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Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine lettering faded. First and last few pages browned. Back hinge started; Clarence Darrow was one of history's most eminent attorneys, arguing such notable cases as the Leopold-Loeb murder case, and the Scopes 'monkey' trial. Learn what shaped his beliefs and his feelings about these and other celebrated cases. This is a presentation copy to Thomas Massie, signed by numerous friends, including Clarence Darrow: "To my friend Lt. Thomas Massie - My client and friend with respect and deep affection from Clarence Darrow, Honolulu, April 4th - 1932". Thomas Massie - My client and friend with respect and deep affection from Clarence Darrow, Honolulu, April 4th - 1932". (Signed during the Massie trial). In nicely made 1/4 leather custom box ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 465 pages
In-4°; pp.(4), 255, (1), con quattro illustrazioni, di cui una applicata a p. 65. Legatura coeva in mezza pelle con angoli. Edizione originale dell’opera di Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) considerata fondamentale per la nascita dell’antropologia criminale. Lombroso fu un convinto seguace del positivismo francese, che applicò ai suoi studi di medicina sociale; riallacciandosi a tesi già percorse relative alla criminalità innata e biologicamente condizionata, Lombroso si spinge nell’Uomo delinquente a sostenere che i comportamenti criminosi possono essere determinati da predisposizioni di natura fisiologica, che si manifestano in particolari conformazioni anatomiche del cranio. Pesa sugli studi lombrosiani un forte assoluto determinismo. PMM 364. Govi 317.
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Gilt lettering and gilt spine lettering faded. Hinges started. One page with rough paper and affecting the contents - apparently from an attempt to separate two pages that were stuck together. ; Darrow's autobiographical novel, a fictionalized account of his boyhood. Presentation copy: Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "Inscribed to Mary Hoover with the regards of Clarence Darrow, March 4th 1927". Additionally laid in is Ms. Hoover's contemporaneous account of a talk given by Darrow at the Negro Industrial Schho, Daphne, Alabama on February 10, 1927: "I can't help you, you will have to help yourselves, but I advise always an attitude of defiance toward the white man who calls himself your friend. How has he manifested this friendship? By hanging and burning you; by making you do his work and use his back door..." In blue linen custom box; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 220, 2 pages
26 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine run in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Death at La Fenice (SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE) (Chapmans, 1992); Death in a Strange Country (Chapmans, 1993); The Anonymous Venetian (Macmillan, 1994); A Venetian Reckoning (Macmillan, 1995); Acqua Alta (Macmillan, 1996); The Death of Faith (Macmillan, 1997); A Noble Radiance (Heinemann, 1998); Fatal Remedies (Heinemann, 1999); Friends in High Places (Heinemann, 2000); A Sea of Troubles (Heinemann, 2001); Wilful Behaviour (Heinemann, 2002); Uniform Justice (Heinemann, 2003); Doctored Evidence (Heinemann, 2004); Blood from a Stone (Heinemann, 2005); Through a Glass Darkly (Heinemann, 2006); Suffer the Little Children (Heinemann, 2007); The Girl of his Dreams (Heinemann,2008); About Face (Heinemann, 2009); A Question of Belief (Heinemann, 2010); Drawing Conclusions (Heinemann, 2011); Beastly Things (Heinemann, 2012); The Golden Egg (Heinemann, 2013); By its Cover (Heinemann, 2014); Falling in Love (Heinemann, 2015); The Waters of Eternal Youth (Heinemann, 2016; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE); Earthly Remains (Heinemann, 2017; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE). A SPLENDID RUN, COMPLETE TO DATE, WITH THE FIRST AND MOST ELUSIVE VOLUME (TOGETHER WITH TWO OTHERS) SIGNED BY LEON ON TITLE.
Silver print cm 23 x 30. Stampa vintage. Al verso didascalia manoscritta e timbro del fotografo Gabriele Milani piu' altro timbro e ritagli del del giornale dove comparve l'articolo. Alcune pieghe agli angoli. Questo reportage realizzato dal giornalista Vittorio Lojacono e dal fotografo Gabriele Milani, venne pubblicato sulla Domenica del Corriere il 2 aprile 1967. E' considerato ancora oggi uno dei grandi scoop del giornalismo italiano. Fotografia di grande valore simbolico, possibile ritratto di tutti i ribelli di ogni tempo e ogni luogo. Una immagine che umanizza il bandito, lo emenda e lo consegna al mito.
24 vols., 8vo., First Edition; decorative black cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and red, red tops, red endpapers, red lettering on backstrips heavily faded on only three volumes, an unusually bright, clean, crisp set in unclipped dustwrapper. A notably bright, clean set of the definitive collected edition, including the author's short stories, issued on a subscription basis by the publisher and not available through bookshops. Each volume contains three stories or story collections. It would seem that many subscribers may have lacked commitment during the four years of publication for complete sets are far less common than one might imagine. The attractive bindings incorporate a golden dagger. The dustwrappers feature an attractive design format with every volume carrying a striking illustration symbolising one of the stories therein (without plot spoilers!) but were less successful in production terms for the backstrips in particular are notoriously prone to fading (the present set is far better than many). The set comprises The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, They do it with Mirrors, Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1969); Cards on the Table, N or M?, A Murder is Announced (1969); Appointment with Death, Crooked House, Sad Cypress (1969); 4.50 from Paddington, Lord Edgware Dies, Murder in Mesopotamia (1969); Murder on the Orient Express, Death in the Clouds, Why didn't they ask Evans? (1969); The Murder on the Links, A Pocket Full of Rye, Destination Unknown (1969); The Hollow, The Moving Finger, Three Act Tragedy (1969); Mystery of the Blue Train, The Listerdale Mystery (short stories), Murder at the Vicarage (1970); Murder is Easy, Dead Man's Folly, The Man in the Brown Suit (1970); The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, They came to Baghdad, The ABC Murders (1970); Ordeal by Innocence, One Two Buckle my Shoe, Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1970); Cat among the Pigeons, The Labours of Hercules, Hickory Dickory Dock (1970); The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Ten Little Niggers, Dumb Witness (1970); The Pale Horse, The Big Four, The Secret Adversary (1970); Peril at End House, The Body in the Library, Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1970); Death on the Nile, Towards Zero, After the Funeral (1970); Sparkling Cyanide, The Secret of Chimneys, Five Little Pigs (1970); Evil Under the Sun, Death Comes as the End, The Sittaford Mystery (1970); A Caribbean Mystery, Taken at the Flood, The Seven Dials Mystery (1971); By the Pricking of my Thumbs, The Mysterious Mr. Quin, Endless Night (1971); Hallowe'en Party, Passenger to Frankfurt, The Thirteen Problems (1971); The Clocks, Third Girl, Murder in the Mews (1971); Partners in Crime, At Bertram's Hotel, The Hound of Death (1972); Nemesis, Parker Pyne Investigates, Poirot Investigates (1972). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITIONS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE
3 vols., 8vo., First English Edition; red cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, coloured endpapers (pale blue/dark blue/green respectively), a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Complete sets of the original English edition are already elusive in this condition.
8vo., First Edition, page edges tanned as usual; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The first Inspector Morse novel and a landmark in twentieth century detective fiction. Tragically, due to the poor quality of the paper employed, it seems virtually impossible to find a copy without the browning. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
First edition, folio (295 x 190 mm), 4pp., drop-head title, a well margined copy with just slight signs of a water stain, sewn in recent marbled wrappers, preserved in a custom-made folding cloth case, leather spine label lettered in gilt. Sexual abuse of a nine year old girl by an Irish priest. The second part of the pamphlet contains "a very foul case" of sexual abuse of a nine year girl by an Irish Catholic priest of the name of Dowdel. The girl, named Bishop, swore in court that the previous August she used to visit Dowdel, then a prisoner in the Gate-house where she had first made his acquaintance when her mother was also a prisoner there. According to her testimony: "he used to kiss her, to take her upon his knee, and to give her sugared beer, some time put his tongue into her mouth, and his hands up her coats; that he hurt her once with his finger, which made her cry; and then to please her, gave her two groats: and that a week after he took her in like manner upon his knee, and after he had kissed her a while, he threw her upon his bed (having made his Door fast with a stick) fell upon her, pull'd up her Coats, and hurt her with something..." When the matter came out the girl's father, being drunk, told Dowdel that for forty pounds he could see to it that everything would be hushed up. Dowdel thought forty pounds too much and offered ten. At his trial Dowdel shamelessly confessed his misdemeanour with a frankness which later earned some leniency from the court. He speaks in what appears to be the writer's attempt to imitate his Irish accent. "Being asked if he would challenge any of the jury, he answered like an Irish St. Omer, Me like dem well, they be all honest men. Being asked, if he used to kiss the Girl and set her upon his knee ; he answered Yes my Lor the chile be so pretty and do twenty pretty tings make me laugh a hundred times. Being asked if he ever gave her money, he said, My Lord that be my Charitee, when her Mother bee in Prison, I tooke her to eat half my dinner, and I say this bee pretty Shile, I had love for the Shile and gave her any ting I had : she used to come often for my Charitee. But amongst the rest of his discourse he owned the matter in effect in these words, which happened about entering her body, he said, Me enter her dis far, pointing his finger to the Court." Wing, F 2337.
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Silver print cm 23 x 23. Stampa vintage. Piccola mancanza all'angolo inferiore ds. Al verso didascalia impressa con caratteri tampone. Graziano Mesina intento a caricare il fucile mitragliatore fotografato durante l'incontro che Gabriele Milani e il giornalista Vittorio Lojacono ebbero nella primavera del 1967 con il bandito di Orgosolo. Dopo settimane di tentativi andati a vuoto, i due inviati del Corriere della sera riuscirono a ottenere un'intervista con il latitante piu' ricercato d'Italia. Su Mesina pendeva una taglia di 10 milioni di lire. Questa intervista e' considerata come uno dei piu' importanti scoop giornalistici di tutti i tempi. Il reportage venne pubblicato sulla Domenica del Corriere del 2 aprile 1967.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Bill Carlisle, Train Robber - An account of the amazing exploits of a man described as "the last of the train-robbers", who would notify officials when he was about to rob a train!; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part I - A thrilling account of adventures on a remote Dutch East Indies island in pursuit of prehistoric flesh-eating lizards (the Komodo dragon) - with photos; The City of Golden Geese - A lively photo-illustrated account of the foie gras industry in the old city of Strasburg in Alsace; Mungoro Meets His Match - A Rhodesian tale; The End of the Chase - A hunt for a monstrous elephant near Lake Nyasa; Photo of a Kentish stilt-walker in field of hops; The Man in No. 35 - How a British officer discovered, in a Russian prison, Julius Weinberg, a Jewish banker who had actually handed Lenin and his accomplices ten million marks from the German Government in order to finance the Bolshevik revolution that destroyed Russia as a fighting force - the little man knew too much, and paid with his life for his refusal to surrender the incriminating receipts; Cycling Round the World - Part II - Kai Thorenfeldt spent over two years riding over 20,00 miles! - with photos; The bachelor Homesteaders of British Columbia - A breezy photo-illustrated account of the adventures and hardships of this cheery, happy-go-lucky class of men; The Girl Stowaway of the Cecilie - Part II - Jeanne Day snuck aboard the Herzogin Cecilie before it departed Australia for Falmouth - with photos; A Ride in the Night - An officer of the King's African Rifles falls ill on the Abyssinian frontier of Kenya Colony; The Chief's Gift - A tale from a New Zealand sheep farmer; Teddy Murphy's Close Call - A child disappears into a well in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Beyond the Law - Part II of the first true account of the exploits of the world's most outlaws, The Dalton Gang, written by their only survivor, Emmett Dalton; A Concert Party In the Desert - The "Roosters" Concert Party entertain troops in the Sinai Desert (with photos); Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part II of Fanny and William Workman's exploration of the Himalayas (with photos); The Cruise of the Cowboys - several men are Shanghaied at San Francisco but manage to escape on a small boat and get their revenge; The Hundredth Chance - illicit whisky distillers create major problems for Custom-house officer Alan Temple; ; Our Adventures in Sicily - travel adventures of Penelope and her husband; Boss of the Lava Walls - fight for dominance between two wallaroos; Children's Fight With a Panther - Anthony Farrer and Doreen Ashburnham, both of Cowichan Lake, British Columbia, fight off a panther and are awarded the Albert Medal by the King; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part III - Eva Jordan continues her 4,000 mile trek through the great Equatorial Forest of Central Africa; The Mad Druid - a young French girl, Aline Etieve, falls into the hands of a madman thinking himself to be the last Druid, and plotting to offer her as a human sacrifice; The Romance of Platinum-Mining - Ashmore Russan provides a striking account of this much-sought metal - article with photos of related activity on the Rio Opogodo, including a large dredge under construction; My Wanderings Through Texas - a breezy and fascinating pen-picture of a tramp through Texas; How We Outwitted the Bandits - two hostages eventually escape from bandits in Patagonia, South America; Wonders of British Guinana - E.C. Stembridge is enthusiastic over the future of this, the only possession of Great Britain on the mainland of South America; and more. pp. 8 [ads], [3], 90-176, 9-16 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
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[4], 5-398 pp. "The latest in the series of books about our times which this political pilgrim began with Insanity Fair in 1938, this is the story of a journey of discovery, geographical, social and political, in America. Readers know it is Douglas Reed's theory that the war which started in 1914 still goes on, embroiling all the Western world in a grand design for the reshaping of the globe, the final failure or success of which will determine the ultimate shape of the Twentieth Century." - dust jacket. Book unmarked with respectful wear to publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt. Slight lean to spine. Front free endpaper neatly removed. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy of this fascinating study. 20 x 14cm. Singerman 845. Book
1st edition. Original period boards. 8vo. 328 pages, 21 cm. In German. Includes a 107-page dictionary of Jewish Criminals slang at rear. Title translates to The Jewish Crooks in Germany: Their Tactics, Peculiarities, and Language, along with Detailed News About the Most Notorious Jewish Criminals Staying in Germany and at its Borders. Thiele was a German court clerk in the criminal court in Berlin (Kierkegaard, 2015) . SUBJECTS: Jewish criminals. Jews -- Germany. Cant -- Dictionaries -- German. OCLC lists 19 copies worldwide (OCLC: 1423903) , most are in Europe. Spine is chipping. Some pages are lightly soiled, but no loss to text. Overall good condition. Important. (GER-54-4)
First edition, [4], 288, 149, [1]pp., folding engraved map, Birmingham Law Society stamp on title, recent half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco title label. The Appin Murder occurred on 14 May 1752 near Appin in the west of Scotland, and it resulted in what is often held to be a notorious miscarriage of justice. It occurred in the tumultuous aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The murder inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped.
8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original backstrip mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The UK edition precedes the US edition which was published in the following year.
158 pages. Author wrote the manuscript for this work from memory in 1918 but it was not published until 1969. Dedicated it to "the thousands of innocent Armenian men, women and children of Ourfa, Turkey, who perished amid the horrors of the infamous genocide of 1915-18". Documents the experiences of a civil prisoner in Turkey during the Great War. In 1914 he was deported from Beirut to the interior of Turkey where he remained until his release in 1918. Average wear to clean and unmarked book. Binding sound. Above-average wear and soiling to dust jacket. A worthy copy of this important eye-witness account. Book
If vintage true crime is your thing, you just hit the jackpot! 48 pages of fascinating cover-to-cover articles on sensational crimes of the day and related topics, all generously illustrated with quality black and white reproductions of photos. Features: Rehabilitation As I See It - by Richard E. Davis, Warden, Utah State Penitentiary; Inside Story of the Murder of Curtis W. Dobbins, brilliant young engineer of the RCA Victor Corporation, in the exclusive Camden suburb of Haddonfield; The Skull That Came Back To Life - the bones of Lillian White, murdered on Cheesecock Mountain near Haverstraw, New York, were used to reconstruct her identity and make possible a feverish manhunt; Sex Behind Bars - an expose of the ways of prison love and the unscrupulous "wolves" therein; The Most Wanted Man in Portland - Roy "Ted" Massey, alias Jack Henry, wanted for Hold-up and Murder Investigation; Rise and Fall of Racketeer Barons - Dossier of the Fabulous Volpe Brothers of Pittsburgh - they reached out for racketeer gold - and ruin; The Rape and Murder of pretty NYU student Helen Clevenger; What Happened to Vanished New York Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Carter?; Sterilization - If legalized it could have prevented the heinous love racket killings of Harry F. Powers; Amazing photo of a portion of the throng of 20,000 souls who turned out to witness the hanging of 'Negro rapist' Rainey Bethea in Owensboro, KY; Brief write-ups (with small photos) of the murders of Japanese actress Neda Taka in Los Angeles, and Louise Trammell in Chicago; San Quentin Penitentiary Inmates caught operating a counterfeiting plant that circulated queer money from Canada to Mexico!; Modern Science in Crime Detection - fingerprints at the scene; Spicy color-illustrated back cover ad for the next issue features young lady being whipped; Somewhat above-average external soiling, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this outstanding vintage issue. Book
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy; half-title and title lightly browned; original plain grey wrappers, very lightly dust-soiled and chafed at head and tail of backstrip, a very good, clean copy now safely preserved for the future in a custom-made solander case.
8vo., First Edition thus; elegantly bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Chandler's penultimate Marlowe novel. The UK first edition precedes the US edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
Ten volumes, complete. FIRST EDITION of the memoirs of M. Claude, who served as director of the Surete during the Second Empire. Extensive accounts of murders and other major crimes and the ensuing investigations. Complete with numerous manuscript facsimiles (many folding) and an engraved portrait of M. Claude (frontispiece of final volume). 8vo. Attractively bound in recent cloth, leather spine labels. Very good throughout. A RARE AND IMPORTANT SET. Vicaire II, 443.
72 pages. Features: Cover illustration of cats in knitting basket; Nicely illustrated one-page ad for the new Ford V-8 for 1934; Fleischmann's Yeast one-page ad features large photo of Dr. Edouard Agasse-Lafont with patient; Editorial topics include Whose Shoe Pinches?, Production and Revenue, Take Courage, The Cost of Crime, and Time for a Showdown; Nice one-page Ovaltine ad says Make Sure You Sleep Tonight; The Man Who Lived in Twilight (short story); Ill Wind (short story); A Castle in the Caribbees (Caribbean) - photo illustrated article explores the option of moving to a Caribbean island; The Strange Romance (short story); Mean People (short story); A Waif And a Workman Who Now Sways the World - incredible photo-illustrated article on Adolph Hitler - "The Incredible Romance of Adolph Hitler, Whom Germany Hails as a "Man-God!"; The Grand National - photo-illustrated article on this famous British horse race; Pond's one-page ad features photo of Eleanor Roosevelt; White Cargo (part 3 of this story); Nice one-page Pontiac ad features the 1934 Straight 8; Fantastic two-page Dodge photo-ad features car flying off a jump, plus photos of famous muckraker Ida M. Tarbell and Miss Mimi Elaine Richardson; Nice one-page illustrated Chevrolet ad; Page 30 features wonderful photos of the airflow Desoto 5-passenger coupe, Ford convertible cabriolet, Buick 5-passenger sedan with built-in trunk, Pontiac coupe, Chevrolet Master Six Coach, Hupmobile Aerodynamic Type Sedan, Hundson convertible coupe with rumble seat, and airflow Chrysler six-passenger four-door sedan; Movie news includes photos of Marlene Dietrich, Zasu Pitts, Charley Chase, Evelyn Venable, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., George Raft, Pepe Ortiz, and Spanky of the popular "Little Rascals" TV show, and more; Nice Lux soap ad features photo of Sally Eilers; More car photos include the Nash Ambassador Eight Brougham, the Graham Convertible Coupe, the Studebaker Commander St. Regis Brougham, and the new Reo Sedan; Wonderful two-page Chrysler ad features one-page photo-portrait of Walter P. Chrysler and his written statement that "I believe Plymouth is the Best Engineered Car in the Low-Priced Field."; Oxydol ad includes photo insert of Mrs. David Neary of Torrington, CT; Radioland - article on radio news; Lydia E. Pinkham's Tablets ad includes photo of Mrs. Frank P. Stone of Lacombe, Alberta; Young Man and His Problem; Investment News; Legal article; Cooking article; Fashion illustrations; One-page ad for Singer sewing machines; Colour Lifebuoy and Rinso ads inside back cover; Attractive but soiled and worn colour-photo Chipso ad on back cover features Mrs. T.M. Lay and daughters; and more. Above-average external wear and soiling. Covers detached but present. Pencil markings to back cover. A worthy copy of this historic issue. Book