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1987012505London: Collins 1987. 607 pages with some illustrations. DJ has light wear to edge and price is clipped. Previous owner name/address sticker in front endpaper. This book began as a casual conversation on the campus of Yale University. It ended as the fullest and best investigative account by an accredited historian into hwo the OSS was established by whom and what it achieved. Clean . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collins Hardcover
1973160726Freeport New York: G.C. London Publishing 1973. October 1973 issue. Included is a vintage black-and-white photograph used as the magazine's cover image struck in 1976 based on the article "Beware of the Peroxide Tigress." Photograph with a "True Action Detective / Mar 1976" stamp on the verso with manuscript pencil ink and marker annotations on the verso.<br /> <br /> Photograph: 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine with faint creasing on the bottom right corner margin.<br /> <br /> Magazine: 8 x 10.75 inches 65 leaves. Near Fine with two tiny chips at the top of the rear wrapper. G.C. London Publishing unknown
1977025354Englewood Cliffs New Jersey: Prentice - Hall Inc 1977. Appears unread. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket has two short closed tears and is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped $9.95. Sharp corners. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Square and tight -- apparently never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Photo illustrated. First Printing of the First Edition with complete number row "10 987654321" on the copyright page. Bound in the original reddish brown boards stamped in shiny gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Was James Earl Ray the solitary assassin or a 'Jackal"- like hired killer". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. viii 314pp. 8 pages of photos. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Prentice - Hall, Inc Hardcover
197421567Queens NY 1974. Very Good . Queens NY: 1974. Thirty original press photographs measuring ca. 23.5x18cm. to 28x18cm. or the inverse some with snipe in image or mounted to verso; occasional color pencil annotations to versos one piece of snipe separated else a Very Good collection images all quite sharp.<br /> <br /> Substantial archive of press photographs covering a thirty-hour hostage situation that took place at the South Jamaica Houses in Queens New York. Floyd Steele recently on parole from the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane was the tenant of Fred and Peggy Dalton Kinsler living in their apartment with Peggy's five-year-old daughter Avril. Steele had already been convicted twice for manslaughter charges including the 1963 fire arm death of his girl friend. Late on the evening of June 10th 1974 Steele allegedly made an unwanted advance at Peggy threatening the family with a loaded gun when she rebuffed him. Peggy managed to lock herself in a bedroom and used a sheet to climb out of the third story window to alert the police. According to Cecil Mackey a member of the Housing Authority Police and one of the lead negotiators during the following thirty-three hour stand off an early attempt to break open the door to the apartment found Steele pointing the gun at young Avril's head threatening to shoot if they did not shut the door. Mackey and the newly-formed hostage negotiation team developed by Simon Eisdorfer in the wake of the deadly attack on the 1972 Olympics employed the latter's negotiation techniques which according to a 2005 obituary article "deemphasized confrontation focusing instead on saving lives. Studying earlier cases Eisdorfer realized that negotiators could subtly turn a siege into a waiting game that played out in their favor. Police officers could change shifts but the suspects could not and eventually became tired and hungry enough to surrender." Mackey and fellow officer Lt. Francis Bolz followed these protocols addressing Steele as "Mister" chatting about gardenias and slowly managing to gain Steele's trust enough to open the door long enough to provide him and Avril with breakfast and hot coffee. It was by proffering Avril a glass of Kool-Aid that Bolz managed to pull her out of the apartment door and place his body equipped with bullet proof vest between her and Steele. Steele surrendered immediately though it was discovered that his gun was still loaded and Fred Kinsler had been killed by two bullets to the neck and chest. From start to finish the situation lasted thirty-three hours and was later described by Police Commissioner Michael Codd as "an ideal marriage of the community and the professional policeman in action" "New York Daily News" June 13 1974. <br /> <br /> The present collection of photographs attributed to Ted Cunningham Dan Neville and Paul Hosefros were splashed across newspapers across the country. Half of the photographs in the collection depict members of the police force as the situation unfolded including snipers situated on the ground and on a nearby rooftop. A number of images of the small window into the apartment also feature heavily including one in which one can just see the small hand of Avril Kinsler shutting the window upon Steele's instructions. Approximately half of the photographs document the immediate aftermath of Steele's arrest including four close-up shots of him being led by members of the police force; two show Avril being carried away by an unknown policewoman; and three photographs show Peggy Kinsler in a state of shock being wheeled out of the apartment in a gurney after discovering that her husband had been murdered. A substantial and important documentation on the history of police tactics on both the local and the national level. unknown
007746United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is a comprehensive study of the counter-narcotics struggle in Colombia. Oversize hardback with hundreds of high quality photos by photojournalist Alessandro Scotti. It is warmly and extensively inscribed in Spanish by Gen Rosso Jose Serrano former head of the Colombian National Police the country's lead counternarcotics agency. Fine in a fine dustjacket. Scarce unusual book. <br/> <br/> United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime hardcover
1995008883New York: Random House Inc 1995. 832pp/illus/maps. Comprehensive guided tour of Allied and Japanese intelligence during the Second World War and an assessment of the impact on all campaigns great and small. Clean. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Random House Inc hardcover
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2007028953St. Louis: Ransch Views 2007. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Michael J. Flynn on the front inside cover. This is a first-person autobiographical account by Ray Flynn of his time as "the last member of the St. Louis Buster Wortman gang." His son Michael J. Flynn provides a preface and chapter entitled "Conclusion." Some reviewers say Michael or someone else must have added additional information that Ray could not have known about partly because it happened after he died in prison in 2002. A solid reading/reference copy in only Good condition. The cover is mildly rubbed. One corner of the rear cover is bumped/creased affecting a few pages at the end - but in the margin only - NO text is affected. Dog ear to the corner of three leaves. Flat uncreased spine. Bright and shiny. NO fading. Square and tight. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with b/w photos/documents in the text. Bound in the original white pictorial wraps printed in red and black. From a review: "From about 1960 on the first-person account of Ray Flynn's life in the mob is well worth the price of admission The publication is not worth the high price of admission neither is the writing. But then again Ray Flynn was not a professional writer so he should be cut some slack on that aspect of the book." From a different reviewer: "I have been searching and searching for years on the murder of my grandfather at the "hands" or at the "hit" of Buster Wortman. 53 years later after many hours of speaking to lots of people I have tracked down and numerous hours on the internet I see my grandfathers name in this book. It brought tears seeing this. Today I'm still in shock over it. I did enjoy the book otherwise.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Michael J. Flynn. First Edition so stated. Softcover. Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 165pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Ransch Views Paperback
1998020119Thousand Oaks California: Sage Publications 1998. Appears unread. Very Near Fine condition only the cover is very lightly rubbed. Bright shiny clean square and tight. Sharp corners. Pages appears unread. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. NOT a remainder. 1998. First Edition. List of references/bibliographical notes after each chapter. Index. Bound in the original pictorial boards stamped in red and white. From the rear cover: "Labeled as the most intriguing crime of the 1990's serial murder will surely remain a primary source of fascination well into the new millennium CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON SERIAL MURDER is the first book to consolidate the authoritative perspectives of acknowledged experts on serial murder along with the fresh approaches of emerging authorities in the field Contributors address Etiology of Serial murder Victim selectivity Female serial killers Psychological profiling Types and methods of stalking Future trends for tracing and tracking serial killers ". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Near Fine condition/No jacket as issued. 8vo. ix 246pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Sage Publications Hardcover
1972260615-MB35Pantheon Books / Random House Inc. 1972. Very Good Hardcover with Dustjacket First edition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Pantheon Books / Random House, Inc. Hardcover
2008025981Upper Saddle River New Jersey: Pearson 2008. Very Good condition cover lightly rubbed tiny corner crease. NOT a library discard. NO chips. NO fading. Flat uncreased spine. Bright shiny clean square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Tables. Charts. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original pictorial wraps. From the publisher: "Offering perspectives from twenty-one leading experts in the field this book shows how to apply evidence-based counseling and treatment approaches to offender rehabilitation. Each chapter includes summaries of the latest government reports treatment guidelines evidence-based counseling practices research findings trends and statistics program evaluations journal review articles and meta-analyses. Discussion is on revitalizing the corrections profession with an emphasis on rehabilitation policies and programs based on scientific evidence and treatment technology transfer. Complete and up-to-date the book s goal is to formalize ideas raise issues and document best practices from which effective programs can be replicated. Evidence-based approachoffers a variety of offender treatment and rehabilitation approaches that have demonstrated effectiveness. Perspectives from twenty-one contributors help guide readers through the process and steps in counseling and treatment. A look at best practices in individual and group counselingthrough the book s definitions and illustrations. Findings from a national survey conducted by the book editor offer results from 25 different state departments of corrections and the correctional facilities under their jurisdiction. The market for this up-to-date multi-authored book will be college and university libraries state and county criminal justice as well as juvenile justice agencies and federal criminal justice agency libraries.". 1st ed No additional printings listed. Softcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Pearson Paperback
004469London: C. Roworth & Sons Printed broadside n.d. but between 1832 and 1840 approximately 220mm x 370mm in size. Laid down on to paper old tears now closed visible to head light surface soiling cropped by about 20mm another copy I had a few years ago was 245mm x 390mm in size small hole to vignette. The printer was Charles Roworth who traded as C. Roworth & Sons between 1832 and 1840 see BBTI. A notice to menials and servants that if through negligence or carelessness any houses were set on fire they would be subject to a fine of one hundred pounds and in the likely event of them not being able to pay such a fine they would be sent to gaol for eighteen months of hard labour. This notice was to be "affixed in some conspicuous place in view of your servants". First Edition. Unbound. Good. Folio. Broadside. C. Roworth & Sons Paperback
19730017367BPC Publishing Limited 1973. 20 book set maroon pictdorial covers with white ltrs pictorial endpapers corners are bumped clean and tight. A pictorial encyclopedia of aberrant behavior. Everything from Crime Busters of how it all started to Ma Baker Alcatraz Benedict Anold etc. Extra postage for multiple books is included in price. 1st Printiing 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. BPC Publishing Limited Hardcover
9287128286.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1939A47710Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good-. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. This is an ex library copy from Univ. Of California. The book is in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some l ight bumping and rubbing. There is a spot of discoloration near the lettering on the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a bookplate from the A. F. Morrison Memorial Library on the front pastedown page. "" from Nature Magazine - May 1941 ; 403p. pages; Pictured 1/19/24 . Harvard University Press hardcover
1955ZB393271National Council on Crime and Delinquency 1955-1974. volumes 1-20 partly bound library markings else texts clean & bindings tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. National Council on Crime and Delinquency unknown
1955ZB393272National Council on Crime and Delinquency. 1955. volumes 1 3 6-7 9-12 14 16-18 20 25 27 29 1955-1983; complete volumes partly bound ex library; PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. National Council on Crime and Delinquency. unknown
1974ZB542264Arno Press 1974. reprint of the 1930 edition 292 pp. hardcover very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Arno Press hardcover
193732645New York: Street & Smith Publishers Inc. 1937. Creamy pages covers have mild wear to yapp edges with tiny tears and creases small chip to yapp edge at lower right corner a nearly fine copy. 32645. Octavo single issue photo cover pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. The first issue. Stories by Theodore Tinsley Lester Dent Gadget Man Norvell W. Page Clifford Goodrich Maxwell Grant Norgil Steve Fisher and Laurence Donovan. The Norgil the Magician story by Grant is the first in the series. The Tinsley story features Carrie Cashin female private detective the first of a series. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 115-118. Street & Smith Publishers, Inc. unknown
193832637New York: Street & Smith Publishers Inc. 1938. Mild tanning to text paper light wear to right front cover with several tears and a few chips to yapp edge a very good to nearly fine copy. 32637. Octavo single issue cover by Graves Gladney pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Kenneth Robeson Lester Dent Theodore Tinsley Carrie Cashin Maxwell Grant Norgil Mark Harper pseudonym for Joseph T. "Cap" Shaw Frank Gruber Norvell W. Page and Laurence Donovan. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 115-118. Street & Smith Publishers, Inc. unknown
193832643New York: Street & Smith Publishers Inc. 1938. Mild tanning to text paper with some damp staining to upper edges thirty five pages cover edges trimmed clear tape repairs to left front at spine ends and mid spnie a good to very good copy. 32643. Octavo single issue photo cover pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Maxwell Grant Norgil Lester Dent Gadget Man Theodore Tinsley Frank Gruber Norvell W. Page Laurence Donovan Steve Fisher and Alan Hathway. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 115-118. Street & Smith Publishers, Inc. unknown
193832642New York: Street & Smith Publishers Inc. 1938. Slight tanning to text paper cover edges trimmed a lovely fine copy. 32642. Octavo single issue photo cover pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Maxwell Grant Norgil Lester Dent Gadget Man Theodore Tinsley Frank Gruber Norvell W. Page Laurence Donovan Steve Fisher and Alan Hathway. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 115-118. Street & Smith Publishers, Inc. unknown
193832641New York: Street & Smith Publishers Inc. 1938. Mild tanning to text paper covers have mild edge wear with several small tears crease at lower right front corner slight paper loss at base of spine. A nearly fine copy. 32641. Octavo single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Stories by Maxwell Grant Norgil Lester Dent Gadget Man Theodore Tinsley Carrie Cashin Frank Gruber Norvell W. Page Wyatt Blassingame Arthur J. Burks and Ned O'Doherty. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazines pp. 115-118. Street & Smith Publishers, Inc. unknown
19802080202102706180Tachibana shobo 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. Page size: 246 pages Size: A5 size Tachibana shobo paperback
