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1781302787In Venezia ed in Torino: Per il Giuliano 1781. 4 pp. 8vo. Later drab boards. Some foxing and staining to text paper repair to lower corner of second leaf. 4 pp. 8vo. An apparently unrecorded work on the grisly murder of Francis Cestonaro in 1779 by his wife Veneranda Porta and her lover Stefano Fantini. Cestonaro's body was cut up and the various parts dumped in the Venice canals. The murderers were hanged and Fantini was fittingly drawn and quartered. The story has passed into Venetian legend - William Dean Howells recounts it in Venetian Life as one of the three quintessential Venetian tragic legends that every gondolier has at the ready to recount. Not in OCLC Per il Giuliano unknown
21043'Oakbank'. Broad Oak Ravenglass Cumbria 3 dated 1994 2000 2011. Three Postcards Signed and two folding cards with between 6-21 lines of writing. Good-humoured tone with references to a novel published by "Margaret" Forster Davies's wife which has given him an idea for a detective novel a self-deprecating comment "insecure jumped up northern grammer school lad" reflection on how well he and friends have dome no "jail-bait failures" news of a death a White Christmas a plan for a "double-act at Keswick" treatment for illness 2011 etc. 'Oakbank'. Broad Oak, Ravenglass, Cumbria, 3 dated (1994, 2000, 2011). unknown
193452693New York: Rae D. Henkle Publisher 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; black cloth with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; 67-320pp. Base of spine gently nudged else a fresh Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 edgeworn with a few shallow nicks to spine ends and corners none affecting lettering a short split at lower flap fold and some old faint spatter marks most evident on the red portions of the panels; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Memoir of Boston-born career criminal John Goode 1864-1934 whose life in crime began at age 11 working as a look-out for a gang of burglars after moving to a Colorado mining camp. His criminal career involved robbery and train robbery cattle rustling looting gambling houses pickpocketing and grand larceny spending time in prisons and penitentiaries across the country. "Goode has recorded a great amount of detail about experiences in prison cells -- the long nights the childish pranks prisoners play to relieve the tedium and the devious and limitless ways in which life is made more uncomfortable" SUVAK 128. Includes commentary on his experiences doing time at the Ohio Penitentiary City Prison of Manhattan and Sing Sing Prison. Goode was encouraged "to put his story into some form of written order" by his friend publisher Rae D. Henkle who in his prefatory note describes him as having "a gentle kindly smile that reflected a gentle kindly spirit: a man who had been helped out of his particular hell and who wanted with all his heart to help other men." Goode died shortly prior to publication of his memoir. Scarce in dustjacket; OCLC notes about two dozen holdings but most appear to be in circulating collections. Rae D. Henkle, Publisher unknown
1993250123-MB20Avon Books 1993. Very Good paperback As New Signed by author. Signed. First Paperback Printing. Mass Market Paper Back. Very Good. Avon Books
2010030085Escondido California: Truth Seeker Company 2010. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. SIGNED copies are SCARCE. NEW and unread in near PERFECT CONDITION. The book has just a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear like you sometimes find in any new book store. Flat uncreased spine. NO chips tears or fading. Pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked. NOT price clipped $25.00. Bound in the original blue yellow and white pictorial wraps. Profusely illustrated with cartoons related to law enforcement. NOTE: There are 3 books by this cartoonist/author with "RadiocarToons" in the title. This is the one with "10-22 Take No Further Action." This offer does not include the other two: "The Training Officer" or "Star and Shield/More Training Officer." The author of this book is Claude Anderson a law enforcement officer/cartoonist -- NOT Dr. Claud Anderson. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 1st ed No additional printings listed. Softcover. New condition. 442 pages. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Truth Seeker Company Paperback
1974003952Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 1974. A square tight copy. The red Dust Jacket is bright and shiny except for the spine which is a shade lighter due to sun exposure. The Jacket has one tiny spot on the spine and light rubbing to the corners. No chips. No tears. No creases. It is NOT price clipped 9.00 and is protected by a removable Brodart sleeve. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bound in the original black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Sharp corners. From the Dust Jacket: "'One of the few pieces of current law-related scholarship that will have a worldwide impact for decades.' - Franklin Zimring Professor of Law The University of Chicago." Keywords: Imprisonment. Criminology. Penology. Readings in Law. Criminal justice. Crime. Rehabilitation. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Very Good Dust Jacket. 8vo. vii 189pp. . The University of Michigan Press Hardcover
0964890313.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
a75178Washington 1980 GPO. Hearings before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate. Octavo 491pp. photo illustrations original printed wraps. Depository library name stamp and numbers on cover and title no bookplate no spine numbers no pocket. VG. . paperback
16980005662London 1698. First edition. Hardcover. Good . Small octavo; ii 348 iv vi contemporary panelled calf blindstamped extra-gilt spine; stain on rear endpapers and rear Table head of spine and corner of spine label chipped damage to several of the blindstamped ornaments. <br/><br/>Fenwick was a major-general who developed a powerful hatred for William of Orange during Fenwick's service in Holland. Undeterred by his first plot against Orange who became King William III Fenwick continued to conspire with Robert Charnock and others. He was arrested in 1696 and beheaded for treason in early 1697 after the secret message to his wife printed herewith having been apprehended by the Crown was found to be essentially a confession of his unfaithfulness. Wing P3545 . hardcover
2012BN246620Taylor & Francis Ltd 2012. 2012. Softcover. Problem-oriented Policing and Partnerships <br/><br/>Problem-oriented Policing and Partnerships Karen University of Surrey UK Bullock Rosie UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science UK Erol Nick UCL Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science UK Tilley Taylor & Francis Ltd paperback
0309467136.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1330015711.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
192419572Philadelphia & London: J.B. Lippincott Company 1924. First Edition. Octavo 18.5cm; maroon cloth white labels on spine and front panel with titles printed in black; dustjacket; 105pp. Contemporary inscription on the front endpaper: "The call of these men behind the walls ought to be heard. Cordially / Leslie L. Sanders / 1963 Ruckle St. Indianapolis Ind." Light dustiness and faint spotting to upper edge of text else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $1.25 dust-soiled with chips at spine ends corners and upper rear panel affecting text and a dozen small tape mends verso and to rear panel; Good substantially complete example. Late volume written by the former chairman of the New York Commission on Prison Reform who once famously volunteered to spend a week in prison. Osborne grapples with the challenges of prison administration prisoner welfare and making "an intelligent plan of prison management a thing of general social concern." While the exact identity of the inscriber is not known we find one Leslie Lee Sanders of Indianapolis IN a former convict sentenced to four years in Leavenworth for mail fraud in June of 1925 as a likely candidate The Indianapolis News - 8 June 1925; p.12. A scarce volume and unseen by us in the very fragile dustjacket. J.B. Lippincott Company unknown
19313299<p>B&w press photograph with snipe on verso. Verso has stamps recent sticker and colored pencil notation as well as evidence of paper removal probably another snipe and light spotting; shallow chip to lower border and tiny loss to lower corner neither affecting body of image. Good.</p><p>Press photograph of legendary speakeasy proprietor Belle Livingston immediately following her release from jail in March 1931 after being incarcerated for 30 days for contempt of court after being arrested for violations of the Volstead Act i.e. Prohibition. In the photograph Livingston stands in the center of a large crowd outside a police car while police officers and a reporter look on. The snipe reads:</p><p>"Crowds Greet Belle after Release from Jail: New York -- Belle Livingston owner of New York's most luxurious night club surrounded by a huge crowd of her admirers immediately after her release from the Harlem jail where she was sentenced to thirty days for contempt of court. La Belle was convicted of defying a federal prohibition injunction at her famous night life rendezvous. N-3-8-31."</p><p>Belle Livingston 1875-1957 was a traveling theater performer who ran her own salon in Paris prior to moving to New York in 1927 at the age of 52 when she tried her hand at speakeasies aimed at the high society crowd. Although her first and second clubs failed quickly due to lack of funds and federal raids her third -- the Fifty-Eighth Street Country Club at 126 E. 58th St.-- was a major hit while it lasted. Her October 1930 opening night drew such guests as Russia's Archduke Leopold John D. Rockefeller the Duke of Manchester and Al Capone. However the establishment was soon raided by federal agents and Livingston who famously tried to escape while wearing red silk pajamas only managed to keep the Country Club open until January 1931. After her release from jail she tried opening speakeasies out West but never managed to make a go of it. Indomitable until the end her gravestone reads "This is the only stone I have left unturned" https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org.</p> International Newsreel Photos, Inc.
1986008115New York: William Morrow & Co 1986. 480pp Inscribed by US Ambassador in Cairo. CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations since World War II. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Morrow & Co hardcover
1986008564New York: William Morrow & Co 1986. 480pp Inscribed by US Ambassador in Cairo. CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations since World War II. Clean. 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William Morrow & Co hardcover
1972048465Springfield Il.: Charles C. Thomas 1972. HEAVY. xviii 768pp index. Or blue cloth in jacket. Prev owner name stamp on page edges and inside each cover written on front free endpaper. Some toning to jacket spine. Topics include Police in a Democracy; Patrol Force and Patrolmen; Methods of Patrol; Patrol Force Distribution; British Team and Unit Beat Policing; Traffic and Special Functions and Vocational Training. Second Edition Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small 4to. Charles C. Thomas Hardcover
20022090202118109108Sunmark Publishing 2002. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Sunmark Publishing paperback
19112021Chicago: Pinkerton's National Detective Agency 1911. Very Good. 11" x 8-1/2". Circular printed recto only. White stock printed in black b&w illustration. Three holes punched to upper portion of leaf slightly affecting text; old folds. Wanted circular for Edward J. Tierney who according to a contemporary newspaper account "is the 'classiest' looking of all the criminals that the police have been asked to look out for" Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer Feb. 23 1911. Wearing a dress coat in the photo provided for the circular Tierney worked as a traffic clerk for the Western Electric Company in Dallas before disappearing in November 1910. The reader is warned that he "might be found in the Shipping or Traffic Department of some electrical concern or railway office and he may also endeavor to obtain a position as a chauffeur or at some Vaudeville House or Moving Picture Show as he is a competent chauffer and a good singer as well." Oddly the 28-year-old Tierney is never implicated in a crime here nor does an initial review of contemporary newspapers reveal that he was ever charged with one much less convicted. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency unknown
1996009430Washington D.C: US Government Printing Office 1996. 500pp/illus. Hardcover w/dj. Focuses on how airmen built intelligence organizations during World War 2 to collect and process information about the enemy and how they produced and disseminated this intelligence to decisionmakers and warfighters. Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. US Government Printing Office hardcover
23232All eight letters on letterhead of The Tatler and Bystander London. Seven dated between 17 November 1950 and 14 May 1953 the other without year. According to the Oxford DNB entry on Carter's wife the crime writer Margery Allingham whose book jackets were among those he designed: 'Their amiable childless marriage was funded by Allingham's increasingly successful fiction. And although Youngman Carter assisted his wife as a sounding board for plot design and by producing covers and illustrations for her work he found it difficult to sell his art. Allingham supported his increasingly expensive tastes until after the Second World War when Pip came into his own writing society columns for The Tatler which he edited from 1954.' For the letters' recipient E. V. Knox editor of Punch from 1932 to 1949 see his entry in the Oxford DNB. The letters are in good condition lightly aged; the galley proof is on the usual cheap paper discoloured and chipping. The first two of the four books reviewed by Knox in the proof are crime novels: quite appropriately considering Carter's wife and Knox's brother Ronald author of the celebrated 'Ten Commandments' of detective fiction. All eight letters signed 'Youngman Carter'. Three of the eight letters are in autograph: two from 1953 and the other undated. The letters are businesslike exclusively concerned with the practicalities of reviewing the sending of copy 'wordage' deadlines arrangements for a holiday 'deputy'. On one occasion he asks Knox to send 'an article concerning itself with recommended reading for the Festival of Britain' on another he asks him to review H. E. Bates's 'The Face of England' as its illustrator an 'artist called Kirsting' has 'himself been very kind and unassuming to us in other directions'. On 14 May 1953 he asks Knox to review 'The Christs Hospital Book' of which Carter is 'the most insignificant of the editors'. He explains that he is drawing Knox's attention to 'its existence because the subject is naturally very near my heart although I think it can stand on its own legs. It is a labour of love by one and all concerned: if you can think it worth a line or so I would be deeply grateful'. The galley proof 'Book Reviews By E. V. Knox Holiday Amusements' is headed 'B20-7TATLERJuly 29 Book Review1 9-pt. Baskerville'. It can be dated to 1953 from the publication dates of the four books reviewed: 'Post Mortem' by Guy Cullingford 'I rank Mr. Guy Cullingford's Gilbert Worth very high among murderees.'; 'Symphony in Murder' by Amelia R. Long 'And who fired the pistol and how If you can discover before the last chapter in which the whole orchestra is brought into the house for a demonstration by the Homicide Bureau you deserve a free ticket for the Festival Hall.'; 'Things I Don't Remember' by Jeanne de Casalis the author 'has a charming way of confusing reminiscence with fiction'; and 'Regional Books' published by Robert Hale. There are three proof corrections by Knox. From the E. V. Knox papers. All eight letters on letterhead of The Tatler and Bystander, London. Seven dated between 17 November 1950 and 14 May 1953, the o unknown
1966biblio12749<p>First edition first printing of this story about a kidnapped woman and her kidnapper. The dustjacket's front panel has a jagged semi closed tear to the top edge and a thin 1/2 inch gouge beneath the title. The rear panel has a 3 inch closed tear that ends in a 1/4 inch deep by 1/4 wide chip. In very good / good condition.</p> Arthur Barker hardcover
1984007069University AL: Univ of Alabama Pr 1984. 281pp/illus/maps. The growth of the CIA's "air Force began with theKorean War. The CIA used CAT ti dekuver weaoibs to anti-Communist elements in Burma make numerous overflights of China in support of guerrilla carry operatives between secret bases throughout the Far East and provide secure airlift for other clandestine missions. Clean. First Edition. Hard Coveer. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Univ of Alabama Pr unknown
193085251Paris: Privately Printed by Charles Carrington 1930. First Thus. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's green buckram titled and decorated in dark green to spine and front board. 679pp. Light superficial scuffing to corners and spine ends of the very hard-wearing cloth a little toning and discoloration in places strong and handsome; internally clean with some light cosmetic toning. A very good solid copy.<br /> <br /> The culmination of Proal's career-long fascination with crimes of passion a category which he extended to include suicide and self harm; their motivations their complexities disparities in punishment or treatment and in cataloging their bewildering diversity. Privately Printed by Charles Carrington unknown
1905List2839Boston Massachusetts 1905. Single 8.5 x 8.5 inch sheet cut from a larger whole; likely missing a portion. Marks at upper left side some folding. Otherwise excellent to near fine. Wanted poster for Mary S. Dean dated December 16 1905. Three months prior a young woman’s torso had been found in a suitcase floating in Boston Harbor. A month later a suitcase containing her limbs was found and she was identified as Susanna Geary. In September Geary had gone to the medical practice on Tremont Street where Dean worked as a nurse and Dean had performed an abortion for her - at the time an illegal procedure in Massachusetts. Geary developed sepsis from the surgery; when she died Dean and three men one a doctor conspired to dismember Geary and dispose of her body in the ocean.1 The doctor was acquitted and the two men pleaded guilty but Mary S. Dean was never found.<br /> <br /> 1 “Says McLeod Made Plans: Crawford Testifies in Suit Case Trial†The Boston Globe November 28 1905. unknown
