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Front cover portrait of Lieutenant-Commander Norman D. Holbrook, V.C. The Development of Submarine Warfare. Przemysl and the battles of the Mountains and Rivers. Centerfold illustration of the Lusitania going down - Germany's 'Grand Coup' in crime. Photos and Illustrations: simulation of the hole blasted in the side of the Lusitania; Destruction of the Dresden off Juan Fernandez; The March of Millions - Russian troops on the way to Crakow; and more. Covers secured by tape. Above-average wear. Book
16mo; 98pp. Very scarce. Not a reprint but a forlorn original worthy of restoration. / Early American Imprints. True Crime, Counterfeiters. Early American Rogues & Scoundrels. Con Artists & Sons of Preachers.
First edition, 64, [4] + [4]pp., of publisher's adverts, 12mo (165 x 105 mm), blank upper margin of title torn away and replaced, several tears to title repaired, lower blank margin of final leaf of text torn away and replaced, last line of text to first leaf of text cropped, soiled and stained, stitched as issued. Although this pamphlet is a little grubby it is rare, Copac locates copies at the BL and Newcastle University.
8vo, [2], xx, 632pp.,, engraved fold plan, orig. boards, rubbed and worn, upper cover detached, uncut.
Three large quarto volumes, loose-leaf pages (in various pagings) in hard original printed ring binders; approx 300 pages each; includes November 1987 Supplement to front of volume 1 ; 25 cm. Index. Uncommon complete thus. || Law. Personal injuries -- United States. Liability (Law) -- United States.
253 pages. The true story of Frank Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, alias Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo - for five years the world's most hunted forger, fraudulent check writer, imposter, and con man extraordinaire. This story was recently made into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper else book clean, and unmarked with very light wear. Light wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Very nice copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Strip-teaser Cupcake Cassidy; Are You a Romantic Match-Maker?; A Canadian Looks at Hiroshima; How to save $300 at the Supermarket; How Horse Trainers Beat the Races - Johnny Starr; Women Hollywood Stars Hate; Tales of Canada's Map-Maker - David Thompson; Murder by Winnipeg's Jilted Gigolo - "Amorous" Albert Victor Westgate; How Sewing Stretches Your Wardrobe; It's Normal to be a bit Neurotic; Connie Stevens - "Hawaiian Eye"; Plight of our Common-Law Wives; August is Sandwich Time; The Forbes Family of Windsor Camps for Fun; Gordon Sinclair hunts for Tiger in India; Fantastic photo of the Ontario Tug-of-War Team of 1893 from Zorra Township which won the world championship at the Chicago World Fair in 1893; and more. Ads: Confederation Life one-page ad showing poverty-stricken man who gambled he wouldn't live to 65; Half-page ad for the CNE; Beautiful young lady in one-page colour-photo ad for Pepsi; Nice one-page photo ad for General Motors in Canada features George Martin fly fishing; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover features young couple on beach being struck by wave. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound and complete copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
265 pages. References. Index. "Very important and wonderfully researched - this guy knows boiler rooms like nobody's business!" - Jack Katz. "... a fine contribution to the sociology of deviance, occupations, and fieldwork." - Robert R. Faulkner. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket with short closed tear to bottom edge of front panel. Quality copy of this fascinating reference. Book
Fine Russian Original bdg. HC. Demy 8vo. (22 x 14 cm). In Russian. 350, [2] p., b/w ills. Posledniaa rukopis Sabri Aivazova. Delo Partii 'Milli Firka'. Dokumenti svidetelstviut. Iz seriya Rassekrechennaia Pamiat, Krimskii Vipusk 1. The last manuscript of Sabri Aivazov. The Party's case: "Milly Firka". Documents testify. From the series Declassified Memory, Crimean Issue 1. Extremely rare.
476 p. (Continuous pagination). Illustrated with 12 full page color plates and numerous engravings. Page 21 torn without loss. Age stain. Lacks rear fly leaf. Inner hinges cracked. Early inked ownership of Nelson Myers on first fly leaf. 12mo. 190 mm. Original full blue cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gold. Boards embossed in blind. Extremities worn with loss. Hardbound. Good. Rader 531; Howes B933; Six-Guns 313; Graff 466. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W4
Price clipped DJ sunned & chipped. Previous owner's name to front pastedown ; Darrow's autobiographical novel, a fictionalized account of his boyhood ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 4 illustrations in each volume; cloth, upper board and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and black, a fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case. Includes Maigret in Society; Maigret's Mistake; Maigret sets a Trap.
Small lime-green octavo in black DJ, 270 pages ; 20 cm. Mystery, fiction. || Uncommon.
First edition, folio, [4], 8, 13-34, [2]pp., licence leaf before title, with the final blank I2, text a little browned, disbound. A trial for sedition connected with the Rye House Plot. Wing, T2164.
8vo. 408 pages. In German. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Embezzlement trials for, Germany; Arnim, Harry, Graf von, 1824-1881; Germany legation, France. OCLC lists 3 copies worldwide (New York Public Library, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Universiteit Leiden) . Covers worn, backstrip loose & chipped, flyleaf has owner's stamp, good condition. (GER-17-5)
In 4, pp. 69 + (1). Stemma xilogr. al fr. Annotazione manoscritta coeva al fr. Esemplare privo di legatura all'origine cucito al dorso. Elenco di banditi 'di primo e secondo catalogo' descritti attraverso generalita', aspetto fisico, reati commessi (furti, grassazioni, porto d'armi abusivo, violenze, omicidi...). Tra i banditi citati, figurano nomi originari di Sommavariva Bosco, Oulx, Saluzzo, Pinerolo, Ponte San Martino, Mortara, ecc...
VIII-514 pp Demi-veau fauve, dos à nerfs, orné, pièce de titre rouge. Reliure de l?époque. (Dos frotté.) s.d. (1887), s.d. (1887), , VIII-514 pp, Demi-veau fauve, dos à nerfs, orné, pièce de titre rouge. Reliure de l?époque. (Dos frotté.), Edition originale de cet ouvrage donné par un ancien chef de la brigade des moeurs. L'ouvrage s'intéresse à la prostitution féminine et « antiphysique », c'est-à-dire la prostitution masculine homosexuelle. Considéré comme le premier ouvrage sur la question
Paris, Aux Bureaux des Archives des Tribunaux - Limoges, Blondel, 1843. In-8 relié demi-basane noire, dos à filets dorés, gardes de papier marbré. Grand portrait de Jacques Besson en frontispice + III + 464 pages. Bel envoi autographe en page de faux titre "Offert à Mr le Directeur du Petit Journal par la soeur de la victime du Chateau de Chamblas, Vicomtesse Irma de Tarade née de Marcellange, ce 22 avril 68". Jacques Besson a été reconnu coupable d'avoir assasiné et condamné à la peine de mort pour le meurtre de Louis de Marcellange propriétaire et chatelain de Chamblas, victime d'une intrigue sordide. Petits frottements à la reliure sans gravité, exemplaire sans rousseurs.
In 8, pp. 294. Cart. ed. ill. Fa parte della Collana di Narrativa moderna [12]. Ed. orig. pubblicata senza data probabilmente intorno al 1962. Romanzo di quest'A, biografo di Antonio Gramsci, opera che trae spunto dal realismo sardo della Deledda. Racconta le vicende del pastore ragazzo Zuanne Malune, detto Soneta'ula ('perche' ogni colpo dato a lui, dicevano i compagni per ridere, faceva sonu 'e ta'ula, rumore di legna'), percorrendo tra il 1937 e il 1950 le tappe dell'educazione alla vita tipiche del banditismo sardo. Raro.
P., Jules Rouff, sans date (environ 1900).5 volumes petit in-8 reliés demi toile grise, dos ornés d'un fleuron, illustrations pleine page et dans le texte de J. Wely, 2832 pages en numérotation continue. Paru en 176 livraisons.Rousseurs sporadiques.
295 pages including index and lists of sources. Author's signature upon half-title page. "Fifty years after a defecting Ottawa Soviet embassy cipher clerk (Igor Gouzenko) brought the RCMP a shirtful of incriminating documents about an espionage ring operating in Canada, this book provides us with the first insider's account of the incidents which many feel triggered the Cold War." - from back cover. Author was a Captain in the Canadian Armed Forces and speechwriter for Paul Martin Sr. His story differs in many respects from the officially sanctioned version. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
54 pages. Features: Great colour cover art of Chinese battle scene by Clymer; The Good Old Days vs. The Good New Days; Ontario Premier Hepburn declares "...There will be no American dictatorship of our labour"; Hon. David A. Croll , former Ontario Labour Minister, argues in favour of industrial unionization; "I Hear You Calling Me" - short story; Night Raiders in China (part 1) - Gordon B. Enders' story of death in the yellow inferno; Mind over Mashie (short story); The Lady Who Blighted His Life (short story); Mr. Dunkle's Diary; Ed Sullivan's photos of 'Comers' - Anne Charpentier, Sam Snead, June Hart, Jack Holland and Thomas Thomas; Ulysses of Avenue A (short story); Family Scandal (part 4); To the Ladies; Mysterious Crime #5 - The Case of the Wisecracking "Uncle" of Broadway - who killed gambler Arnold Rothstein?; Review of movie "I Met Him in Paris"; Alias Emerald Annie (part 8 - table of contents says part 7); Forgotten Millions - unclaimed bank balances. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Address label. Back cover missing. Page 17-18 missing (contained Deanna Durbin article) Book
74 pages. Features: How to Deal With Your Kid's Embarassing Questions; Gordon Sinclair Says; Great colour ad for the new 1957 Dodge with revolutionary Torsion-Aire Ride; Nice colour illustrated ad for Matinee cigarettes; Is Jack Pickersgill Giving our New Canadians a Raw Deal?; I Sleuthed the Murder of Sir Harry Oakes - Alan Hynd on the voodoo murder of Ontario's $200 million gold tycoon; Why Five Million Canadians Won't Go to Church, by Hugh Garner; How to Beat the Income Tax Department, by Fred Edge; The Wonderful Cockeyed Capers of Montreal's Newspapermen, by Robert Walker who claims reporters give rivals scoops, accept bribes, wrestle rioters, etc.; Why They're Canada's Box Office Stars - article with photos of many Hollywood personalities; Genius or Moron? - Do School Tests Cheat Your Child's I.Q.?; I Live with a Hole in my Heart, by Albert South, one of 500,000 Canadian victims of heart disease; Cool full-page colour ad for the 1957 Chevrolet featuring a pink model with white hardtop; A Young Love Affair in old Halifax, by Lyon Mearson; My Gay Days in U.S.-Canadian Baseball, by Dixie Walker, Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team; Confessions of a landlady, by Lorraine Porter; The Barretts of Wimpole Street - Part II of II; I am the Child of Divorced Parents, by Mabel Rawson, whose father deserted her Kamsack, Saskatchewan home. Nice colour illustrated at for Pontiac cars; Nice colour ad for Labatt's '50' ale; Jellied dishes to highlight Canadian spring buffets; Spring debut of Canadians petite half-sizes - illustrated fashion article; Nice colour photo ad for O'Keefe Ale; Super colour photo ad for Cinci beer; Great colour illustrated article for Dow ale; back cover photo ad for Coke shows man and woman in office with caption "It's Just Good Business". Above-average wear. Covers present but detached and chipped. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: Article - is JFK our best hedge against depression?; The Life of Alexander Graham Bell - part I - "I Came to Canada to Die" - great photos; How I captured the Red Hood Gang - Det. Insp. Joseph Bedard as told to Ken Johnstone; The Harsh wonderland that was St. Lawrence Main, by Mordecai Richler; Canadian football beats the American Game; John Vickers - what makes a Tenor boom; A doctor's case for state medicine - Harry Paikin, M.D.; Holiday weekend in Paris; The Prudhommes' drive-in daydream - Prudhomme's Garden Centre Motor Hotel; Let's bring back child labour - Eileen Morris; The battle in Britain to ban the bomb; Holiday weekend in Paris; A Canadian nurse's jungle vigil with leprosy - Helen Mackenzie in Portuguese Guinea. Nice colour Black Label beer inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Please note: the top quarer of page 5 has been clipped ane removed - apparently this was an ad form - contents unaffected. Cartoon clipped from page 40 - text unaffected. Small ad clipped from page 42 - text unaffected. Large clipping from page 44 seems to have removed a small part of the A.G. Bell article. Nice colour Molson Canadian ad on page 45. Great colour Coke ad on back cover shows man being sprayed in the head by a garden hose. Lower half of page 49 is clipped and not included - this has removed part of the football article and part of the Prudhomme article. Average wear. Book
