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1949006813New York: Magazine Enterprises 1949. Bound Comic/Digest. Illus. by WHITNEY OGDEN. Very Good. Comic. 1st Edition. Comic - 1st. Print - VG/FINE - An adaptation of the 1949 Burt Lancaster film Rope of Sand. An African hunting guide discovers diamonds during a safari but refuses to reveal their location to corrupt officials of a mining company. When torture fails they hire a beautiful woman to get the information through subterfuge. Featuring production stills of Burt Lancaster Corinne Calvet Paul Henreid and Peter Lorre. Magazine Enterprises Paperback
191575540London: Hugh Rees 1915. First edition Octavo. xiv 139 1 printer's slug 2 publisher's ads pp. plus 33 full page photographic illustrations. Publisher's red cloth with git spine lettering. Very minor extremity e=wear. A very clean and attractive copy."Human Leopards is the name given to a criminal society whose members band together to commit murder to obtain human body parts fat and blood for the creation of a medicine Borfima thought to imbue its possessors with supernatural powers guaranteeing success in their undertakings. It was alleged that the society members concealed themselves in leopard skins and used a special three pronged knife when killing their selected victims so that the deaths would be blamed on leopards. They were also said to practise cannibalism. There were repeated reports of human leopard activity in Sherbro and Mende chiefdoms in Bonthe district in the 1890s and 1900s and the Colonial Government passed ordinances outlawing membership of this and similar societies such as Human Alligator and Human Baboon societies and set up special circuit courts to deal with offenders. A number of individuals were subsequently tried and found guilty of being involved in human leopard murders some of whom confessed to their crimes; but as with witchcraft trials in Europe it is not easy to separate the reality behind the human leopard reports from the moral panic they aroused." Sierra Leone Heritage Hugh Rees hardcover
1971382242Washington: Government Printing Office 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Multiple Special House Reports 91st Congress 2d Session bound in one volume. Thick octavo. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Some toning near fine. Contains two important investigative reports by the Committee on Internal Security i.e. the renamed House Un-American Activities Committee: Anatomy of a Revolutionary Movement: "Students for a Democratic Society" No. 1565: vii 175 xiii pp. with photographs; and Report of Inquiry Concerning Speakers' Honoraria at Colleges and Universities No. 1732: xii 52pp. Both were conducted under the direction of Richard H. Ichord the Committee's Chairman a fervent anti-Communist who crusaded against the Peace Movement during the Vietnam War. The report on Students for a Democratic Society and associated New Left groups includes an illustration of FBI Wanted Poster for William Charles "Bill" Ayers that was used by House Republicans to discredit President Barack Obama. The report on Speakers' Honoraria undertaken to investigate the possibility that New Left radical groups and organizations were financing their activities through speaking engagements includes the Dissenting View of African-American Congressman Louis Stokes of Ohio. Also included in this volume are three timely reports by the Select Committee on Crime on drug use and related criminal activities among urban and counterculture youth: Juvenile Justice and Corrections No. 1806: v 85pp.; Amphetamines No. 1807: v 44pp.; and Heroin and Heroin Paraphernalia: Second Report by the Select Committee on Crime No. 1808: v 83pp. A nice copy scarce in the trade. Government Printing Office hardcover
1936020874Greenwich: CT: Country Press Inc. 1936. Volume 1 #1 1936. Near fine copy with two small creases at lower corner. Digest size stapled covers paper lightly age toned at edges else a remarkably fine copy. Ten stories 130 pages. Very scarce. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. . First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Fine/No Jacket. Digest. Vintage Paperback. Country Press Inc. Paperback
19730017367BPC Publishing Limited 1973. 20 book set maroon pictdorial covers with white ltrs pictorial endpapers corners are bumped clean and tight. A pictorial encyclopedia of aberrant behavior. Everything from Crime Busters of how it all started to Ma Baker Alcatraz Benedict Anold etc. Extra postage for multiple books is included in price. 1st Printiing 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. BPC Publishing Limited Hardcover
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
193629958Detroit: Juvenile Court and the Human Relations Councils of Wayne County 1936. First Edition. Quarto 28cm. Side-stapled mimeographed self-wrappers; illus. Extremities a bit foxed and toned minor wear from handling else Very Good and sound. <br /> <br /> Monthly newsletter that "aims to acquaint the public with the work of prevention councils in Wayne County." Provides short pieces on treatment research and prevention; articles include "Forgiveness Is Not Condonation" "Boys Don't Want to Be Criminals" and "Lock Your Car." No holdings located in OCLC as of April 2024. Juvenile Court and the Human Relations Councils of Wayne County unknown
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
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
192419572Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company 1924. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm; maroon cloth white labels on spine and front panel with titles printed in black; dustjacket; 105pp. Contemporary inscription on the front endpaper: "The call of these men behind the walls ought to be heard. Cordially / Leslie L. Sanders / 1963 Ruckle St. Indianapolis Ind." Light dustiness and faint spotting to upper edge of text else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $1.25 dust-soiled with chips at spine ends corners and upper rear panel affecting text and a dozen small tape mends verso and to rear panel; Good substantially complete example. Late volume written by the former chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform who once famously volunteered to spend a week in prison. Osborne grapples with the challenges of prison administration prisoner welfare and making "an intelligent plan of prison management a thing of general social concern." While the exact identity of the inscriber is not known we find one Leslie Lee Sanders of Indianapolis IN a former convict sentenced to four years in Leavenworth for mail fraud in June of 1925 as a likely candidate The Indianapolis News - 8 June 1925; p.12. A scarce volume and unseen by us in the very fragile dustjacket. J.B. Lippincott Company unknown
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
193161416New York: Horace Liveright Inc 1931. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.25cm; navy blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv450pp. Inscribed by Lindsey on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "To Dear old Tom Smith / with love & good wishes / Ben B. Lindsey." Spine ends gently nudged beginning oxidation to spine titling with mild dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; contents fresh; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $3.00 dust-soiled gently spine-sunned with some shallow losses to spine ends and a few small nicks tears and attendant creases; Very Good. Autobiography of the noted Progressive Era judge and social reformer a pioneer in the establishment of the juvenile court system. "Judge Lindsey inaugurated the Juvenile and Domestice Relations Court in Denver: an institution that has been of prime social importance in that through it the problems of men women and children were taken before a really human man who administered the law from the standpoint of the amelioration of unhappiness" from rear panel. Uncommon inscribed. Horace Liveright, Inc unknown
191063051Martinez CA: R.R. Veale Sheriff of Contra Costa Co N.d. ca. 1910s. Original wanted flyer on pink stock 10" x 8"; text in a single column beneath headline and mug-shots. Slightly creased; ragged at bottom edge; Very Good. Undated but we find George Fraser listed as a Constable in Pinole in the California Roster of State County and Municipal Employees for 1917. The suspect Charles Miller is identified as a German-born immigrant "poses as a Horse Doctor.speaks broken German also speaks French. is a booze fighter." The issuing sheriff R.R. Veale was one of the longest-serving sheriffs in California history holding the office from 1895 through the mid-1930s. R.R. Veale, Sheriff of Contra Costa Co unknown
195715176New York: E.P. Dutton 1957. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; red cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 248pp. Lengthily inscribed on front endpaper by the author dated 1957. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges else a tight Near Fine copy in a bright unclipped dustwrapper.<br /> <br /> Biography of Joseph E. Ragen long-time warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Statesville-Joliet home to Leopold & Loeb Roger "The Terrible" Touhy Basil "The Owl" Banghart and fictionally Jake & Elwood Blues. Includes an introduction by Ragen and a foreword by Harry Reutlinger; well-illustrated with photographic plates halftones. Very nice copy; uncommon signed. E.P. Dutton unknown
194681180Fort Worth: Leo Potishman Foundation 1946. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover titled in gilt; dustjacket; 136pp; included bibliography. Tight square copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped priced $1.50 on front flap lightly rubbed and worn Very Good or better. Ownership signature of Wiley B. Sanders to front endpaper see note below. <br /> <br /> Porterfield a pioneering sociologist at Texas Christian University seeks to demonstrate that juvenile criminal behavior is nearly always related to parental neglect or abuse and asserts that it is the responsibility of the community to provide a surrogate: ".the community is responsible for all youth whose parents fail them and for the training and improvement of oppoortunities of parents so that they can escape failure." from jacket copy. Includes three detailed case studies and a wealth of statistical data. This copy with the ownership signature of Porterfield's contemporary and colleague University of North Carolina sociologist Wiley Britton Sanders 1898-1973. Leo Potishman Foundation unknown
194683975Fort Worth: Leo Potishman Foundation 1946. First Edition. Presentation lengthily inscribed: "To Edward Hopper / Assistant Superintendent of a work that is more than mere prevention of disaster in young peoples' lives - it is a program of building creative personalities - with the best wishes always" signed undated but apparently contemporary with publication. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover titled in gilt; dustjacket; 136pp; included bibliography. Tight square copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped priced $1.50 on front flap slightly rubbed soiled and worn with small losses at margins; Good or better.<br /> <br /> Porterfield a pioneering sociologist at Texas Christian University seeks to demonstrate that juvenile criminal behavior is nearly always related to parental neglect or abuse and asserts that it is the responsibility of the community to provide a surrogate: ".the community is responsible for all youth whose parents fail them and for the training and improvement of oppoortunities of parents so that they can escape failure." from jacket copy. Includes three detailed case studies and a wealth of statistical data. This copy inscribed to an "Edward Hopper" presumably not the noted painter of this period at least we can find no evidence of Hopper's involvement in a program to rehabilitate troubled youth. Leo Potishman Foundation unknown
193058580Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1930. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; xiv 205pp; 2 folding maps. Fine copy of the book; in the original dustwrapper which has been heavily repaired on front and rear panels covering a ca. 1" x 2" loss and repairing a ca. 4" tear into the bottom margin; Good only. <br /> <br /> An appealing copy of this seminal study of juvenile delinquency in Chicago. Mostly written in the "first person" based on Shaw's interviews with "Stanley" his subject beginning with his destitute childhood and proceeding through homelessness pick-pocketing car-theft various correctional facilities etc. Includes a folding map "Home Addresses of 9245 Alleged Juvenile Delinquents Dealt With by the Juvenile Police Probation Officers During the Year 1926 - Ten to Seventeen Years of Age." An uncommon book in any condition; despite flaws to the jacket this remains a quite presentable copy. University of Chicago Press unknown
192935124New York: D. Appleton & Co 1929. Second American printing first published in London 1925; the first American printing also appeared that year. Octavo; blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xviii 1-619 2pp; 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates halftones; text illus. A tight Near Fine copy in the scarce dustwrapper lightly soiled overall with a few nicks to extremities Very Good to Near Fine. Very nice copy of this classic of juvenile criminal psychology. Burt achieved great eminence during his lifetime in 1946 becoming the first British psychologist to be knighted as a reward for his research. Burt's methodologies came into question after his death however and it is now widely believed he falsified much of his data particularly that relating to the inheritance of IQ. Nonetheless the current work remains compelling for both its wealth of detailed personal case studies of British delinquents and the numerous photographic portraits which though clearly staged portray genuine subjects and are classics in their genre. D. Appleton & Co unknown
191085165New York: Funk & Wagnalls 1910. First edition. Octavo. Blue-green pictorial cloth stamped in black and silver on cover and spine; 379pp. 8 inserted leaves of plates halftones by Glenn O. Coleman. A bright Near Fine copy with just a trace of rubbing to spine ends board edges; virtually free of soiling with the pictorial design on front cover still bright and unfaded.<br /> <br /> Hapgood's uncommon chronicle of immigrant and underworld life on the Lower East Side of Manhattan presented as a series of fictionalized vignettes and 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. An uncommonly nice copy of a quite uncommon book. Funk & Wagnalls 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
195662480London: Robert Hale 1956. First Edition. Octavo 22cm. Black cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 192pp. Tight Very Good or better copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper price clipped on front flap; slightly rubbed with a tiny chip at base of spine; Very Good. Classic memoir of a London youth's life of addiction petty crime and incarceration. Includes some jazz content. Robert Hale unknown
195560170Elma WA: Fulco Publications Press of The Elma Chronicle 1955. 8vo. 8 229 1 pp. Illustrated title photographic illustrations. Red cloth gilt lettering on spine slight shelfwear minor rubbing w/ d.j. cover art logging scene chipping head & foot of spine closed tears at joints old scotch tape repairs to spine & some offset ghosting still a NF/Fair copy inscribed by the author on the ffep. from library of Pete Hurd w/ bookplate on ffep. First edition signed. This scarce Northwest title was written by the former secretary to Washington State Governor Louis F. Hart and founder with Frank Satterlee of the Olympia News in 1924 and finally a consulting criminologist. This work includes the crimes adventures mass murderers and manhunts for John Tornow Billy Gohl Harry Tracy Frank Romandorff Henry Plummer Boone Helm Doc Howard Chris Lowry Peter Miller and many others. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Fulco Publications, Press of The Elma Chronicle, hardcover
19112021Chicago: Pinkerton's National Detective Agency 1911. Very Good. 11" x 8-1/2". Circular printed recto only. White stock printed in black b&w illustration. Three holes punched to upper portion of leaf slightly affecting text; old folds. Wanted circular for Edward J. Tierney who according to a contemporary newspaper account "is the 'classiest' looking of all the criminals that the police have been asked to look out for" Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer Feb. 23 1911. Wearing a dress coat in the photo provided for the circular Tierney worked as a traffic clerk for the Western Electric Company in Dallas before disappearing in November 1910. The reader is warned that he "might be found in the Shipping or Traffic Department of some electrical concern or railway office and he may also endeavor to obtain a position as a chauffeur or at some Vaudeville House or Moving Picture Show as he is a competent chauffer and a good singer as well." Oddly the 28-year-old Tierney is never implicated in a crime here nor does an initial review of contemporary newspapers reveal that he was ever charged with one much less convicted. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency 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
