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8vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE
a81873Washington 1968. 4 issues for 1968 of this quarterly journal bound in one volume. Hardcover. 4to. about 75pp. per issue bound in institution buckram with original covers included and white stamping on spine. University library stamps on fore-edges and covers. VG plus. . hardcover
a81871Washington 1964. 4 issues for 1964 of this quarterly journal bound in one volume. Hardcover. 4to. about 75pp. per issue bound in institution buckram with original covers included and gilt stamping on spine. University library stamps on fore-edges and covers. VG plus. . hardcover
a81872Washington 1965. 4 issues for 1965 of this quarterly journal bound in one volume. Hardcover. 4to. about 75pp. per issue bound in institution buckram with original covers included and gilt stamping on spine. University library stamps on fore-edges and covers. VG plus. . hardcover
191631420Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1916. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; olive green buckram with printed title labels at spine and front cover; dustjacket; 340 4pp. Mild sunning to spine with two faint stains to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket priced $1.50 at mid-spine; hint of sunning and faint vertical crease to spine light dustiness overall with a few small tears and nicks; Very Good. "Human documents from the experiences of a Massachusetts probation officer in the application of the probation system to the problems of men and women who without it would have been permanently lost to useful citizenship" from front panel. Small, Maynard & Company unknown
195162953New York: Dial Press 1951. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 570pp. Trivial dusting to page edges else Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.50 on front flap slightly spine-sunned and rubbed at folds; Very Good. Sprawling novel of the rise of three young Jewish gangsters in the world of Las Vegas organized crime. Less a crime novel than an occupational novel of the Jewish-American underworld - a subtle distinction perhaps but as with all of Shulman's early novels this was his third following "The Amboy Dukes" and "Cry Tough" big-city crime and corruption are offered up not so much for entertainment as for an examination of their social origins and implications. Dial Press unknown
1952866New York: Ballantine Books 1952. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br /> Small Octavo 8 247 5 pages hardcover in dust jacket.<br /><br />Communist agent arrives in the U.S. to persuade a scientist to defect to the Soviet Union. He also gets involved with some American women who suspect he's up to no good. As far as Cold War fiction goes it's not bad at all. An attractive copy of a Ballantine hardcover. Unfortunately Ballantine didn't credit the artist who designed the striking photomontage dust jacket. <br /><br />Published during the McCarthy era this book actually goes easy on the lurid anti-Red hysteria of so much Cold War fiction.<br /><br />CONDITION: Near Fine in an unclipped bright Near Fine dust jacket that has a bit of rubbing and a couple of nicks.<br /> Ballantine Books hardcover books
1952866New York: Ballantine Books 1952. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />12mo 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 185 x 120 mm 247 3 pages gray quarter cloth over black boards in an unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket hard cover.<p>Communist agent arrives in the U.S. to persuade a scientist to defect to the Soviet Union. He also gets involved with some American women who suspect he's up to no good. As far as Cold War fiction goes it's not bad at all. Published during the McCarthy era this book actually goes easy on the lurid anti-Red hysteria of so much Cold War fiction. The author Stanley Baron worked as a political analyst for the U.S. government so presumably had a keen insight into the psychology and motivations of Communist agents and fellow-travellers.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dust jacket that has a bit of rubbing and a couple of nicks. The flap edges are slightly trimmed but the $1.50 price remains intact on the front flap. </p><p>An attractive copy of a Ballantine hardcover. Unfortunately Ballantine didn't credit the artist who designed the striking photomontage dust jacket. <br /></p><p><br /></p> Ballantine Books hardcover
2001011105Los Angeles: Feral House 2001 Near fine in same unclipped dust jacket first edition 305 1pp adverts survey of famous serial killers and murderers by Britain's most notorious and despised child-killer Ian Brady written from the psych ward of the prison he will never be released from. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Feral House hardcover
1929A48772New York NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1929. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping rubbing and edge wear. The top front cover of the book has some light fading. The text pages are clean and bright. "A century ago David Nunes Carvalho a renowned expert on ink handwriting and print became a central figure in some of the world’s most sensational investigations providing key information and contributing to the ultimate exoneration of the Franco-Jewish military officer Alfred Dreyfus.A review of Claire’s book in the Hartford Daily Courant provides one of the most compelling anecdotes of the legend surrounding David’s investigative powers: “It is indeed a fact that Sir Conan Doyle stated in a lecture in New York that Mr. Carvalho’s powers exceeded those given to Sherlock Holmes and were so startling that he would never dare put them into fiction! ”David seemed to have inherited his father’s spirit of innovation and experimentation. On the Frémont expedition Solomon successfully tinkered with chemicals in order to produce photographic images in subzero temperatures and exterior settings and later in life he patented a new process for water heating. Like Solomon David began his career as a photographer and when he later turned his attention to the science of ink and print he did so with a similar curiosity and determination." by Harold Heft April 1 2013 in Forward Magazine; B&W Illustrations; 296p. pages; Pictured 6/17/24 . Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1939D170012Boston: Little Brown & Co 1939. An expose blaming corrupt local police for the crimes they permitted and championing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to fix the problems. Cooper was a close friend and supporter of J. Edgar Hoover. Second printing. Lightly bumped and rubbed with just a touch of wear at the spine ends sticker scuff on the spine. Square and solid end papers and edges of the text block foxed. Inscribed on the front end paper "To my "neighbor" W. Eldridge Smith with a load of good wishes from Courtney Ryley Cooper." Laid in is a note from Cooper typed and hand signed on his letterhead to Smith and dated May 31 1939. Inscribed By the Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Little Brown & Co Hardcover
194430660New York: Avon Books 1944. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good . Pocket paperbound book. First pocket paperbound edition of these five crime stories by Chadler. Published as Avon Books #63. Previously published the same year in an enlarged format by Avon as well. 286 pp. A crisp very good plus copy. Avon Books paperback books
198221656Boston and London: David R Godine 1982. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine book club edition of this Mario Balzic murder mystery novel. SIGNED by the author and uncommon thus. Comes in a fine unclipped dustwrapper that clearly states Book Club Edition. <br/><br/> David R Godine hardcover books
196213645New York: Simon & Schuster 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition stated. A crime novel that won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery of the Year. A very good copy in very good price intact dustwrapper with small chips to edges. Uncommon title in the first edition. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
198028518New York: Bantam Books 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Pocket paperbound original crime novel by Leonard. Published two years later in a British hardcover edition this pbo is the original edition. 218 pp plus a special preview section of The Elijah Conspiracy by Charles Robertson. Crease at spine. A very good well-bound and clean copy. With a SIGNED bookplate by Leonard laid in to this copy. Bantam Books paperback books
194622955New York: Simon & Schuster 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Classic crime omnibus collecting hard-boiled stories from issues of Black Mask magazine. 468 pp. Featuring work by George Harmon Coxe Norbert Deavis Raymond Chandler and others. Small prior owner name to front endpaper else a very good copy in green boards. The price-intact dustwrapper $3.00 is typically toned at spine colors and has a few chips and small tears to edges. A solid copy overall. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
199325568New York: St. Martin's Press 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition of his uncommon third book featuring Neal Carey. NF in NF unclipped jacket. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in year of publication. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
191017715New York: Doubleday Page 1910. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 340pp. Photographic frontispiece portrait halftone showing the author with a group of his "boy friends." Mild rubbing to board edges; ownership signature to endpaper else a tight Near Fine copy. Autobiographical essays from the career of Judge Ben Lindsey a prominent child welfare advocate and long-time chief of the Denver juvenile court. With many anecdotes relating to child welfare gangs and juvenile delinquency in turn-of-the-century Denver. An uncommonly well-preserved copy. Doubleday, Page unknown books
191631420Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1916. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; olive green buckram with printed title labels at spine and front cover; dustjacket; 340 4pp. Mild sunning to spine with two faint stains to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket priced $1.50 at mid-spine; hint of sunning and faint vertical crease to spine light dustiness overall with a few small tears and nicks; Very Good. "Human documents from the experiences of a Massachusetts probation officer in the application of the probation system to the problems of men and women who without it would have been permanently lost to useful citizenship" from front panel. Small, Maynard & Company unknown books
190912868Cleveland: Wells Publishing Co 1909. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; original red cloth boards; 204p; illus. Presumed remainder issue with "Wells Publishing Co." label applied over publisher's imprint at base of title page. A moderately worn copy with lettering mostly flaked away from spine and front cover; title page darkened from laid-in clipping; scattered thumb-soil to text but still a tight Good copy overall. Uncommon and somewhat cobbled-together account of this sensational turn-of-the-century kidnaping case one of several which propelled the phenomenon of ransom kidnaping into the national consciousness. Illustrated with photographs of the Whitla family the crime scenes the perpetrators and various other key figures in the case. Wells Publishing Co unknown books
195124382Concord N.H.: Common Sense Publishing Co. Inc. 1951. Mild edge rubbing and soiling nearly fine copies. 24382. Small octavo two issues pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Billed on the front covers "A selection of the best True Crime stories new and old." Authors include Eleazar Lipsky Craig Rice Lillian de la Torre Stuart Palmer James Thurber and others. Published by Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications these two issues are perhaps the only two published this cataloger is unsure. Common Sense Publishing Co., Inc. unknown
188626Akron OH: H. G. Canfield 1886. 8vo 92 pages printed wrappers; the penultimate leaf of detective Burlison's text is defective and lacks text but the following leaf tho defective retains the full woodcut image of Burlison. Rare. <br/><br/>"On the night of April 3d 1865 the Safe of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company at Le Roy Medina County Ohio was cracked and some $61000.00 taken therefrom. . Samuel M. Felker was arrested in Chicago by Detective Pinkerton and brought to Medina and lodged in jail where he confessed that he knew where all the bonds and money were and that he could and would provide the same on condition that he should be released." ". the guilty and self-confessed thieves were permitted to escape and protected in the enjoyment of their ill-gotten gains has thus far remained a mystery. This little book proposes to give a true and faithful history of the whole matter which will read like a romance - Preface." This tale was 20 years in the telling. The prefatory Note is dated 1864. There may have been an 1885 edition the tipped-on copyright notice is dated 1885. WorldCat cites only 3 copies of any edition of this booklet - all in Ohio. Includes much correspondence with Allen Pinkerton. H. G. Canfield unknown
19750008454Washington DC : Federal Bureau of Investigation April 10 1975. First edition. Very Good. Folio broadside two holes punched at top for posting slight loss on right margin from paper button sealer with three folds from mailing. <br/><br/>In this infamous sequence Patty Hearst was kidnapped and converted by her captors the Cinque and his Symbionese Liberation Army in February 1974. With the Harrises and others they engaged in a series of crimes - especially bank robberies - while eluding capture. This updated wanted poster is from April 1975. Hearst was ultimately captured on September 18 1975. The Harrises and others remained "at large" until 2002 and 2003. Federal Bureau of Investigation unknown
1902006326New York: Columbia University Press 1902. Volume XV only of the Studies in History Economics and Public Law edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University 8vo size brown clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on the spine 427 pages including an index followed by a Table of Errata and several pages of listings of other books in the series. Contents include: The Evolutionary Function and Usefulness of Crime and Punishment Social Punishment Among Animals Crime Among Savages Savage Races in Australia America Asia and Africa England Under Normans and Plantagenets Parliamentary Government and the New Federalism Has Crime Increased During the Nineteenth Century Is Punishment Powerless Against Crime The Trend of Crime in Modern Times An Ethical Theory of Crime Appears to be ex-private or fraternity library with minimal markings including a non-Dewey label on spine and Phi Delta Psi bookplate inside front cover but which has no relationship to the modern fraternity with the same name. Bookplate has left ghostly image on abutting page. Ffep which had name written on it has two chips which have adhered to the previous page. Pages are tanned. We note pencilled underlining or notations including but not limited to pages 159 179 212 217-218 221-233 235-237 241-243 246-247 250-254 270-272 274-277 278 281 299-301 303-304 306 311 331-332 335-336 341-342 346 348 372-374 376 385 and 390. Most of the pencilled markings consist of a small vertical line in the margin of the text. Edgewear bumped corners and head and heal of spine some light soil to covers and a small area on back cover where cloth has lifted from board. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Columbia University Press Hardcover
