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199715046London: Orion Books 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. 394 pp. First UK edition of this terrific Inspector John Rebus detective novel. Fine condition in fine dustwrapper clipped at bottom of front flap. An Edgar Award nominee. <br/><br/> Orion Books hardcover books
196713697New York: Random House 1967. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good . First edition first printing. A novel of humor and murder by the author of The Mercenaries. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A near fine clothbound copy in very good plus unclipped dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
192419572Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company 1924. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm; maroon cloth white labels on spine and front panel with titles printed in black; dustjacket; 105pp. Contemporary inscription on the front endpaper: "The call of these men behind the walls ought to be heard. Cordially / Leslie L. Sanders / 1963 Ruckle St. Indianapolis Ind." Light dustiness and faint spotting to upper edge of text else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $1.25 dust-soiled with chips at spine ends corners and upper rear panel affecting text and a dozen small tape mends verso and to rear panel; Good substantially complete example. Late volume written by the former chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform who once famously volunteered to spend a week in prison. Osborne grapples with the challenges of prison administration prisoner welfare and making "an intelligent plan of prison management a thing of general social concern." While the exact identity of the inscriber is not known we find one Leslie Lee Sanders of Indianapolis IN a former convict sentenced to four years in Leavenworth for mail fraud in June of 1925 as a likely candidate The Indianapolis News - 8 June 1925; p.12. A scarce volume and unseen by us in the very fragile dustjacket. J.B. Lippincott Company unknown books
193325939New York: Appleton-Century 1933. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 261pp. First printing with 1 present on final page of text. Gilt a trifle oxidized else a fine tight copy in scarce original dustwrapper lightly nicked at extremities but unusually bright and unfaded VG to Near Fine. A juvenile delinquent novel set in the tenements of New York told from the point of view of a hard-boiled probation officer. Quite scarce especially in dustwrapper. HANNA 2910. Appleton-Century 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
48688Manchester: Published by The Daisy Bank Printing & Publishing Co. Wellington Street Gorton n. d. Ca 1914 pre-WWI. Dull red paper covers printed in dark blue stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. General wear soiling & age darkening to covers. Age-toning to paper which is becoming brittle. Withal a VG copy. 32 pp. 8-5/8" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>"The Red Barn Murder was a notorious murder committed in Polstead Suffolk England in 1827. A young woman Maria Marten was shot dead by her lover William Corder. The two had arranged to meet at the Red Barn a local landmark before eloping to Ipswich. Maria was never seen alive again and Corder fled the scene. He sent letters to Marten's family claiming that she was in good health but her body was later discovered buried in the barn after her stepmother spoke of having dreamed about the murder. Corder was tracked down in London where he had married and started a new life. He was brought back to Suffolk and found guilty of murder in a well-publicised trial. He was hanged at Bury St Edmunds in 1828 and a huge crowd witnessed the execution. The story provoked numerous newspaper articles songs and plays. The village where the crime had taken place became a tourist attraction and the barn was stripped by souvenir hunters. The plays and ballads remained popular throughout the next century and continue to be performed today." Wiki Rare published account of this lurid murder case with OCLC showing just one institutional holding: Stanford. Published by The Daisy Bank Printing & Publishing Co., Wellington Street, Gorton unknown books
194226538New York: Simon & Schuster 1942. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Clothbound octavo. First edition of this uncommon Woolrich suspense novel which was the basis for the film The Leopard Man. Attractive prior owner bookplate to the front endpaper else a sound clean very good copy. Lacks the rare dustwrapper. 377 pp. Matching dates with no additional printings indicated. Simon & Schuster unknown books
195428499New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 191 pp. Exceptionally nice copy in dustwrapper of this crime and suspense novel by the author of The Screaming Mimi and Night of the Jabberwock. A handsome near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
194928569New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 248 pp. Hardbound copy in dustwrapper of this crime and suspense novel by the author of Death Has Many Doors and Night of the Jabberwock. Faint erasure marks to inside front pastedown else a sound very good and clean copy in a clipped but otherwise handsome near fine dustwrapper. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
197721365New York: Delacorte Press 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First printing stated of this early crime novel by the author of Fifty-Two Pickup. Designated the Delacorte Suspense Novel of the Year. 264 pp. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate afixed to the front blank endpaper. With a thin line of toning to edge of boards. Slight cant to spine. A very good copy in dustwrapper of one of the author's more sought after titles. Delacorte Press hardcover books
182611366Boston: Various Publishers 1826-1829. Various Editions. Octavo 22cm.; cloth-backed boards with original paper spine label; 330pp paginated continuously but each report with a separate title page; six inserted leaves of woodcut plates. A solid well-preserved copy with scattered foxing to text; Very Good. First four reports of Timothy Dwight's pioneering Prison Discipline Society dedicated to the amelioration of the harsh conditions prevailing in American prisons during the early republic. With six woodcut plates mostly plans of prison buildlings and grounds. Various Publishers unknown books
192228986New York: D. Appleton and Company 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 14 272pp. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To Mr. and Mrs. Morrell / Two good pals and sincere friends / from the Author. Oct. 12th 1923." Light overall wear hand-soil to boards top edge of textblock slightly grubby with tiny bumps to right fore-edge; Very Good. Dustjacket is deeply price-clipped lightly edgeworn and spine-sunned with a few small nicks and tears; measures 1/4" taller than the book; Very Good. Memoir of a career criminal who spent time incarcerated in Wisconsin and Connecticut State Prisons. "His career as a law-breaker ended with his well-known burglarizing of Mark Twain's home an unsuccessful attempt which won him the name of "the Mark Twain Burglar" from front flap. "Criticizes the convict labor system as slavery and unjust to free workers calls torture and punishment useless and attributes his own reform to the "human touch" SUVAK 155 p.46. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
186743987.1Cincinnati 1867. 1st Edition Sabin 19107. Original publisher's printed pale green wrappers. Some general wear soiling & light edge chipping to wrappers. A touch of foxing. Some paper loss at spine ends. Withal an About VG copy. 128 pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>De Beck describes over 100 people who committed murders in and around Cincinnati. Curiously enough the front wrapper describes this volume as "A Book for the Family". Reissued later in the year with the author's name with the title amended to "The Horrors of Queen City. Being an Account.". unknown books
193344785New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1933. Book Club Edition. With "H-H" code on copyright page. Octavo 21.5cm; dark blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in lime green across spine and covers; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; viii2951pp. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page: "For Bill Paxson who likes greyhound racing as much as I do - Best regards - W.R. Burnett." Sunning to spine light wear to extremities with some scattered soil to front cover; contents clean; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is spine-sunned with modest shelfwear several tiny nicks and short tears and a 1.5" closed tear at upper front joint; Very Good. Inscribed copy of Burnett's seventh book a novel set in California and centered around a down-and-out gambler his interaction with gangsters and his love affair with dog racing - particularly with a greyhound named Dark Hazard. Burnett became involved in dog racing for a time while writing the novel and even owned a greyhound named War Cry. Basis for Alfred E. Green's 1934 film of the same name starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin and a 1937 B-picture titled Wine Women and Horses. Hubin p.58; Baird 359. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
197913635New York: W. W. Norton and Company 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition of the author's first book a suspense novel that won the Edgar Award for best first novel of the year. This copy both SIGNED by the author and separately INSCRIBED by Patterson and dated in year of publication. A very good copy in very good price intact but bottom-corner clipped dustwrapper. <br/><br/> W. W. Norton and Company 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
188741538Saint John N. B.: Printed by Geo. W. Day Corner Prince Wm. and Princess Sts 1887. "Fifth Edition" stated. The First Edition published in 1816 cf. Sabin 3947; Watters p. 462. Late 19th C. 3/4 blue sheep binding with marbled paper boards. Marbled eps. Original pale green printed wrappers retained. Rear wrapper an advert for Geo. Day. Binding shows some extremity wear. Original wrappers & text paper show age-toning with rear wrapper having a chip from the fore-edge. A VG copy. 82 pp. Wood engraved vignette to front wrapper. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>"Henry More Smith also known as Henry Frederick Moon Henry J. Moon Henry Hopkins Henry Frederick More Smith and William Newman was a confidence man master puppeteer hypnotist seer liar and above all else a superlative escape artist who lived for a while in New Brunswick Canada. Chains handcuffs shackles even made-to-fit iron collars could not hold him." Wiki. The author Bates was the sheriff of Kings' County New Brunswick. Uncommon in the trade. Printed by Geo. W. Day, Corner Prince Wm. and Princess Sts hardcover books
181330782Rennes: Chez Cousin-Danelle Imprimeur de la Cour Impériale 1813. l sheet consisting of three leaves. 1 vols. FOLIO 20 x 46 inches. Broadside. Some marginal discoloration and creasing else very good. l sheet consisting of three leaves. 1 vols. FOLIO 20 x 46 inches. Broadside of Criminals in Napoleonic France. Lists the date of arrest the court identifies the criminal with age profession address a physical description crime and punishment citing the applicable laws next to them. Chez Cousin-Danelle, Imprimeur de la Cour Impériale unknown books
196813659New York: New American Library / World Publishing 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good /very good. First edition of Michael Crichton's first book written under this alias. Winner of the Edgar Aawrd for Best crime Novel of the Year. A clean very good plus copy in very good clipped dustwrapper. One of the more sought after of the Edgar winners. <br/><br/> New American Library / World Publishing hardcover books
192919739New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22.5cm; purple cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 308pp 1. Vintage bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown upper board edges slightly darkened with a slight bump to upper right corner of front panel; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped with several edge tears and a dozen clear tape mends on verso; light wear and shallow chipping to extremities with a deeper chip at crown not affecting titles; just Very Good. Narrative account of Ernest Booth an unreprentant career criminal who by his own admission was an accomplished burglar and forger. "Booth's career as a thief was punctuated by several brief stays in county jails and over half of a five-year sentence at San Quentin. He secured an excellent inmate job at San Quentin photographer but after a parole denial soured on it and used the position as a front to appropriate salable items from the administration." Uncommon and rarely found in jacket. SUVAK 26. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
193628984New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; mauve cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; illus.frontispiece 368pp. Slight musty odor else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped priced $3.00 sunned and edgeworn with small chips to extremities short tears and splits along flap folds. Life story of a career criminal incarcerated in the Oregon State Prison after a career of check forging hold-ups safe-blowing and theft. "Principal incidents are Duncan's escape and recapture; otherwise this is a diary of a criminal's routine prison life" SUVAK 98 p.32. Scarce in dustjacket. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc unknown books
195025986Milwaukee WI: Tee-Pee-Gee Company n.d. but ca.1950. Board game consisting of one 1 game board 21.5" x 22" set of two 2 red acrylic dice 41 round and square painted wood pieces in black white green red yellow blue and brown one black piece replaced 17 game cards 2.25" x 3.75" printed on rectos only and original instruction manual 6" x 4". Dice game pieces and cards housed in the original manufacturers two-piece box. Game board is hinged with linen lightly worn at extremities with some occasional board exposure; instruction manual is browned overall folded in half with some splitting along spine fold and holographic notes to front and rear wrappers. Box for entire game not present though it is unclear whether or not one was issued. Presumed complete. "The fascination of this game lies in the variety of ways chances and combinations in which it can be played. For instance - a player may decide to play all the men on the straight and narrow path to freedom by being pardoned or take a shorter but more risky method as a fugitive. The trials of fate and temptation may enter at any time and upset all plans. This novel game which may be played by two to six players illustrates the separation of prisoners from the outside world and their discipline and reformation. It is a game of chance and skill and the possibility of your opponents' chance to win depends upon where and how you make your moves. It will hold you spellbound from beginning to end" - opening statement from instruction booklet.<br/><br/>A prison-themed board game with a phantom manufacturer; our research has failed to reveal much information about either one though in theory and objective it bears remarkable similarities to the much later ca.1990's board game The Slammer produced by Ruppert Games. Tee-Pee-Gee can be played by up to six players and while it appears fairly easy at first glance the dynamics are quite complicated with game pieces representing inmates messengers guards and visitors. The possibility for numerous moves exists dictated by the roll of the dice cards chosen and each players respective positioning on the board. Prisoners can be released or can choose to escape with or without the help of visitors. The winner of the game is the player with all their prisoners outside the walls either as "pardoned" or "fugitives" and their visitors "in good standing" with the prison officials. Rare; we find no example for sale at the time of this writing March 2021 and no record in OCLC. Tee-Pee-Gee Company unknown books
192125752Boston: Roxburgh Publishing Company 1921. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 258pp. Slightly shaken; spine gilt dulled legible with difficulty; internally clean tight and unmarked. A solidly VG copy lacking the presumed dustwrapper. Extremely uncommon survey of vice and crime in the Windy City presented as an exercise in "psychopathology" but written in a flat hard-boiled style by the enigmatic "Prince Immanuel of Jerusalem" whose true identity is shrouded in mystery. This pseudonym turns up in a number of unexpected locations: as a steerage immigrant to California in 1909 where he is described as "the son of the Sultan of Turkey and an Arabian Jewess" and is apparently seeking to raise funds for the construction of a "Universal University" on the site of King Solomon's Temple see The Lompoc California Journal for Jan 3 1909; as the headmaster of an institution called the "University College of Africa" in Cairo Egypt ca. 1917 see Hill The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Papers v.11 p.769n; and as the creator of an invented language "Universal" ca. 1914 see Okrent In the Land of Invented Languages p.296. In the first two sources he is identified as "I.E. Goldreich" and "Eleasar Isaac Goldreich" respectively and he appears to have been a one-time British citizen. He was responsible for at least two other published works: Postcards of Palestine Cairo ca 1912 and Chaos: Written for the Illiterati Columbia City IN: 1947. A scarce and somewhat mysterious Chicago item. Roxburgh Publishing Company unknown books
184119189Boston: Published by S. G. Simpkins 1841. First edition. Some trifling wear and soiling; a fine copy. 16mo original blind-stamped diaper grain blue cloth gilt lettering 48 pages. No man of ordinary observation can pass through the streets of New York or Philadelphia without meeting numerous living witnesses of the misery which exists in both of those cities and especially in the former. Enough can be seen in Boston to make any benevolent heart ache daily for suffering humanity. But still the amount is less in proportion to population than in either of the other two cities. Through the influence of better laws for education intellectual culture the best preservative from vice and crime is more generally diffused in Boston than in Philadelphia; and from its geographical position Boston is not like New York the common resort of the squalid poverty that seeks refuge on our shores from Europe." A fairly nuanced sociological criminal and economic argument for temperance among the laboring classes pointing to the savings in cost of drinks and to the economic advantages of sober fathers; additional aspersions are cast as well on adulteration of wines and liquors. Originally published as a series in Boston Daily Times here collected and published with a prefatory Advertisement dated May 1841 and signed by a committee of Boston advocates of temperance. Includes an appendix of collected statistics on inmates at the jails and house of correction juvenile crime insane asylum numbers etc. OCLC 6/2019 notes two locations. Published by S. G. Simpkins, unknown books
193022159Cleveland OH 1930. Large 8vo. Original color pictorial wraps. Good only. Covers chipped and worn. Pages toned. But still sound. 127pp. <br/><br/>A detailed account of the great Ohio Penitentiary fire of 1930 published within the year of the April 21 blaze the deadliest prison fire in American history which killed 322 inmates. Written by Cleveland newspaper reporters Dan W. Gallagher and T.J. Thomas the book provides a comprehensive portrait of the state of the prison during 1930 concentrated on its miserable conditions which the authors compare to Medieval torture chambers and 19th Century prison ships and severe overcrowding. According to the text at the time of the fire more than 5000 prisoners were kept in a facility originally designed to house about 1500. SPOTLIGHT indicts the prison's guards and administration notably a Captain John Hall head guard on duty who refused to unlock the cell block where most deaths occurred. The text is illustrated throughout with 22 photograph reproductions most being of the fire’s aftermath many with African-American prisoners figuring prominently and Thomas and Gallagher appear to have extensively interviewed prisoners for the book. Novelist Chester Himes was incarcerated in the penitentiary where his writing career began during the fire and he wrote about in his breakout article “To What Red Hell” which appeared in Esquire in 1934. Rather poorly produced and likely intended for regional distribution only SPOTLIGHT appears genuinely scarce. OCLC notes 7 holdings only 2 of those outside of Ohio. A rich and largely unheralded work of journalistic advocacy for prisoners’ rights. paperback books
