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196713697New York: Random House 1967. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good . First edition first printing. A novel of humor and murder by the author of The Mercenaries. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A near fine clothbound copy in very good plus unclipped dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
198028518New York: Bantam Books 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Pocket paperbound original crime novel by Leonard. Published two years later in a British hardcover edition this pbo is the original edition. 218 pp plus a special preview section of The Elijah Conspiracy by Charles Robertson. Crease at spine. A very good well-bound and clean copy. With a SIGNED bookplate by Leonard laid in to this copy. Bantam Books paperback books
195428499New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 191 pp. Exceptionally nice copy in dustwrapper of this crime and suspense novel by the author of The Screaming Mimi and Night of the Jabberwock. A handsome near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
197419736Boston: Little Brown and Company 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; blue denim paper-covered boards with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 460pp. Inscribed by the author on the second blank page inside an original drawing of a wine goblet with a caricature inside: "For David Carol / Whose cup of kindness hath cheered me much / Bruce / Putney VT. 6/17/76." Crown gently nudged with a few faint spots to right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $8.95 lightly rubbed overall with a few shallow chips at crown and faint foxing to verso; Very Good. Dobler's second book a novlized account of the five months he spent touring and visiting various prisons within the Illinois penal system interviewing and speaking with everyone from convicts to prison staff. An uncommon title inscribed. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
192228986New York: D. Appleton and Company 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 14 272pp. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To Mr. and Mrs. Morrell / Two good pals and sincere friends / from the Author. Oct. 12th 1923." Light overall wear hand-soil to boards top edge of textblock slightly grubby with tiny bumps to right fore-edge; Very Good. Dustjacket is deeply price-clipped lightly edgeworn and spine-sunned with a few small nicks and tears; measures 1/4" taller than the book; Very Good. Memoir of a career criminal who spent time incarcerated in Wisconsin and Connecticut State Prisons. "His career as a law-breaker ended with his well-known burglarizing of Mark Twain's home an unsuccessful attempt which won him the name of "the Mark Twain Burglar" from front flap. "Criticizes the convict labor system as slavery and unjust to free workers calls torture and punishment useless and attributes his own reform to the "human touch" SUVAK 155 p.46. D. Appleton and Company 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
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
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
190912868Cleveland: Wells Publishing Co 1909. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; original red cloth boards; 204p; illus. Presumed remainder issue with "Wells Publishing Co." label applied over publisher's imprint at base of title page. A moderately worn copy with lettering mostly flaked away from spine and front cover; title page darkened from laid-in clipping; scattered thumb-soil to text but still a tight Good copy overall. Uncommon and somewhat cobbled-together account of this sensational turn-of-the-century kidnaping case one of several which propelled the phenomenon of ransom kidnaping into the national consciousness. Illustrated with photographs of the Whitla family the crime scenes the perpetrators and various other key figures in the case. Wells Publishing Co unknown books
196821757New York: Signet Books 1968. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Pocket paperbound book. Stated first printing. Contains two works: Killer Mine and Man Alone. 157 pp. Published as Signet P3483. A very good copy with some cover wear and faint spine crease. This copy SIGNED by Spillane and quite uncommon thus. <br/><br/> Signet Books paperback books
199622098New York: Simon & Schuster 1996. Second printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Second US printing of this early John Rebus murder mystery. A handsome near fine copy in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
190428983Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1904. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.25cm; hunter green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover with an old-fashioned jail door embossed to front cover; 8 276pp. Mild wear to spine ends and corners with a faint stain to lower edge of textblock; Very Good with gilt still bright and unrubbed. Anonymous memoir of life in New York's Sing Sing Correctional Facility in which "the author served a six-and-a-half-year term. Describes the demise of the contract labor system in New York and his enterprising work in starting the prison newspaper The Star of Hope under Warden Sage in 1899. Includes chapters on executions escapes famous prisoners and convict slang " SUVAK 238 p.67. Bobbs-Merrill Company unknown books
186019599New York: N. Tibbals & Co 1860. First Edition. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth; gilt spine titles; viii 375pp; double engr. frontispiece. Spine gilt a little dulled; spotting & wear to covers; corners bumped; brief fraying at upper spine; quite fresh internally with faint foxing to double frontispiece plates; Very Good. SABIN 42631. Scarce pre-Civil War account of American prison life with descriptions of the prisoners' daily routines and sketches of various criminals' careers. The author was Chaplain of Sing Sing State Prison from 1843-1856 a period during which a number of novel reforms were initiated at Sing Sing including the practice of sorting criminals on the basis of phrenological diagnosis. N. Tibbals & Co unknown 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
199421704New York: Armchair Detective / Otto Penzler 1994. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. New edition of this early Tony Hillerman crime novel with new introduction by the author. Special edition of only 100 SIGNED copies of which this is number 72. Fine condition in fine matching hard slipcase. Armchair Detective / Otto Penzler hardcover books
198925216New York: Henry Holt 1989. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Stated First American Edition. The first Charlie Resnick crime novel by this celebrated author. A clean near fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED by Harvey and dated in 1992. Terrific series. Henry Holt hardcover books
200321390Boston: Little Brown & Co 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine first edition of this Detective Harry Bosch crime novel. A fine copy in dustwrapper. Initialed by the author on the title page. <br/><br/> Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
1999002393Scribners 1999 1999. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Beautiful perfect mint copy of the author's rare first book.Remainder mark. Scribners, 1999 Hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
198930034New York: St. Martin's Press 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Satterthwait's somewhat scarce second book a Lizzie Borden pastiche. This is a near fine copy in near fine or better unclipped jacket. Stated first edition with complete number run. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
