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193452693New York: Rae D. Henkle Publisher 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; black cloth with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; 67-320pp. Base of spine gently nudged else a fresh Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 edgeworn with a few shallow nicks to spine ends and corners none affecting lettering a short split at lower flap fold and some old faint spatter marks most evident on the red portions of the panels; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Memoir of Boston-born career criminal John Goode 1864-1934 whose life in crime began at age 11 working as a look-out for a gang of burglars after moving to a Colorado mining camp. His criminal career involved robbery and train robbery cattle rustling looting gambling houses pickpocketing and grand larceny spending time in prisons and penitentiaries across the country. "Goode has recorded a great amount of detail about experiences in prison cells -- the long nights the childish pranks prisoners play to relieve the tedium and the devious and limitless ways in which life is made more uncomfortable" SUVAK 128. Includes commentary on his experiences doing time at the Ohio Penitentiary City Prison of Manhattan and Sing Sing Prison. Goode was encouraged "to put his story into some form of written order" by his friend publisher Rae D. Henkle who in his prefatory note describes him as having "a gentle kindly smile that reflected a gentle kindly spirit: a man who had been helped out of his particular hell and who wanted with all his heart to help other men." Goode died shortly prior to publication of his memoir. Scarce in dustjacket; OCLC notes about two dozen holdings but most appear to be in circulating collections. Rae D. Henkle, Publisher unknown
192919739New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22.5cm; purple cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 308pp 1. Vintage bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown upper board edges slightly darkened with a slight bump to upper right corner of front panel; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped with several edge tears and a dozen clear tape mends on verso; light wear and shallow chipping to extremities with a deeper chip at crown not affecting titles; just Very Good.<br /> <br /> Narrative account of Ernest Booth an unreprentant career criminal who by his own admission was an accomplished burglar and forger. "Booth's career as a thief was punctuated by several brief stays in county jails and over half of a five-year sentence at San Quentin. He secured an excellent inmate job at San Quentin photographer but after a parole denial soured on it and used the position as a front to appropriate salable items from the administration." Uncommon and rarely found in jacket. SUVAK 26. 19739. Alfred A. Knopf unknown
1857List2022Washington 1857. Autograph letter measuring 8 x 5 inches bifolium with free franked stampless cover. Fine condition. Fine. An interesting letter written by James W. Denver written while he was serving as Commissioner of Indian Affairs describing crime on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1857. He writes:<br /> “We have great times on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. For a long time past merchandise has been lost along the line by being thrown out of the cars while under way some of the confederates being ready to pitch them up and sell them. To put a stop to this the Directors ordered the cars when loaded to be sealed up and not to be opened until they should arrive at the place of destination. The conductors took offense and said that this was a reflection on them quit the trains and would not let anybody else take their places. In order to prevent this they attacked the trains passing Ellicott’s Mills and succeeded in turning back all but one. Today it was rumored that the Plug Uglies had possession of the track between Baltimore and the Relay House but this is hardly so as a train has I am told arrived here this evening. This is a very extraordinary affair as it is in fact an effort to give greater license to stealing and from the way they have acted there is not much doubt but the conductors were engaged in the plundering.â€<br /> The Plug Uglies first operated in Baltimore beginning in 1854. Several iterations of the Nativist gang eventually formed all of which were referred to by the same name. They would be involved a month later in the Know Nothing Riot in Washington D.C. in June of 1857 the same month that Denver would gain his appointment as Secretary of Kansas Territory. <br /> <br /> <br /> Full text follows:<br /> <br /> My Dear Wife<br /> The cheerful tone of your letter of the 28th ult. pleases me very much. I hope and trust that will be ever thus. A light heart and cheerful disposition makes life a perennial springtime. There is nothing like it. Keep up your sprits ever thus and besides being the pride of my life you will be my light also—the polar star of my existence.<br /> <br /> O Lou! how lonely I feel here at times without you! Were we only together how much more pleasantly would the time pass away. Still I have no great reason to complain of fortune but ought rather to be thankful for the great boon she has vouchsafed to me in making you mine for life. To know this it is easy to imagine a good angel always hovering near me giving warning of besetting dangers and urging me on to greater usefulness and then to dream of the bright approving smiles of her I love so well. And though distant I doubt not but they are as sweet and as kind as though present and palpable to my vision. Well well what must be I suppose must be and we must grin and bear it; but I wish you were here and not the subject of mere dreams and imaginings.<br /> <br /> We have great times on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. For a long time past merchandise has been lost along the line by being thrown out of the cars while under way some of the confederates being ready to pitch them up and sell them. To put a stop to this the Directors ordered the cars when loaded to be sealed up and not to be opened until they should arrive at the place of destination. The conductors took offense and said that this was a reflection on them quit the trains and would not let anybody else take their places. In order to prevent this they attacked the trains passing Ellicott’s Mills and succeeded in turning back all but one. Today it was rumored that the Plug Uglies had possession of the track between Baltimore and the Relay House but this is hardly so as a train has I am told arrived here this evening. This is a very extraordinary affair as it is in fact an effort to give greater license to stealing and from the way they have acted there is not much doubt but the conductors were engaged in the plundering.<br /> <br /> Judge Stephen A. Douglass intends leaving <br /> here with his family tomorrow. Nat Cartmell was here on Friday. He said they were all well in Virginia except cousin John Lupton who was convalescing. Tell your father I will keep him posted and tell your mother to keep you at work—if she can. My love to all. Goodnight. God bless you my own dear Lou. Adieu. — Will. unknown
193088102New York: Cosmopolitan 1930. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 19cm. Orange-red cloth titled in black; dustjacket; 309pp. Very Near Fine copy with just a trace of light rubbing to bottom board corners. In the original dustwrapper unclipped priced $1.50 at base of front flap slightly sunned on spine panel with a few tiny nicks to extremities and a short split to upper portion of front flap-fold; still Near Fine most uncommon thus. <br /> <br /> A hard-boiled novel set in the world of New York gangsters focused not so much on a single criminal plot as on the day-to-day machinations of its central figure one Antonio Scarvak head of a small-time rum-running and extortion racket. The New York Times in its 1931 review noted with some pique that Coe's antihero seemed ".an incredibly dull-witted gunman.who moves rather absurdly through the web of murder graft and corruption that makes the background for the novel." Coe a former boxer and federal agent specialized in works that brought to life the criminal underworld with which he was long familiar and his work is unusual in that while it was clearly designed to appeal to the growing audience for lurid hard-boiled crime it kept one foot firmly planted in the realm of social fiction. There are only a few novelists of the period whose work is equally likely to be cited in Hubin's Bibliography of Crime Fiction this title cited on p.88 as in Archibald Hanna's bibliography of American social fiction A Mirror for the Nation no. 728. Uncommon in jacket this is a particularly fresh example. Cosmopolitan unknown
1973160726Freeport New York: G.C. London Publishing 1973. October 1973 issue. Included is a vintage black-and-white photograph used as the magazine's cover image struck in 1976 based on the article "Beware of the Peroxide Tigress." Photograph with a "True Action Detective / Mar 1976" stamp on the verso with manuscript pencil ink and marker annotations on the verso.<br /> <br /> Photograph: 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with faint creasing on the bottom right corner margin.<br /> <br /> Magazine: 8 x 10.75 inches 65 leaves. Near Fine with two tiny chips at the top of the rear wrapper. G.C. London Publishing unknown
19328879Edinburgh: W. Green and Son Limited 1932. First edition. Hardcover in dust illustrated dust jacket. Frontis plates and facsimiles throughout. Red cloth boards show a few smudges and light shelf wear. Lengthy gift inscription dated 1946 on verso of frontis. Jacket witha couple tears to bottom edge of front panel light use at spine ends and corners and darkening to rear white panel. Very good. <br /> <br /> First edition in the scarce jacket of this title an early literary collection featuring notable Scottish murder trials such as the baby-farmer and child-murderer Jessie King. Roughead 1870-1952 was a pioneer in the genre which became known as True Crime. W. Green and Son, Limited hardcover
1955ZB393272National Council on Crime and Delinquency. 1955. volumes 1 3 6-7 9-12 14 16-18 20 25 27 29 1955-1983; complete volumes partly bound ex library; PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. National Council on Crime and Delinquency. unknown
200117080082Black Inc Australia 2001. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 649 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Black Inc. Australia 2001. CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Edges of pages are lightly browned. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Tells how so many war criminals have entered into Australia. He discusses the modern war criminals who have recently found sanctuary here. He also analyses the work of the Special Investigations Unit into war crimes and its betrayal by the Keating Government. Forward by Bob Hawke. Quantity Available: 1. Category: True Crime; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 1863953701. ISBN/EAN: 9781863953702. Inventory No: 17080082. 9781863953702 Black Inc paperback
1995x-0748402373Routledge 1995. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 224 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. Routledge hardcover
181330782Rennes: Chez Cousin-Danelle Imprimeur de la Cour Impériale 1813. l sheet consisting of three leaves. 1 vols. FOLIO 20 x 46 inches. Broadside. Some marginal discoloration and creasing else very good. l sheet consisting of three leaves. 1 vols. FOLIO 20 x 46 inches. Lists the date of arrest the court identifies the criminal with age profession address a physical description crime and punishment citing the applicable laws next to them. Chez Cousin-Danelle, Imprimeur de la Cour Impériale unknown
191086220New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1910. First edition. Octavo. Gray pictorial cloth stamped in black and silver inks on cover and spine; 379pp. 8 inserted leaves of plates halftones by Glenn O. Coleman. Trace of rubbing at spine ends and corners; scattered pencil marginalia with old erasure to front endpaper; still a tight square and attractive copy Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> Hapgood's uncommon chronicle of immigrant and underworld life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan a sequel of sorts to his classic The Spirit of the Ghetto. Hapgood a sometime anarchist and full-time free-lover was in the first wave of Greenwich Village bohemians; his celebratory accounts of Manhattan's seedier sections have long stood as scarce classics of New York writing. This a really brilliant copy; the book is very rarely seen thus. We have noted binding variants in gray cloth as here and green. Funk & Wagnalls unknown
1913List2840Stockton California 1913. Single 6 x 9 inch sheet. Marked with blue crayon at upper left corner otherwise near fine. A wanted poster offering $20 for the return of a stolen Indian motorcycle. Indian motorcycles were an early American motorcycle built by the Hendee Manufacturing Company in Springfield Massachusetts. This particular one was a tandem model stolen from a race ground in San Jose in August of 1913. Motorcycling was then a very new sport with the first motorcycling club the Federation of American Motorcyclists having been formed in New York City not ten years prior. unknown
182787802Albany: D. M'Glashan 1827. First and Only Edition. Octavo in 4's. 24cm. Stab bound pages with the title page serving as the front cover and no trace that the pamphlet was ever bound. 35pp. Some mild chipping to edges and extremities most notably the upper right corner toning and soiling to wraps; internally clean but uniformly toned with offsetting from the type throughout edges untrimmed luxuriously wide margins some traces of careless opening in places. Very good by dint of survival and solidity rather than beauty the paper is cheap and the pamphlet was printed to leverage opportunity rather than posterity.<br /> <br /> A notable and at the time highly controversial trial dealing with what was later referred to as "The Murder at Cherry Hill." The prominent New York Van Rensselaer family owned and lived at Cherry Hill Farm in Albany the daughter Elsie was married somewhat unhappily to John Whipple and fell for a younger man she met in a bar by the name of Jesse Strang. The couple fell in love Elsie expressed her deep unhappiness with Whipple; Strang masquerading under the name of Jesse Orton took on a job at the farm and began an affair with Elsie which was maintained by the house staff many of whom were enslaved people of color whose testimonies were heard at the trial passing notes between the two. Elsie chafing somewhat at having to endure her legal husband resolved that he must die to make way for Strang and they would run away together to Canada. <br /> <br /> The first plan was arsenic poisoning which failed. What Elsie lacked in poisoning ability she made up for with murderous intent and she purchased a rifle removed the ammunition from her now somewhat suspicious husband's gun and induced Strang who does not come across as the sharpest tool in the shed to shoot Whipple dead. Strang then attempted to fabricate an alibi which did not hold up and he was arrested. What followed was a widely publicised trial in which both defendants turned on each other Elsie's status as the daughter of prominent landowners was leveraged as protection from any serious punishment and Strang bore the brunt of the law. He had of course further doomed himself by attempting to plant evidence lying under several oaths and generally being one of the less gifted murderers of the early 19th century; he was hanged Elsie went home to Cherry Hill the Van Rensselaer's invested heavily in local collective amnesia and the rest of the US stared somewhat incredulously and gossiped over their breakfast grits. <br /> It was a carnival of awfulness that posed many questions about the societal rights and freedoms of women the privileges of wealth and the integrity of the judicial system. Fairly represented in institutions with 20 examples in US libraries but scarce in commerce and usually in later binding. D. M'Glashan unknown
1953012518Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1953. 226pp with fold-out chart. Previous owner name stamped at bottom of title page. Light edgewear to dj. Text clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Princeton University Press Hardcover
Holmberg, John-Henri edIn Pristine Condition. unknown
193344785New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1933. Book Club Edition. With "H-H" code on copyright page. Octavo 21.5cm; dark blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in lime green across spine and covers; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; viii2951pp. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page: "For Bill Paxson who likes greyhound racing as much as I do - Best regards - W.R. Burnett." Sunning to spine light wear to extremities with some scattered soil to front cover; contents clean; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is spine-sunned with modest shelfwear several tiny nicks and short tears and a 1.5" closed tear at upper front joint; Very Good. Inscribed copy of Burnett's seventh book a novel set in California and centered around a down-and-out gambler his interaction with gangsters and his love affair with dog racing - particularly with a greyhound named Dark Hazard. Burnett became involved in dog racing for a time while writing the novel and even owned a greyhound named War Cry. Basis for Alfred E. Green's 1934 film of the same name starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin and a 1937 B-picture titled Wine Women and Horses. Hubin p.58; Baird 359. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown
19353203N.p. 1935. Very good. Photographically illustrated film herald 12 x 6 inches. Even toning minor edge wear short closed tear near top edge. A rare small broadside advertising a true crime presentation including real footage related to the shooting death of famed gangster John Dillinger. This "sensational story" most likely a newsreel mixed with a reenactment of Dillinger's assassination promised to show "actual authentic pictures" "the ambulance that hauled him away" and "Dillinger's body on a cold slab in the undertakers morgue." The herald includes a portrait of Dillinger himself. The Dillinger film was paired with an action western from 1930 titled Trails of Danger. An early entry in American true crime and a wonderful display piece. unknown
183335550Philadelphia: Printed at Alexander's General Printing Office 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Hardcover. Ex-institutional copy. 72 pages. Original wraps without the outer covers bound in black cloth covered boards with copy of the title pasted down on the front cover. Gilt lettered title on the spine. New tan end sheets front and back. Page 1 is the title page and has two stamps at the bottom: Presbyterian Historical Society Philadelphia and a red withdrawn stamp. Print is small and contents are clean. <br /> <br /> McDade 335 - "Getter convicted of fornication and bastardy was given the option of marrying the girl he had wronged; six weeks later saddled with a wife he did not want he choked her to death.â€. From wikipedia:<br /> <br /> Getter's Island previously known as Abel's Island is a small island in the Delaware River in Easton Pennsylvania in the United States. It is best known as the location of the execution of Charles Getter the last person to be publicly executed in Pennsylvania. History edit Execution of Charles Getter edit The island is named after Charles Getter a farm hand who was hanged on the island in 1833 for the murder of Margaret Lawall a woman he married to avoid prosecution for impregnating her outside of wedlock. Getter's execution was initially scheduled to take place at Center Square in Easton but it was moved to the island - then known as Abel's Island - to accommodate the crowds.<br /> An estimated 15000 to 20000 people some of whom traveled hundreds of miles gathered in the town to view the execution. 12 An initial attempt to hang him failed forcing a second attempt which resulted in his death. A reporter who witnessed the scene was horrified at how little the crowd was affected by the execution and called on lawmakers to take action. 2 Governor George Wolf agreed with the reporter and signed a law banning public execution on April 10 1834. As a result Getter was the last person in Pennsylvania to be publicly executed. 2. Printed at Alexander's General Printing Office hardcover
193732645New York: Street & Smith Publishers Inc. 1937. Creamy pages covers have mild wear to yapp edges with tiny tears and creases small chip to yapp edge at lower right corner a nearly fine copy. 32645. Octavo single issue photo cover pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first issue. Stories by Theodore Tinsley Lester Dent Gadget Man Norvell W. Page Clifford Goodrich Maxwell Grant Norgil Steve Fisher and Laurence Donovan. The Norgil the Magician story by Grant is the first in the series. The Tinsley story features Carrie Cashin female private detective the first of a series. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 115-118. Street & Smith Publishers, Inc. unknown
193832642New York: Street & Smith Publishers Inc. 1938. Slight tanning to text paper cover edges trimmed a lovely fine copy. 32642. Octavo single issue photo cover pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Maxwell Grant Norgil Lester Dent Gadget Man Theodore Tinsley Frank Gruber Norvell W. Page Laurence Donovan Steve Fisher and Alan Hathway. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 115-118. Street & Smith Publishers, Inc. unknown
1986004090West Linn OR: Norjak Project 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 135pp; Covers clean & bright text unmarked binding is tight VG condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Account of the D.B. Cooper hijacking & investigation co-authored by retired FBI agent who was assigned to the case & is the leading expert on the inside story of the investigation. Illustrated with photos & maps. Norjak Project paperback
1777029800London: S. Hooper 1777. Two volume set. No added marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers creased/rubbed spines. Very clean very tight pages with some marking to boards see image all board edges decorated gilt see image original bindings sound page edges brown and minor bumping to corners. 280 279pp. Author was gardener to Sir Thomas Gascoigne. Second corrected and greatly enlarged edition. Chapters on the nursery forest trees fruit trees mushrooms cabbages carrots turnips vines and fence management. Second Edition. Leather. Very Good -. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. S. Hooper Hardcover
193628984New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; mauve cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; illus.frontispiece 368pp. Slight musty odor else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped priced $3.00 sunned and edgeworn with small chips to extremities short tears and splits along flap folds.<br /> <br /> Life story of a career criminal incarcerated in the Oregon State Prison after a career of check forging hold-ups safe-blowing and theft. "Principal incidents are Duncan's escape and recapture; otherwise this is a diary of a criminal's routine prison life" SUVAK 98 p.32. Scarce in dustjacket. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc unknown
1932012204New York: Kroy Wen Publishers Inc. 1932 Book. Illus. by Photos. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bright orange cloth on boards. No writing or damage. The only title published by Kroy Wen in 1932. Kroy Wen Publishers, Inc. hardcover
16980005662London 1698. First edition. Hardcover. Good . Small octavo; ii 348 iv vi contemporary panelled calf blindstamped extra-gilt spine; stain on rear endpapers and rear Table head of spine and corner of spine label chipped damage to several of the blindstamped ornaments. <br/><br/>Fenwick was a major-general who developed a powerful hatred for William of Orange during Fenwick's service in Holland. Undeterred by his first plot against Orange who became King William III Fenwick continued to conspire with Robert Charnock and others. He was arrested in 1696 and beheaded for treason in early 1697 after the secret message to his wife printed herewith having been apprehended by the Crown was found to be essentially a confession of his unfaithfulness. Wing P3545 . hardcover
