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1950010739London: William Hodge 1950 dust jacket is unclipped with short tears at head of spine small chips to spine ends browned spine original price ticket over published price on the flap rear panel soiled scarce in the dustwrapper lxxxvii 457pp The case of Dr Buck Ruxton also known as Buktyar Rustomji Ratanji Hakim this case was the first time reconstructed skulls were superimposed upon photographs to identify the bodies . Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. William Hodge hardcover
1993002895Providence Rhode Island: Lazarus Press 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dj in slipcase as issued. A play in 2 acts. 1 of 26 LETTERD copies This being " J " SIGNED by the author and Illustrator Ted Beargeon on Limitation page and dated June 20 1993 the day of publication. The play follows closely the facts of Lizzie Bordens trial and the day of the murders. The front cover there are 41 axes hidden in the picture and the back has 40. Published by Lazarus Press. Signed by All Contributors. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Limited Edition. Lazarus Press Hardcover
1941019975Garden City New York: Crime Club Doubleday 1941. 1st American edition. Slight spine slant black boards lighly rubbed and soiled else a vefry good-near fine copy in homemade acetate dust jacket. English title: Pray Silence 1940. The 2nd Tommy Hambledon adventure. A HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE SELECTION. Goebbels doesn't trust the Chief of the German Police. Hitler loves him. The British are just plain confused. Joseph Goebbels is fuming. It's the mid-1930s and the Nazi Minister of Propoganda has a nice little racket going. He and his cohorts are allowing Jews to slip out of Germany in return for 80 percent of their assets. But longtime Nazi party member Klaus Lehman the Chief of the German Police. is too much of a prig to let him get away with it. And given that Lehman was one of Hitler 's earliest supporters he's virtually untouchable. In the meantime British Intelligence is going around in circles. Someone in Germany is sending them messages in a code that hasn't been used since World War I. When it was first published in 1941 in the U.S. A Toast to Tomorrow along with its predecessor Drink to Yesterday was heralded by famed critic Anthony Boucher as "a single long and magnificent novel of drama intrigue and humor." Howard Haycraft the dean of mystery historians called the two books "superior" examples of the new wave of realistic spy-and- intrigue novels told with a "mood of subtle understatement." A current critic mystery bookseller Barbara Peters of the Poisoned Pen called it her "favorite espionage novel of all time." This darkly humorous novel was the work of two Hampshire neighbors Adelaide Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles and based in part on the Coles' adventures in the British Intelligence. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Book. Crime Club Doubleday
1993018907Providence Rhode Island: Lazarus Press 1993. 1st ed. Fine in dj in slipcase as issued. A play in 2 acts. 1 of 26 LETTERD copies This being " J " SIGNED by the author and Illustrator Ted Beargeon on Limitation page and dated June 20 1993 the day of publication. The play follows closely the facts of Lizzie Bordens trial and the day of the murders. The front cover there are 41 axes hidden in the picture and the back has 40. Published by Lazarus Press. Signed by All Contributors. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Limited Edition. Lazarus Press Hardcover
1950010740London: William Hodge 1950 dust jacket is price clipped with short tears at ends of spine folds small chips to spine ends small hole to backstrip browned spine; minor foxing to closed edges scarce in the dustwrapper 298pp plates small bookseller stamp to foot of fep. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. William Hodge hardcover
1985006258NY: Mysterious Press 1985. 1st ed. Fine in slipcase w/o dust jacket as issued. LIMITED EDDITION 1 of 26 LETTERED EDITIONS this beiing "S" and SIGNED by the author on limitation page. Audley title. "When an American veteran of D-Day dies in Normandy on the 40th anniversary of the invasion the event marks the opening of a chess game between the KGB and British Intelligence. In occasionally bewildering sequence the thread of the story goes from the dead American a suspected Soviet agent to a group of British men who may also be KGB. It is up to Elizabeth Loftus a neophyte in the world of espionage to ferret out the answers with the assistance of her superior David Audley whose own loyalties are suspect because he had investigated these men some 30 years earlier and found nothing suspicious." -- Publishers Weekly. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine. Book. Mysterious Press Hardcover
A119~8/1/25~BCHardcover. Fair. Book has been written in on first fly page. Otherwise no writing or highlighting throughout. Pages are tanned and worn from age. Dust cover is covered by protective plastic but has wear and tear throughout. hardcover
1990006746New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
1873025169Washington: Government Printing Office 1873. This is the original 1873 first edition -- NOT print on demand edition or modern reprint. Cover is in Good condition corner bumps and fraying at the head of the spine. Inner hinges are perfect NO cracks. Internally Very Good but for minor foxing to a few outer pages House of Representatives Report No. 77 42nd Congress 3rd Session. Published here are the findings of the first of three investigations into the sale of stock in the Union Pacific construction subsidiary to members of Congress. House. Rep. Luke Potter Poland R-Vermont led the investigation into fraud involving the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Among those implicated in the scandal: Henry Dawes of Massachusetts Glenni Scofield of Pennsylvania James Garfield the future president William D. Pig Iron Kelley of Pennsylvania John Bingham of Ohio and Democrat James Brooks of New York. Bound in the original brown cloth. First Edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 523pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Government Printing Office Hardcover
19568071<p>Sydney: Angus and Robertson 1956. xii. 209 pages. B/w frontispiece and many other b/w photos. Slight foxing on endpapers and fore-edge. Inscribed to Harry Magney a police superintendent in Sydney. Signed and dated by the author and C.J. Chuck. Scarce with these signatures. "Engaged in the suppression of vice illegal gambling drug-running and sly-grog selling he Chuck became a bogeyman to the racketeers and addicts because of methods of detection peculiarly his own" from the foreword by the then NSW Attorney-General W.F. Sheahan. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.</p> Angus and Robertson hardcover
1921054742Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co. Pty. Ltd. 1921. 203pp catalogue at rear bw ills. Pictorial wraps. Torn about half the height of the book along front spine fold 1mm hole at top of front cover paper toned. Still looks god with bright fesh colour to covers. Ex-George Mackaness collection with his bookplate inside the front cover. A nice survivor of this scarce fragile early Australian pulp. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/None as Issued. 8vo. N.S.W. Bookstall Co. Pty. Ltd. Paperback
23877No place or date. On one side of a 12.5 x 8.5 cm piece of thin white card. Clearly given in response to a request for an autograph. Written in a large somewhat old-fashioned hand with ‘Edith Pargeter.’ centred towards the head of the page and ‘‘Ellis Peters’.’ at bottom right. See image. No place or date. unknown
1990002644New 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. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
1995x-0748402381Taylor & Francis 1995. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 224 pages. 9.75x6.50x0.75 inches. Taylor & Francis paperback
2007Q-1932472479Nodin Press 2007-08-23. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Nodin Press paperback
1842430890.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1999DADAX019513317XOXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1999-04-15. UK ed. paperback. New. 11.69x8.27x0.78. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS paperback
ria9780128498781_inpHardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A hardcover
2012Q-1935666436Nodin Press 2012-09-12. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Nodin Press paperback
19333810Chicago 1933. First Edition. 8vo. 3 pp. 1 sheet folded once to produce 4 pages final page blank. 1" tear in fore-edge of both leaves otherwise very good. CRIME AND CRIME DETECTION EXHIBITION AT THE 1933 CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR. From a contemporary Guidebook "World's Fair Suvenir" sic published by Unk Ebenezer's Tiny Weekly: "Sponsored in part by Northwestern University School of Crime Detection. Actual displays of guns and photographs of many gang killings which are horribly convincing arguments that crime does not pay. Medieval modes of torture and a side-show of the electric chair in operation guide and lecture completes show. 10 cents." Gone are the good ol' days! <br /> <br /> Not in OCLC. unknown
2620530 September 1953; 'from Mrs. last word deleted C. Day-Lewis 96 Campden Hill Road W.8. London'. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient is presumably the lyricist Peter Claremont Parsons. Plain postcard apart from letterhead. In good condition lightly aged. Image on request.Postmarked from Paddington stamped and addressed to ‘Geoffrey Parsons esq. / 22 Westbourne Park Road / W.2’. Small signature: ‘C. D. L.’ Reads: ‘Many thanks for Peter’s Progress. Parson’s poetry book published that year by Hand & Flower I’ve read it with great pleasure & amusement & fallen foul of little except ‘legacies’ rhyming with exegesis. My memory of those H. & S. Hodder & Stoughton interviews is chiefly of feeling intimidated by the interviewers & not having the remotest idea what to ask them: v. glad I lightened the ordeal for you.’ With a little annotation in pencil. 30 September 1953; 'from Mrs. [last word deleted] C. Day-Lewis, 96 Campden Hill Road, W.8. [London]' unknown
1953915 April 1895; on letterhead of the Athenaeum Pall Mall London ; and 16 February 1897; 14 Old Square Lincoln's Inn London . Both items in good condition. ONE: 3pp. 12mo. After a reference to 'Mr. Lang' he turns to the Hereford Mappa Mundi his father was Bishop of Hereford: 'I am very glad you were interested in the introductory Essay to the "Mappa" and the commentary renders it easy to work out the whole thing: I once gave a lecture on it in my youth'. The lecture was given in 1880. A reference follows to the 'introductory dinner' at Lincoln's Inn of 'Dick' - Harrington's son Richard the future 12th Baronet - at which he was 'in company with Bosanquet and myself'. TWO: 3pp. 12mo. Regarding the 1871 trial of Edmund Walter Pook for the murder of Jane Maria Clousen he writes to thank Harington ffor 'taking so much trouble in telling me your recollections of the Popk case which will be of great assistance to me if I come to right sic his trial which however will not be just as the Editor of the Cornhill has sent me down to Courvoisier. I shall try and get him to let me do Pook next; there is no separate report of the case that I cannot find but the Times gives it very fully and the short hand report of the evidence is in the Sessional papers of C. C. C in the Library here.' He believes there to have been 'a good deal of friction' between the judge Sir William Bovill and attorney John Duke Coleridge later 1st Baron Coleridge and that 'the evidence seems to have completely melted away'. Atlay can 'just remember being excited about the trial as a private school boy.' 15 April 1895; on letterhead of the Athenaeum [ Pall Mall, London ]; and 16 February 1897; 14 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn [ London unknown
1927006615New York: John Day Company 1927. Edited by Sir John Hall One of the Notable British Trials Series First American Edition 8vo size black clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on the spine; 402 deckle edged pages with red topstain black and white frontispiece on glossy stock and several other full page black and white illustrations also on glossy stock. This volume covers the 1886 trial of Adelaide Bartlett for the poisoning death of her husband Thomas. Also known as the Pimlico Poisoning Mystery the mystery of the case was how Thomas Edwin Bartlett died from a fatal dose of chloroform. The contents break the book down into the six days of the trial including the verdict. The dust jacket is in poor condition with large chips missing from the front back and spine. There are several tears on the back of jacket. There is a name and price on the fep. The rear pastedown is cracked. Lightly bumped corners and head and heel of spine. The gilt titles on spine are rubbed. We noted fingermarks on at least one page Family historians: the name in the book is Walter E Prince. . First American. Cloth. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Day Company Hardcover
199321100106Paladin Press USA 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. 173 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Paladin Press USA 1993. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in fine condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear rubbing or soiling. Dust jacket has light creasing. . Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book chronicles the reality of violence in America from what today is considered commonplace - muggings brawls friendly arguments gone bad - to the far fringes of real-life mayhem - a bombing a run-in with a satanic cult a prison rape. By reading these gripping true stories you can understand how to avoid all types of sudden random violence. Quantity Available: 1. Category: True Crime; ISBN: 0873647424. ISBN/EAN: 9780873647427. Inventory No: 21100106. 9780873647427 Paladin Press hardcover
1550822659.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
