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2001031100New York: Broadway Books 2001. SIGNED by Frank W. Abagnale directly on the half title page his signature only NOT personalized to anyone. SIGNED copies are fairly SCARCE. Laid-in are two internet downloads of his signature for comparison/authentication. New and unread in a bright and shiny New dust jacket. The jacket is in near PERFECT condition with only a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear like you sometimes find in any new book store. NO chips tears creases or fading. NOT price clipped $24.95. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. Illustrations. Bound in the original black boards with a silver-stamped gray spine. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "The world-famous former con artist and bestselling author of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN now reveals the mind-boggling tricks of the scam trade - with advice that has made him one of America's most sought-after fraud prevention experts. 'I had as much knowledge as any man alive concerning the mechanics of forgery check swindling counterfeiting and other similar crimes. Ever since I'd been released from prison I'd often felt that if I directed this knowledge into the right channels I could help people a great deal. Every time I went to the store and wrote a check I would see two or three mistakes made on the part of the clerk or cashier mistakes that a flimflam artist would take advantage of In a certain sense I'm still a con artist. I'm just putting down a positive con these days as opposed to the negative con I used in the past. I've merely redirected the talents I've always possessed. I've applied the same relentless attention to working on stopping fraud that I once applied to perpetuating fraud.' In CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Frank W. Abagnale recounted his youthful career as a master imposter and forger. In THE ART OF THE STEAL Abagnale tells the remarkable story of how he parlayed his knowledge of cons and scams into a successful career as a consultant on preventing financial foul play - while showing you how to identify and outsmart perpetrators of fraud. Technology may have made it easier to track down criminals but cyberspace has spawned a skyrocketing number of ways to commit crime much of it untraceable. Businesses are estimated to lose an unprecedented $400 billion a year from fraud of one sort or another. If we were able to do away with fraud for just two years we'd erase the national debt and pay Social Security for the next one hundred years. However Abagnale has discovered that punishment for committing fraud much less recovery of stolen funds seldom happens: Once you're a victim you won't get your money back. Prevention is the best form of protection. Drawn from his twenty-five years of experience as an ingenious con artist whose check scams alone mounted to more than $2 million in stolen funds Abagnale's THE ART OF THE STEAL provides eye-opening stories of true scams with tips on how they can be prevented. Abagnale takes you deep inside the world and mind of the con artist showing you just how he pulled off his scams and what you can do to avoid becoming the next victim. You'll hear the stories of notorious swindles like the mustard squirter trick and the 'rock in the box' ploy and meet the criminals like the famous Vickers Gang who perpetrated them. You'll find out why crooks wash checks and iron credit cards and why a thief brings glue with him to the ATM. And finally you'll learn how to recognize a bogus check or a counterfeit bill and why you shouldn't write your grocery list on a deposit slip. A revealing look inside the predatory criminal mind from a former master of the con THE ART OF THE STEAL is the ultimate defense against even the craftiest crook." Abagnale is the subject of the film Catch Me If You Can "a 2002 American crime comedy-drama directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks with Christopher Walken Martin Sheen Nathalie Baye Amy Adams and James Brolin in supporting roles. The screenplay by Jeff Nathanson is based on the eponymous and semi-autobiographical book by Frank Abagnale Jr. who claims that prior to his 19th birthday he successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot a Georgia doctor and a Louisiana parish prosecutor." -- Wikipedia. SIGNED by Frank W. Abagnale. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. vii 229pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Broadway Books Hardcover
193034866New York: circa 1930. 1930. Good. - 41 words typed on an approximately 10 inch high by 8 inch wide sheet of his personalized letterhead. Signed "A Abdullah". Folded 3 times for mailing. There are several short tears at the folds with some light red staining below the text. There is some light soiling at bottom right and there is a crease & tear to & a small piece out of the bottom right corner. Good. <p>Abdullah writes to future congressman Seymour Halpern that he is too busy to see anyone but "I am sending by this mail the signed picture to your friend."<p>Achmed Abdullah who claimed descent from the Russian imperial family and was educated in England emigrated to the United States in the 1910s. He went on to become an American author and screenwriter most noted for his pulp stories of crime mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successful films and earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay for the 1935 film "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer".<p>The Queens New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern 1913-1997 started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law including measures on schools housing civil rights nutrition and mental health. A Liberal he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits including painting and collecting autographs he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation. New York: circa [1930]. unknown
1940biblio12251<p>First edition first printing of this author's first novel. There is a 1 1/2 inch wide by 1/2 inch deep chuck missing from the base of the spine. Light edge wear to the rest of the dustjacket. Price clipped otherwise in very good / very good condition.</p> Eyre & Spottiswoode hardcover
19907700Northbrook Illinois: Calibre Press 1990. Quarto. 403 pages. Many b/w photos and diagrams. Pictorial laminated boards. . 15th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good. Calibre Press Hardcover
0484350811.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2000009587Cambridge UK: Cambridge Univ Pr 2000. 500pp/illus/maps. the first comprehensive scholarly history of the development of the British secret service and its relations with its American intelligence counterparts during the war against Japan. Richard J. Aldrich makes extensive use of recently declassified files in order to examine the politics of secret service during the war against Japan analyzing the development of organizations such as the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services in Asia. Clean. 1st Edition. Cloth. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cambridge Univ Pr Hardcover
1999002393Scribners 1999 1999. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Beautiful perfect mint copy of the author's rare first book.Remainder mark. Scribners, 1999 Hardcover
1990BOOKS014399INew York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good/Very Good Dj. 1990. First Ediition. Hardback. 8vo 039913509X Some light staining to inside of dustjacket . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
201332176Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2013 Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Pbk Ed. Classical Spies is the first insiders account of the operations of the American intelligence service in World War II Greece. Initiated by archaeologists in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean the network drew on scholars personal contacts and knowledge of languages and terrain. While modern readers might think Indiana Jones is just a fantasy character Classical Spies discloses events where even Indy would feel at home: burying Athenian dig records in an Egyptian tomb activating prep-school connections to establish spies code-named Vulture and Chickadee and organizing parachute drops.Susan Heuck Allen reveals remarkable details about a remarkable group of individuals. Often mistaken for mild-mannered professors and scholars such archaeologists as University of Pennsylvanias Rodney Young Cincinnatis Jack Caskey and Carl Blegen Yales Jerry Sperling and Dorothy Cox and Bryn Mawrs Virginia Grace proved their mettle as effective spies in an intriguing game of cat and mouse with their Nazi counterparts. Relying on interviews with individuals sharing their stories for the first time previously unpublished secret documents private diaries and letters and personal photographs Classical Spies offers an exciting and personal perspective on the history of World War II. 420p.bibliography.index. University of Michigan Press paperback
201332611Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2013 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 1st Pbk Ed. Classical Spies is the first insiders account of the operations of the American intelligence service in World War II Greece. Initiated by archaeologists in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean the network drew on scholars personal contacts and knowledge of languages and terrain. While modern readers might think Indiana Jones is just a fantasy character Classical Spies discloses events where even Indy would feel at home: burying Athenian dig records in an Egyptian tomb activating prep-school connections to establish spies code-named Vulture and Chickadee and organizing parachute drops.Susan Heuck Allen reveals remarkable details about a remarkable group of individuals. Often mistaken for mild-mannered professors and scholars such archaeologists as University of Pennsylvanias Rodney Young Cincinnatis Jack Caskey and Carl Blegen Yales Jerry Sperling and Dorothy Cox and Bryn Mawrs Virginia Grace proved their mettle as effective spies in an intriguing game of cat and mouse with their Nazi counterparts. Relying on interviews with individuals sharing their stories for the first time previously unpublished secret documents private diaries and letters and personal photographs Classical Spies offers an exciting and personal perspective on the history of World War II. 420p.bibliography.index. Author inscription else fine. University of Michigan Press hardcover
1987006087N.Y.: Mysterious Press 1987. 1st edition October 1987 so stated with complete number line beginning with 1. Bound in burgundy cloth with gold lettering in a matching slipcase. w/o dj as issued. 1 of 250 copies this is #12 SIGNED by Ambler on limitation page. A number of stories and essays concerning true cimes including The Lizzie Borden Memorial lectures . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Limited Edition. Mysterious Press
1330015711.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0260107123.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1974003952Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 1974. A square tight copy. The red Dust Jacket is bright and shiny except for the spine which is a shade lighter due to sun exposure. The Jacket has one tiny spot on the spine and light rubbing to the corners. No chips. No tears. No creases. It is NOT price clipped 9.00 and is protected by a removable Brodart sleeve. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Sharp corners. From the Dust Jacket: "'One of the few pieces of current law-related scholarship that will have a worldwide impact for decades.' - Franklin Zimring Professor of Law The University of Chicago." Keywords: Imprisonment. Criminology. Penology. Readings in Law. Criminal justice. Crime. Rehabilitation. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo. vii 189pp. . The University of Michigan Press Hardcover
2010030085Escondido California: Truth Seeker Company 2010. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. SIGNED copies are SCARCE. NEW and unread in near PERFECT CONDITION. The book has just a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear like you sometimes find in any new book store. Flat uncreased spine. NO chips tears or fading. Pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked. NOT price clipped $25.00. Bound in the original blue yellow and white pictorial wraps. Profusely illustrated with cartoons related to law enforcement. NOTE: There are 3 books by this cartoonist/author with "RadiocarToons" in the title. This is the one with "10-22 Take No Further Action." This offer does not include the other two: "The Training Officer" or "Star and Shield/More Training Officer." The author of this book is Claude Anderson a law enforcement officer/cartoonist -- NOT Dr. Claud Anderson. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 1st ed No additional printings listed. Softcover. New condition. 442 pages. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Truth Seeker Company Paperback
195825840John Long London Book Club Printed in GB 1958. HBDJ First Published in 1958 on Copyright pg. First Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good Binding. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good- Dustjacket. AS-IS Sticker on title page says "SPECIAL EDITION FOR THE BOOK CLUBS". DJ protected with Mylar Cover DJ light rub wear tiny chip Tears Extremities Beautiful Small Green Cloth Decorated & Titled in White on SpineCvr Light Wear 192 pgs. Interior nice tight clean light wear Fox. 4 3/4 X 7 1/2 IN. Tiny chips DJ spine Ends. BACK DJ Light Fox lists thru Engaging Picaroon. .Brillant & Persistent But Always Human Best. Roadside Robbery one of a Disturbing Series Differs from its Forerunners in that it is accompanied by Brutal Killing. A Policewoman on Routine Street Patrol uses her Pretty Head. Crisp Style Crime Fiction. . Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. John Long, London, Book Club, Printed in GB hardcover
014098London: Robert Davies SEE PHOTOS. Very Good condition but for usual darkening of pages. Bound in simple but tasteful half morocco and marbled boards. Leather is well-preserved. Marbled paper is rubbed/chipped at extremities. No date but circa 1880-1890. Illustrated title page. Bampfylde-Moore Carew 1693-1770 was called "King of the gipsies." "His career was a long series of swindling and imposture very ingeniously carried out He continued his course of vagabond roguery for some time was convicted of being a vagrant and sentenced to be transported to Maryland. On his arrival escaped and fell into the hands of some friendly Indians. - DNB. According to Howes C132 Carew "operated confidence games among colonial suckers from Virginia to Connecticut - the memorable first of a long line of such artists who have continued to flourish in this climate." He returned to Scotland about 1745. Also described here are his picaresque adventures among gypsies on the Continent and in London. This "Popular Edition" contains "A Vocabulary of Words used by the Scottish Gipsies" "A Few Sentences in the Gipsy Language" and "A Dictionary of the Cant Language generally used by Mendicants." This edition is not cited in Black's GYPSY BIBLIOGRAPHY but seems to be an expanded edition of Black's item 768 circa 1870. This copy has the 1898 bookplate of Roger de Coverly. Could this be the bookbinder Roger de Coverly who apprenticed with Joseph Zaehnsdorf After ten years at Leighton's Coverly formed his own bindery and did work for many important clients including William Morris. Among his pupils was Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson. Copyright Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 160pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Robert Davies Hardcover
178514122Edinburgh: William Smellie 1785. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition printed for author Arnot 1749-1786 by Smellie; 4to rebacked new leather spine and hinges strengthened with red cloth with original boards and endpapers; good leather on boards scraped chipped scratched stained worn and discolored; edges of boards worn to boards in spot very bottom edge of rear board almost completely worn to board; edges toned and soiled; brown stain spot to top edge affects pp141-74; eps toned and discolored; top corner of ffep chipped off and creased; owner's name in pen and pencil on verso of ffep; top corner of first blank flyleaf creased worn and torn off; crease to top corners of first twenty pages; word crossed out and name written in ink on page vi; pencil note and underline to p55; pencil notation to margin of p57; brown streaks to pp141-58 and 337-49; stain to side edge affects edges of pp339-93; two tears and crease to side edge of rfep; light foxing and soiling to pages; pages wavy with darkening to textblock; 440pp with List of Subscribers and Index. Contents are divided into genre crimes: Treason Parricide Murder Tumult within Burgh etc.; our copy identical in content to copy in National Library of Scotland with the exception that our copy lacks the 'Subscribers omitted' page inserted between pages xiv and xv. <br/> <br/> William Smellie hardcover
20022090202118109108Sunmark Publishing 2002. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Sunmark Publishing paperback
1995029909Salt Lake City Utah: Northwest Publishing Inc. NPI 1995. INSCRIBED / SIGNED directly on the front free endpaper by BOTH the AUTHOR Jack Atchison and the SUBJECT Charlie Keating. New in a New dust jacket. NO chips tears creases rubbing or fading to the book or jacket. NOT price clipped $27.95. Bright and shiny. Square and tight. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked -- obviously never read. Bound in the original silver-stamped gray cloth. Complete with dust jacket. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve which is mildly rubbed. About the book: "In the late 1980s Atchison was a managing partner at what was then the Arthur Young & Co. accounting firm. He directed the audit of Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan and was responsible for giving it a clean bill of health. Shortly thereafter Atchison was handed a top executive post with an annual salary of almost $1 million at American Continental Lincoln's parent company. At congressional hearings on the Lincoln S & L debacle Atchison refused to testify pleading the Fifth Amendment. Here Atchison tries to salvage his own reputation; he also disturbingly exploits current anti-Washington sentiment that turns government into the villain and wrongdoers into victims. His tone throughout is belligerently defiant; he portrays Keating as under siege from a hostile enemy. As Atchison tells it Keating was 'extorted' by overzealous vindictive regulators who regularly leaked confidential documents about their investigation because Keating dared to stand up to them." From Wikipedia: "In the 1980s Keating ran American Continental Corporation and the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association and took advantage of loosened restrictions on banking investments. His enterprises began to suffer financial problems and were investigated by federal regulators. His financial contributions to and requests for regulatory intervention from five sitting U.S. senators led to those legislators being dubbed the 'Keating Five.' When Lincoln failed in 1989 it cost the federal government over $3 billion and about 23000 customers were left with worthless bonds. In the early 1990s Keating was convicted in both federal and state courts of many counts of fraud racketeering and conspiracy. He served four and a half years in prison before those convictions were overturned in 1996. In 1999 he pleaded guilty to a more limited set of wire fraud and bankruptcy fraud counts and was sentenced to the time he had already served. Keating spent his final years in low-profile real estate activities until his death in 2014.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xiii 577pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Northwest Publishing Inc. (NPI) Hardcover
2000260610-MB52St. Louis Missouri: Nutwood Publishing Company 2000. Very Good softcover by the "National Criminal Research Society and KTVI -TV". First Edition. Paper Back. Very Good. Nutwood Publishing Company Paperback
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
1989017533New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1989. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. PERFECT condition. NOT price clipped $50.00. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright shiny clean square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. An invaluable comprehensive guide to novels and short stories of detection crime mystery espionage; studies bibliographies and histories of the genre lives of authors; the literature of Sherlock Holmes; true crime trials criminology cryptography and related works. 5045 annotated entries. Lists the publisher and date of each 1st edition. Perceptive witty and trenchant comments on each book's author content and characters. Sometimes called the "Bible of the Mystery Field." Frequently cited as COC in mystery catalogues. Those who have the 1971 edition or reprint of it should be aware that the numbering of entries in this expanded edition has changed dramatically. For example Agatha Christie's PERIL AT END HOUSE is #527 in the 1st edition but #789 in this expanded one. To avoid confusion you will want this updated edition too. An essential reference that is a pleasure to use. First printing of the 1989 Revised and Enlarged edition with "First Edition" so stated and complete number row 10 987654321 on the copyright page. A Penzler basic reference tool. Bound in the original black cloth stamped in shiny gold. Complete with pristine dust jacket. First printing Revised and Enlarged ed. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. xxxvi 952pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Harper & Row, Publishers Hardcover
1330093372.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1967201118-MB52California Trial Lawyers Association 1967. Very Good Hardcover 254 pages panel discussions from CTLA Second Annual Convention February 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. California Trial Lawyers Association Hardcover
