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1911List812California 1911. Single sheet measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Two vertical folds two holes punched at upper margin very good condition overall. Very Good. An uncommon survival possibly published by the Santa Clara County Sherriff's Office showing two wanted criminals from 1911 who were travelling together. The first a C.K. Paullins was the editor of the Rocky Mountain Moose and is wanted for embezzlement. The second a Ruby J. Stanley alias Lillian Raymond is known as "Kentucky." According to the flyer "This woman is very well known in the tenderloin of Los Angeles and Fresno. She dresses in the latest style and wears fancy dresses. These people work all kinds of schemes to make money. I wish you would keep a sharp lookout for these parties. W.J. Newman Constable Visalia California. Dated October 23 1911.". books
198313671New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First American edition. A novel of suspense that won the John Creasey Award. Fine condition in near fine price intact dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover books
195419322New York: Prentice-Hall Inc 1954. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; 361pp. Base of spine gently nudged else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped lightly edge-rubbed with a few tiny tears and creases to same; Very Good to Near Fine with the spine notably unfaded. Chessman's classic account of life on San Quentin's Death Row adapted for the 1955 film of the same name directed by Fred F. Sears in 1955 starring William Campbell as Chessman. After publishing three books and exhausting a number of appeals Chessman was finally executed in 1960. An unusually nice copy. SUVAK 57. Prentice-Hall, Inc unknown books
200823838New York: Mysterious Bookshop 2008. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Small 4 x 6 1/2" tall bound booklet. A 33 pp profile on Harvey's crime protagonist Charlie Resnick. A fine copy. Issued as Mysterious Profile #14. Mysterious Bookshop paperback books
200221389Boston: Little Brown 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. First edition of this Detective Harry Bosch crime novel. Paper a bit tanned with age. One stray ink mark on the blank front endpaper else a near fine copy in fine unclipped dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by Connelly on the title page and then initialed by him. <br/><br/> Little Brown hardcover books
198637530Columbia: University of Missouri Press 1986. First paperback printing originally published 1981. Oblong quarto ca 22cm x 27cm. Pictorial card wrappers; 196pp. Light external wear; one text page with a vertical crease at center; Very Good. Evocative photo-essay documenting life inside Washington's maximum-security prison. According to the rear cover blurb the photographs were taken during a period of ".near breakdown in prison security.an atmosphere of riots murders and lockdowns." The text is by John McCoy then a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. University of Missouri Press unknown books
188416534Millerton N. Y. Millerton Telegram Print 1884. First edition. A couple of small chips from along the upper edges of the wrappers; a few light spots of toning and browning; a very good copy. 12mo original printed green wrappers 11 pages. All members of this Society shall hold themselves in readiness at the call of the managers for the pursuit of thieves." A nice Dutchess county imprint for this anti-crime society. OCLC notes copies at Harvard Law and Conn. Historical only. Millerton Telegram Print unknown books
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
196350884Washington D.C.: President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime 1963. First Edition. Quarto. Side-stapled sheets; printed cover-wrappers; 83pp. Slight external wear; ownership signature "Return to Wyckoff" to front cover; Very Good. Summary progress report on Kennedy-era anti-delinquency initiatives in New York Cleveland New Haven Boston and seven other American cities. President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime 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
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
192125752Boston: Roxburgh Publishing Company 1921. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 258pp. Slightly shaken; spine gilt dulled legible with difficulty; internally clean tight and unmarked. A solidly VG copy lacking the presumed dustwrapper. Extremely uncommon survey of vice and crime in the Windy City presented as an exercise in "psychopathology" but written in a flat hard-boiled style by the enigmatic "Prince Immanuel of Jerusalem" whose true identity is shrouded in mystery. This pseudonym turns up in a number of unexpected locations: as a steerage immigrant to California in 1909 where he is described as "the son of the Sultan of Turkey and an Arabian Jewess" and is apparently seeking to raise funds for the construction of a "Universal University" on the site of King Solomon's Temple see The Lompoc California Journal for Jan 3 1909; as the headmaster of an institution called the "University College of Africa" in Cairo Egypt ca. 1917 see Hill The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Papers v.11 p.769n; and as the creator of an invented language "Universal" ca. 1914 see Okrent In the Land of Invented Languages p.296. In the first two sources he is identified as "I.E. Goldreich" and "Eleasar Isaac Goldreich" respectively and he appears to have been a one-time British citizen. He was responsible for at least two other published works: Postcards of Palestine Cairo ca 1912 and Chaos: Written for the Illiterati Columbia City IN: 1947. A scarce and somewhat mysterious Chicago item. Roxburgh Publishing Company unknown books
193344786New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1933. Book Club Edition. With "H-H" code on copyright page. Octavo 21.5cm; dark blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in lime green across spine and covers; gray topstain; patterned endpapers; viii2951pp. Previous owners name to upper front endpaper light wear to extremities else a bright Near Fine copy. BOMC booklet laid in. Attractive copy of Burnett's seventh book a novel set in California and centered around a down-and-out gambler his interaction with gangsters and his love affair with dog racing - particularly with a greyhound named Dark Hazard. Burnett became involved in dog racing for a time while writing the novel and even owned a greyhound named War Cry. Basis for Alfred E. Green's 1934 film of the same name starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin and a 1937 B-picture titled Wine Women and Horses. Hubin p.58; Baird 359. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
193344785New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1933. Book Club Edition. With "H-H" code on copyright page. Octavo 21.5cm; dark blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in lime green across spine and covers; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; viii2951pp. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page: "For Bill Paxson who likes greyhound racing as much as I do - Best regards - W.R. Burnett." Sunning to spine light wear to extremities with some scattered soil to front cover; contents clean; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is spine-sunned with modest shelfwear several tiny nicks and short tears and a 1.5" closed tear at upper front joint; Very Good. Inscribed copy of Burnett's seventh book a novel set in California and centered around a down-and-out gambler his interaction with gangsters and his love affair with dog racing - particularly with a greyhound named Dark Hazard. Burnett became involved in dog racing for a time while writing the novel and even owned a greyhound named War Cry. Basis for Alfred E. Green's 1934 film of the same name starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin and a 1937 B-picture titled Wine Women and Horses. Hubin p.58; Baird 359. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
194025940New York: Henry Holt and Company 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Hardbound 8vo. A 274 pp crime novel. A good copy overall in original illustrated boards. Spine is a bit cocked. Prior owner name to inside front pastedown. Henry Holt and Company hardcover books
195039175Chicago: Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago 1950. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 27pp. Wrappers toned at margins else a tight Very Good or better copy. Series of articles originally published in the Sun-Times on Chicago's juvenile narcotics epidemic. Addressed to an adult audience but includes a number of reputed first-hand testimonials from young addicts including "Sam R." who recounts the story of being nabbed in a ladies' department store: ".I'd gotten very high that day so high that I didn't even know I had 10 ladies' slips in a shopping bag." Uncommon; OCLC 3 locations Chicago Public Chicago Historical Soc. and NYPL. Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago unknown books
198121489New York: Charles Scribner 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition first printing of the author's first crime novel. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner hardcover 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
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
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. Broadside of Criminals in Napoleonic France. 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 books
198221283New York: St. Martin's Press 1982. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First US edition of this Lovejoy novel of suspense. Tint corner bump else a near fine copy in dustwrapper. Review Copy with publisher's promotional sheet laid in. This copy has been both SIGNED by Gash on the title page and INSCRIBED on the inside front pastedown. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
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 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
195030296New York: Rinehart and Company 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. A 245 page suspense novel by the author of Night Has A Thousand Eyes. Bookplate to inside front pastedown. General light handling wear but a solid very good copy overall in price-intact dustwrapper with some light staining to the dustwrapper flaps and verso. Presents quite well. Rinehart and Company hardcover books
