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189831956Minnesota: Benson's Detective Agency Duluth; Thomas Owens Two Harbors 1898. Broadside. Good. Broadside. Wanted poster. Approx. 9.5" x 6". Paper is worn upper edge with small edge tears. "Received Nov 21 1898 Ans'd" stamped in purple at the bottom. Small edge chips to the paper on the right margins. Benson's Detective Agency, Duluth; Thomas Owens, Two Harbors unknown
1859004478Milwaukee WI: Daily News Book and Job Steam Printing Establishment. 36pp. Black spine cloth with dark brown papered boards board edges are heavily worn front flyleaf missing. Useful even humorous notes on the author in pencil on the front endpaper. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. BC . Good. Half Cloth. Third Edition. 1859. Daily News Book and Job Steam Printing Establishment hardcover
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
1857List2022Washington 1857. Autograph letter measuring 8 x 5 inches bifolium with free franked stampless cover. Fine condition. Fine. An interesting letter written by James W. Denver written while he was serving as Commissioner of Indian Affairs describing crime on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1857. He writes:<br /> “We have great times on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. For a long time past merchandise has been lost along the line by being thrown out of the cars while under way some of the confederates being ready to pitch them up and sell them. To put a stop to this the Directors ordered the cars when loaded to be sealed up and not to be opened until they should arrive at the place of destination. The conductors took offense and said that this was a reflection on them quit the trains and would not let anybody else take their places. In order to prevent this they attacked the trains passing Ellicott’s Mills and succeeded in turning back all but one. Today it was rumored that the Plug Uglies had possession of the track between Baltimore and the Relay House but this is hardly so as a train has I am told arrived here this evening. This is a very extraordinary affair as it is in fact an effort to give greater license to stealing and from the way they have acted there is not much doubt but the conductors were engaged in the plundering.â€<br /> The Plug Uglies first operated in Baltimore beginning in 1854. Several iterations of the Nativist gang eventually formed all of which were referred to by the same name. They would be involved a month later in the Know Nothing Riot in Washington D.C. in June of 1857 the same month that Denver would gain his appointment as Secretary of Kansas Territory. <br /> <br /> <br /> Full text follows:<br /> <br /> My Dear Wife<br /> The cheerful tone of your letter of the 28th ult. pleases me very much. I hope and trust that will be ever thus. A light heart and cheerful disposition makes life a perennial springtime. There is nothing like it. Keep up your sprits ever thus and besides being the pride of my life you will be my light also—the polar star of my existence.<br /> <br /> O Lou! how lonely I feel here at times without you! Were we only together how much more pleasantly would the time pass away. Still I have no great reason to complain of fortune but ought rather to be thankful for the great boon she has vouchsafed to me in making you mine for life. To know this it is easy to imagine a good angel always hovering near me giving warning of besetting dangers and urging me on to greater usefulness and then to dream of the bright approving smiles of her I love so well. And though distant I doubt not but they are as sweet and as kind as though present and palpable to my vision. Well well what must be I suppose must be and we must grin and bear it; but I wish you were here and not the subject of mere dreams and imaginings.<br /> <br /> We have great times on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. For a long time past merchandise has been lost along the line by being thrown out of the cars while under way some of the confederates being ready to pitch them up and sell them. To put a stop to this the Directors ordered the cars when loaded to be sealed up and not to be opened until they should arrive at the place of destination. The conductors took offense and said that this was a reflection on them quit the trains and would not let anybody else take their places. In order to prevent this they attacked the trains passing Ellicott’s Mills and succeeded in turning back all but one. Today it was rumored that the Plug Uglies had possession of the track between Baltimore and the Relay House but this is hardly so as a train has I am told arrived here this evening. This is a very extraordinary affair as it is in fact an effort to give greater license to stealing and from the way they have acted there is not much doubt but the conductors were engaged in the plundering.<br /> <br /> Judge Stephen A. Douglass intends leaving <br /> here with his family tomorrow. Nat Cartmell was here on Friday. He said they were all well in Virginia except cousin John Lupton who was convalescing. Tell your father I will keep him posted and tell your mother to keep you at work—if she can. My love to all. Goodnight. God bless you my own dear Lou. Adieu. — Will. unknown
1874012359Oxford: Clarendon Press 1874 sunned spine lightly rubbed or bumped edges original endpapers with small pencil inscription to fep xii 286pp supplement of 91pp adverts of 39pp the Supplement to the Elements of Law is dated 1875. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Clarendon Press hardcover
181330782Rennes: Chez Cousin-Danelle Imprimeur de la Cour Impériale 1813. l sheet consisting of three leaves. 1 vols. FOLIO 20 x 46 inches. Broadside. Some marginal discoloration and creasing else very good. l sheet consisting of three leaves. 1 vols. FOLIO 20 x 46 inches. Lists the date of arrest the court identifies the criminal with age profession address a physical description crime and punishment citing the applicable laws next to them. Chez Cousin-Danelle, Imprimeur de la Cour Impériale unknown
182611366Boston: Various Publishers 1826-1829. Various Editions. Octavo 22cm.; cloth-backed boards with original paper spine label; 330pp paginated continuously but each report with a separate title page; six inserted leaves of woodcut plates. A solid well-preserved copy with scattered foxing to text; Very Good. First four reports of Timothy Dwight's pioneering Prison Discipline Society dedicated to the amelioration of the harsh conditions prevailing in American prisons during the early republic. With six woodcut plates mostly plans of prison buildlings and grounds. Various Publishers unknown
1900A33227New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Very Good-. 1900. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generallyclean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light but noticeable bumping rubbing and light fraying. The covers of the book have toning and faiding. The grey lettering of the author's name on the front cover has faded. The text pages are generally clean but there are noticeable spots of ground-in finger dirt and foxing. The rear inner hinge has cracked and been repaired. . Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover
18995150Kansas City Mo 1899. Very good. Ten carte-de-visite photographs 4 x 2.5 inches or slightly smaller on thick cardboard mounts four with partially-printed "rap sheets" on verso completed in manuscript. Occasional edge and surface wear as well as generally light dust-soiling. A nice group. A group of ten fabulous mugshot photographs or studio portraits featuring criminals in the last few years of the 1800s in Kansas City Missouri. Four of the photographs are particularly interesting for the personal and criminal history information recorded on their versos. These photographs are pre-printed with a list of fields to be filled out by the criminal or perhaps the jailer. The combination of fields varies slightly on three of the four cards but generally they all ask for similar information including name; aliases nationality age height weight eye color hair color complexion occupation or "Criminal Occupation" the pertinent crime place of arrest arresting officer date date of arrest and distinguishing marks or "Peculiarities of Build Features Scars Marks etc.". <br /> <br /> One of the mugshots is that of James Carrington Francis 1869-1892. At the bottom of his card is written: "Killed at Pleasanton KS for Pacific Ex Robbery Jan. 23 '92." Francis had indeed taken part in the robbery of the Frisco Express out of St. Louis on the night of November 30 1891. During the robbery two masked men boarded that train as it was leaving St. Louis. They remained in seclusion until they had traveled a few miles and then presented pistols to the heads of the engineer and fireman. They ordered them to stop at the point where two accomplices of the highwaymen were stationed. The engineer and fireman were then ordered from the cab and kept covered while the party proceeded to the express car where the robbers demanded admission but were refused by the messenger. The robbers then set off a stick of dynamite and blew in the side of the car seriously injuring the messenger. They then entered blew open the safe and after taking $10000 made their escape. The Pinkerton Detective Agency and Chief of Detectives Desmond of St. Louis investigated the case and gathered evidence which convinced them that the robbers were Marion Hedgepeth Dink Wilson Adelbert Slye and James Francis.<br /> <br /> The other three men whose photographs are supplemented with personal information include Frank Norris Patrick Raine and George Conley. Oddly enough the crimes of all four men are not stipulated on the present photographs. Norris was a baker by trade with a scar on the palm of his hand and a "knuckle knocked down" who was arrested on October 5 1895. Patrick Raine was a waiter with a forearm tattoo and "2 vax scars on left arm" arrested on January 24 1899. George Conley alias George Baker or George King was a brakeman arrested on July 12 1897. The remaining photographs do not include identifying information save for two with penciled names on the verso and one with a studio stamp from J.V. Dabbs in Fort Scott Kansas but were found with the previous four photographs and would likely reward further research into the Wild West criminal world of late-19th century Kansas. unknown
188209188IMPOSTERS & ADVENTURERS Soule & Bugbee 1882 first edition small innocuous stain to the rear cover else a vg copy. Eight noted French trials of the 16th 17th & 18th century. Soule & Bugbee unknown
1838List2426Republic of Texas 1838. Stampless letter folded with red two-line handstamp of Steam Packet Columbia on January 16 1838 from Brazoria Tex. to New Orleans. Fine condition. Fine. An intriguing letter written by Edmund Andrews a judge in Brazoria Texas who had arrived in Stephen Austin’s colony eight years before he penned this in 1830. The letter is written to John K. West the New Orleans attorney who was an original member of the notorious “New Orleans Associates.†Andrews discusses a conversation he had on behalf of West with John Austin Wharton who would die later in 1838 relating that Andrews had a conversation with Wharton on West’s behalf. The conversation with Wharton revolved around a man with the last name Chase and Andrew Mills who had both left Texas presumably and traveled to Kingston Jamaica where Mills was hanged for an undisclosed crime. Andrews writes that Wharton related that that Mills told him he “would not have done it if he had not been drunk†presumably talking about the crime for which he was hanged. Overall a very intriguing letter relating to crime exile and misdeeds in the Republic of Texas which should be of interest to scholars of the Republic. <br /> <br /> Full text follows:<br /> <br /> Brazoria Jan'y 16 1838<br /> <br /> Mr. John K. West<br /> Sir <br /> <br /> Since I wrote to you in reply to yours under date 19th ulto. I have seen Col. John A. Wharton upon the subject contained in your favor. He says he does not recollect who the person was referred to in yours but recollects to have heard Haney speak of it and says he Haney told him that he actually saw Andrew Mills hung and says he described the rope he was hung with. Col. Wharton seems to think Haney's statement entitled to credit. <br /> <br /> These facts can be known if they are really facts by sending a commission to Kingston Jamaica for although both Chase and Mills had no doubt assumed names yet a person of so much notoriety as Capt. John Chase must have been known to some there.<br /> <br /> Haney said Mills begged him when he saw him in Kingston never to make known his fate and that he would not have done it if he had not been drunk. The foregoing is the substance of the conversation held with Col. J. A. Wharton. <br /> <br /> I am yours truly <br /> Edmund Andrews. unknown
189135019Boston: Enterprise Publishing Co 1891. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Stapled wraps. Approx. 7" x 5". 45 pages. Light brown paper covers with black title bordered in black on the front cover. Spine is chipped Covers detached. Contents clean. Enterprise Publishing Co unknown
186727753Ripley Mississippi 1867. Otherwise very good condition. If to be found in your County and them safely keep. to be held to appear at the Court House in The Town of Ripley after the 1st Monday of March 1868. for the charge of murder." A preprinted form with hand written additions.<br /> <br /> There is a David Lumley in the 1845 Mississippi census recording 2 males & 4 females in Tishomingo county. Ancestry dot com<br /> <br /> 8 x 12 1/2" laid paper with blue lines original folds official embossed stamp of the Circuit Court of Tippah County. Some splits at folds. unknown
1886140042London: Irwin Langley & Co. 1886. Advice to Strangers" - avoiding the criminal pitfalls of 1880s London First and only edition of this extraordinary little volume offering practical advice against the thieves and tricksters plaguing the streets of London. The first half of the text is a spotter's guide on pickpockets "Who they are and what they are like" with explanations of their methods the distraction of the "stall" the techniques of the "wire" given in sufficient detail and with such specifics as to suggest that the author genuinely was of the profession claimed. The second section offers "Advice for Strangers" to the metropolis illuminating the operations of the "Mysterious Dental Rooms" "swell assignations houses" that thrive on the "carnal weaknesses of casual visitors to the city"; forwards an explanation for "the mysterious disappearances which are almost daily reported" the lure of "a pretty face snapping black eyesand red lips" drinks in a café ending with a "bloated disfigured swollen corpse" pulled from the river; and looks into the "women and young girls who have a great mania for disappearing". A respectable and highly cultivated young girl in Liverpool taking "short cut through a disreputable part of town" reappears in London the story never made public but understood to be "horrible in the extreme". The final sections comprise a short piece on "the Dark Ways of Street-sharpers" and a lengthier description of a rather complicated American scam to illustrate "High Class and Ingenious Roguery on a Grand Style" followed by a brief explanation of cipher writing and reading which concludes with a "Prize Competition £1000 in Prizes" requiring the solution of three ciphered messages. Noting well what has gone before this has more than a hint of "roguery" to it but where the catch might have been is beyond our wit to discover. We have been unable to trace any other publications or enterprises put out over the name of Irwin Langley & Co. Scarce just two locations world-wide BL and Harvard Medical School. Octavo 180 x 120 mm. Portrait frontispiece 6 stock portraits in text one full-page illustrations in text printed in menacing sanguine throughout. Wire-stitched in original green cloth-backed sanguine printed boards. A little rubbed and soiled head and tail of spine chipped hinges with some give to them but sound staples rusted but intact text block lightly browned overall very good. hardcover
1873025169Washington: Government Printing Office 1873. This is the original 1873 first edition -- NOT print on demand edition or modern reprint. Cover is in Good condition corner bumps and fraying at the head of the spine. Inner hinges are perfect NO cracks. Internally Very Good but for minor foxing to a few outer pages House of Representatives Report No. 77 42nd Congress 3rd Session. Published here are the findings of the first of three investigations into the sale of stock in the Union Pacific construction subsidiary to members of Congress. House. Rep. Luke Potter Poland R-Vermont led the investigation into fraud involving the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Among those implicated in the scandal: Henry Dawes of Massachusetts Glenni Scofield of Pennsylvania James Garfield the future president William D. Pig Iron Kelley of Pennsylvania John Bingham of Ohio and Democrat James Brooks of New York. Bound in the original brown cloth. First Edition. Hardcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 523pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Government Printing Office Hardcover
1899w200327899Columbus Ohio 1899. 150pp plain dark blue cloth hardback slight wear around edges and spine ends upper top edges of covers have darkened contents very good Second edition frontispiece photograph of author and Governor Part l. Pages 1-44 written by the compiler giving a"condensed description of the physical features of the prison and moral improvement of the prisoneers"; Part ll. pages 49-150. Addresses by Warden Coffin dealing with prison business and his ideas on Progressive Penology. Hard Cover. Good . Hardcover
189635124London: Ward & Downey Limited 1896. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original black pictorial cloth stamped in red and gilt. Fine. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Presents accounts of thirty famous crimes and criminals in 19th-century Britain including the Tichborne claimant Charles Peace John Bellingham James Cook Henry Blackburn John Holloway and others. Ward & Downey Limited unknown
1887010034London: Bradbury Agnew &co 1887 blue cloth decorated in gilt and black same to spine slight rol to spine light handling wear name in blue pencil to half title xxviii 324pp col. frontis 9 other satirical col. plates by Harry Furniss. A study of British Law from a humorous perspecttive. New and Revised. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harry Furniss. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Bradbury, Agnew &co hardcover
18555437New York: H.H. Randall 1855. First edition. Printed self wraps stitched at spine. Measuring 220 x 140mm and complete in 64 pages. Some rubbing along spine and scattered foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves; toned throughout else clean. A scarce piece sensationalizing the tragic affairs and subsequent suicides of Sarah and Maria Williams OCLC reports fewer than twenty copies with libraries with this being the only example on the market.<br /> <br /> We've been unable to determine whether the tragic story of the Williams twins is in fact historically true. What is clear whether the narrative is fiction or non-fiction is that the damage caused to women and their lives as a result of their social positions and sex had a wide audience and attracted a variety of readers -- some who hoped to judge the parties involved some who sought the experience of empathy and catharsis some with prurient fantasies and some who simply wanted a thrill. According to this story Sarah and Maria Williams were firstborn daughters to a loving and prosperous middle-class New York family and that like any "perfect victims" they combined "sincerity kindness and judgement" with "the bloom of loveliness grace and innocence." Chaste and well behaved in their boarding-school days their lives took a turn at twenty. During their father's extended absence on business Maria began receiving visits from Mr. Knight an insidious but well-recommended brother of an old schoolmate. Seduced by him into a fraudulent marriage Maria is ultimately separated from her family and forced into sex work for his profit.<br /> <br /> Rising eventually to "a high position among those of her kind.as a prostitute of superior grade" Maria operated on her own and refused to return to the Williams household despite Sarah's urgining; being degraded by her old neighbors and parents when she could be respected by her own was too much to bear. Sarah's insistence on maintaining a relationship with her twin and visiting her disreputable home led to her own reputation being cast into doubt. And when Sarah's intended eventually fell for engaged in keeping and ultimately got pregnant Maria all participants in the affair ended their own lives. <br /> <br /> In many ways the sensationalized stories of these twins reveal how no woman is safe and how no woman can rely on her chastity to protect her socially. Though Maria and Sarah were identical and took opposite paths their violent ends wind up being identical and equally scandalous. H.H. Randall unknown
1823DEMO016280INew York: W. Borradaile 1823. New edition. Wrappers. Good. Folding plate. 8vo 28 pagesstained at gutter coffee blood lacks wrappers; splits at fold of plate is repaired with archival tape later side stitching. <br/><br/>Contains numerous Anecdotes of Undaunted Courage in the Prosecution of His Bold Enterprizes. To Which is Added the Song Written on the Engagement between the Good Man Richard and the English Frigate Serapis. This text is a variant of a handful of similar titles published at that time. See Sabin 36547; Shaw & Shoemaker 12929. Based upon materials supplied by Jones. The folding plate "Paul Jones Shooting Lieutenant Grub" is bound in at p.23 not as a frontispiece as in some copies. Note: as with the AAS copy the song mentioned on the title-page is not present in the text. W. Borradaile unknown
1880005405Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros. 1880. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. This biography of President Garfield represents a publishing puzzle: According to Brisbin's biographer Benjamin Foster Brisbin published his Garfield biography with the title "From the Towpath to the White House a Biography of James Garfield" in 1880 in Philadelphia and also in 1880 in Hartford as "The Early Life and Public Career of James A. Garfield." In 1881 following Garfield's assassination Hubbard Bros. the Philadelphia publisher re-issued the book with additional material under the name William Ralson Balch an editor and journalist who had covered Garfield's political career and assassination. However the new edition did not mention Brisbin as author Balch being credited as sole author a stance he maintained throughout his life though according to Foster his claim was denied by the Library of Congress. Subsequently our copy of the book was issued titled on the spine "Life and Public Services of General Jas. A. Garfield" and "Balch" alone as author. The book's title page has the title as "The Life and Public Career of Gen. James A. Garfield" with Brisbin as author of Garfield's rise from obscurity to Union Army general and then to the presidency and then "together" with a full account of his election to the presidency through to his assassination written by William Ralson Balch. The copyright is still 1880 though Garfield's death was in July1881 and a brief "To The Reader" note by Balch stating the events surrounding Garfield's death "has been gleaned from the newspapers necessarily with some haste." So the question of authorship of this edition of the book which can be characterized as a First Edition Thus remains an open question. 681 pages 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches green cloth-covered boards with a black stamped border and Garfield's signature in gilt on the front cover and gilt lettering and black decoration on the spine. 28 black & white illustrations including the frontispiece. Boards and spine show very moderate surface and edge wear. Binding is tight hinges intact. Text edges somewhat soiled and end pages and first few pages front and back of text show light foxing o/w text is clean complete and unmarked. Protective frontispiece tissue remains in place. A very scarce biography with a history of its own. <br/> <br/> Hubbard Bros. hardcover
187832526Chicago: Donnelley Lloyd & Co 1878. First Edition. Small octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's brown decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt blue-grey glazed endpapers; 256pp.; frontispiece full-page illus. throughout. Some light wear to extremities spine gilt rather dulled else Very Good or better. Memoir of the professional gambler/drunk-turned-evangelist. See BANTA's Indiana Authors and Their Books p. 195. Donnelley, Lloyd & Co unknown
187463860New York: United States Publishing Company 1874. First Edition. Sold by Subscription. Large octavo. Publisher's green pictorial cloth titles in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; 670pp; illus. Boards heavily chaffed along foredge thus Good only but otherwise a tight well-preserved copy with gilt and pictorial devices still crisp and bright. <br /> <br /> An encyclopedic history of noted New York crimes and criminals with sections on contemporary penological practices including capital and corporal punishment. Like most subscription books from this period rather cheaply produced and consequently uncommon; this despite defects a presentable copy. United States Publishing Company unknown
182787802Albany: D. M'Glashan 1827. First and Only Edition. Octavo in 4's. 24cm. Stab bound pages with the title page serving as the front cover and no trace that the pamphlet was ever bound. 35pp. Some mild chipping to edges and extremities most notably the upper right corner toning and soiling to wraps; internally clean but uniformly toned with offsetting from the type throughout edges untrimmed luxuriously wide margins some traces of careless opening in places. Very good by dint of survival and solidity rather than beauty the paper is cheap and the pamphlet was printed to leverage opportunity rather than posterity.<br /> <br /> A notable and at the time highly controversial trial dealing with what was later referred to as "The Murder at Cherry Hill." The prominent New York Van Rensselaer family owned and lived at Cherry Hill Farm in Albany the daughter Elsie was married somewhat unhappily to John Whipple and fell for a younger man she met in a bar by the name of Jesse Strang. The couple fell in love Elsie expressed her deep unhappiness with Whipple; Strang masquerading under the name of Jesse Orton took on a job at the farm and began an affair with Elsie which was maintained by the house staff many of whom were enslaved people of color whose testimonies were heard at the trial passing notes between the two. Elsie chafing somewhat at having to endure her legal husband resolved that he must die to make way for Strang and they would run away together to Canada. <br /> <br /> The first plan was arsenic poisoning which failed. What Elsie lacked in poisoning ability she made up for with murderous intent and she purchased a rifle removed the ammunition from her now somewhat suspicious husband's gun and induced Strang who does not come across as the sharpest tool in the shed to shoot Whipple dead. Strang then attempted to fabricate an alibi which did not hold up and he was arrested. What followed was a widely publicised trial in which both defendants turned on each other Elsie's status as the daughter of prominent landowners was leveraged as protection from any serious punishment and Strang bore the brunt of the law. He had of course further doomed himself by attempting to plant evidence lying under several oaths and generally being one of the less gifted murderers of the early 19th century; he was hanged Elsie went home to Cherry Hill the Van Rensselaer's invested heavily in local collective amnesia and the rest of the US stared somewhat incredulously and gossiped over their breakfast grits. <br /> It was a carnival of awfulness that posed many questions about the societal rights and freedoms of women the privileges of wealth and the integrity of the judicial system. Fairly represented in institutions with 20 examples in US libraries but scarce in commerce and usually in later binding. D. M'Glashan unknown
1893016889New York City: The New York State Medical Association 1893. This is the original 1893 first edition -- not a cheaply-made modern reprint. Good condition. Bound in the original olive cloth. The spine is gilt decorated and has a maroon label. Inner hinges are cracked but holding. Spine ends worn. A thin razor cut to the spine runs from top to bottom. SEE PHOTOS. Something perhaps a bookplate has been neatly removed from the endpapers leaving a slight shadow. Top edge gilt. The textblock is in Near Fine condition -- bright clean square tight. No foxing or page browning. Illustrated with photos and drawings. Index. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition. Hardcover heavy. Good - Near Fine condition. Thick 8vo. 834pp. The New York State Medical Association Hardcover
