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1958021452London United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton 1958. First edition. Publisher's Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering along the spine remains clear. Dust jacket has some light foxing at front with rear panel showing a moderate amount. Jacket is not price-clipped. Thomas Hambledon quicksteps from the Western Zone of Germany to the Eastern to locate the missing son of a man most important in atomic defense. His plottings are paralleled by the adventures of young Micklejohn who escaping his Russian captors is hidden by an underground group. Hambledon impersonates a Russian agent and across the frontier picks up Micklejohn's trail but can they race back to safety This copy although not marked as such comes from the collection of noted crime collector Gary Groton. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-Near Fine. Book. Hodder & Stoughton
1993019609Westport Connecticut & London: Greenwood Press 1993. Near Fine condition. NOT a library discard. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1993. First Edition First Printing with complete number row 10 987654321 on the copyright page. The 1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago was tied to labor's demand for an eight-hour work day. Described here are 1513 primary sources and secondary writings on the subject each with an excellent content summary. From the publisher: "The entries are organized under four main headings: 1 Context which includes background material on labor and industry the history and theory of anarchism the history of Chicago and biographical material on the individuals involved; 2 History which includes the principal secondary writings on the Riot and the documents from the legal proceedings; 3 Argument which includes a chronological arrangement of protest and polemical literature on various Haymarket issues notices of commemorative meetings and speeches and writings devoted to the central issue of the freedom of expression and assembly; and 4 Imagination which includes sections on fiction drama poetry and art inspired by Haymarket." Bound in the original red cloth with a black panel on the front cover gilt-stamped. . First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket as issued. 8vo. xiii 365pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Greenwood Press Hardcover
1961Chestnut Cottage Flimwell Wahurst Sussex no date. American Crime Writer. One page 4to. He refers to his just having been welcomed into the Crime Writers' Association but has been too busy to reply sooner. He has ben packing and trying to "finish a novel which failed". He very much appreciates meeting CWA members. He adds that "the book is now en route for Crime Club" giving him the opportunity to look about him. He would welcome CWA visitors and promises a good cup of tea from his Australian mother-in-law". Chestnut Cottage, Flimwell, Wahurst, Sussex, no date. unknown
007899London: Hurst & Blackett 'Plotting the downfall of England'. Green boards with very slight lean to spine rubbing to corners and hinges light bumping to corners darkening to pages and page edges and a little tanning to eps. A good tight copy. Presumed First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Hurst & Blackett Hardcover
1962A41367New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author with a short inscription on the front endpaper. The book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends edges and corners. "Clinton Truman Duffy 1898 1982 was the warden of San Quentin State Prison between 1940 and 1952. He was a prominent opponent of capital punishment." from Wikipedia; Signed by Author . Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover
1924016540New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1924. This is the rare 1924 hardcover first edition -- not a modern reprint. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. A solid reasonably tight copy. Bound in the original blue cloth. Gilt lettering is flaking off the spine and front cover. WITHDRAWN stamp and a few other library markings. Otherwise pages are creamy white clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Foreword by Raymond B. Fosdick. The author was New York City's first policewoman. This book is based on her experiences as a pioneer in the field. There are 18 chapters including WOMAN'S PLACE IN A POLICE DEPARTMENT; EDUCATING POLICEWOMEN; THE POLICEWOMAN AS A DETECTIVE; THE POLICEWOMAN AND THE LAW; COOPERATION AMONG POLICEWOMAN; etc. In the final chapter the author states: " The policewoman of today in her service and ideals foreshadows the policewoman of the future In the future there will be more policewomen. The field of service however will not change. Women protective officers will always confine their efforts to work with children girls and women. From a small isolated group women protective officers will rise to take their rightful places beside the men cooperating with them so that society may have the full benefit of a woman's point of view in solving those difficult problems that threaten the life and safety of mothers and children Crime is a super-social disease In the policewoman of the future rests the hope of a permanent and lasting cure". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. 8vo. xviii 200pp. Frederick A. Stokes Company Hardcover
1990008553New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
a81874Washington 1962-1963. 8 issues for 1962-1963 this quarterly journal bound in one volume. Hardcover. 4to. about 75pp. per issue bound in institution buckram with original covers included and black stamping on spine. University library stamp on top fore-edge and on covers label at heel of spine. VG plus. . hardcover
a81875Washington 1966-1967. 8 issues for 1966-1967 this quarterly journal bound in one volume. Hardcover. 4to. about 75pp. per issue bound in institution buckram with original covers included and black stamping on spine. University library stamp on top fore-edge and on covers label at heel of spine. VG plus. . hardcover
19730017367BPC Publishing Limited 1973. 20 book set maroon pictdorial covers with white ltrs pictorial endpapers corners are bumped clean and tight. A pictorial encyclopedia of aberrant behavior. Everything from Crime Busters of how it all started to Ma Baker Alcatraz Benedict Anold etc. Extra postage for multiple books is included in price. 1st Printiing 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. BPC Publishing Limited Hardcover
1967201118-MB52California Trial Lawyers Association 1967. Very Good Hardcover 254 pages panel discussions from CTLA Second Annual Convention February 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. California Trial Lawyers Association Hardcover
19862090502125700224Tokyo Law School Publishing 1986. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 751 pages Size: A5 size Number of books: 1 volume Tokyo Law School Publishing paperback
1998008317Washington D.C: U S Government Printing Office 1998. 467pp/illus. Includes color illustrations of unit patches crests and flag shields. Presents an organizational history of Military Intelligence in the United States Army from its beginnings to the present. Includes the lineages and heraldic items of military intelligence brigades groups and battalions organized under tables of organization and equipment. Still shrink wrapped. First Edition. Buckram. New/No Jacket - Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. U S Government Printing Office Hardcover
1984007069University AL: Univ of Alabama Pr 1984. 281pp/illus/maps. The growth of the CIA's "air Force began with theKorean War. The CIA used CAT ti dekuver weaoibs to anti-Communist elements in Burma make numerous overflights of China in support of guerrilla carry operatives between secret bases throughout the Far East and provide secure airlift for other clandestine missions. Clean. First Edition. Hard Coveer. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ of Alabama Pr unknown
1991006930Anaheim CA: GRAPHITTI DESIGNS 1991. Graphic Novels. Illus. by MUTH JON J. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author/Illustrator. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover - 1st. Print - Signed & Numbered Ltd. Edition No. 332 of 500 Signed in limitation page with mounted photograph - Black cloth Traycase CD & Black Cloth covered Book/ No DJ as issued As New A two-part tale told in black & white with accompanying music by Jon. J. Muth. GRAPHITTI DESIGNS Hardcover
191575540London: Hugh Rees 1915. First edition Octavo. xiv 139 1 printer's slug 2 publisher's ads pp. plus 33 full page photographic illustrations. Publisher's red cloth with git spine lettering. Very minor extremity e=wear. A very clean and attractive copy."Human Leopards is the name given to a criminal society whose members band together to commit murder to obtain human body parts fat and blood for the creation of a medicine Borfima thought to imbue its possessors with supernatural powers guaranteeing success in their undertakings. It was alleged that the society members concealed themselves in leopard skins and used a special three pronged knife when killing their selected victims so that the deaths would be blamed on leopards. They were also said to practise cannibalism. There were repeated reports of human leopard activity in Sherbro and Mende chiefdoms in Bonthe district in the 1890s and 1900s and the Colonial Government passed ordinances outlawing membership of this and similar societies such as Human Alligator and Human Baboon societies and set up special circuit courts to deal with offenders. A number of individuals were subsequently tried and found guilty of being involved in human leopard murders some of whom confessed to their crimes; but as with witchcraft trials in Europe it is not easy to separate the reality behind the human leopard reports from the moral panic they aroused." Sierra Leone Heritage Hugh Rees hardcover
30198London: 12 Carlton Square n.d. 1 page. 1 vols. 12mo. To unidentified recipient. Laid down on brown paper else very good. 1 page. 1 vols. 12mo. Providing his signature at the request of the recipient . ACCOMPANIED BY A LEAF ADVERTISING WRIGHT'S LECTURES which Wright sent with the letter. Apparently Wright found God and turned over a new leaf. British Thief. <br/><br/> 12 Carlton Square unknown
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
187832526Chicago: Donnelley Lloyd & Co 1878. First Edition. Small octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's brown decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt blue-grey glazed endpapers; 256pp.; frontispiece full-page illus. throughout. Some light wear to extremities spine gilt rather dulled else Very Good or better. Memoir of the professional gambler/drunk-turned-evangelist. See BANTA's Indiana Authors and Their Books p. 195. Donnelley, Lloyd & Co unknown
187463860New York: United States Publishing Company 1874. First Edition. Sold by Subscription. Large octavo. Publisher's green pictorial cloth titles in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; 670pp; illus. Boards heavily chaffed along foredge thus Good only but otherwise a tight well-preserved copy with gilt and pictorial devices still crisp and bright. <br /> <br /> An encyclopedic history of noted New York crimes and criminals with sections on contemporary penological practices including capital and corporal punishment. Like most subscription books from this period rather cheaply produced and consequently uncommon; this despite defects a presentable copy. United States Publishing Company unknown
195715176New York: E.P. Dutton 1957. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; red cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 248pp. Lengthily inscribed on front endpaper by the author dated 1957. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges else a tight Near Fine copy in a bright unclipped dustwrapper.<br /> <br /> Biography of Joseph E. Ragen long-time warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Statesville-Joliet home to Leopold & Loeb Roger "The Terrible" Touhy Basil "The Owl" Banghart and fictionally Jake & Elwood Blues. Includes an introduction by Ragen and a foreword by Harry Reutlinger; well-illustrated with photographic plates halftones. Very nice copy; uncommon signed. E.P. Dutton unknown
192935124New York: D. Appleton & Co 1929. Second American printing first published in London 1925; the first American printing also appeared that year. Octavo; blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xviii 1-619 2pp; 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates halftones; text illus. A tight Near Fine copy in the scarce dustwrapper lightly soiled overall with a few nicks to extremities Very Good to Near Fine. Very nice copy of this classic of juvenile criminal psychology. Burt achieved great eminence during his lifetime in 1946 becoming the first British psychologist to be knighted as a reward for his research. Burt's methodologies came into question after his death however and it is now widely believed he falsified much of his data particularly that relating to the inheritance of IQ. Nonetheless the current work remains compelling for both its wealth of detailed personal case studies of British delinquents and the numerous photographic portraits which though clearly staged portray genuine subjects and are classics in their genre. D. Appleton & Co unknown
189135019Boston: Enterprise Publishing Co 1891. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Stapled wraps. Approx. 7" x 5". 45 pages. Light brown paper covers with black title bordered in black on the front cover. Spine is chipped Covers detached. Contents clean. Enterprise Publishing Co unknown
19031953Fall River Massachusetts 1903-1904. About Very Good. 14.5 x 9.5 cm. 120pp. Red limp leather top-bound notebook tan paper label stamped in black to front cover. Holograph text in pencil and ink. Leather edgeworn with several small chips/loss to sides and lower edge; title label stained and toned; faint center crease to rear cover; occasional minor soiling. A year in the beat of Fall River patrolman Obadiah Knott providing a day-by-day account of his activities while on patrol. For the most part these are fairly mundane things: he notes the number of gas lights burning on his route checks that doors are locked and occasionally gets called upon to break up groups of loud drunks. Often people disperse themselves running away when they see him coming; other times he is merely resolving misunderstandings. Nevertheless numerous arrests are reported mostly for larceny and disturbing the peace witnesses corralled warrants given and at one point he notes "On Duty on Wellington St. while small pox patients where sic being carried away" July 20 1903.An uncommon personal record of a policeman's activities while walking his beat. hardcover
