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1928de16Edinburgh: W. Green & Son Ltd. 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. 1928. 8vo pp309 author inscribed 1st edition. Excellent collectible condition. ".The term "Malice Domestic" was used by Roughead to describe crimes that occur within a domestic setting typically involving family members close acquaintances or individuals within the same household. These cases often feature intricate interpersonal dynamics and psychological complexities. Roughead's writings on such cases often delve into the motives relationships and legal proceedings surrounding these crimes." Considered father of modern true crime literature. Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors." His true crime stories written in early 1900s are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of 18th and 19th century England and Scotland. Square clean & tight. Boards bright edges lightly rubbed & corners lightly bumped. Overall very good. Considered the father of modern true crime literature. Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors" and his true crime stories written in the early 1900s are among the glories of the genre. Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland. Square clean & tight. Boards bright edges lightly rubbed & corners lightly bumped. Overall very good. W. Green & Son, Ltd. Hardcover
1962A41367New York: Doubleday & Company Inc. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author with a short inscription on the front endpaper. The book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends edges and corners. "Clinton Truman Duffy 1898 1982 was the warden of San Quentin State Prison between 1940 and 1952. He was a prominent opponent of capital punishment." from Wikipedia; Signed by Author . Doubleday & Company, Inc. hardcover
196343286United States: Perma 1963. Solid with a spine roll and a corner crease on the front cover. 1st Printing. Paperback. Good- Very Good. Perma paperback
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
194980332Garden City:: The Crime Club 1949-1954. Fine. The jackets are preserved in jacket sleeves and enclosed in modern brad-bound stiff wrappers. Additional postage applicable. Titles: The Cat and Capricorn. Board Stiff. Not in the Script. Murder Twice Removed. Grave Consequences. Deadly Beloved. The Three Widows. Tread Lightly Angel. Divining Rod for Murder. The Widow of Bath. Scared to Death. Night Train to Paris. Tragic Target. From This Death Forward. The Mamo Murders. Murder Repeat Murder. The Judas Goat. The Clock that Wouldn't Stop. Grow Young and Die. Heavy Heavy Hangs. Elk and the Evidence. Mask for Murder. The Saint vs. Scotland Yard. M'Lord I am Not Guilty. Glass on the Stairs. A Rag and a Bone. The Other Side of the Wall. The Moon Gate. Inspector Maigret and the Strangled Stripper. Seeing Red. Miscast for Murder. The Devil Threw Dice. The Body in the Basket. Shroud of Darkness. Fatal in my Fashion. The Black Italian. The Crime Club, unknown
1973004821London: Eyre Methuen 1973 500 grams first edition trade paper sewn sheets but perfect bound 255pp map end papers classic sociological research on Glasgow gangs youth gangs in the mid to late 1960s light soiling to surface of wrappers and slight bend to front cover. In the 1960's a 26-year-old schoolmaster at a Scottish reformatory List D School under the alias of James Patrick went undercover with the help of one of his pupils to study the often violent behaviour of the teenagers in a gang in Glasgow. He managed to conceal his identity and motives and during the course of a four-month assignation in 1966 he observed closely the gang members and concluded that the boys were 'afraid of fighting other gangs but more afraid of not fighting them.' Ultimately it was 'the struggle between identification with the boys and abhorrence of their violence that forced me to quit.' This book became the first published observation of a Glasgow gang and as such has stood the test of time as a number of factors that Patrick identified as contributing to the growth of gang culture still remain in existence today most crucially poverty grim housing conditions and unemployment. This is a portrait of gang culture before the drug barons moved in and created another level of violence and as such it deserves its cult status. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Eyre Methuen paperback
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
1992047914New York: Hearthstone 1992. Unknown Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good -. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book is the story of John Wayne Gacy told from the chief of detectives Joseph Kozenczak originally assigned to the investigation. A nice clean copy without any marks or tears. Light edgewear. <br/> <br/> Hearthstone hardcover
1968038819London: Heinemann 1968 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Ed. "Only the Foreign Office" a junior diplomat remarks "could have sent a bull to catch a matador." The bull is Alan Turner a rough-necked rough-mouthed lovable misfit from Foreign Office Security; the matador is Leo Harting a middle-aged Second Secretary from the British Embassy in Bonn "a sprite weightless as the dark slipping through the shadows as if they were a net". This is the man who after twenty years of apparently loyal service to the Crown has vanished taking with him official files hot enough to frustrate or indeed compromise the entire British position at the negotiating table at Brussels where a faltering British Government is making a desperate last attempt to save the national economy and get into the Common Market. In this atmosphere of approaching crisis Alan Turner therefore is despatched from London to find Harting. "Which do they want" he asks "The man or the files" Gradually it becomes clear that one is not enough without the other." Previous owner's book plate of ffep else fine. Heinemann hardcover
197129106Chicago: Chicago Crime Commission. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1971. 1st Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. Publisher's blue printed wraps. Illustrated with numerous maps charts and tables. xiii 373 A12 B36 C31 D7 pp. First edition 1971 with publication authorization date of February 4 1972. . Former owner's signature Don Behnke on cover which is lightly rubbed and soiled. NB: Daniel W. Behnke was Associate Director of the Illinois Law Enforcement Commission at the time this study was prepared and was on the Project Staff see page iii. The volume is otherwise unmarked tight square seemingly unread and clean. Scarce. NEAR FINE . Maps charts tables. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by One Author . Chicago Crime Commission paperback
197129249Chicago: Chicago Crime Commission / IIT Research Institute. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1971. 1st Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. Publisher's printed blue stapled card wraps. The spine is lightly faded else fine: unmarked tight and square. Quite scarce. NEAR FINE. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 97 pp . Chicago Crime Commission / IIT Research Institute paperback
1941019975Garden City New York: Crime Club Doubleday 1941. 1st American edition. Slight spine slant black boards lighly rubbed and soiled else a vefry good-near fine copy in homemade acetate dust jacket. English title: Pray Silence 1940. The 2nd Tommy Hambledon adventure. A HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE SELECTION. Goebbels doesn't trust the Chief of the German Police. Hitler loves him. The British are just plain confused. Joseph Goebbels is fuming. It's the mid-1930s and the Nazi Minister of Propoganda has a nice little racket going. He and his cohorts are allowing Jews to slip out of Germany in return for 80 percent of their assets. But longtime Nazi party member Klaus Lehman the Chief of the German Police. is too much of a prig to let him get away with it. And given that Lehman was one of Hitler 's earliest supporters he's virtually untouchable. In the meantime British Intelligence is going around in circles. Someone in Germany is sending them messages in a code that hasn't been used since World War I. When it was first published in 1941 in the U.S. A Toast to Tomorrow along with its predecessor Drink to Yesterday was heralded by famed critic Anthony Boucher as "a single long and magnificent novel of drama intrigue and humor." Howard Haycraft the dean of mystery historians called the two books "superior" examples of the new wave of realistic spy-and- intrigue novels told with a "mood of subtle understatement." A current critic mystery bookseller Barbara Peters of the Poisoned Pen called it her "favorite espionage novel of all time." This darkly humorous novel was the work of two Hampshire neighbors Adelaide Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles and based in part on the Coles' adventures in the British Intelligence. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Book. Crime Club Doubleday
1993029900South Africa: Cosaw Publishing 1993. No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to covers and spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 190pp. Autobiography of South African writer Stephen Gray who survived a burglary where he was tied up and nearly lost his life. He wrote this account of his life during the long months spent searching for his would-be killers. Very scarce. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 7.75 x 5 inches. Cosaw Publishing Paperback
1979007565New York: Putnam 1979. 323pp. This is the story of the CIA's secret airline that emerged out Claire Chenault's Flying Tigers in Southeast Asia during the Second World War through years of secret missions in Burma Tibet Indonesia Laos Cambodia and eventually the Vietnam War. The author has put this story together from interviews with scores of ex-Air America pilots. This is the first published account of the organization's top secret activities. DJ has several tears. Text clean. First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Putnam hardcover
1979A47734Portland OR: Bls Publishing Co. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the publisher Ray deAutremont on the front endpaper with a short inscription. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. There is some noticeable rubbing and wear to the spine ends corners and edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of several spots of toning to the bottom edges of the first ten pages. The dust jacket has several edge tears nicks spots of wear rubbing and several chips to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is a bit of light sunning / fading to the spine of the dust jacket. "The DeAutremont Brothers Roy March 30 1900 – June 17 1983 Ray March 30 1900 – December 20 1984 and Hugh DeAutremont February 21 1904– March 30 1959 were a criminal gang based in the Pacific Northwest during the 1920s. Their unsuccessful robbery of a Southern Pacific Railroad express train and the murder of four crew members known as the Siskiyou massacre was subject to one of the largest and most extensive investigations in the region. The brothers were eventually identified with the assistance of forensic scientist Edward Heinrich and they were captured after a four-year nationwide manhunt" from Wikipedia; B&W Illustrations; 185p. pages; Pictured 1/21/24; Biographee . Signed by Biographee . Bls Publishing Co. hardcover
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
1990002644New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
1990004063New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
1990004110New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
1990006746New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
1990008553New York NY U.S.A.: Harper & Row 1990. 375 pages/photos. Detailed rare book on the KEYHOLE satellite program. Clean and tight. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row hardcover
1967104New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1967. First American Edition 1st Printing.<br /><br />Octavo 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. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
1967012884NY: Putnam 1967. 1st edition so stated preceding the British edition. Quarter bound in red cloth cover decorated grey card boards. Near fine in dust jacket not price clipped $4.95 intact very minor edgewear. "Top secret in Transit Docket" laid in which relates events that took place before the beginning of the story. Paris in the 1960s caters for every taste and nowhere more than at the private "clinic" run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch which supplies psychedelic drugs and sexual favors to the city's elite -- all the while secretly filming guests in order to blackmail them. Into this decadent underworld steps a bespectacled British spy. Sent on what seems like a simple mission he soon finds himself playing a game where the rules are unknown -- and even victory could be fatal. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book. Putnam 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
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
