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1988693New York: Random House 1988. Book club edition. A riveting look at the case of Edward Lee Howard who worked for the CIA and defected to the Soviet Union in 1985. Two years later Howard secretly met in Budapest with the author David Wise to tell his version of events. Octavo 288 pages. Good only with foxing of page edges bumped corners some rubbing to the boards and a previous owner's embossed seal on the front end paper. The dust jacket is rubbed on both panels and on the spine. <br/><br/>If anyone can unravel a spy case it's journalist David Wise who is one of the most authoritative writers about the world of espionage. As for Howard he died under mysterious circumstances at his Russian dacha in 2002. He was 50 years old. Random House hardcover books
19372123456Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. First edition. Hinges starting split down fold of front jacket flap jacket spine faded Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover books
199810266New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0813526051 . First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Rutgers University Press hardcover books
1986189621Washington DC: GPO 1986. Paperback. Two volumes xxii 393 356p. wraps a bit shelf worn spines creased rear wrap stained internally very good condition. GPO paperback books
198416864New York: William Morrow 1984. 1st edition. White cloth spine with blue boards. Dust jacket. VG slight lean with some soiling on bottom edge/spine 'push'/VG lt edgewear. 383 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> William Morrow hardcover books
199027760New York: Donald I. Fine Inc 1990. 1st edition. Red cloth spine with black paper-wrapped boards. Black dust jacket. VG slt lean/VG. xii 322 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>"The bizarre true account of the husband-and-wife serial killers who terrorized the California countryside." - dj blurb. Donald I. Fine, Inc hardcover books
199413873New York: St. Martin's Press 1994. 1st edition. Blue paper-wrapped binding with gold spine lettering. White dust jacket. NF/VG some soiling. 249 pp including glossary. Illustrated from photographs. Sm. 8vo. <br/><br/> St. Martin's Press unknown books
48688Manchester: Published by The Daisy Bank Printing & Publishing Co. Wellington Street Gorton n. d. Ca 1914 pre-WWI. Dull red paper covers printed in dark blue stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. General wear soiling & age darkening to covers. Age-toning to paper which is becoming brittle. Withal a VG copy. 32 pp. 8-5/8" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/>"The Red Barn Murder was a notorious murder committed in Polstead Suffolk England in 1827. A young woman Maria Marten was shot dead by her lover William Corder. The two had arranged to meet at the Red Barn a local landmark before eloping to Ipswich. Maria was never seen alive again and Corder fled the scene. He sent letters to Marten's family claiming that she was in good health but her body was later discovered buried in the barn after her stepmother spoke of having dreamed about the murder. Corder was tracked down in London where he had married and started a new life. He was brought back to Suffolk and found guilty of murder in a well-publicised trial. He was hanged at Bury St Edmunds in 1828 and a huge crowd witnessed the execution. The story provoked numerous newspaper articles songs and plays. The village where the crime had taken place became a tourist attraction and the barn was stripped by souvenir hunters. The plays and ballads remained popular throughout the next century and continue to be performed today." Wiki Rare published account of this lurid murder case with OCLC showing just one institutional holding: Stanford. Published by The Daisy Bank Printing & Publishing Co., Wellington Street, Gorton unknown books
196819276New York: Doubleday & Co 1968. 1st edition. Black cloth binding. White dust jacket. NF/VG light age toning. 656 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Doubleday & Co hardcover books
194134927New York: The MacMillan Company 1941. 1st edition. PRESENTATION copy "of the Author's Six Copies this is Number 1" with warm 'Day of Publication' inscription from Holbrook as "Hols" to close Seattle-based friends Jim & Theresa Stevens. Black cloth binding. Black & yellow dust jacket. VG/Abt VG edgeworn with small triangular pc missing from top right edge of front panel. viii 2 283 3 blank pp including Index. 8vo. <br/><br/> The MacMillan Company hardcover books
188741538Saint John N. B.: Printed by Geo. W. Day Corner Prince Wm. and Princess Sts 1887. "Fifth Edition" stated. The First Edition published in 1816 cf. Sabin 3947; Watters p. 462. Late 19th C. 3/4 blue sheep binding with marbled paper boards. Marbled eps. Original pale green printed wrappers retained. Rear wrapper an advert for Geo. Day. Binding shows some extremity wear. Original wrappers & text paper show age-toning with rear wrapper having a chip from the fore-edge. A VG copy. 82 pp. Wood engraved vignette to front wrapper. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>"Henry More Smith also known as Henry Frederick Moon Henry J. Moon Henry Hopkins Henry Frederick More Smith and William Newman was a confidence man master puppeteer hypnotist seer liar and above all else a superlative escape artist who lived for a while in New Brunswick Canada. Chains handcuffs shackles even made-to-fit iron collars could not hold him." Wiki. The author Bates was the sheriff of Kings' County New Brunswick. Uncommon in the trade. Printed by Geo. W. Day, Corner Prince Wm. and Princess Sts hardcover books
1939WRCLIT73482Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1939. Pictorial window card 22 x 14" printed in black and white with lurid green titling on recto only of stiff card stock. Uniform tanning along edges otherwise very good or better unused. A promotional window card for this low budget crime thriller based on an original story and screenplay by Robert A. Andrews with contributions by Ben Markson. Barton MacLane Beverley Roberts and Clarence Kolb starred. Aubrey Scotto directed. Andrews was a prolific screenwriter who in addition to potboilers such as this adapted to the screen works by Eugene O'Neill and A. Conan Doyle. Republic Pictures unknown books
197121111Berkeley and San Francisco: Western Star Press 1971. Softcover. Very good. Trade paperback 81 pp. Light handling wear; very good. Describes the research and conclusions of a two-year grant-funded study of the SFPD that found numerous systemic problems. The Introduction lays out the broad and familiar issue quite well: "The claim is heard that police action has become a weapon by which minority groups are oppressed and persecuted and that police action is often used for political rather than legitimate law enforcement purposes. This belief justified or unjustified has become a barrier to effective police work. The police feel themselves isolated and set apart from the rest of the community.Only when a police officer is regarded and can regard himself as just another civilian doing an important and necessary job a part of the community rather than apart from it can the police department operate at its best and the community receive the greatest service." The Committee's recommendations include significant changes to recruitment and training procedures supervision patrol methods weapons use and training written policies and directives procedures for personnel management and discipline and more. Noting that "previous reports on the San Francisco Police Department have traditionally gathered dust on the shelves" and efforts at change have been viewed with suspicion as "still another attack on law enforcement" the authors plead for the report to be taken as constructive criticism offered "in the hope of making the San Francisco Police Department an enviable and progressive model of what police should be. Western Star Press unknown books
1909WRCAM52766Palestine Tx 1909. Printed form 5 x 8 inches plus 1 x 1-inch photograph. Two old vertical folds left edge tanned lower right corner chipped. Photograph fine but somewhat crudely affixed. About very good. A "Wanted" notice from the City Marshal of Palestine Texas offering a fifty dollar reward for the capture of C.H. Crowson who was eventually arrested and convicted for burglary in 1909. The description given says that Crowson "Has dark hair blue eyes and light complexion. He is fond of music and plays guitar and violin. Works around saw mills and railroad shops." With a small photo of the fugitive attached to the form. unknown books
1913WRCAM52964Huntsville Tx 1913. Four small broadsides approximately 11 x 8 inches with attached photographs. Printed forms completed in typescript. Three forms with chips and tears somewhat affecting text mounted on white card stock. Browning at edges evidence of tape repairs. Photos with some slight mirroring. Good. Four wanted notices dating to just before World War I for men escaped from the Huntsville Prison in Texas. The men are convicted thieves and burglars sentenced to terms ranging from two to seven years. The forms each bearing the same printed masthead are completed in typescript with descriptions of the escapee's appearance notable features residence crime committed and place of escape. A photograph mugshot of the men in question are attached to the upper portion of each form. unknown books
196211762JLondon: Pimlico Films Limited 1962. First Edition. Original shooting script belonging to actress Hira Talfrey and signed by her on the front cover and is annotated in the text by her. Paperbound in printed studio wrappers. Laid in are 4 mimeographed daily production call sheets. This Britsh produced television crime series which starred Art Fleming and told tales from the cases of the William J. Burns detective agency in New York. Hira Talfrey appeared in such films as The Curse of the Demon The Conqueror Worm The Oblong Box and The Year of the Sex Olympics. Pimlico Films Limited unknown books
196211759JLondon: Pimlico Films Limited 1962. First Edition. Original shooting script belonging to actress Hira Talfrey and signed by her on the front cover. Paperbound in printed studio wrappers. This Britsh produced television crime series starred Craig Stevens Tracy Reed and Graham Stark. Hira Talfrey appeared in such films as The Curse of the Demon The Conqueror Worm The Oblong Box and The Year of the Sex Olympics. Pimlico Films Limited unknown books
196211761JLondon: Pimlico Films Limited 1962. First Edition. Original 6 page mimeographed shooting script belonging to actress Hira Talfrey consisting of the portion of the teleplay which has her part. This Britsh produced television crime series starred William Franklyn and Alan Rothwell. Hira Talfrey appeared in such films as The Curse of the Demon The Conqueror Worm The Oblong Box and The Year of the Sex Olympics. Pimlico Films Limited unknown books
1985698New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1985. First Edition. A high-level Soviet diplomat working at the United Nations seeks asylum in the U.S. This is his story along with vivid portraits of Soviet leaders and a look at what takes place in the Politburo and in the world of espionage. Octavo pp. viii 378. Near Fine with some minor soiling on the top and bottom edges in a Very Good dust jacket that has some sunning and edge wear. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
199929226NY: Scribner. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 0684857820 . The author's first book. First printing. About fine in a fine dust jacket. . Scribner hardcover books
1829WRCAM53865Edinburgh 1829. viii47pp. Dbd. Two faint institutional stamps and one small ink number on titlepage light toning. Good. An interesting murder trial account involving a husband-and-wife poisoning team on a steamboat near Glasgow in the early-19th century. From the Introduction: "The case which forms the subject of the present publication is however a proof that there are other and equally subtile and perilous forms of committing murder; and the trial of John Stuart and Catherine Wright is published in its present authentic form as a warning to the people of Scotland against the approaches of a set of crimes which have always been perpetrated under the reign of the darkest vice and superstition which have clouded European society." Rare with only about a dozen copies over several records in OCLC. unknown books
2002810<p>New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc. 2002. First Edition First Printing. SIGNED by Lawrence Schiller on the title page under which the word "and" has been written and then marked through. Based on research and interviews by Lawrence Schiller and Norman Mailer the book presents a psychological portrait of FBI agent Robert P. Hanssen who sold classified information to the KGB and its successor organization over more than 20 years. Hanssen was captured in 2001 and is serving multiple life sentences in a Colorado prison. The book is written as a novel with imagined dialogue. Schiller and Mailer were unable to interview Hanssen who was already a guest of U.S. taxpayers. Nonetheless it's a fascinating attempt to get into the mind of an American traitor especially through the device of having Hanssen talk to himself while looking at a mirror. 8vo. xv 317 pages. Near Fine with a minuscule mark to the upper board's right edge and a bump to its lower right corner in a Fine dust jacket. SCARCE signed. <br /><br />The backstory to this book is unusual and a bit convoluted. In Schiller's Author's Note he says he asked Mailer to write a screenplay for a CBS Television miniseries that Schiller would produce and direct. As Mailer was finishing the first draft of the screenplay Schiller decided to write the present book using Mailer's draft as the foundation. Schiller says he supplemented Mailer's draft with his own research. The book appeared in 2002 as did the series on CBS. The series starred William Hurt as Hanssen Mary-Louise Parker as his wife Peter Boyle as his father and David Strathairn as his best friend.</p><p>In addition to this book Schiller and Mailer also collaborated on "The Executioner's Song" and "Oswald's Tale."</p> HarperCollins Publishers Inc. books
19731558New York: The Viking Press Inc. 1973. First American Edition 1st Printing. 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm 244 pages in light gray boards titles in black to spine silhouette of a spy to upper board pink topstain. Tiny ink mark near top of fore edge some fading and spotting to topstain. Internally clean and bright. A Very Good or better copy in a a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is bright and unclipped with light edge wear and a tiny chip to the bottom of the rear panel where it meets the spine. A young British agent is assigned to trail a cold-blooded Russian "diplomat." Then things start to go wrong for both sides. "You're sorry when it's over" The New York Times wrote in a laudatory review published October 28 1973. Striking cover illustration by Michael Codd. <br /><br /> The Viking Press, Inc. hardcover books
1966492731966. President's Commission on Crime in the District of Columbia. Report of the President's Commission on Crime in The District of Columbia. Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office 1966. xxix 1041 pp. Ex-library with stamps. Cloth worn with gilt lettering. Internally clean. $75. unknown books
195325649New York: Dell 1953. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Pocket paperbound book. Dell 738. An early reprint edition of this Thompson classic. 1949 on copyright page but this edition actually printed in 1953. A fair to good copy. Two small random ink markings on first endpaper. Some paper scaring/loss at top of front cover. Still well bound and ready for devouring. Dell paperback books
