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19809436NY: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1980. First edn. 8vo Pp. 408. Fine in dj. "A social history of women in America . told through the stories of women driven to kill. Holt, Rinehart & Winston unknown books
199325568New York: St. Martin's Press 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition of his uncommon third book featuring Neal Carey. NF in NF unclipped jacket. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in year of publication. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
19289441Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1928. First edn. 8vo Pp. 323. VG copy. English born but raised in Arizona and Colorado Ashton-Wolfe selected these stories from official records of great criminals. Includes a chapter on Mata Hari. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
195715176New York: E.P. Dutton 1957. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; red cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 248pp. Lengthily inscribed on front endpaper by the author dated 1957. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges else a tight Near Fine copy in a bright unclipped dustwrapper. Biography of Joseph E. Ragen long-time warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Statesville-Joliet home to Leopold & Loeb Roger "The Terrible" Touhy Basil "The Owl" Banghart and fictionally Jake & Elwood Blues. Includes an introduction by Ragen and a foreword by Harry Reutlinger; well-illustrated with photographic plates halftones. Very nice copy; uncommon signed. E.P. Dutton unknown books
1925WRCAM52863Seattle 1925. Small broadside 10 1/2 x 7 inches. Previously folded. A few chips and small tears where previously adhered. Contemporary ink stamp. Good plus. Wanted poster offering a fifty dollar reward for a prisoner M.W. Woods who escaped from the custody of U.S. Marshals near Seattle in 1925. Woods "Escaped from U.S. Marshall Western District of Washington on morning of Oct. 17th 1925 by jumping from Santa Fe train to Peabody Kansas while being transferred from Seattle Washington to Houston Texas." The fugitive a "Mexican pottery exporter. is ordinarily a good dresser; of genial personality and is a smooth and plausible talker." With a photographic reproduction of Woods' mugshot. unknown books
197721365New York: Delacorte Press 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First printing stated of this early crime novel by the author of Fifty-Two Pickup. Designated the Delacorte Suspense Novel of the Year. 264 pp. SIGNED by the author on a bookplate afixed to the front blank endpaper. With a thin line of toning to edge of boards. Slight cant to spine. A very good copy in dustwrapper of one of the author's more sought after titles. Delacorte Press hardcover books
195514541Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1955. First Edition. Octavo. Gray cloth boards stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 309pp. Tight fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper Very Good or better. Second of four memoirs by Chessman a San Quentin inmate whose first book - Cell 2455 Death Row - is one of the classic Death Row narratives. After publishing three books and exhausting a number of appeals Chessman was finally executed in 1960. Quite nice copy. SUVAK 58. Prentice-Hall unknown books
196211761JLondon: Pimlico Films Limited 1962. First Edition. Original 6 page mimeographed shooting script belonging to actress Hira Talfrey consisting of the portion of the teleplay which has her part. This Britsh produced television crime series starred William Franklyn and Alan Rothwell. 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
197923624London: Robert Hale 1979. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Small hardbound 8vo. First UK and first hardbound edition of this early Matthew Scudder crime novel. Published in the US in 1976 as a paperback original. Topstain lightly dusted else a fine copy in near fine price-intact dustwrapper with a couple of small chips an wear to spine tips. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. A lovely copy of what has become Block's scarcest hardbound title. Robert Hale hardcover books
192935124New York: D. Appleton & Co 1929. Second American printing first published in London 1925; the first American printing also appeared that year. Octavo; blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xviii 1-619 2pp; 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates halftones; text illus. A tight Near Fine copy in the scarce dustwrapper lightly soiled overall with a few nicks to extremities Very Good to Near Fine. Very nice copy of this classic of juvenile criminal psychology. Burt achieved great eminence during his lifetime in 1946 becoming the first British psychologist to be knighted as a reward for his research. Burt's methodologies came into question after his death however and it is now widely believed he falsified much of his data particularly that relating the inheritance of IQ. Nonetheless the current work remains compelling for both its wealth of detailed personal case studies of British delinquents and the numerous photographic portraits which though clearly staged portray genuine subjects and are classics in their genre. D. Appleton & Co unknown books
19559443NY: Scribner 1955. First edn. 8vo Pp. 218. Fine in dj. A discussion of four famous murder cases in which women are the central figures. Scribner unknown books
19372123456Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. First edition. Hinges starting split down fold of front jacket flap jacket spine faded Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover books
196921759New York: Signet Books 1969. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Pocket paperbound book. Stated first printing. Includes Kick It or Kill The Seven Year Kill and The Bastard Bannerman. 190 pp. Published as Signet T4141. A clean very good example. Square and tight. This copy SIGNED by Spillane and quite uncommon thus. <br/><br/> Signet Books paperback books
197115049New York: Harper & Row 1971. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good /very good . 8vo. First US edition of the author's first book and winner of the coveted Gold Dagger Award in Great Britain. Very good indeed in very good unclipped and unfaded dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Harper & Row hardcover books
1988693New York: Random House 1988. Book club edition. A riveting look at the case of Edward Lee Howard who worked for the CIA and defected to the Soviet Union in 1985. Two years later Howard secretly met in Budapest with the author David Wise to tell his version of events. Octavo 288 pages. Good only with foxing of page edges bumped corners some rubbing to the boards and a previous owner's embossed seal on the front end paper. The dust jacket is rubbed on both panels and on the spine. <br/><br/>If anyone can unravel a spy case it's journalist David Wise who is one of the most authoritative writers about the world of espionage. As for Howard he died under mysterious circumstances at his Russian dacha in 2002. He was 50 years old. Random House hardcover books
196328500New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 188 pp. Exceptionally nice copy in dustwrapper of this collection of crime and suspense stories by the author of The Screaming Mimi and Night of the Jabberwock. A handsome near fine copy in price-intact dustwrapper. One of the author's scarcest titles especially hard to find in this condition. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
194928569New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. Stated first edition. 248 pp. Hardbound copy in dustwrapper of this crime and suspense novel by the author of Death Has Many Doors and Night of the Jabberwock. Faint erasure marks to inside front pastedown else a sound very good and clean copy in a clipped but otherwise handsome near fine dustwrapper. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
199421294London: Macmillan 1994. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First UK and true first edition of the author's third crime novel. SIGNED on the title page. Fine in fine unclipped jacket. Beautiful copy. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
192727223New York: Henry Holt and Company n.d. but 1927-28. First American Edition. Octavo 22.25cm; indigo cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 282 2pp; illus.frontispiece and seven plates of illustrations. Bound from British sheets with title page a cancel on a stub. Mild wear to extremities else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket lightly spine-sunned with some dustiness to panels and 1.5cm chip to crown. An accounting of "some of the most hazardous and thrilling escapes and attempts at escape" ever recorded with chapters devoted to John Nevinson Jack Sheppard David Haggart Louis Cartouche Louis Napoleon George Kelly and Frederick Trenck - the latter-named tagged by the author as "the arch-escaper of all history." Originally published by Philip Allan & Co. in London in 1927; the present edition undated but was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times in April 1928. Henry Holt and Company unknown books
199422588New York: St. Martin's Press 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Stated first edition of the author's second crime novel. A sharp clean near fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the author on the title page and dated in year of publication. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
198221656Boston and London: David R Godine 1982. Book Club. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine book club edition of this Mario Balzic murder mystery novel. SIGNED by the author and uncommon thus. Comes in a fine unclipped dustwrapper that clearly states Book Club Edition. <br/><br/> David R Godine hardcover books
192525721New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardbound octavo. 292 pp. Handsome very good copy in orange-red boards. Presumed second printing with a "B" on the copyright page. Lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. George H. Doran Company hardcover books
197228912Philadelphia: Oswald Train 1972. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/very good. 12mo. 156 pp. Reprint edition of Bennett's only volume of detective stories. A handsome near fine copy in very good pictorial dustwrapper with design by William Dixon. Oswald Train unknown books
19541559New York: Random House Inc. 1954. First Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm 248 pages in quarter cloth over paper boards titles to upper board and to spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light toning to spine edges internally clean and bright. The unclipped dust jacket has some nicks and soiling.American journalists learn a secret about the head of the dreaded security police in a European people's democracy. They head for the border town of Skaro with the bad guys on their heels. A Cold War thriller. <br /><br /> Random House, Inc. hardcover books
195628497New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1956. 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
