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8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 6 plates; pictorial boards, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. Albert Campion is trapped in a living nightmare.
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY JILL PATON WALSH ON TITLE. The final Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, completed by Walsh from Sayers' papers following her death.
Grey octavo, xv, 306 pages, b&w frontispiece (portrait) ; 22 cm. Lady Justice depicted to front board. || Florence Monahan, the leading woman penologist of our country, Superintendent of the State Reformatory for Women Criminals at Shakopee Minnesota, presents the absorbing story of her life among the women who have failed society and themselves. || Women, Crime -- United States. || Contents: Steps to prison -- First lessons in penology -- Who are these women? -- Material for melodrama -- Parole : the invisible chain -- Visitors come to Shakopee -- Geneva, and trouble -- The bad girls -- Pawns in politics -- The vice scandal -- Inmates are individuals -- Tempest in Tehachapi -- Of recreation and unrest -- Poetry in prison -- Medicine and malingerers -- The sex problem -- Some come back -- It's the law! -- Women who kill -- Where common sense counts -- Catastrophe in California -- Conclusions.
Bump and small closed tear to tail of spine, slightly wear to corners of cover, creasing to top corners of cover, small waterstain to bottom of page block, text is clean, bright and tight throughout. Used
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 8 illustrations in the text; red boards blocked and lettered in white and black, black cloth, back lettered in red and white, a near fine copy in publisher's pictorial board slip-case.
in-16 broché, couverture illustrée.- RARE. Bel exemplaire. [MB-3]
Cagliari, Fondazione Il Nuraghe, 1952, 16mo brossura, pp. 52
Mm 150x235 Prima edizione. Brossura originale con copertina a stampa con titolo e autore su riquadro al piatto anteriore priva del dorso e del piatto posteriore sostituiti da restauro accurato; xi-489 pagine ancora intonse e con legature ben salde. Spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Larger Ward Lock edition paperback, 126 pages, original illustrated paper wrappers - Very fine Copy. VERY GOOD++, No Marks [BAT-5]
Larger George Newnes 6d. edition paperback, 128 pages, original illustrated paper wrappers - Very Fine Copy. VERY GOOD ++, No Marks [BAT-5]
Fine Tatar Original bdg. HC. 4to. (27 x 21 cm). In Crimean-Tatar (Cyrillic) and Russian. 263, [1] p., color and b/w ills. Kirimtatar milli teatri. Tarih saifeleri.= Krimskotatarskiy nasionalniy teatr. Storinki istorii. National theater of Crimean-Tatars.
8vo., First Edition thus, with endpaper maps, page-edges tanning lightly as usual; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the German edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First edition, with folding chart as frontispiece, some mild offsetting to front free endpaper; original mustard cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean , crisp copy. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF J. BANNISTER HOWARD AND J. B. MULHOLLAND OF THE KING'S THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. The detachable competition entry form (originally present at rear) is not present in this copy. Howard and Mulholland were leading theatrical impresarios at the turn of the nineteenth century (Mulholland later founded the Wimbledon Theatre). It is possible that this copy was presented following a stage production of Wallace's famous story.
192 pages. "While Canadian service personnel made heroic sacrifices battling the Nazis, other Canadians on the home front were sabotaging the war effort. Bill Kelly investigated and prosecuted black market activity and security risks in southern Ontario during World War II." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked. Excellent copy. Book
134 pages. Cover photo of Truman Capote with Robert Blake and Scott Wilson in Kansas. Features: Vehicular Revolution - the ruckus it stirs - Jumbo Jets, Mass Transit vs. highways, wonderful 2-page photo of Japan's shinkansen roaring by Mount Fuji; After 116 years, a plump little Dutch Prince Willem, of Queen Beatrix and her husband; LBJ in Korea; The Mark of Zorthian - explaining the war in Vietnam; Out of slums into instant homes in 48 hours on New York's lower East Side; The Great Food Markets of the World - many colour photos!; Isn't that Robert Goulet behind those Foster Grants? (ad with colour photos); Pro Soccer's U.S. Kickoff; Oldest Paintings in the Americas - colour photos; Toward a communcal society - a way must be found to preserve an individual's values (part 4 of a series); Nyreyev and Fonteyn. Great (blue) Cadillac ad. Nice colour 7Up ad. Average wear. Address label on front else unmarked. A quality copy. Book
82 pages. Features: Why should polygamy be a crime?; Beverley McLachlin in conversation; Paul Wells article on Jason Kenny; Airport Security - Don't Touch My Junk; Quebec - "A New Scandal All the Time"; Nancy Pelosi still talks tough despite mid-term loss; How Public Health Failed - HIV/AIDS; Brits are using credit like never before; Investing after the Great Recession; General Motors' 'comeback'; Feature Article - What the Boomers are Leaving Their Children; Teaching Swearing to ESL students; Keeping track of patients and their implants; Barbara Streisand's epic home reno; Canadian Garlic Types, once shunned, are a sought-after, and scarce, autumn staple; Oreste Mordini 1920-2010; and more. Average wear. Address label clipped from front cover. Book
191 pages. Signed by author/subject upon title page. Reproductions of black and white photos in text. "Mr. Rackham joined the O.P.P. in 1949 and retired after a 26 year career never having drawn his gun once. He was an identification officer involved in more murder and serious crime investigations than he can remember." - from page xii. Prior owner's name and date neatly atop front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
84 pages. Features: New Deputy-Commissioner, R.J. Ross; The King's Escort - with several archival black and white photos; VIP Section gets a home at Harrington Lake, Gatineau; Maintien(s) Le Droit - G.T. Hann/Grand Trunk Railway Regiment; The Martin's Field Murder - Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia; Open House - Frobisher Bay; Why I Joined the RCMP - Wive's Division; Police solve two hit-and-runs; A Book and Its Cover - C.W. Harvison intercepts a book intended for German POWs in Canada, and prevents an escape; Schefferville, Quebec; Electronics - an aid to criminals; "Mojo" - on the spot; Shades of Androcles; Chapel Windows Creator; Refurbishing the old St. Roch; Right Name Wrong Crime; The Brothers Jarvis; Grain Theft Solved; Stray Shot; Trapline Trouble; and more. Prior owner's name blacked out atop table of contents. Faint ink stamp to bottom of table of contents. Book
90 pages. Profusely illustrated, frequently in color. Features: The Pantomime Tradition; The Plant Artists of Kew; Modern Ephemera; Love; Frost Fairs on the Thames; Mr. Bellingham's Crime; Two Centuries of Jigsaws; Getting Steamed Up - the National Traction Engine Club at Kendal; Tiles from Turkey; Pots for Keeping Things In; The Social Nuances of the first name, surname, initials and nickname from the rigidities of Victorian times to the informality of today; Six Centuries of Food; Antinori family history; Trends in art book publishing; Reviving the art of embroidery; Nice ad for the Jaguar XJS; The Runaway Christmas Pudding; During holidays our ancestors served a much wider variety of tame and game fowl with elaborate and complicated garnishings; and more. Average wear. Faint newsstand inkstamp atop back cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
10 pages. "A lecture delivered before the Psycho-Therapeutic Society at the Caxton Hall, Westminster, January 17th, 1910." - from page 3. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. Some age-toning. Pencil underlining and marginalia. Prior owner's ink stamp atop front cover. Book
309 pages. Reference notes. "At the age of 18 the author was arrested by the secret police of Stalin's Soviet Union. She was thrust into the soul-breaking world of the Soviet prison system... Her crime? Choosing to fight against Stalin's tyranny, to resist evil with the limited resources of an 18-year-old." - from back cover. She spent 5 years in prison. Clean, bright and unmarked but for remainder dot upon bottom edge. Very nice copy. Book
80 pages. Songs include: Crazy Over You, Crime of Passion, Don't Send Me No Angels; Don't We All Have The Right?; From a Jack to a King; He's Got You; A Hole in My Pocket; I'll Leave This World Loving You; Life Turned Her That Way; Living Proff; The Picture; Somebody Lied; Wild-Eyed Dream; Workin' Man Blues. Some writing on table of contents otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
pp. viii, 218, (2)[Table of contents]. 12 mo. 170 mm. Original full leather binding; spine nicely lettered and tooled. Joints weak. Volume One (of 2 in this first edition). First published in Paris in 1783, these intriguing accounts of French crime, criminals, and criminal trials went through six editions by 1806. It is interesting to note that half of the sixteen cases in this volume involve women. FRENCH 1
Boards a bit faded and with light rubbing to extremities. ; Darrow's autobiographical novel, a fictionalized account of his boyhood; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages
pp. viii, 190. Water-colors by Sylvain Sauvage, printed in process offset by Duenewald Printing Corporation; designed and printed by Edward Alonzo Miller at The Marchbanks Press; set in linotype Caslon; Miliani Gilio paper; bound by Russell-Rutter Company in full green linen, stamped in green and gold from design by LeRoy H. Appleton. 4to. 9 1/8 x 11 3/8 inches. Top edge gold. Front inner hinges cracked. Paste downs and fly leaves slightly stained. Original black slip case chipped at corners. Number 413 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed by the Illustrator. The books published by the Limited Editions Club are justly treasured for the quality of the texts, the beauty and artistry of the illustrations, the creativity of design, and the overall excellence of the paper, presswork, and binding. Each book would make a wonderful gift for any occasion. W38 x2
