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Features: Fears over the barricades/where will the violence end - Norther Ireland; UN attempts at arms limitation; Aims of young Israelis; Crime fascinates television audiences; Germany decides - general election; A Swedish naturalist (Sigvard Berggren) has a new plan to save wildlife; spotlight on the little theatres; The House of Augustus - Archaeology 2319; Scimitar 3-litre; Rembrandt in Amsterdam; What Rembrandt taught; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Wear to extremities. Markings to endpapers; 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 edition has a chapter on Darrow's views on the infamous Massie case; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 495 pages
8vo., Second Reissue; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. 'Possibly the best shocker ever written' (English Review). Iles' classic crime novel was first published in 1931, with a first reissue in 1952.This second reissue is now scarce in its own right, the more so in this condition.
8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps; pictorial ivory cloth, boards and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, red and white, a near fine copy in publisher's burgundy board slip-case. SCARCE.
Minor shelfwear. Light wear to upper corner of wrap. Very light foxing to textblock. ; Contents: David Lorton: the treatment of criminals in Ancient Egypt through the New Kingdom; Johannes Renger: Wrongdoing and its Sanctions. On "criminal" and "civil" law in the Old Babylonian Period; Tikva Simone Frymer: The Nungal-hymn and the Ekur-prison; Jack M. Sasson: Treatment of criminals at Mari. A Survey; Kaspar Riemschneider: Prison and Punishment in Early Anatolia. ; 126 pages
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this rare and extremely detailed case study of a false accusation of poisoning. 4, vii, 5-302, 1, cxix. Complete. Printed on very good wove paper. 8vo. Contemporary quarter calf and decorated boards. Light wear to binding. Occasional light foxing. Overall very good condition. Rare: only a handful of copies in WorldCat.
Three Volumes. XLib. Sm. 4to. Original full cloth bindings. Volume One rebound in library buckram. Binding extremities worn. Hardbound set. First edition. The report of the historic trial made by the regular stenographers of the Senate, and prepared for the use of that body. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SHELF W22
pp. 432 + Plus photo frontis. Marginal illustrations. Title page printed in red and black. Flyleaves brittle with some slight loss. Private shelf label [F. N. Kneas, C.E.]. 8vo. Original full brown gold stamped cloth binding, spine head and tail slightly worn. Nice copy. All early editions of this bear substantial prices, probably because it is well known for its description of fingerprinting, and because this technique is used by Twain to solve a crime. *PRICE JUST REDUCED! HUMOR 7
Fine Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Crimean Turkish and Russian. 159, [1] p., musical scores. Folklor Krimskih Karaimov. Yirlar, atalar sözleri, ulugata sanavi. Pesni, poslovisi i pogovonki, narodniy kalendar. Anthology of folklore of Karaites (Crimean Turkish Jews).
pp. xxiv, 388, (4) [Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis Engraved by R. Cooper. Text foxed. Uncut and unopened. Edges fragile. 185mm. Virtually disbound. This is a good a candidate for rebinding. This original 1824 First Edition is quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! CRIME BX 1
331 p. + Frontispiece portrait, and a plate of the proposed Chisolm monument in Cedar Hill Cemetary, Clinton County, PA. XLib. Original lettered full cloth binding. Hardbound. Very Good. A famous incident during post-Civil War Reconstruction in Mississippi. William Wallace Chisolm (1830-1877), was born in Morgan County, GA. His father died in 1851, leaving him the family guardian and protector. In 1847 the Chisolm family moved to Kemper County, Mississippi. In 1856 he married Emily S. Mann, daughter of John W. Mann, a prominent Florida lawyer. Up to this time Chisolm had had very little opportunity to pursue his education, but his wife gave him much assistance and he made rapid progress. In 1858 he was elected justice of the peace, and in 1860 probate judge, which office he retained until 1867. During the civil war he was a pronounced Unionist, and notwithstanding this fact he was kept in office, though many looked upon him with suspicion. For some time after the war, Mississippi, like the other southwestern states, was politically unsettled, the negroes always taking the side of the Republicans. Chisolm was elected sheriff by the Republicans, and was frequently in danger of his life from the followers of the Democratic party. In November, 1873, he was again elected sheriff for Kemper county, and this section became a great Republican stronghold. Four years later he was nominated as a representative to Congress, but was defeated. John W. Gully, a leading Democrat, was shot and killed near Chisolm's house, and warrants were sent out for the judge's arrest. His wife, three sons and daughter accompanied him, and the party was guarded on the way to the jail by Angus McLellan, a sturdy Scotchman, and stanch friend of Chisolm. As McLellan, at the sheriff's order, left the jail to go to his own house, he was shot down, and the building, being left unguarded, was broken into by the mob. The judge's son, John, a child of thirteen, was killed while protecting his father, and then another shot mortally wounded Chisolm, who obtained a rifle and killed the murderer of his boy. His daughter Cornelia, aged eighteen, also died from wounds received at the time. The leaders of the mob were indicted, but not punished. The local papers endeavored to justify the mob on the ground that Chisolm had been a party to the murder of Gully, though no evidence was ever shown to prove that Judge Chisolm or his friends had in any way been accessory to this crime. It was generally supposed that the Democrats of the district were enraged at the friendship of Chisolm with the newly enfranchised negroes, more particularly as he had organized them in order to control the elections in favor of the Republican party. In December, 1877, a negro, Walter Riley, confessed to the murder of Gully, which completely exonerated Chisolm from any part in the affair. He died in DeKalb, Miss., May 13, 1877. W27 YORK HS
8vo. with 7 coloured illustrations; pictorial cloth a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Splendid edition of the famous Hercule Poirot novel.
8vo., with frontispiece and 6 coloured illustrations; pictorial buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities. With dustwrapper artwork by Hookway Cowles. Dr. Gideon Fell rides again! VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 6 illustrations; pictorial boards, black cloth back lettered in gilt and silver, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, facsimiles in the text and pictorial endpapers; red cloth (first volume), pictorial boards (second volume), backstrip lettered in black, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The first volume includes Includes two unpublished Poirot stories; the second volume an unseen Miss Marple story. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 6 coloured illustrations; pictorial boards, black cloth back lettered in silver and green, green endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The thirteenth and final Inspector Morse novel.
2 voll. in 16, pp. 362 + (1) + (1b); 439 + (1). Lievissima mancanza al marg. est. dell'occhietto del I vol. Gora al marg. int. delle prime 6 cc. e delle ultime 4 cc. del II vol. Legatura in mz. pl. coeva con tit. e fregi oro al d. Storia romanzata del bandito ungherese Schobri, o Schubri (o Scubri).
Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1901. Cloth. 8vo. 440 pages. Sepia portrait of McKinley facing title page. SUBJECT (S) : McKinley, William (1843-1901) ; Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) ; Garfield, James A. (1831-1881) ; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) . Gilt lettering and design on cover. Minor wear to edges, spine and edges of textblock. Otherwise in Very Good condition. (MISC-1-4).
In 8, pp. 84 + (4) con foto e illustrazioni in b/n n.t. Brossura editoriale. Testimonianza dell?attivita' di Danilo Dolci, sociologo e attivista della nonviolenza che opero' in Sicilia a Borgetto (Palermo) e si impegno' nella creazione della struttura socio assistenziale Borgo di Dio. Il 2 febbraio 1956 ha luogo a Partinico lo sciopero alla rovescia. Alla base c'e' l'idea che, se un operaio, per protestare, si astiene dal lavoro, un disoccupato puo' scioperare invece lavorando. Cosi' centinaia di disoccupati si organizzano per riattivare pacificamente una strada comunale abbandonata; ma i lavori vengono fermati dalla polizia e Dolci, con alcuni suoi collaboratori, viene arrestato. L'episodio suscita indignazione nel Paese, e provoca numerose interrogazioni parlamentari. Dolci venne successivamente scagionato, dopo un processo che ebbe enorme risalto sulla stampa: a difenderlo fu il giurista Piero Calamandrei. Ritorna anche in questa pubblicazione l'eco di un utilizzo dell'immagine fatto da Dolci nel suo primo libro del 1954 (Fare presto e bene?).
Cm. 19, cart. edit., pag. 213 (3) più 16 tavole fotografiche f.t. fronte/retro. Piacevolissimi racconti venatori con capitoli su Puccini cacciatore e interessante la parte riguardante il banditismo ed il brigantaggio in Toscana con fotografie dei banditi uccisi. PRIMA edizione. Minime usure al dorso e tracce di polvere al piatto anteriore, internamente ottimo esemplare. Ceresoli, pag. 438; Roberto Basso "Bibliografia italiana sulla Beccaccia", pag. 122.
XI-247 pp. et 30 pp. de catalogue de la librairie A. Storck Toile verte del'éditeur 1898, 1898, in-8, XI-247 pp. et 30 pp. de catalogue de la librairie A. Storck, Toile verte del'éditeur
8vo. Xix, 281 pages. SUBJECT (S) : Police Illinois Chicago; Crime and criminals Illinois Chicago. Good condition; tears and facing of spine, upper corner bumped. (NJ-2-3)
