recent finds such as the Okapi, Bongo, Giant Pig, Pygmy Elephant, the "dingonek", and the "Rhodesian Monster" - article with photos; Private McTosher Discovers London - the adventures of a Highland soldier visiting London for the first time; A Flying Man in South America - Part IV - John G. Barron took a monoplane to South America and performed flying shows for 2.5 years, often before people who had never before seen a plane; How We Salved the Vigilant - While some of the crew headed for safety aboard a Dutch liner, three remaining crewmembers managed to safely guide the Vigilant to port!; The Finding of the "Mollybaun" - the discovery of a big nugget in Coolgardie, Western Australia, leads to multiple murders; Strange Stories of the War - a selection of incidents entitled A Kite Balloon Adventure, The Lady of the Manor, Mixed Identities, The "Phantom Sniper", The Subaltern's Gun, and The Mysterious Message; On the Borders of Tibet - Part III - Reginald Farrar spent two years wandering - largely among wild lands and wilder people whose chief desire was to build the intruding foreigner up in a damp bonfire to smoulder to death - with photos; The Ring - a dramatic story of the old days in New Zealand, before white and Maori had settled down in friendship; Historic Crimes and Mysteries - The Vanished Boatswain, The Monster of Regendorf, Bavaria; Remittance Men - an account of sundry remittance men the author met during his sojourn in Africa; The Tragedy of Sanborn Harbour - wholesale murder at the cod-fishing station on remote Nagai Island, Alaska; Photo of 'two Indians squaws' casting ballots in California for the Presidential election; Photo of 'The Human Fly' scaling a tall building in Birmingham, Alabama; and more. pp. 4 [ads], [2], 194-284, 5-16 [ads]. Unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
Volume I, No. I of this publication. Contents include two long complete novels of war flying entitled "One Man's War", a tale of a Handley-Page night-bomber, and "Gas-Bag Aces", a tale of Seaplane and Blimp adventures of the Coast Defence Forces in the Great War; Terror in the Sky - A Pilotless R.A.F. Fighter crashes in the centre of New York; Murder in the Air - The Red Prop School trained the Foreign Legion of the Air; Cundall of the Camels - The remarkable life of a Camel pilot of the R.F.C. on the Western Front; Real Life Adventures - Crashing Aeroplanes for Movie Thrills and Thrills and Spills in Parachuting; and more. Interesting cover illustration depicts kilt-wearing machine-gunner. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
19522110502150414133Bunkyo shuppan 1952. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Bunkyo shuppan paperback
113369aafParis, (Imprimerie Veuve Hérissant pour) Charles-Pierre Berton, 1779, in-8vo, VIII (titre et épitre) + p. V à XX (Préface de l'éditeur) + 368 p., p. de titre avec petit découpe (tampon découpé) et notice ms. de l’époque en haut , p. de garde orig. en papier marbré, ex libris récent, reliure en veau pièce de titre rouge aux dos, dos orné en or, tranches marbrées, bel exemplaire.
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
First edition, [4], 288, 149, [1]pp., folding engraved map, Birmingham Law Society stamp on title, recent half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco title label. The Appin Murder occurred on 14 May 1752 near Appin in the west of Scotland, and it resulted in what is often held to be a notorious miscarriage of justice. It occurred in the tumultuous aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The murder inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped.
52193aafLugduni (Lyon), Anno M. DC. LVIII., (1658), small in-12mo, title page + 94 p., last leaf's upper inner corner torn off and repaired (loss of a few words), upper margin cut too short (partial loss of page number in one or 2 cases), title page foxed, browning and small light waterstain to last part of the vol., p. 21/22 with large tear repaired, library stamps (both names are Czech) on endpaper, marbled endpaper on inside frontcover with traces of eliminated bookplate, calf binding, gold tooled spine, large goldtooled coat of arms (showing the initials "R M F") on both covers, spine ends chipped, two tiny traces of worming, some waterstains, lower corners and spine partly rubbed, top corners scraped, red sprinkled edges.
17752247Mineral del Monte 1775. Still very good. 8pp. Small folio. Stitched. Minor wear at edges. Light toning. Minor darkening and patchy staining at upper corner and along top edge. Fascinating documents of a murder in a colonial Mexican mining town during the late 18th century. Nicolas Gregorio Picazo was killed in the town of Mineral del Monte also known as Real del Monte in early March 1775 and a group of three men Phelipe de Avila Miguel de Avila and Manuel Gonzalez were charged with the murder. Real del Monte northeast of Pachuca in Hidalgo is located in the region where the Spanish one of their earliest discoveries of gold and silver following the conquest of the Aztecs in the early 1520s. Real del Monte is particularly rich in silver and is estimated to produced over one billion ounces of the precious metal from its mines over the course of the last five hundred years. The present documents include affidavits and witness statements including one from the widow of the murdered man as well as several procedural decisions from the judges in the case. An interesting record of colonial Mexican homicide proceedings in one its most significant industrial and commercial areas beyond Mexico City. unknown
10516MALET Léo Nestor BURMA-Les nouveaux mystères de Paris 12 volumes (sur 15) in 12 brochés,180x117mm, couvertures illustrées en couleurs. Robert LAFFONT éditeur Paris Le numéro de chaque volume est celui imprimé en pied. Volume 1 Le soleil naît derrière le Louvre Une enquête de Nestor BURMA dans les nouveaux mystères de Paris volume in 12 broché, couverture illustrée en couleurs 223 pages troisième trimestre 1954. Edition originale, un manque en pied restauré Volume 2 : Des kilomètres de linceuls. Une enquête de Nestor BURMA dans les nouveaux mystères de Paris. In 12 broché couverture illustrée en couleurs 205 pages 10 janvier 1955. Edition originale. Robert LAFFONT éditeur Paris Volume 3 : L’ours et la culotte Les nouveaux mystères de Paris Enquête dans le Nestor BURMA enquête dans le IIIème arrondissement. In 12 broché couverture illustrée en couleurs 205 pages, Robert LAFFONT éditeur Paris 25 février 1955. Edition originale Volume 4 : Le sapin pousse dans les caves Les nouveaux mystères de Paris Nestor BURMA à Saint Germain-des-Près. In 12 broché couverture illustrée en couleurs 223 pages, 25 février 1955. Robert LAFFONT éditeur Paris Volume 5 : Les rats de Montsouris Les nouveaux mystères de Paris Nestor BURMA enquête dans le XIVème arrondissement de Paris. In 12 broché couverture illustrée en couleurs 207 pages, 23 août 1955. Robert LAFFONT éditeur Paris édition originale Volume 6 : M’as-t-vu en cadavre ? Les nouveaux mystères de Paris Nestor BURMA enquête dans le Xème arrondissement de Paris. In 12 broché couverture illustrée en couleurs 221 pages, 3 janvier 1956 Robert LAFFONT éditeur Paris édition originale Volume 7 : Corrida aux Champs Elysées Léo Les nouveaux mystères de Paris Nestor BURMA enquête dans VIIIème arrondissement de Paris. In 12 broché couverture illustrée en couleurs 23 février 1956 Robert LAFFONT éditeur Paris édition originale Volume 8 : Pas de bavards à la muette Les nouveaux mystères de Paris Nestor BURMA enquête dans le XVIème arrondissement de Paris. in 12 broché couverture illustrée en couleurs 235 pages, 25 janvier 1956 Robert LAFFONT éditeur Paris édition originale Volume 9 : Brouillard au pont de Tolbiac Les nouveaux mystères de Paris Nestor BURMA enquête dans le XIIIème arrondissement de Paris in 12 broché couverture illustrée en couleurs 243 pages Quatrième trimestre 1956 Edition originale Volume 13 : Mic Mac moche au Boul’Mich’ Les nouveaux mystères de Paris Nestor BURMA enquête dans le Vème arrondissement in 12 broché couverture illustrée en couleurs 203 pages 20 décembre 1957, Robert LAFFONT éditeur Paris édition originale Volume 14 :Du Rebecca rue des rosiers Les nouveaux mystères de Paris Nestor BURMA enquête dans le IVème arrondissement de Paris. in 12 broché couverture illustrée en couleurs 229 pages 18 avril 1958 Robert LAFFONT éditeur Paris édition originale Volume XVII : l’envahissant cadavre Les nouveaux mystères de Paris Nestor BURMA enquête dans le XVIIème arrondissement de Parsi in 12 broché couverture illustrée en couleurs 233 pages 18 février 1959 Robert LAFFONT éditeur Paris édition originale
