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[Film]. [True Crime]. [Dillinger, John]
Two Great Features All Talking Colossal Screen Scoop The Killing of Dillinger. caption title
N.p. 1935. Very good. Photographically illustrated film herald 12 x 6 inches. Even toning minor edge wear short closed tear near top edge. A rare small broadside advertising a true crime presentation including real footage related to the shooting death of famed gangster John Dillinger. This "sensational story" most likely a newsreel mixed with a reenactment of Dillinger's assassination promised to show "actual authentic pictures" "the ambulance that hauled him away" and "Dillinger's body on a cold slab in the undertakers morgue." The herald includes a portrait of Dillinger himself. The Dillinger film was paired with an action western from 1930 titled Trails of Danger. An early entry in American true crime and a wonderful display piece. unknown
Bookseller reference : 3203
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[HAZAN DAVID] TIRIYAKI.
Complex of the Karaite Kenasa in Yevpatoria. Prepared for the 200th anniversary of the Big Kenasa Foundation. Translated by Valentin I. Kefeli.
Fine English Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In English. 32 p. Complex of the Karaite Kenasa in Yevpatoria. Prepared for the 200th anniversary of the Big Kenasa Foundation. Translated by Valentin I. Kefeli. History and architecture of the Qirim-Tatar synagogue
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[INDE, BIOGRAPHIE, BANDITISME] - DEVI (Phoolan) -
MOI, PHOOLAN DEVI, reine des bandits.
Paris, Fixot, 1996 ; in-8, 440 pp., br. Broché bon état un peu écorné.
Bookseller reference : 201221899
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[ITALIE] - MILES (Giulio Bechi).-
Caccia grossa. Scene e figure del banditismo sardo. Terza editione.
1900 Milano, La Poligrafica, sans date (vers 1900), petit in 8° relié demi-chagrin, dos à nerfs orné, couverture illustrée en couleurs conservée, 255 pages.
Bookseller reference : 82650
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[James Hadley Chase] Ambrose Grant, pseud Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond, crime novelist:
Typed Letter Signed "Ambrose Grant" other pseud. James Hadley Chase to "Mrs Dribble" about "More Deadly that the Male".
Headed The Camp Little Kimble Nr. Aylesbury Bucks. 5 Feb. 1947. One page 12mo good condition. "Thanks you very much for writing to me about my boo. It is always nice to hear from oone's readers and I am delighted to learn that both you and your husband found an hour's excitement in this otherwise rather dreary world. Your good wishes are appreciated." Norte: Apparently Raymond/Chase/Grant only published "More Deadly than the Male" under the pseudonym "Ambrose Grant" so letters signed so may well be scarce. [Headed] The Camp, Little Kimble, Nr. Aylesbury, Bucks., 5 Feb. 1947. unknown
Bookseller reference : 10760
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[L'ART DU CRIME ] - OMEYER, BERLION -
L'ART DU CRIME: planches de sang.
Grenoble, Glénat, 2016 ; in-4, 46 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. EO tome 1 DL avril 2016.
Bookseller reference : 202101782
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[Law & Crime] [New York City] Ted Cunningham, Dan Neville, and Paul Hosefros, photographers
Collection of Thirty Original Press Photographs Documenting a Hostage Situation in Queens New York June 10-12
Queens 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
Bookseller reference : 21567
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[LEBRUN] - EIBEL, Alfred.
Michel Lebrun. Témoignages.
in-8, 230 pp, broché, couverture illustrée. Excellent état. [AZ-9]
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[LGBTQ+ History - Crime] Burke, William Joseph; Hammock, Elwood "Buddie" Lee; Lea, Arthur
Archive of Correspondence and Paperwork Related to Operation Homex 1966-1967
United States 1967. Approximately 108 items: Eighteen packets of carbon-copied documents totaling 114 pages; thirty-nine pages of handwritten notes; twenty-six letters from William Burke to Elwood Hammock; thirteen notes and letters from Elwood Hammock to Arthur Lea; fourteen packets of carbon copies of Burke's letters totaling fifty pages; two newspaper articles about the case; and three copies and one negative of a mugshot. Excellent. The story of Operation Homex an investigation by the FBI into a blackmail ring targeting gay men during the mid-to-late 1960's begins with the arrest of John Aitken by Detective James McDonnell in July of 1965. Police were called to the Grand Central Western Union where Aitken who had been impersonating a police officer while traveling with a 14-year-old boy was attempting to convince the boy's father to wire him $150 to fly him home. Aitken had a prior arrest for child molestation -to avoid doing hard time Aitken told McDonnell that he could tell the NYPD about something much more interesting than the crime he was currently committing.1<br /> <br /> The extortion ring Aitken told the NYPD about had been shaking down dozens of men across the country for almost a decade taking in over $2 million. Corrupt police-and men impersonating police known as "bulls"-used young men and boys known as "chickens" to lure in and blackmail prominent closeted gay men. Their victims included high-ranking military officers doctors professors entertainers and even a sitting Congressman. Over the next two years the investigation headed by the Manhattan District Attorney and the FBI would reveal an operation of unprecedented scope with activities in over a dozen cities.<br /> <br /> The present archive of correspondence is from the collection of Special Agent Arthur B. Lea who was based in Fayetteville North Carolina. The majority of the letters are written by William Joseph Burke an ex-con and ring member who was arrested as part of the first public wave of indictments in February of 1966 to "Bone" or "Bud" a.k.a Elwood "Buddie" Lee Hammock one of the three ringleaders primarily responsible for the whole of the extortion operation. According to a carbon copy of an FBI report included here Hammock was arrested in September of 1966. It would appear that he subsequently began cooperating with the investigation including forwarding Burke's letters to Special Agent Lea.<br /> <br /> Burke discusses the legal case with Hammock candidly and in great detail though using pseudonyms for most of the players. He tells Hammock:<br /> <br /> "Yes the Thumb mentioned your name I assume one of the two contracts he was inflating his ego with may have belonged to you but he was all confused like I told you. He appeared to be sure about one thing and that was that his victims would never show up and take the stand at the trial but when I told him that Murphy the Apple were going to plead guilty his chin dropped he asked me if the Apple was talking ." January 9 1966<br /> <br /> It was incredibly difficult to convince victims to testify a fact which Burke alludes to several times in his letters. One victim Admiral William Church committed suicide rather than even speak to investigators in New York. As Burke himself notes "the laws in the U.S. . tend to encourage Vice Squads etc. to shake down such people" and left them little recourse September 22 1966.<br /> <br /> Hammock's main concern which is shared by Burke is that he would face serious prison time despite his cooperation with the authorities. He tells Lea:<br /> <br /> "Somebody has got to do something for me Art. I've worked hard as hell breaking up this ring now they're going to toss me to the vultures that ain't right Art I aint got no money to hire me a lawyer or nothing - Thats why the Hebe flew away". No Date<br /> <br /> "The Hebe" is Sherman Kaminsky who skipped bail after Church's suicide and disappeared for 11 years his flight is the subject of much ire from both Burke and Hammock. According to Hammock investigators let Kaminsky out of the courtroom at lunchtime and left him alone while he sat on a bench reading the paper and feeding the pigeons. When they came to retrieve him "Boom No Hebe no where in sight" No Date.<br /> <br /> Among the other items included here are two mugshots a photo negative and the complete FBI file of Jimmy Michael Haithcock one of the chickens whose name is included on the aforementioned FBI report. There are many pages of Lea's hastily written notes numerous photocopies of letters from Burke and a substantial stack of call records from Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company. An unusual collection to be sure with much to glean about a fascinating and largely forgotten episode of American history.<br /> <br /> 1 William McGowan "The Chickens and the Bulls" Slate July 11 2012. unknown
Bookseller reference : List2964
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[MANDRIN] - TOWNLEY (Corinne).-
La véritable histoire de Mandrin. Préface de Jean Pierre Vial. Avant-propos de Jean Nicolas.
Montmelian, La Fontaine Siloe, Chambery, Archives de Savoie, 2005, fort in 8° broché, 374 pages ; illustrations en noir et en couleurs.
Bookseller reference : 67182
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[MALET] - COLLECTIF.
LEO MALET sous pli discret.
in-8, 215 pages, illustrations, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [MI-26]
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[Mesrine] – SIMON (Jean-Marc).
Jacques Mesrine dit le Grand.
Editions Jacob-Duvernet, 2008, gr. in-8°, 402 pp, broché, couv. illustrée, bon état. Tome 1 seul (sur 2) : 1936-1973. Le tome 2 couvre la période 1973-1979.
Bookseller reference : 99779
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[Mesrine] – NAIN (Jacques).
La traque de Jacques Mesrine, l'ennemi public n° 1. Un flic de l'antigang témoigne.
L'Esprit du Livre, 2008, gr. in-8°, 208 pp, préface du commissaire Charles Pellegrini, photos et documents en fac-similé dans le texte, broché, couv. illustrée, bon état
Bookseller reference : 99885
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[Mesrine] – ADAMIK (Guy).
Mesrine... ou la dernière cavale.
P., Le Carrousel-FN, 1984, gr. in-8°, 247 pp, 16 pl. de photos et documents hors texte, broché, couv. illustrée, bon état. Edition originale
Bookseller reference : 99733
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[Mesrine] – ADAMIK (Guy).
Mesrine, la dernière cavale.
Flammarion, 2008, gr. in-8°, 383 pp, broché, couv. illustrée, bon état, bande conservée
Bookseller reference : 99774
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[MESRINE] ADAMIK Guy.
MESRINE OU LA DERNIÈRE CAVALE.
Paris, Le carrousel FN, 1984. In-8, broché, documents hors-texte.
Bookseller reference : 7647
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[MEDECINE]. CORNIL (Claude - MARCHAND (Eugène) - SEVE (Ernest) - ROUSSET (Auguste) - BIGEARD (A.). - MOLLIERE (Hubert) -
Recueil de thèses et articles.
1 vol. grand in-8, demi-basane noire, dos à nerfs, titré "Divers" tome 2. Légers frottemenst au dos. Bon état. Provient de la Bibliothèque d'Antonin Mallat, pharmacien et historien de Vichy.
Bookseller reference : 6528
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[MORE (Hannah)]
Patient Joe: Wild Robert: Dan and Jane: and the Gin-Shop.
12mo, 16pp., woodcut to title page, disbound. Patient Joe, or, The Newcastle collier -- The execution of Wild Robert : being a warning to all parents -- Dan and Jane, or, Faith and works : a tale -- The gin-shop, or, A peep into a prison. A Cheap Repository Tract.
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[Murder] [Crime] [Charles Getter]
Trial of Charles Getter For the Murder of His Wife; Late of Forks Township Northampton County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania In the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Goal Delivery held at Easton in and for the County of Northampton on the third Monday of August Anno Domini 1833 Containing The Arguments of Counsel At Length
Philadelphia: 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
Bookseller reference : 35550
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[ORDINANCE - CRIME - HOLLAND]. [CHARLES V].
Ordonnancie van die Keyserlijcke Mayesteyt roerende die dootslaghers cessionanten ende banckeroeten. Ghepubliceert inden jare duysent vijfhondert vier ende veertich.
The Hague: sold by Frans Duyck Pietersz. colophon: Delft printed by Symon Jansz. 1544. Modern half brown buckram marbled paper sides blue endpapers with an older ca. 1840 front wrapper bound in. 4to. With the woodcut crowned coat of arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V with the order of the Golden Fleece a column on either side and the motto plus oultre on the title-page. Set in 2 sizes of textura gothic type with 2 lombardic initials cast type. First and only edition of a rare ordinance printed in Delft. The ordinance promulgated 19 May 1544 tried to reduce or at least prevent a further rise in crime in Holland and even in other parts of the Holy Roman Empire by addressing the negligence of officers in enforcing the law. It notes that crime rates - from murders to fraud and other smaller incidents - are rising in Holland and across the Holy Roman Empire because officers of the law are failing to do their jobs in the eyes of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and other lower ranking officials like the stadtholders in the Low Countries. The present ordinance addresses problems concerning the enabling fraudulent behaviour towards creditors of any kind authorities too readily issuing letters permitting deferment of payment resulting in an exorbitant volume of unpaid debts. In total the ordinance contains 40 rules and regulations mainly for officers of the law but also for criminals and others profiting from the lack of law enforcement decreed and published with the intent of bringing down crime rates and reminding officers of their duties. The printer Simon Jansz. in Delft printed the ordinance in two issues the present for Frans Duyck Pietersz. in the Hague and the other with his own imprint Typ. Batava 5796 2 copies.With contemporary marginal annotations and underlining of the text in pen. The second flyleaf is the older front wrapper with an inscription in brown ink on the back: "19 Mei 1544" along with an old catalogue clipping and a few pencilled bibliographical notes. With edges of the leaves slightly frayed slight browning throughout mostly around the edges but overall in good condition.l Petit Pamfletten 1 1882 71; STCN 119453460 2 copies cf. 831527528: Delft issue; Typ. Batava 5797 4 copies cf. 5796: Delft issue; USTC 421160 same 4 copies 1 listed as if it were 2 cf. 421163: Delft issue; not in Knuttel; Kress; Van der Wulp. sold by Frans Duyck Pietersz. (colophon: Delft, printed by Symon Jansz.), hardcover
Bookseller reference : ABC_46700
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[Paris] WOLFF Albert
Mémoires d’un parisien. L’écume de Paris
Paris, P., Victor-Havard 1885 In-12, demi-chagrin grenat, dos à nerfs encadré de petits fers dorés, VI- 352 pp. Reliure légèrement frottée. Bon exemplaire.
Bookseller reference : 95257
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[Photographs] [True Crime]
Code 5 Detective October 1973 Original cover photograph and accompanying issue
Freeport 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
Bookseller reference : 160726
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[POLICE, CRIME] - GAYET (Jean) -
Abc de police scientifique.
Paris, Payot, 1973 ; in-8, 269 pp., br.
Bookseller reference : 202202943
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[Policing / Crime]. Knott, Obadiah
Notes of a Turn-of-the-Century Beat Cop. Obadiah Knott. Second Police Div. Fall River Mass. July 12 1903. Returning Post cor. North Main and St. James Sts. Drop title.
Fall River Massachusetts 1903-1904. About Very Good. 14.5 x 9.5 cm. 120pp. Red limp leather top-bound notebook tan paper label stamped in black to front cover. Holograph text in pencil and ink. Leather edgeworn with several small chips/loss to sides and lower edge; title label stained and toned; faint center crease to rear cover; occasional minor soiling. A year in the beat of Fall River patrolman Obadiah Knott providing a day-by-day account of his activities while on patrol. For the most part these are fairly mundane things: he notes the number of gas lights burning on his route checks that doors are locked and occasionally gets called upon to break up groups of loud drunks. Often people disperse themselves running away when they see him coming; other times he is merely resolving misunderstandings. Nevertheless numerous arrests are reported mostly for larceny and disturbing the peace witnesses corralled warrants given and at one point he notes "On Duty on Wellington St. while small pox patients where sic being carried away" July 20 1903.An uncommon personal record of a policeman's activities while walking his beat. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1953
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[Prohibition / Crime]
Press Photograph of Belle Livingston after Her Release from Jail
<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.
Bookseller reference : 3299
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[ROMAN, LE CRIME PARFAIT ] - REMY (Pierre jean) -
Le vicomte épinglé.
Paris, Mercure de France, 1985 ; in-8, 316 pp., br.
Bookseller reference : 201314569
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[Sensational Literature] [True Crime] [Sex Work]
The Double Suicide. The True History of the Lives of the Twin Sisters Sarah and Maria Williams.
New 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
Bookseller reference : 5437
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[SOCIAL FICTION] [ORGANIZED CRIME] SHULMAN, Irving
The Big Brokers
New York: Dial Press 1951. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 570pp. Trivial dusting to page edges else Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.50 on front flap slightly spine-sunned and rubbed at folds; Very Good. Sprawling novel of the rise of three young Jewish gangsters in the world of Las Vegas organized crime. Less a crime novel than an occupational novel of the Jewish-American underworld - a subtle distinction perhaps but as with all of Shulman's early novels this was his third following "The Amboy Dukes" and "Cry Tough" big-city crime and corruption are offered up not so much for entertainment as for an examination of their social origins and implications. Dial Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 62953
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[TELEVISION CRIME SHOWS]
International Detective -Series “The Raschid Caseâ€. Teleplay by Kate Barclay & Paul Tabori
London: Pimlico Films Limited 1962. First Edition. Original shooting script belonging to actress Hira Talfrey and signed by her on the front cover and is annotated in the text by her. Paperbound in printed studio wrappers. Laid in are 4 mimeographed daily production call sheets. This Britsh produced television crime series which starred Art Fleming and told tales from the cases of the William J. Burns detective agency in New York. 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
Bookseller reference : 11762J
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[True Crime] Roughead, William
In Queer Street
Edinburgh: W. Green and Son Limited 1932. First edition. Hardcover in dust illustrated dust jacket. Frontis plates and facsimiles throughout. Red cloth boards show a few smudges and light shelf wear. Lengthy gift inscription dated 1946 on verso of frontis. Jacket witha couple tears to bottom edge of front panel light use at spine ends and corners and darkening to rear white panel. Very good. <br /> <br /> First edition in the scarce jacket of this title an early literary collection featuring notable Scottish murder trials such as the baby-farmer and child-murderer Jessie King. Roughead 1870-1952 was a pioneer in the genre which became known as True Crime. W. Green and Son, Limited hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8879
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[True Crime]
Official Detective Stories May 1960
Philadelphia: M. L. Annenberg Foundation 1960. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Includes Reincarnation by a Killer Bread for Heavy Horse Charlie: My Five Months as an Undercover Beatnik and more. A fine copy. ; Folio. M. L. Annenberg Foundation unknown
Bookseller reference : 30235
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[Utah] [Hotel Utah] [Bank Burglaries] [Crime] [Vintage Safes]
Letter Written to W. G. Norris President of Norris Safe & Lock Co. Describing an Attempted Bank Burglary at State Bank of Tremonton
Handwritten letter on 4 pages measuring 5 1/2 x 8 1/2". With the letterhead "Hotel Utah Salt Lake City Under the Management of Geo. O. Relf." The letter is dated February 19 1913.<br /> <br /> The author writes:<br /> <br /> "Dear Sir<br /> <br /> "Complying with your request as regards attempted Bank Burglaries in this Territory. The last one occurred about one month ago. At Tremonton the “State Bank of Tremonton†This is a small town 25 miles north of Ogden. The bank had just located a new building and was ready to move in. They were using an old plate safe. But we sold them a new Manganese. The new safe was in the vault of the new bank while the old safe remained in the old building and vault. The bank had acknowledged they would move on Monday. On Sunday night the Burglers sic entered the old Bank and blew the old safe. But the Saturday evening previous the Cashier had transferred all the money to the new safe. So the yeggmen did not secure a cent and all the damage they did was to put the old safe out of use. The only other attempts I know of in the past six months was on a bank at Midvale Ut. and Murray Ut both small town south of Salt Lake about 15 and 25 miles. In both cases all they did was to punch the lock off the vault door. There was no attempt on either safe and the yeggs got nothing.<br /> <br /> "I presume you have heard of the First National at St. Anthony being entirely burned out as also the Commercial Bank at Burley Id.<br /> <br /> "Yours very truly " A letter with interesting content describing early twentieth century attempts at breaking open safes in small Utah towns which leave the yeggmen empty handed in the end. The letter is addressed to Mr. W. G. Norris of Seattle WA. William G. Norris was president of Norris Safe & Locke Co. which was a seller of safes. In 1904 the business occupied one of the first-floor storefronts of the Estabrook building at 1336 2nd Avenue. Perhaps Mr. Norris had queried the author of the letter as to how his safes were withstanding the occasional burglaries of the times. unknown
Bookseller reference : 64479
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]Crime Fiction] Thompson, Jim
Hard-Core. Three Novels. The Kill Off The Nothing Man Bad Boy.
New York:: Donald I. Fine Inc. 1986. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Thompson novels explore themes of criminal psychology inner-city settings and the struggle for survival in harsh environments. This collection offers a look into Thompson's nihilistic worldview particularly with The Nothing Man and his innovative use of unreliable narrators in The Kill-Off solidifying his status as a master of the noir genre. Donald I. Fine Inc., unknown
Bookseller reference : 29179
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a cura di Ernesto Ferrero - prefazione di Leonardo Sciascia
La mala Italia Storie nere di fine secolo
in 8° grande, tela edit. con titoli al dorso e sovrac. ill., piccole rotture, tracce d'umidità e tracce d'uso alla sovrac. - prima edizione - numerose illustrazioni in b.n. nel testo
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a cura di Franco Ferracuti
Appunti di criminologia
in testa al front.: Università degli Studi di Roma, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza - bross. edit. ill., tracce d'uso in cop., fioriture ai tagli, lieve brunitura della carta - prima edizione
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a cura di Michel Foucault
Io, Pierre Rivière, avendo sgozzato mia madre, mia sorella e mio fratello... Un caso di parricidio nel XIX secolo
in 16°, bross. edit. ill., lievi abrasioni e bruniture in cop. - prima edizione it. - trad. di Alessandro Fontana e Pasquale Pasquino
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A'BECKETT Gilbert Abbott, Revised By Arthur William A'Beckett
The Comic Blackstone Revised and Extended
London: 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
Bookseller reference : 010034
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A. Conan Doyle
Un crime étrange - 3e éd
Librairie Hachette & Cie 1903 in12. 1903. Broché. Un homme est retrouvé mort dans une maison inhabitée d'un quartier sinistre de Londres. Cette enquête marque la première rencontre entre Sherlock Holmes et le Dr Watson
Bookseller reference : 100151375
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A. Berera, G. Gatto
Il paradiso della droga
bross. edit. ill., piccola macchia in cop. - prima edizione - illustrazioni in b.n. fuori testo
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A. POLKANOV [A. U. POLKANOVA].
Folklor Krimskih Karaimov. Yirlar, atalar sözleri, ulugata sanavi. Pesni, poslovisi i pogovonki, narodniy kalendar.
Fine Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Crimean Turkish and Russian. 159, [1] p., musical scores. Folklor Krimskih Karaimov. Yirlar, atalar sözleri, ulugata sanavi. Pesni, poslovisi i pogovonki, narodniy kalendar. Anthology of folklore of Karaites (Crimean Turkish Jews).
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A.J. CRONIN
Les années d'illusion
Le Livre de Poche Sans date.
Bookseller reference : 500330559
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AA. VV.
IL BANDITISMO IN ITALIA.
8°, BROSSURA CON SOVR. ILL., PG. 202 (12). E' IL 64 FASCICOLO (ANNO XXII) DELLA RIVISTA "I PROBLEMI DI ULISSE", BUONO STATO. (C)
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AA. VV.
Il banditismo in Italia. (coll. I problemi di Ulisse).
in-8°, pp. 204. Bross. edit. con sovrac. Lievi tracce del tempo e d'uso sulla sovrac; timbro di biblioteca sul piatto ant. della sovrac. Buono l'interno.
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AA.VV
Delitti d'onore della Palermo dell'800 tratti dalle Assise di Palermo
in 16°, bross. edit. ill. con bandelle
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AA.VV.
Capolavori del brivido e del mistero
In 16° leg. edit. fig. pp. 736, ben tenuto
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AA.VV.
Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sui fenomeni di criminalità in Sardegna (istituita con legge 27 ottobre 1969, n. 755) - Relazione Relatore Medici Allegati: Relazioni e documenti dei quattro Gruppi di lavoro - Relazione di minoranza Relatore Pazzaglia
continua dal front.: ...Comunicate alle Presidenze delle Camere il 29 marzo 1972 - in testa al front.: Senato della Repubblica V Legislatura Doc. XXIII n. 3 - numerosi facsimile nel testo, una cartina ripiegata più volte fuori testo
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AA.VV.
I banditi : da Salvatore Giuliano al bel Ren?..
Copertina morbida pp. 189, fotografie in bianco e nero.<BR>I protagonisti delle rapine e delle sparatorie che hanno insanguinato le nostre campagne e citt.
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AA.VV.
I mille volti del terrore
In 8° br. fig. col. pp. 244, ben tenuto
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AA.VV.
Mafia anatomia di un regime (stampa 1992)
in 16°, bross. edit. ill., lievi abrasioni in cop.
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AA.VV.
Mafia e politica in Italia (1984-1990) Introduzione di Achille Occhetto Premessa di Luciano Violante La Relazione di minoranza nella Commissione Parlamentare Antimafia (stampa 1990)
bross. edit. ill.
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