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19313299<p>B&w press photograph with snipe on verso. Verso has stamps recent sticker and colored pencil notation as well as evidence of paper removal probably another snipe and light spotting; shallow chip to lower border and tiny loss to lower corner neither affecting body of image. Good.</p><p>Press photograph of legendary speakeasy proprietor Belle Livingston immediately following her release from jail in March 1931 after being incarcerated for 30 days for contempt of court after being arrested for violations of the Volstead Act i.e. Prohibition. In the photograph Livingston stands in the center of a large crowd outside a police car while police officers and a reporter look on. The snipe reads:</p><p>"Crowds Greet Belle after Release from Jail: New York -- Belle Livingston owner of New York's most luxurious night club surrounded by a huge crowd of her admirers immediately after her release from the Harlem jail where she was sentenced to thirty days for contempt of court. La Belle was convicted of defying a federal prohibition injunction at her famous night life rendezvous. N-3-8-31."</p><p>Belle Livingston 1875-1957 was a traveling theater performer who ran her own salon in Paris prior to moving to New York in 1927 at the age of 52 when she tried her hand at speakeasies aimed at the high society crowd. Although her first and second clubs failed quickly due to lack of funds and federal raids her third -- the Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club at 126 E. 58th St.-- was a major hit while it lasted. Her October 1930 opening night drew such guests as Russia's Archduke Leopold John D. Rockefeller the Duke of Manchester and Al Capone. However the establishment was soon raided by federal agents and Livingston who famously tried to escape while wearing red silk pajamas only managed to keep the Country Club open until January 1931. After her release from jail she tried opening speakeasies out West but never managed to make a go of it. Indomitable until the end her gravestone reads "This is the only stone I have left unturned" https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org.</p> International Newsreel Photos, Inc.
193034866New York: circa 1930. 1930. Good. - 41 words typed on an approximately 10 inch high by 8 inch wide sheet of his personalized letterhead. Signed "A Abdullah". Folded 3 times for mailing. There are several short tears at the folds with some light red staining below the text. There is some light soiling at bottom right and there is a crease & tear to & a small piece out of the bottom right corner. Good. <p>Abdullah writes to future congressman Seymour Halpern that he is too busy to see anyone but "I am sending by this mail the signed picture to your friend."<p>Achmed Abdullah who claimed descent from the Russian imperial family and was educated in England emigrated to the United States in the 1910s. He went on to become an American author and screenwriter most noted for his pulp stories of crime mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films and earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay for the 1935 film "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer".<p>The Queens New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern 1913-1997 started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law including measures on schools housing civil rights nutrition and mental health. A Liberal he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits including painting and collecting autographs he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. New York: circa [1930]. unknown
014098London: Robert Davies SEE PHOTOS. Very Good condition but for usual darkening of pages. Bound in simple but tasteful half morocco and marbled boards. Leather is well-preserved. Marbled paper is rubbed/chipped at extremities. No date but circa 1880-1890. Illustrated title page. Bampfylde-Moore Carew 1693-1770 was called "King of the gipsies." "His career was a long series of swindling and imposture very ingeniously carried out He continued his course of vagabond roguery for some time was convicted of being a vagrant and sentenced to be transported to Maryland. On his arrival escaped and fell into the hands of some friendly Indians. - DNB. According to Howes C132 Carew "operated confidence games among colonial suckers from Virginia to Connecticut - the memorable first of a long line of such artists who have continued to flourish in this climate." He returned to Scotland about 1745. Also described here are his picaresque adventures among gypsies on the Continent and in London. This "Popular Edition" contains "A Vocabulary of Words used by the Scottish Gipsies" "A Few Sentences in the Gipsy Language" and "A Dictionary of the Cant Language generally used by Mendicants." This edition is not cited in Black's GYPSY BIBLIOGRAPHY but seems to be an expanded edition of Black's item 768 circa 1870. This copy has the 1898 bookplate of Roger de Coverly. Could this be the bookbinder Roger de Coverly who apprenticed with Joseph Zaehnsdorf After ten years at Leighton's Coverly formed his own bindery and did work for many important clients including William Morris. Among his pupils was Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson. Copyright Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 160pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Robert Davies Hardcover
1994D90180New York: Random House Inc 1994. True first edition in first state jacket with the misspelled 'fmr' for 'for' on page 11 line 32. DJ price $23.00 with Ann Beattie blurb on top of back. Spine heel very lightly rolled. Light quarter sized scuff on back of jacket in mylar. Winner of the inaugural Boeke Prize. Basis for the 1997 Clint Eastwood movie starring Kevin Spacey. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Random House Inc Hardcover
1931A99223500177U1931. Hardcover. Good. W. Collins & Co. Ltd Orange cvr w/ black embossed ltr stains/cvr damage wrinkled spine cocked tight binding/pgs prev ownr name inked inside front cvr hardcover
1939A35485New York: Dial Press. Very Good. 1939. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book is in Very Good to Near Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have somlight bumping rubbing and wear. The spine of the book has some fading and toning and the lettering on the spine has dulled not rubbed. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed with an inscription by the author on the front endpaper. There is another former owner's gift notation as well. The front endpaper also includes a smallish rectangular area with some paper loss where a former owner's address label was removed. "Having built the reputation of his New York papers on battling the power of the corrupt political machine known as Tammany Hall it was only natural that when two Tammany-backed stock swindlers went on trial in New York the Hearst papers took a serious interest in the outcome. After the defendants Fuller and McGee were acquitted in spite of what was generally considered overwhelming evidence of guilt Hearst unleashed his attack dogs. In full spare-no-expense style the mode in which Hearst was at his most dangerous as a journalist the editor of the New York American Victor Watson ordered the papers top investigative reporter Nat Ferber to get to the bottom of the case. Ferber found exactly what Hearst had hoped for: one Eddie Eidlitz a former associate of the defense lawyer William J. Fallon who had won acquittal for the Tammany swindlers. Eidlitz was willing to testify that Fallon had participated in corrupting the jury. Thus began the sensational front-page prosecution of William Fallon." This book covers a number of the famous cases journalist Nat Ferber covered over the years including the Seabury Inquiry the E. M. Fuller and Co. Bankruptcy trial Racketeer Arnold Rothstein the Brain and more. Ferber was an investigative journalist dealing with many of the most famous criminal enterprises of his day. ; Signed by Author . Dial Press hardcover
1964RM6833New York New York: Random House Inc. 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition Classic work detailing the landmark legal case that confirmed the right to defense counsel regardless of ability to afford it winner of the 1965 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book and source for the 1980 Henry Fonda film by the same name. Stated First Printing with no further printings listed. Maroon boards with gilt lettering on spine show only modest wear to some edges. Tight and clean copy. Previous owner's bookplate on inside cover. Jacket is in mylar protector and is not price clipped with $4.95 original price still clear. Jacket edges have a couple small chips and small tears now protected by a mylar sleeve. Light sunning to jacket edges and one corner has penciled numbers written on back. Shipment will be insured. Packed and shipped with care. Random House, Inc. hardcover
19957663Katoomba: Tranter Enterprises 1995. Small quarto. xiv 224 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Bibliography and index. Signed and inscribed by the author. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Pictorial laminated boards. . Signed and Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Tranter Enterprises Hardcover
19955899Katoomba: Tranter Enterprises 1995. Small quarto. xiv 224 pages. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Bibliography and index. Signed and inscribed by the author. No.471 of the limited edition of 1500 copies. Pictorial laminated boards. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Tranter Enterprises Hardcover
9287128286.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1989011792Chicago IL: Contemporary Books 1989. 438 illus. endpaper maps appendices chronology glossary index The former Director of the CIA who was involved in the Vietnam War for many of its 16 years argues that the war could have been won except for blunders by the White House and the Pentagon. Inscribed by William Colby on the ffep. Clean. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contemporary Books Hardcover
0313280584.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1516979923.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1927040531Sydney: Cornstalk Publishing. 1927. 275pp. Or grey cloth lacking jacket. Ex-Queensland Parliamentary Library reserve stack with appropriate stamps small bookseller label on front pastedown. Toning to page edges margins and endpapers. Slight fading and white numbers on spine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Cornstalk Publishing. Hardcover
1996047652Katoomba NSW: Tranter Enterprises 1996. xx 536pp corrections to prev works index references num bw ills. Tiny bump to top front corner. First edition limited to 2000 copies SIGNED by the author and numbered this #1799. This copy further personally inscribed to an 'ex-trooper' with 'Sincere best wishes from the author to a true "colonial". . Signed Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Small 4to. Tranter Enterprises Hardcover
190101Thomas Kelly London 1824. 512 pp b&w engraved plates intermittent foxing rebound copy in blue full morocco binding with gilt designs and raised bands on spine. Hunt was transported to New South Wales for his crimes 17 year sentence - subsequently murdered. With the bookplate of Nancye Kent Perry on front paste-down. Ferguson 954. Thomas Kelly, London, 1824 hardcover
1959025578Springfield Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publisher 1959. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. Sharp corners. Previous owner's name stamp i.e. Texas Department of Public Safety Polygraph Section Austin. Otherwise all pages are clean and unmarked. Foreword by Franklin D. Johnston. Well illustrated with drawing and diagrams. Tables. Bibliography with 233 entries. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped yellow cloth. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xvii 243pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Charles C. Thomas, Publisher Hardcover
19132092902137302702Shimei-sha 1913. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Shimei-sha paperback
10760Headed The Camp Little Kimble Nr. Aylesbury Bucks. 5 Feb. 1947. One page 12mo good condition. "Thanks you very much for writing to me about my boo. It is always nice to hear from oone's readers and I am delighted to learn that both you and your husband found an hour's excitement in this otherwise rather dreary world. Your good wishes are appreciated." Norte: Apparently Raymond/Chase/Grant only published "More Deadly than the Male" under the pseudonym "Ambrose Grant" so letters signed so may well be scarce. [Headed] The Camp, Little Kimble, Nr. Aylesbury, Bucks., 5 Feb. 1947. unknown
16788Salmon & Gluckstein Ltd. London. Circa 1950. Printed by McCorquodale & Co. Ltd. London. 96pp. 12mo. Stapled. In printed card covers. Addendum slip in red inside front cover. Full-page advertisements for tobacco products throughout. In good condition lightly-aged and worn with rust to staples and uneven fading to front cover. Although now forgotten the enterprise was an extensive one: the back cover lists 39 'S. & G. LIBRARIES' 22 of them in London 15 in the 'Provinces' and 2 in Scotland. The inside front cover has two notes: the first on 'Lost Books' and the second 'Important' including: 'S. & G. Ltd. do not sell books ex their libraries. The public is therefore warned not to purchase any books marked with the "S. & G." stamps.' Back cover gives terms beginning: 'S. & G. Libraries offer the public for twopence per week the best and widest choice of good reading. The latest publications by the best known authors are always catalogued or listed in the spring and autumn supplementary lists. Additionally from time to time supplies of new publications which are found to be in general demand are sent to the branches.' An insight into the reading interests of the mid-twentieth century pipe and cigar smoker. Packed with titles many of them from the late 1930s presumably remainders. Popular authors from Marie Corelli and Baronness Orczy to J. B. Priestley and Agatha Christie. Divided into 'General List' 'Books for the Sophisticated' 'Mystery and Crime Fact and Fiction' 'Wild West Historical Romance Adventure and Foreign Legion' 'War Stories' 'Flying Adventures' 'Creeps! Horrors! Ghosts!' and 'French List'. No other copy traced either on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC. Salmon & Gluckstein, Ltd., London. [Circa 1950.] Printed by McCorquodale & Co. Ltd., London. unknown
147605Toronto: Superior Publishers circa 1940s. Trade paperback 127pp. Good to very good. Contains 9 true stories. The covers are quite presentable with only very small chips and tears along the edges and a small crack across the spine. Scarce. Includes Betrayed by Ghosts The Bobby-Sox Murder Bomb for a Bride Crime in Gaol Escape from the Terror Gang Guns Flame Lips of Death Murder is So Simple & The Twice Scorned Lover. True Crime True Crime. Superior Publishers Paperback
004469London: C. Roworth & Sons Printed broadside n.d. but between 1832 and 1840 approximately 220mm x 370mm in size. Laid down on to paper old tears now closed visible to head light surface soiling cropped by about 20mm another copy I had a few years ago was 245mm x 390mm in size small hole to vignette. The printer was Charles Roworth who traded as C. Roworth & Sons between 1832 and 1840 see BBTI. A notice to menials and servants that if through negligence or carelessness any houses were set on fire they would be subject to a fine of one hundred pounds and in the likely event of them not being able to pay such a fine they would be sent to gaol for eighteen months of hard labour. This notice was to be "affixed in some conspicuous place in view of your servants". First Edition. Unbound. Good. Folio. Broadside. C. Roworth & Sons Paperback
9290780304.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2007011859Washington D. C: National Defense Intelligence College Press 2007. 508 pages/illus/maps. A meticulously researched history of British French and American aerial surveillance on the Western FrontWorld War I marked the beginning of the era of modern warfare a conflict that demanded revolutionary technology to break the vicious stalemate in which the armies of Europe found themselves. One such technology was aerial reconnaissance and photography which together with the growing intelligence use of phone tapping and radio intercepts changed the nature of war forever. Describing the evolution of aerial photography during World War I this text is packed with data information and meticulous research from essential archives including the National Archives in College Park Maryland and Londons National Archives. It shows not only how important aerial reconnaissance was to the war effort but also how it became the foundation for modern-day exploitation of imagery and geospatial intelligence used to guide todays decision makers on global issues and shaped intelligence work for generations to come. This item ships from multiple locations. Clean no marks. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. National Defense Intelligence College Press Hardcover
24933<p>Ward Lock & Co. Limited London. Inner Hinges Starting Slightly HBDJ 1916. Early Edition UNDATED Red Embossed Hard Cover with Design in Middle Titled on Spine. Book Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD AS-IS DJ Worn With Tiny Chips Tears Wear to edges Extremities DJ. Dustjacket is worn at edges with some small tears. Inside is clean. Front DJ small chips Tears Removes part of T & part of 2 PPs in words THE KIDNAPPED At Top Edge DJ but DJ Titles & Illustration Primarily Intact on Front DJ Spine Ends & edges tiny Tears Chips Back DJ tiny chips Tears Color AD for Swan Fount PensInterior nice tight clean light FOX Wear 251 pgs ADS thru Bond of Black Sm 8vo. DJ protected in clear Mylar Brodart. Generally clean tight copy but a little worn. .adventure of a naval officer in a South American republic and a missing El Presidente. Series #96 on DJ Spine Story of a ships officer and his adventures in kidnapping a south american president. . Hard Cover.</p> Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London, hardcover
