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1952866New York: Ballantine Books 1952. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br /> Small Octavo 8 247 5 pages hardcover in dust jacket.<br /><br />Communist agent arrives in the U.S. to persuade a scientist to defect to the Soviet Union. He also gets involved with some American women who suspect he's up to no good. As far as Cold War fiction goes it's not bad at all. An attractive copy of a Ballantine hardcover. Unfortunately Ballantine didn't credit the artist who designed the striking photomontage dust jacket. <br /><br />Published during the McCarthy era this book actually goes easy on the lurid anti-Red hysteria of so much Cold War fiction.<br /><br />CONDITION: Near Fine in an unclipped bright Near Fine dust jacket that has a bit of rubbing and a couple of nicks.<br /> Ballantine Books hardcover books
194430660New York: Avon Books 1944. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good . Pocket paperbound book. First pocket paperbound edition of these five crime stories by Chadler. Published as Avon Books #63. Previously published the same year in an enlarged format by Avon as well. 286 pp. A crisp very good plus copy. Avon Books paperback books
198221656Boston and London: David R Godine 1982. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine book club edition of this Mario Balzic murder mystery novel. SIGNED by the author and uncommon thus. Comes in a fine unclipped dustwrapper that clearly states Book Club Edition. <br/><br/> David R Godine hardcover books
196213645New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition stated. A crime novel that won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery of the Year. A very good copy in very good price intact dustwrapper with small chips to edges. Uncommon title in the first edition. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
198028518New York: Bantam Books 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Pocket paperbound original crime novel by Leonard. Published two years later in a British hardcover edition this pbo is the original edition. 218 pp plus a special preview section of The Elijah Conspiracy by Charles Robertson. Crease at spine. A very good well-bound and clean copy. With a SIGNED bookplate by Leonard laid in to this copy. Bantam Books paperback books
194622955New York: Simon & Schuster 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Classic crime omnibus collecting hard-boiled stories from issues of Black Mask magazine. 468 pp. Featuring work by George Harmon Coxe Norbert Deavis Raymond Chandler and others. Small prior owner name to front endpaper else a very good copy in green boards. The price-intact dustwrapper $3.00 is typically toned at spine colors and has a few chips and small tears to edges. A solid copy overall. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
199325568New York: St. Martin's Press 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition of his uncommon third book featuring Neal Carey. NF in NF unclipped jacket. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in year of publication. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
191017715New York: Doubleday Page 1910. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 340pp. Photographic frontispiece portrait halftone showing the author with a group of his "boy friends." Mild rubbing to board edges; ownership signature to endpaper else a tight Near Fine copy. Autobiographical essays from the career of Judge Ben Lindsey a prominent child welfare advocate and long-time chief of the Denver juvenile court. With many anecdotes relating to child welfare gangs and juvenile delinquency in turn-of-the-century Denver. An uncommonly well-preserved copy. Doubleday, Page unknown books
191631420Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1916. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; olive green buckram with printed title labels at spine and front cover; dustjacket; 340 4pp. Mild sunning to spine with two faint stains to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket priced $1.50 at mid-spine; hint of sunning and faint vertical crease to spine light dustiness overall with a few small tears and nicks; Very Good. "Human documents from the experiences of a Massachusetts probation officer in the application of the probation system to the problems of men and women who without it would have been permanently lost to useful citizenship" from front panel. Small, Maynard & Company unknown books
190912868Cleveland: Wells Publishing Co 1909. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; original red cloth boards; 204p; illus. Presumed remainder issue with "Wells Publishing Co." label applied over publisher's imprint at base of title page. A moderately worn copy with lettering mostly flaked away from spine and front cover; title page darkened from laid-in clipping; scattered thumb-soil to text but still a tight Good copy overall. Uncommon and somewhat cobbled-together account of this sensational turn-of-the-century kidnaping case one of several which propelled the phenomenon of ransom kidnaping into the national consciousness. Illustrated with photographs of the Whitla family the crime scenes the perpetrators and various other key figures in the case. Wells Publishing Co unknown 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
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
199013628New York: St. Martin's Press 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition of this murder mystery novel that won the Edgar Award for Best Crime Novel of the year. A sharp near fine copy in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. This copy nicely INSCRIBED by the author and dated in year of publication. Great New Orleans setting. <br/><br/> St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1999002393Scribners 1999 1999. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Beautiful perfect mint copy of the author's rare first book.Remainder mark. Scribners, 1999 Hardcover 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
195030296New York: Rinehart and Company 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. A 245 page suspense novel by the author of Night Has A Thousand Eyes. Bookplate to inside front pastedown. General light handling wear but a solid very good copy overall in price-intact dustwrapper with some light staining to the dustwrapper flaps and verso. Presents quite well. Rinehart and Company hardcover books
197121111Berkeley and San Francisco: Western Star Press 1971. Softcover. Very good. Trade paperback 81 pp. Light handling wear; very good. Describes the research and conclusions of a two-year grant-funded study of the SFPD that found numerous systemic problems. The Introduction lays out the broad and familiar issue quite well: "The claim is heard that police action has become a weapon by which minority groups are oppressed and persecuted and that police action is often used for political rather than legitimate law enforcement purposes. This belief justified or unjustified has become a barrier to effective police work. The police feel themselves isolated and set apart from the rest of the community.Only when a police officer is regarded and can regard himself as just another civilian doing an important and necessary job a part of the community rather than apart from it can the police department operate at its best and the community receive the greatest service." The Committee's recommendations include significant changes to recruitment and training procedures supervision patrol methods weapons use and training written policies and directives procedures for personnel management and discipline and more. Noting that "previous reports on the San Francisco Police Department have traditionally gathered dust on the shelves" and efforts at change have been viewed with suspicion as "still another attack on law enforcement" the authors plead for the report to be taken as constructive criticism offered "in the hope of making the San Francisco Police Department an enviable and progressive model of what police should be. Western Star Press unknown books
199321387New York: Little Brown 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition of the second Harry Bosch crime novel. A fine hardbound book in fine unclipped dustwrapper. This copy has been SIGNED by Connelly and noted as Rue Morgue 7-11-94. <br/><br/> Little Brown hardcover books
197419736Boston: Little Brown and Company 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; blue denim paper-covered boards with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 460pp. Inscribed by the author on the second blank page inside an original drawing of a wine goblet with a caricature inside: "For David Carol / Whose cup of kindness hath cheered me much / Bruce / Putney VT. 6/17/76." Crown gently nudged with a few faint spots to right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $8.95 lightly rubbed overall with a few shallow chips at crown and faint foxing to verso; Very Good. Dobler's second book a novlized account of the five months he spent touring and visiting various prisons within the Illinois penal system interviewing and speaking with everyone from convicts to prison staff. An uncommon title inscribed. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
186019599New York: N. Tibbals & Co 1860. First Edition. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth; gilt spine titles; viii 375pp; double engr. frontispiece. Spine gilt a little dulled; spotting & wear to covers; corners bumped; brief fraying at upper spine; quite fresh internally with faint foxing to double frontispiece plates; Very Good. SABIN 42631. Scarce pre-Civil War account of American prison life with descriptions of the prisoners' daily routines and sketches of various criminals' careers. The author was Chaplain of Sing Sing State Prison from 1843-1856 a period during which a number of novel reforms were initiated at Sing Sing including the practice of sorting criminals on the basis of phrenological diagnosis. N. Tibbals & Co unknown books
189234668Baltimore: Shaw Bros. Print 1892. First Edition. Small 12mo 15.5cm.; publisher's olive printed wrappers; 19pp. Previous owner has stitched the wrappers to textblock though the upper cover has since separated the stock rather brittle from age and poor quality with a few tiny chips and shallow losses along extremities. Still a Good unfaded copy contents in fine condition. Paper read by the Warden of the Western State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. This printed version appears to be unrecorded though we do find mention of it in an issue of The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy from the same year. Wright blames the increase in crime in the United States to the arrival of "unworthy and undesirable immigrants" and argues that the answer is "sterner and more repressive lines" in prison discipline as a deterrant. We find no copies in OCLC as of August 2017 nor in the NUC. Shaw Bros. Print unknown books
1925WRCAM52863Seattle 1925. Small broadside 10 1/2 x 7 inches. Previously folded. A few chips and small tears where previously adhered. Contemporary ink stamp. Good plus. Wanted poster offering a fifty dollar reward for a prisoner M.W. Woods who escaped from the custody of U.S. Marshals near Seattle in 1925. Woods "Escaped from U.S. Marshall Western District of Washington on morning of Oct. 17th 1925 by jumping from Santa Fe train to Peabody Kansas while being transferred from Seattle Washington to Houston Texas." The fugitive a "Mexican pottery exporter. is ordinarily a good dresser; of genial personality and is a smooth and plausible talker." With a photographic reproduction of Woods' mugshot. unknown 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
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
194134927New York: The MacMillan Company 1941. 1st edition. PRESENTATION copy "of the Author's Six Copies this is Number 1" with warm 'Day of Publication' inscription from Holbrook as "Hols" to close Seattle-based friends Jim & Theresa Stevens. Black cloth binding. Black & yellow dust jacket. VG/Abt VG edgeworn with small triangular pc missing from top right edge of front panel. viii 2 283 3 blank pp including Index. 8vo. <br/><br/> The MacMillan Company hardcover books
