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198799664N.pl: New York State Organized Crime Task Force 1987. 130p. wraps slightly creased minor internal creasing 8.5x11 inches first edition. New York State Organized Crime Task Force unknown books
1998264441998. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Sage Publications. Vols. 1-35 in 26 books 1964-1998. Vols. 1 to 17 green buckram with black spine stamping; Vols. 18-35 tan buckram. Ex-library with stamps very good condition. Special $250. Reports on original research in crime and delinquency new theory and the critical analyses of theories and concepts pertinent to research development in the field. unknown books
186345485Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1863. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's green blind-embossed cloth gilt-lettered spine top edge gilt brown glazed endpapers; 8432pp. Boards rather scuffed and worn textblock shaken in boards very faint tide stain at bottom edge of last few leaves else Good or better overall. Collection of seven short stories the detective story "In a Cellar" compared to Poe's works Dorri Beam "Style Gender and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing" 2010 p. 222. HUBIN p. 386; WRIGHT II 2338. Ticknor and Fields unknown books
1997683New Haven and London: Yale University Press 1997. First Edition First Printing. 8vo pp. xxv 530 pages. An insiders' account of the espionage battle in Berlin between the CIA and the KGB from the end of World War II to the building of the Wall in 1961. These authors certainly know their stuff. David Murphy was chief of the CIA's Berlin station; Sergei Kondrashev was a lieutenant general in the KGB; and George Bailey was a director of Radio Liberty. <br/><br/>CONDITION: Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Small creases to spine ends and slight edge wear. Yale University Press unknown books
200425305Amherst: Prometheus Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 1591021995 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Prometheus Books hardcover books
20031563Boston: Little Brown & Co. 2003. First Edition First Printing. Small 4to 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 155 mm 455 1 pages in red and black boards title to spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Boards rubbed dust jacket shows light edge wear.Two friends both spies during the Cold War get together again to work against the American invasion of Iraq. Or so they're led to believe by a mysterious billionaire. <br /><br /> Little, Brown & Co. hardcover books
200634286NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0374307806 . Illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher. First printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1994000984Random House 1994 1994. Book. As New. Cloth. As New/As New. First Thus. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. ISBN:0-679-42922-0. Mint copy of the movie editon with wrap around band. Random House, 1994 hardcover books
1994005811Random House 1994. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mint copy in like jacket. $23.00 on flap.Stated First Edition.Beautiful copy. Random House Hardcover books
183444354Liverpool: W. Bethell Printer 1834. 1st printing presumed. Age-toned. Edge-chipping with largish chunk ~1" square from top edge just touching headline title. Old tape repair to the right of missing chunk. A Good copy. Broadside printed four column after a 9 line drophead title with two horizontal typographical ornament seperators. 19-1/2" x 15" <br/><br/>"Trial of William Riley aged 29; John Coakley aged 27; Thomas Simcock aged 18; and George Atkinson aged 28; by Sir Thomas Brancker for having feloniously borken and entered the Shop of Ralph Isaacs and stolen 80 Watches 130 Spoons 100 Rings 30 Forks and other Articles the Property of the said Ralph Isaacs -- Patrick Coakley aged 73 for receiving divers and sundry property knowing the same was stolen; and Elizabeth Cumpsty aged 35 charged upon oath with having feloniously incited aided and abetted hired and commanded John Coakley William Riley and Thomas Simcock feloniously to break and enter the Shop of Ralph Isaacs and steal therin the property before recited." So proclaims the headline of this crime broadside followed by 4 columns of text describing the trial of the accused individuals with the result that the jury "after being absent for about half-an-hour returned and found all the prisoners GUILTY." No copies found on OCLC. Rare. W. Bethell, Printer unknown books
19891286<p>First Edition First Printing. </p><p>Small Quarto 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 160 mm viii 407 1 pages in publisher's original blue cloth in a photo-illustrated dust jacket.</p><p>The author Jean Overton Fuller 1915-2009 was a prolific British author who specialized in writing about real espionage cases. Here she tries to unravel the mysterious case of Henri Déricourt 1909-1962 a French pilot who was an undercover agent for the British during World War II. Déricourt aided the Resistance in France but was also in touch with the Germans. Indeed he was accused of having sacrificed Allied agents to the Germans. So the question arises: Was he a double agent working for the Nazis Or was he instead under the control of British Intelligence throughout the war The author who knew Déricourt well believes he engaged in "loyal treason" meaning that he ultimately acted under British orders.<br /></p><p>The previous owner of this book was Robert S. Greene 1922-2013 an American author and jazz pianist. Greene himself had an interest in espionage; he wrote a biography of his uncle Paul Blum a counterespionage officer in World War II.<br /></p><p>Laid in to the book is a 1994 typed and signed letter from Jean Overton Fuller to Greene regarding some genealogical questions Greene had posed. There are also two 2009 typed and signed letters to Greene from London bookseller Timothy d'Arch Smith regarding the author's last year illnesses and demise. <br /></p><p>Copies of this book are scarce to the market. Altogether an interesting look at Déricourt by a prolific author of nonfiction espionage books. <br /></p><p>CONDITION: Foxing and a bit of soiling to top and fore edges bumping to a few edges of boards. Internally a couple small stains. The unclipped dust jacket has some minor edge wear and creases. A Very Good or better copy.<br /></p><br /> Michael Russell (Publishing) Ltd. hardcover books
200535567NY: Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0192805991 . A later printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
199621931NY: Knopf 1996. First edition first prnt. One of an unspecified number of copies issued by the publisher with a tipped-in page signed by Ellroy for promotional purposes. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cove. Ellroy's first memoir. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
19541559New York: Random House Inc. 1954. First Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm 248 pages in quarter cloth over paper boards titles to upper board and to spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light toning to spine edges internally clean and bright. The unclipped dust jacket has some nicks and soiling.American journalists learn a secret about the head of the dreaded security police in a European people's democracy. They head for the border town of Skaro with the bad guys on their heels. A Cold War thriller. <br /><br /> Random House, Inc. hardcover books
1967104New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1967. First American Edition 1st Printing.<br /><br />8vo 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 142 mm 252 pages in quarter cloth over boards gold titles to spine. With the dust jacket and the scarce "In Transit Docket."<br /><br />Strange things take place in a Paris brothel involving not only sex but also.nuclear weapons. The book includes the top secret "In Transit Docket" which lays out a U.S. plot against the Chinese. A typically fast-paced Deighton thriller. <br /><br />CONDITION: Small closed tear in pages 29-30 a couple of small stains on the fore edge some fading to the titles on the spine. Dust jacket unclipped with slight offsetting from the red end papers onto the front flap a bit of rubbing to the top of the front and rear panels. "Transit Docket" is Fine Overall a Very Good copy clean and unmarked. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
185257744New Orleans Charleston Baltimore and Philadelphia: A.R. Orton 1852. the original wrapper was dated 1853 apparently accounting for that date being used in each of the three OCLC listings. First edition of this rather primitively printed pamphlet. 8vo. 2 11-36 pp. Portrait frontispiece three wood-engraved plates. OCLC: "Sensational and presumably fictitious account of the criminal career of Margaret C. Waldegrave probably written by the publishers" the author of several similar lurid tales in the early 1850s. Contemporary pencil inscription on verso of frontispiece "Allow one vol. / plain binding / leather back." Not in Wright "American Fiction" McDade "Annals of Murder" or Jumonville "New Orleans Imprints." OCLC locates four copies American Antiquarian Soc. New York Historical Soc. Juniata British Library; AAS also holds a prospectus broadside for the work. Some interior foxing and soiling corner of one leaf renewed not affecting text. Recent plain gray wrappers. #4698. <br/><br/> A.R. Orton hardcover books
1925WRCAM52863Seattle 1925. Small broadside 10 1/2 x 7 inches. Previously folded. A few chips and small tears where previously adhered. Contemporary ink stamp. Good plus. Wanted poster offering a fifty dollar reward for a prisoner M.W. Woods who escaped from the custody of U.S. Marshals near Seattle in 1925. Woods "Escaped from U.S. Marshall Western District of Washington on morning of Oct. 17th 1925 by jumping from Santa Fe train to Peabody Kansas while being transferred from Seattle Washington to Houston Texas." The fugitive a "Mexican pottery exporter. is ordinarily a good dresser; of genial personality and is a smooth and plausible talker." With a photographic reproduction of Woods' mugshot. unknown books
193022159Cleveland OH 1930. Large 8vo. Original color pictorial wraps. Good only. Covers chipped and worn. Pages toned. But still sound. 127pp. <br/><br/>A detailed account of the great Ohio Penitentiary fire of 1930 published within the year of the April 21 blaze the deadliest prison fire in American history which killed 322 inmates. Written by Cleveland newspaper reporters Dan W. Gallagher and T.J. Thomas the book provides a comprehensive portrait of the state of the prison during 1930 concentrated on its miserable conditions which the authors compare to Medieval torture chambers and 19th Century prison ships and severe overcrowding. According to the text at the time of the fire more than 5000 prisoners were kept in a facility originally designed to house about 1500. SPOTLIGHT indicts the prison's guards and administration notably a Captain John Hall head guard on duty who refused to unlock the cell block where most deaths occurred. The text is illustrated throughout with 22 photograph reproductions most being of the fire’s aftermath many with African-American prisoners figuring prominently and Thomas and Gallagher appear to have extensively interviewed prisoners for the book. Novelist Chester Himes was incarcerated in the penitentiary where his writing career began during the fire and he wrote about in his breakout article “To What Red Hell” which appeared in Esquire in 1934. Rather poorly produced and likely intended for regional distribution only SPOTLIGHT appears genuinely scarce. OCLC notes 7 holdings only 2 of those outside of Ohio. A rich and largely unheralded work of journalistic advocacy for prisoners’ rights. paperback books
184119189Boston: Published by S. G. Simpkins 1841. First edition. Some trifling wear and soiling; a fine copy. 16mo original blind-stamped diaper grain blue cloth gilt lettering 48 pages. No man of ordinary observation can pass through the streets of New York or Philadelphia without meeting numerous living witnesses of the misery which exists in both of those cities and especially in the former. Enough can be seen in Boston to make any benevolent heart ache daily for suffering humanity. But still the amount is less in proportion to population than in either of the other two cities. Through the influence of better laws for education intellectual culture the best preservative from vice and crime is more generally diffused in Boston than in Philadelphia; and from its geographical position Boston is not like New York the common resort of the squalid poverty that seeks refuge on our shores from Europe." A fairly nuanced sociological criminal and economic argument for temperance among the laboring classes pointing to the savings in cost of drinks and to the economic advantages of sober fathers; additional aspersions are cast as well on adulteration of wines and liquors. Originally published as a series in Boston Daily Times here collected and published with a prefatory Advertisement dated May 1841 and signed by a committee of Boston advocates of temperance. Includes an appendix of collected statistics on inmates at the jails and house of correction juvenile crime insane asylum numbers etc. OCLC 6/2019 notes two locations. Published by S. G. Simpkins, unknown books
19559443NY: Scribner 1955. First edn. 8vo Pp. 218. Fine in dj. A discussion of four famous murder cases in which women are the central figures. Scribner unknown books
19809436NY: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1980. First edn. 8vo Pp. 408. Fine in dj. "A social history of women in America . told through the stories of women driven to kill. Holt, Rinehart & Winston unknown books
19589291NY: Greenberg 1958. First edn. 8vo Pp. 251. Little soiled cloth. The story of men and women who have committed crimes of passions in England and France. Greenberg unknown books
186719303Cincinnati: n. p. 1867 First edition. Wrappers somewhat stained with some chipping and a few closed tears and some creasing to the rear wrapper; upper edges of the text block somewhat foxed and dust-soiled; a very good copy. Original printed blue-green wrappers 8.25 x 5.5 inches 128 pages. Accounts of some of Cincinnati's most memorable executions and murders including such episodes as "The Summons Massacre; Arrison and the Infernal Machine; Mrs. Howard who Avenged her own Wrongs; Nancy Farrer the Child Poisoner" and many more. With perhaps one of the finest known epigraphs in American literature with the title at the head of the front wrapper claiming "A Book for the Family." Sabin 19108; not found in McDade. [n. p.], unknown books
186743987.1Cincinnati 1867. 1st Edition Sabin 19107. Original publisher's printed pale green wrappers. Some general wear soiling & light edge chipping to wrappers. A touch of foxing. Some paper loss at spine ends. Withal an About VG copy. 128 pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>De Beck describes over 100 people who committed murders in and around Cincinnati. Curiously enough the front wrapper describes this volume as "A Book for the Family". Reissued later in the year with the author's name with the title amended to "The Horrors of Queen City. Being an Account.". unknown books
18672143Cincinnati: s.n. 1867. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Good. Original publisher's printed pale green wrappers chipped. 128 pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Some general wear & soiling. A touch of foxing. Unsightly abrasion to rear wrapper resulting in some loss. "A Book for the Family" in which are described in the most graphic detail over 100 murders in Cincinnati and environs. This highly curious volume represents a genuinely early American work in the literary genre now known as "True Crime" about which see especially Mark Steltzer "True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernism" 2007 passim. True Crime as a form of entertainment created important American pop culture icons namely the sociopaths the psychopath the mass murderer and the serial killer all of whom are represented herein. The full title adds useful information about the crimes including: "Trials and Executions of John May ; Philip Lewis colored ; John Cowan the Murderer of his Family ; Washburn and his Associates Davis and Hoover the Butchers of over 30 Persons ; Byron Cooley who killed John Rambo ; Henry Lecount ; Patrick McHugh the Murderer of his own Wife ; and a Careful History of the Hughes Murderers with a Precise Account of the Murder of John Brasher the Watchman ; the Summons Massacre ; Arrison and the Infernal Machine ; Mrs. Howard who Avenged her Own Wrongs ; Nancy Farrer the Child Poisoner ; with a Correct Detail of Over a Hundred Other Murders which have Taken Place in this City and County." Scarce. ¶ Sabin 19107. s.n. unknown books
