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1898018464NY: Rand McNally & Company 1898. 1st American edition 1898. Covers moderately soiled with wear along edges. Gold lettering worn in a few spots but an overall good copy of scarce book. Interesting in that rear cover also has a design. Top of page edges gilded. Now in homemade clear acetate jacket. "Have those urgent dispatches come in from Berlin Deedes" "Captain Hammerton has not yet arrived" I answered. "Eleven oclock! Tut tut! Every moments delay means greater risk" and the Earl of Warnham Her Majestys Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs strode up and down his private room with his hat still on impatiently snapping his bony fingers in agitation quite unusual to him. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Book. Rand, McNally & Company Hardcover
188914075Berlin, Wilhelm Hertz, 1889. (IV), 360 S. 21,5 cm. Braunes OLn. d. Zt. mit VDeckel-Illustration.
185946765New-York: George W. Matsell & Co 1859. First Edition. Small 12mo 12.5cm.; publisher's blue pebble-grained blind-embossed cloth gilt-lettered spine dark brown glazed endpapers; vi7-1301adpp. Boards gently scuffed corners bumped else a Very Good quite brilliant copy. Early American slang dictionary by a commissioner of the New York City police force about two-thirds of the work plagiarized from English sources though the author here claims that "Occupying the position of a Special Justice and Chief of the Police of the great Metropolis of New-York where thieves and others of a like character from all parts of the world congregate and realizing the necessity of possessing a positive knowledge of every thing connected with the class of individuals with whom it was my duty to deal I was naturally led to study their peculiar language" p. iv. The work appears to be aimed at readers of Matsell's newspaper the "National Police Gazette" advertized on the last leaf of text. A random dip into the early leaves reveals such unknown slang words as "Ard" hot though the OED only defines this as an obsolete form of "Hard." More recognizable listings appear under "Cow" a dilapidated prostitute while her "grease" is butter her "juice" is milk and "Cows and Kisses" applies to the ladies. George W. Matsell & Co unknown books
1840WRCAM53792Sydney: W.A. Duncan Australasian Chronicle Office 1840. 52pp. Dbd. Minor toning some loose leaves. Good. A rare trial account of a peculiar though perhaps an oddly-justified assault in Australia in 1840. "James Mudie had in his book THE FELONRY OF NEW SOUTH WALES reflected upon the capacity of Kinchela's father in his office as judge. The younger Kinchela waited for Mudie who had recently returned to the colony and administered many lashes one witness said 50 with a horsewhip. The defence was that Mudie well deserved what he got as a common libeller and that Judge Kinchela was now aged and unable to take his own part. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of £50 - one pound for each stroke" - Ferguson. Some might call the horsewhipping a simple case of frontier justice. <br> <br> Together Ferguson and OCLC locate only five copies all in Australia. FERGUSON 3104. OCLC 220294602. W.A. Duncan, Australasian Chronicle Office unknown books
1829WRCAM53865Edinburgh 1829. viii47pp. Dbd. Two faint institutional stamps and one small ink number on titlepage light toning. Good. An interesting murder trial account involving a husband-and-wife poisoning team on a steamboat near Glasgow in the early-19th century. From the Introduction: "The case which forms the subject of the present publication is however a proof that there are other and equally subtile and perilous forms of committing murder; and the trial of John Stuart and Catherine Wright is published in its present authentic form as a warning to the people of Scotland against the approaches of a set of crimes which have always been perpetrated under the reign of the darkest vice and superstition which have clouded European society." Rare with only about a dozen copies over several records in OCLC. unknown books
183335550Philadelphia: Printed at Alexander's General Printing Office 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Hardcover. Ex-institutional copy. 72 pages. Original wraps without the outer covers bound in black cloth covered boards with copy of the title pasted down on the front cover. Gilt lettered title on the spine. New tan end sheets front and back. Page 1 is the title page and has two stamps at the bottom: Presbyterian Historical Society Philadelphia and a red withdrawn stamp. Print is small and contents are clean. <br /> <br /> McDade 335 - "Getter convicted of fornication and bastardy was given the option of marrying the girl he had wronged; six weeks later saddled with a wife he did not want he choked her to death.â€. From wikipedia:<br /> <br /> Getter's Island previously known as Abel's Island is a small island in the Delaware River in Easton Pennsylvania in the United States. It is best known as the location of the execution of Charles Getter the last person to be publicly executed in Pennsylvania. History edit Execution of Charles Getter edit The island is named after Charles Getter a farm hand who was hanged on the island in 1833 for the murder of Margaret Lawall a woman he married to avoid prosecution for impregnating her outside of wedlock. Getter's execution was initially scheduled to take place at Center Square in Easton but it was moved to the island - then known as Abel's Island - to accommodate the crowds.<br /> An estimated 15000 to 20000 people some of whom traveled hundreds of miles gathered in the town to view the execution. 12 An initial attempt to hang him failed forcing a second attempt which resulted in his death. A reporter who witnessed the scene was horrified at how little the crowd was affected by the execution and called on lawmakers to take action. 2 Governor George Wolf agreed with the reporter and signed a law banning public execution on April 10 1834. As a result Getter was the last person in Pennsylvania to be publicly executed. 2. Printed at Alexander's General Printing Office hardcover
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
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
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
188741538Saint John N. B.: Printed by Geo. W. Day Corner Prince Wm. and Princess Sts 1887. "Fifth Edition" stated. The First Edition published in 1816 cf. Sabin 3947; Watters p. 462. Late 19th C. 3/4 blue sheep binding with marbled paper boards. Marbled eps. Original pale green printed wrappers retained. Rear wrapper an advert for Geo. Day. Binding shows some extremity wear. Original wrappers & text paper show age-toning with rear wrapper having a chip from the fore-edge. A VG copy. 82 pp. Wood engraved vignette to front wrapper. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>"Henry More Smith also known as Henry Frederick Moon Henry J. Moon Henry Hopkins Henry Frederick More Smith and William Newman was a confidence man master puppeteer hypnotist seer liar and above all else a superlative escape artist who lived for a while in New Brunswick Canada. Chains handcuffs shackles even made-to-fit iron collars could not hold him." Wiki. The author Bates was the sheriff of Kings' County New Brunswick. Uncommon in the trade. Printed by Geo. W. Day, Corner Prince Wm. and Princess Sts hardcover books
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 books
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
185257744New Orleans Charleston Baltimore and Philadelphia: A.R. Orton 1852. the original wrapper was dated 1853 apparently accounting for that date being used in each of the three OCLC listings. First edition of this rather primitively printed pamphlet. 8vo. 2 11-36 pp. Portrait frontispiece three wood-engraved plates. OCLC: "Sensational and presumably fictitious account of the criminal career of Margaret C. Waldegrave probably written by the publishers" the author of several similar lurid tales in the early 1850s. Contemporary pencil inscription on verso of frontispiece "Allow one vol. / plain binding / leather back." Not in Wright "American Fiction" McDade "Annals of Murder" or Jumonville "New Orleans Imprints." OCLC locates four copies American Antiquarian Soc. New York Historical Soc. Juniata British Library; AAS also holds a prospectus broadside for the work. Some interior foxing and soiling corner of one leaf renewed not affecting text. Recent plain gray wrappers. #4698. <br/><br/> A.R. Orton hardcover books
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
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
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
1808WRCAM53841New York 1808. 56pp. Dbd. Faint institutional ink stamp and embossed blindstamp to titlepage minor toning light foxing. Overall very good. A curious and rare account of the trial of Alexander Whistelo a black man accused of leaving Lucy Williams a mulatto with child. A controversy ensued as sundry doctors stated that the child was the offspring of white parents. In addition a witness attested to a white man visiting Ms. Williams: "The witness.confessed that such a person had been in bed with her: that he had turned the black man out with a pistol and taken his place - that they had a connexion; but she said she was sure they had made no one young one." In the end Whistelo was acquitted. SABIN 103312. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 14750. unknown books
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
189915339London: Greening & Co 1899. First Edition. Small octavo 19cm. Blue cloth boards lettered in red on spine and front cover; title page in black & red; 232pp; 8pp publishers ads at rear; frontispiece; text illus. Mild external rubbing; endpapers and text age-tanned but not brittle; Very Good. A charming survey of British low-life documenting the methods and practices of pick-pockets safe-crackers card sharpers portico thieves shoplifters forgers and other criminals in common circulation in Edwardian London. Includes a chapter on "Rogues and Vagabonds." With about 50 text illustrations all of a somewhat rudimentary character. An uncommon title. Greening & Co unknown books
186345485Boston: Ticknor and Fields 1863. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's green blind-embossed cloth gilt-lettered spine top edge gilt brown glazed endpapers; 8432pp. Boards rather scuffed and worn textblock shaken in boards very faint tide stain at bottom edge of last few leaves else Good or better overall. Collection of seven short stories the detective story "In a Cellar" compared to Poe's works Dorri Beam "Style Gender and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing" 2010 p. 222. HUBIN p. 386; WRIGHT II 2338. Ticknor and Fields unknown books
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 books
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
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
189234668Baltimore: Shaw Bros. Print 1892. First Edition. Small 12mo 15.5cm.; publisher's olive printed wrappers; 19pp. Previous owner has stitched the wrappers to textblock though the upper cover has since separated the stock rather brittle from age and poor quality with a few tiny chips and shallow losses along extremities. Still a Good unfaded copy contents in fine condition. Paper read by the Warden of the Western State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. This printed version appears to be unrecorded though we do find mention of it in an issue of The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy from the same year. Wright blames the increase in crime in the United States to the arrival of "unworthy and undesirable immigrants" and argues that the answer is "sterner and more repressive lines" in prison discipline as a deterrant. We find no copies in OCLC as of August 2017 nor in the NUC. Shaw Bros. Print unknown books
1884219833Washington D.C.: Thomas D. Worrall 1884. First edition. 207 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Brick blind-stamped cloth. Spine slightly darkened else fine. Bookplate. First edition. 207 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Thomas D. Worrall unknown books
