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Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine lettering faded. First and last few pages browned. Back hinge started; Clarence Darrow was one of history's most eminent attorneys, arguing such notable cases as the Leopold-Loeb murder case, and the Scopes 'monkey' trial. Learn what shaped his beliefs and his feelings about these and other celebrated cases. This is a presentation copy to Thomas Massie, signed by numerous friends, including Clarence Darrow: "To my friend Lt. Thomas Massie - My client and friend with respect and deep affection from Clarence Darrow, Honolulu, April 4th - 1932". Thomas Massie - My client and friend with respect and deep affection from Clarence Darrow, Honolulu, April 4th - 1932". (Signed during the Massie trial). In nicely made 1/4 leather custom box ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 465 pages
DJ with light edgewear. Endpapers a bit darkened ; Clarence Darrow was one of history's most eminent attorneys, arguing such notable cases as the Leopold-Loeb murder case, and the Scopes 'monkey' trial. Learn what shaped his beliefs and his feelings about these and other celebrated cases. This edition has a chapter on Darrow's views on the infamous Massie case; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 495 pages
Previous owner's name and notes on front free endpaper. Boards with light rubbing to extremities; Clarence Darrow was one of history's most eminent attorneys, arguing such notable cases as the Leopold-Loeb murder case, and the Scopes 'monkey' trial. Learn what shaped his beliefs and his feelings about these and other celebrated cases. The "A" on copyright page indicates the 1st edition ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 465 pages
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
1977028577St. Paul Minnesota: West Publishing Co. 1977. This copy is from the library of and SIGNED by "Judge Bry Behrmann" a felon on the front free endaper. SEE BELOW or details about Behrmann's legal troubles his jail sentence after conviction for money laundering and the order that he pay $38 MILLION in restitution. The book appears unread. Fine condition. Bright and shiny. Square and tight. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked -- apparently never read. Published under the sponsorship ot the National Conference of State Trial Judges. Bound in the original green leatherette stamped in bright gold. From the FBI website: "Directors of La Grande Company Sentenced to Federal Prison for Conviction in Federal Money Laundering Case Defendants Ordered to Pay in Excess of $38 Million in Restitution to Thousands of North American Investors Who Lost Millions of Dollars Bryant E. Behrmann 63 and Larry 'Buck' E. Hunter 63 were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown. Both defendants pled guilty in June 2009 to money laundering in connection with a scheme to defraud thousands of investors through their company Global Online Direct. Judge Brown sentenced both defendants to serve 72 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. The defendants were ordered to pay restitution to their victims in the amount of $38279352. Berhmann and Hunter were ordered to report to the Bureau of Prisons on January 8 2010 to begin serving their sentence.". Reprint of the 1969 Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xvi 407pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. West Publishing Co. Hardcover
1995BEL339London, Pan Books, 1995. 306 Seiten, Kl.-8°, ISBN: 0330341693, OKart. (Tb), in englischer Sprache - Neuwertig. broschiert/ Taschenbuch/ paperback
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
1990BOOKS014399INew York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good/Very Good Dj. 1990. First Ediition. Hardback. 8vo 039913509X Some light staining to inside of dustjacket . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
- Hardcover, good condiion, w. ltly compressed, slanted spine, ltly bumped corners. Ltly tanned page tops. Clean, tight, unmarked. Dj good, somewhat rubbed, Scratches, marks creases. Ltly bumped sp ends, corners. Lt tanning on flap edges.
1st edition, 1st printing. 8vo, 349 pages. Very good condition hardback in a fine condition dust jacket. Page edges browned. 'A Doctor Sam Ryan Mystery'. 39814. eng
8vo., First Edition thus; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities. With dustwrapper artwork by Hookway Cowles. Dr. Gideon Fell rides again! VERY SCARCE INDEED IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The second Cordelia Gray mystery.
1356774989.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 558pp. An expose of global profiteering - how a few people/companies are raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq - a few are making a killing while more are getting killed.
128 p. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial endpapers. 120mm. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, chipped and worn. Third printing. "Fifty years of occasional articles, newspaper cuttings, letters, memoirs, anecdotes, pictures, photographs and drawings relating to the great detective". LITERATURE BX 6
211 pages.spine title lettering faded. eng
8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Dillon's detailed account inevitably focuses on the atrocities of Murphy and his compatriots, and the painstaking detective work of James Nesbitt who remains the most commended policeman in the history of the United Kingdom. A SPLENDID COPY OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT.
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
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 372pp. Featuring detective Simon Serrailler in his fifth role, this gripping and psychologically acute crime novel is set in the darker side of a cathedral town.
1954052058Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1954. x 204pp bw ills. Or green cloth in jacket. Minor rubbing to jacket folds several short tears to edges <1cm-some with associated minor creasing. Minor foxing to page edges.The exploits of New South Wales police detective Frank Fahy. Working undercover his work was unknown to all but a very few of his colleagues. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Angus & Robertson Hardcover
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 8 illustrations in the text; red boards blocked and lettered in white and black, black cloth, back lettered in red and white, a near fine copy in publisher's pictorial board slip-case.
189 pages, ex public library with usual signs, front endpaper removed, page edges browned. eng
8vo, 308 pages, not illustrated. Page edges browned. eng
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
