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193457184London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd. c. 1934 1940. 8vo. 223 1 pp. Photo frontisp. Green publisher’s cloth white lettering on spine minor rubbing shelfwear w/ d.j. photo cover art minor edgewear small tear to upper right corner some scuffing still VG/VG copy. First Treasure Library edition No. 9 -- listing to this title on back cover of jacket and including Brust I guarded Kings 1940 as no. 7 as well as Pawley’s My Bandit Hosts 1939. Leeson participated in the “Jack the Ripper†investigations was known as “the man who was shot at Sidney Street†penetrated criminal organizations and interacted with Lenin Trotsky Stinie Morrison Anarchists and more. Often without the exceedingly scarce dustjacket these are mis-catalogued as the 1934 first edition but jacket clearly establishes date of publication and also features the Treasure Library 3/6 price. Stanley Paul & Co., Ltd., hardcover
19741290<p>Small Quarto 10 1/2 x 8 inches; 267 x 205 mm 12 pages in stapled wrappers. </p><p>Transcript of a speech by William J. Casey 1913-1987 accepting the William J. Donovan Award from the Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services. Casey had been chief of secret intelligence for the European theatre of operations during World War II. This award -- from a group of former intelligence officers -- cites him for his organization of radio teams that he parachuted into Germany to send back intelligence on Nazi positions.<br /></p><p>In his speech Casey lavishes praise on Donovan and others in the clandestine services and discusses some of his own intelligence work during World War II. A fascinating look at a side of the war that was crucial in securing the Allied victory over the the Axis powers.<br /></p><p>OCLC shows only two institutional holdings at Georgetown and at the NIOD Institute for War Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. Separately we find two copies among Casey's papers at the Hoover Institution in Stanford California. None in commerce. <b>SCARCE</b>.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Governmental department stamp and log-in number on front wrapper two horizontal folds for mailing. A Very Good copy.<br /></p><br /> [Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services] books
19741290<p>Small Quarto 10 1/2 x 8 inches; 267 x 205 mm 12 pages in stapled wrappers soft cover.</p><p>Transcript of a speech by William J. Casey 1913-1987 accepting the William J. Donovan Award from the Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services. Casey had been chief of secret intelligence for the European theatre of operations during World War II. This award -- from a group of former intelligence officers -- cites him for his organization of radio teams that he parachuted into Germany to send back intelligence on Nazi positions.<br /></p><p>In his speech Casey lavishes praise on Donovan and others in the clandestine services and discusses some of his own intelligence work during World War II. A fascinating look at a side of the war that was crucial in securing the Allied victory over the the Axis powers.<br /></p><p>OCLC shows only two institutional holdings at Georgetown and at the NIOD Institute for War Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. Separately we find two copies among Casey's papers at the Hoover Institution in Stanford California. None in commerce. <b>SCARCE</b>.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Governmental department stamp and log-in number on front wrapper two horizontal folds for mailing. A Very Good copy.<br /></p> [Veterans of the Office of Strategic Services] paperback
194928605New York: E. P. Dutton 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. 253 pp. Stated first edition of this early crime novel by the author of Murder Can Be Fun and The Dead Ringer. A handsome very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. The wrapper has some chipping and slight paper loss at spine tips. E. P. Dutton hardcover books
195039175Chicago: Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago 1950. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 27pp. Wrappers toned at margins else a tight Very Good or better copy. Series of articles originally published in the Sun-Times on Chicago's juvenile narcotics epidemic. Addressed to an adult audience but includes a number of reputed first-hand testimonials from young addicts including "Sam R." who recounts the story of being nabbed in a ladies' department store: ".I'd gotten very high that day so high that I didn't even know I had 10 ladies' slips in a shopping bag." Uncommon; OCLC 3 locations Chicago Public Chicago Historical Soc. and NYPL. Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago unknown books
190428983Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1904. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.25cm; hunter green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover with an old-fashioned jail door embossed to front cover; 8 276pp. Mild wear to spine ends and corners with a faint stain to lower edge of textblock; Very Good with gilt still bright and unrubbed. Anonymous memoir of life in New York's Sing Sing Correctional Facility in which "the author served a six-and-a-half-year term. Describes the demise of the contract labor system in New York and his enterprising work in starting the prison newspaper The Star of Hope under Warden Sage in 1899. Includes chapters on executions escapes famous prisoners and convict slang " SUVAK 238 p.67. Bobbs-Merrill Company unknown books
185111374Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen State Printer 1851. First edition. Octavo 23cm.; original printed wrappers; 328pp. Moderate wear and soil; final ten or so leaves creased at upper right; Good or better. Includes a large ca. 20" x 22" folding plan of the newly-constructed prison at Sing Sing; this is foxed on verso but otherwise quite fresh with old folds secure and just light foxing onto image area. Charles Van Benthuysen [State Printer] unknown books
195419322New York: Prentice-Hall Inc 1954. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; 361pp. Base of spine gently nudged else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped lightly edge-rubbed with a few tiny tears and creases to same; Very Good to Near Fine with the spine notably unfaded. Chessman's classic account of life on San Quentin's Death Row adapted for the 1955 film of the same name directed by Fred F. Sears in 1955 starring William Campbell as Chessman. After publishing three books and exhausting a number of appeals Chessman was finally executed in 1960. An unusually nice copy. SUVAK 57. Prentice-Hall, Inc unknown books
1911List812California 1911. Single sheet measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Two vertical folds two holes punched at upper margin very good condition overall. Very Good. An uncommon survival possibly published by the Santa Clara County Sherriff's Office showing two wanted criminals from 1911 who were travelling together. The first a C.K. Paullins was the editor of the Rocky Mountain Moose and is wanted for embezzlement. The second a Ruby J. Stanley alias Lillian Raymond is known as "Kentucky." According to the flyer "This woman is very well known in the tenderloin of Los Angeles and Fresno. She dresses in the latest style and wears fancy dresses. These people work all kinds of schemes to make money. I wish you would keep a sharp lookout for these parties. W.J. Newman Constable Visalia California. Dated October 23 1911.". books
189635124London: Ward & Downey Limited 1896. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original black pictorial cloth stamped in red and gilt. Fine. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Presents accounts of thirty famous crimes and criminals in 19th-century Britain including the Tichborne claimant Charles Peace John Bellingham James Cook Henry Blackburn John Holloway and others. Ward & Downey Limited unknown books
1884219833Washington D.C.: Thomas D. Worrall 1884. First edition. 207 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Brick blind-stamped cloth. Spine slightly darkened else fine. Bookplate. First edition. 207 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Thomas D. Worrall unknown books
1973A48786New York NY: Atheneum. 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright but has one small nick / bump to the top front spine joint. "In his final summation after 12-week trial Special Prosecu tor Matthew Boylan did no de mand the death penalty. He conceded that the state's case was weak in not fully develop ing the alleged motive. The prosecution said the 21- year-old Mrs. Kavanaugh was strangled and shot because she was about to expose a counter feit ring headed by Harold Matzner a newspaper execu tive. The defendants are Mr. Matz ner and his wife Dorothe 37; Vincent Kearney Jr. 29 a for mer Paterson numbers runner and Paul Kavanaugh 26 the victim's husband and a news paper deliverer for Mr. Matz ner's publishing company in Wayne. It was the second murder charge against Mr. Matzner and Mr. Kearny. They were acquit ted a year ago of slaying Gabriel Johnny the Walk DeFranco of Paterson." from New York Timesm February 22 1970; B&W Illustrations; 371p. pages; Pictured 6/19/24 . Atheneum hardcover
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.
1998240813-MB53Amlex Inc. 1998. Very Good softcover . Trade Paperback. Very Good. Amlex, Inc. Paperback
1912013449Glasgow: William Hodge 1912 red cloth with blind design to upper board top edge gilt gilt to spine states 'Notable English Trials' light bumping to corners light rubbing or fading to spine light foxing to prelims xlvi 364pp frontis port 5 plates quite tidy internally accused of poisoning her husband Florence Maybrick was found guilty ands ordered to be hanged but was imprisoned and later released whence she travelled to the USA where she lived the rest of her life of note is that the recent 'Ripper Diary' has been claimed as belonging to her husband and that he was the Ripper and possibly she killed him knowing this . First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. William Hodge hardcover
19947668Katoomba: Tranter Enterprises 1994. xivxiv 165 pages. Small quarto. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Bibliography and index. Signed limited edition of 1500 copies. Pictorial laminated boards. Scarce. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Tranter Enterprises Hardcover
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.
1972027962Honolulu Hawaii: Erin Enterprises 1972. Very Good condition. Clean square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Photo illustrated. Bound in the original purple wraps. From Wikipedia citing this book as a source: "Sammy Apollo Kapiikauinamokuonalani Amalu 1917-1986 was a Kanaka Maoli descendant of a Hawaiian high chiefess socialite ex-con and columnist with The Honolulu Advertiser. Known by the media as "Hawaii's favorite rascal" Amalu went by many aliases throughout his life. He famously posed as a mysterious Indian Maharaja in San Francisco a banker named Albert Wilcox and a Swiss-based syndicate who went by The Presidium to name a few Amalu is popularly known for his role in a multi-million-dollar real-estate hoax called the 'Sheraton Deal' where he was able to fool wealthy business tycoons who held large swaths of Hawaiian land into believing that the deal was legitimate Amalu was also known to push the lines of social norms in his writing. While incarcerated at Folsom Prison in 1967 serving time on embezzlement charges Amalu gained a position as a columnist for the Honolulu Advertiser in 1968 the column called 'The World of Sammy Amalu' was created. Amalu produced a diverse cache of political and social commentary about gun and prison reform sexuality prison life political issues in Hawaii as well as Knaka Maoli traditions genealogy and history. In 1968 Folsom Prison's warden stopped Amalus columns because prison officials had grown uncomfortable with Amalus work. Public outcry from his readership resounded in pleas to reinstate Amalus right to write. Some of Amalu's fans made their pleas to the then Governor of California Ronald Reagan in hopes of garnering his support to overturn the decision Amalu's columns soon began again. In 1970 Amalu was released from prison on parole. Upon returning to Honolulu Amalu was given a full-time columnist position with the Honolulu Advertiser ". First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xv 200pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Erin Enterprises Paperback
65281 vol. grand in-8, demi-basane noire, dos à nerfs, titré "Divers" tome 2. Légers frottemenst au dos. Bon état. Provient de la Bibliothèque d'Antonin Mallat, pharmacien et historien de Vichy.
532403P. Valfray, Imprimeur Du Roi Lyon 1764 Factum in-8 ( 270 X 205 mm ) de 7 pages. Document en bel état. Rare. "Rafraîchissante relation" de la justice au milieu du XVIIIe siècle... Les tourments infligés à ce pauvre BARON sont d'une inventivité toute réjouissante !
18881200738Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1888. 16, 567, (1) S. m. 17 Abb. Hldrbd d. Zeit m. Rückenvergoldung (Einbd am Kopf m. Einriß u. kl. Fehlstelle, Kanten beschabt, Vorsätze randgebräunt u. etwas leimschattig).
575268Bureau Des Annales Des Justices De Paix - Auguste Durand Paris 1859 4 volumes in-8 ( 220 X 135 mm ), demi chagrin bleu, dos lisses ornés de filets et palettes dorés, plats de percaline chagrinée anthracite avec double filet doré d'encadrement gras et maigre, tranches mouchetées. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée, bien complète en 4 tomes. Bel exemplaire.
1993250123-MB20Avon Books 1993. Very Good paperback As New Signed by author. Signed. First Paperback Printing. Mass Market Paper Back. Very Good. Avon Books