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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
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
19891286<p>First Edition First Printing. </p><p>Small Quarto 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm viii 407 1 pages in publisher's original blue cloth in a photo-illustrated dust jacket.</p><p>The author Jean Overton Fuller 1915-2009 was a prolific British author who specialized in writing about real espionage cases. Here she tries to unravel the mysterious case of Henri Déricourt 1909-1962 a French pilot who was an undercover agent for the British during World War II. Déricourt aided the Resistance in France but was also in touch with the Germans. Indeed he was accused of having sacrificed Allied agents to the Germans. So the question arises: Was he a double agent working for the Nazis Or was he instead under the control of British Intelligence throughout the war The author who knew Déricourt well believes he engaged in "loyal treason" meaning that he ultimately acted under British orders.<br /></p><p>The previous owner of this book was Robert S. Greene 1922-2013 an American author and jazz pianist. Greene himself had an interest in espionage; he wrote a biography of his uncle Paul Blum a counterespionage officer in World War II.<br /></p><p>Laid in to the book is a 1994 typed and signed letter from Jean Overton Fuller to Greene regarding some genealogical questions Greene had posed. There are also two 2009 typed and signed letters to Greene from London bookseller Timothy d'Arch Smith regarding the author's last year illnesses and demise. <br /></p><p>Copies of this book are scarce to the market. Altogether an interesting look at Déricourt by a prolific author of nonfiction espionage books. <br /></p><p>CONDITION: Foxing and a bit of soiling to top and fore edges bumping to a few edges of boards. Internally a couple small stains. The unclipped dust jacket has some minor edge wear and creases. A Very Good or better copy.<br /></p><br /> Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd. hardcover books
183444354Liverpool: W. Bethell Printer 1834. 1st printing presumed. Age-toned. Edge-chipping with largish chunk ~1" square from top edge just touching headline title. Old tape repair to the right of missing chunk. A Good copy. Broadside printed four column after a 9 line drophead title with two horizontal typographical ornament seperators. 19-1/2" x 15" <br/><br/>"Trial of William Riley aged 29; John Coakley aged 27; Thomas Simcock aged 18; and George Atkinson aged 28; by Sir Thomas Brancker for having feloniously borken and entered the Shop of Ralph Isaacs and stolen 80 Watches 130 Spoons 100 Rings 30 Forks and other Articles the Property of the said Ralph Isaacs -- Patrick Coakley aged 73 for receiving divers and sundry property knowing the same was stolen; and Elizabeth Cumpsty aged 35 charged upon oath with having feloniously incited aided and abetted hired and commanded John Coakley William Riley and Thomas Simcock feloniously to break and enter the Shop of Ralph Isaacs and steal therin the property before recited." So proclaims the headline of this crime broadside followed by 4 columns of text describing the trial of the accused individuals with the result that the jury "after being absent for about half-an-hour returned and found all the prisoners GUILTY." No copies found on OCLC. Rare. W. Bethell, Printer unknown 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
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
200634286NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0374307806 . Illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher. First printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
20031563Boston: Little Brown & Co. 2003. First Edition First Printing. Small 4to 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 155 mm 455 1 pages in red and black boards title to spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Boards rubbed dust jacket shows light edge wear.Two friends both spies during the Cold War get together again to work against the American invasion of Iraq. Or so they're led to believe by a mysterious billionaire. <br /><br /> Little, Brown & Co. 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
1997683New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1997. First Edition First Printing. 8vo pp. xxv 530 pages. An insiders' account of the espionage battle in Berlin between the CIA and the KGB from the end of World War II to the building of the Wall in 1961. These authors certainly know their stuff. David Murphy was chief of the CIA's Berlin station; Sergei Kondrashev was a lieutenant general in the KGB; and George Bailey was a director of Radio Liberty. <br/><br/>CONDITION: Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Small creases to spine ends and slight edge wear. Yale University Press unknown books
186345485Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1863. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's green blind-embossed cloth gilt-lettered spine top edge gilt brown glazed endpapers; 8432pp. Boards rather scuffed and worn textblock shaken in boards very faint tide stain at bottom edge of last few leaves else Good or better overall. Collection of seven short stories the detective story "In a Cellar" compared to Poe's works Dorri Beam "Style Gender and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing" 2010 p. 222. HUBIN p. 386; WRIGHT II 2338. Ticknor and Fields unknown books
1998264441998. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Sage Publications. Vols. 1-35 in 26 books 1964-1998. Vols. 1 to 17 green buckram with black spine stamping; Vols. 18-35 tan buckram. Ex-library with stamps very good condition. Special $250. Reports on original research in crime and delinquency new theory and the critical analyses of theories and concepts pertinent to research development in the field. unknown books
198799664N.pl: New York State Organized Crime Task Force 1987. 130p. wraps slightly creased minor internal creasing 8.5x11 inches first edition. New York State Organized Crime Task Force unknown books
195325649New York: Dell 1953. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Pocket paperbound book. Dell 738. An early reprint edition of this Thompson classic. 1949 on copyright page but this edition actually printed in 1953. A fair to good copy. Two small random ink markings on first endpaper. Some paper scaring/loss at top of front cover. Still well bound and ready for devouring. Dell paperback books
1966492731966. President's Commission on Crime in the District of Columbia. Report of the President's Commission on Crime in The District of Columbia. Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office 1966. xxix 1041 pp. Ex-library with stamps. Cloth worn with gilt lettering. Internally clean. $75. unknown books
19731558New York: The Viking Press Inc. 1973. First American Edition 1st Printing. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm 244 pages in light gray boards titles in black to spine silhouette of a spy to upper board pink topstain. Tiny ink mark near top of fore edge some fading and spotting to topstain. Internally clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy in a a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is bright and unclipped with light edge wear and a tiny chip to the bottom of the rear panel where it meets the spine. A young British agent is assigned to trail a cold-blooded Russian "diplomat." Then things start to go wrong for both sides. "You're sorry when it's over" The New York Times wrote in a laudatory review published October 28 1973. Striking cover illustration by Michael Codd. <br /><br /> The Viking Press, Inc. hardcover books
2002810<p>New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 2002. First Edition First Printing. SIGNED by Lawrence Schiller on the title page under which the word "and" has been written and then marked through. Based on research and interviews by Lawrence Schiller and Norman Mailer the book presents a psychological portrait of FBI agent Robert P. Hanssen who sold classified information to the KGB and its successor organization over more than 20 years. Hanssen was captured in 2001 and is serving multiple life sentences in a Colorado prison. The book is written as a novel with imagined dialogue. Schiller and Mailer were unable to interview Hanssen who was already a guest of U.S. taxpayers. Nonetheless it's a fascinating attempt to get into the mind of an American traitor especially through the device of having Hanssen talk to himself while looking at a mirror. 8vo. xv 317 pages. Near Fine with a minuscule mark to the upper board's right edge and a bump to its lower right corner in a Fine dust jacket. SCARCE signed. <br /><br />The backstory to this book is unusual and a bit convoluted. In Schiller's Author's Note he says he asked Mailer to write a screenplay for a CBS Television miniseries that Schiller would produce and direct. As Mailer was finishing the first draft of the screenplay Schiller decided to write the present book using Mailer's draft as the foundation. Schiller says he supplemented Mailer's draft with his own research. The book appeared in 2002 as did the series on CBS. The series starred William Hurt as Hanssen Mary-Louise Parker as his wife Peter Boyle as his father and David Strathairn as his best friend.</p><p>In addition to this book Schiller and Mailer also collaborated on "The Executioner's Song" and "Oswald's Tale."</p> HarperCollins Publishers Inc. books
1829WRCAM53865Edinburgh 1829. viii47pp. Dbd. Two faint institutional stamps and one small ink number on titlepage light toning. Good. An interesting murder trial account involving a husband-and-wife poisoning team on a steamboat near Glasgow in the early-19th century. From the Introduction: "The case which forms the subject of the present publication is however a proof that there are other and equally subtile and perilous forms of committing murder; and the trial of John Stuart and Catherine Wright is published in its present authentic form as a warning to the people of Scotland against the approaches of a set of crimes which have always been perpetrated under the reign of the darkest vice and superstition which have clouded European society." Rare with only about a dozen copies over several records in OCLC. unknown books
199929226NY: Scribner. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0684857820 . The author's first book. First printing. About fine in a fine dust jacket. . Scribner hardcover books
1985698New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1985. First Edition. A high-level Soviet diplomat working at the United Nations seeks asylum in the U.S. This is his story along with vivid portraits of Soviet leaders and a look at what takes place in the Politburo and in the world of espionage. Octavo pp. viii 378. Near Fine with some minor soiling on the top and bottom edges in a Very Good dust jacket that has some sunning and edge wear. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
196211762JLondon: Pimlico Films Limited 1962. First Edition. Original shooting script belonging to actress Hira Talfrey and signed by her on the front cover and is annotated in the text by her. Paperbound in printed studio wrappers. Laid in are 4 mimeographed daily production call sheets. This Britsh produced television crime series which starred Art Fleming and told tales from the cases of the William J. Burns detective agency in New York. Hira Talfrey appeared in such films as The Curse of the Demon The Conqueror Worm The Oblong Box and The Year of the Sex Olympics. Pimlico Films Limited unknown books
196211759JLondon: Pimlico Films Limited 1962. First Edition. Original shooting script belonging to actress Hira Talfrey and signed by her on the front cover. Paperbound in printed studio wrappers. This Britsh produced television crime series starred Craig Stevens Tracy Reed and Graham Stark. Hira Talfrey appeared in such films as The Curse of the Demon The Conqueror Worm The Oblong Box and The Year of the Sex Olympics. Pimlico Films Limited unknown books
196211761JLondon: Pimlico Films Limited 1962. First Edition. Original 6 page mimeographed shooting script belonging to actress Hira Talfrey consisting of the portion of the teleplay which has her part. This Britsh produced television crime series starred William Franklyn and Alan Rothwell. Hira Talfrey appeared in such films as The Curse of the Demon The Conqueror Worm The Oblong Box and The Year of the Sex Olympics. Pimlico Films Limited unknown books
1909WRCAM52766Palestine Tx 1909. Printed form 5 x 8 inches plus 1 x 1-inch photograph. Two old vertical folds left edge tanned lower right corner chipped. Photograph fine but somewhat crudely affixed. About very good. A "Wanted" notice from the City Marshal of Palestine Texas offering a fifty dollar reward for the capture of C.H. Crowson who was eventually arrested and convicted for burglary in 1909. The description given says that Crowson "Has dark hair blue eyes and light complexion. He is fond of music and plays guitar and violin. Works around saw mills and railroad shops." With a small photo of the fugitive attached to the form. unknown books
1913WRCAM52964Huntsville Tx 1913. Four small broadsides approximately 11 x 8 inches with attached photographs. Printed forms completed in typescript. Three forms with chips and tears somewhat affecting text mounted on white card stock. Browning at edges evidence of tape repairs. Photos with some slight mirroring. Good. Four wanted notices dating to just before World War I for men escaped from the Huntsville Prison in Texas. The men are convicted thieves and burglars sentenced to terms ranging from two to seven years. The forms each bearing the same printed masthead are completed in typescript with descriptions of the escapee's appearance notable features residence crime committed and place of escape. A photograph mugshot of the men in question are attached to the upper portion of each form. unknown books
