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DRAGENDORFF, G
Die gerichtlich-chemische Ermittelung von Giften. in Nahrungsmitteln, Luftgemischen, Speiseresten, Körpertheilen etc. 3. völlig umgearb. Aufl.
Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1888. 16, 567, (1) S. m. 17 Abb. Hldrbd d. Zeit m. Rückenvergoldung (Einbd am Kopf m. Einriß u. kl. Fehlstelle, Kanten beschabt, Vorsätze randgebräunt u. etwas leimschattig).
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COLQUHOUN, P
Ueber Londons Polizey besonders in Bezug auf Verbesserungen und Verhütungsmittel der Verbrechen. Nebst einem Anhange ähnlichen Inhalts, im Auszuge aus Briefen. Aus dem Englischen, nach der fünften Auflage übersetzt und mit einigen Erläuterungen versehen von J. W. Volkmann. (Bd 1 von 2).
Leipzig, Baumgärtner, 1800. 56, 462 S. Kart. d. Zeit (unaufgeschnitten, Vorderdeckel stärker fleckig, innen gut).
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GRÄSSLICHE MORDGESCHICHTE.
(Bautzen, Lehmann, 1828). 2 Bl. Rückenbroschur (Seitensteg stark beschnitten = geringer Textverlust).
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CHILD WELFARE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime
Counter-Attack on Delinquency. The Program of the Federal Government to Stimulate Communities to Develop Rational Answers to a Growing Crisis
Washington D.C.: President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime 1963. First Edition. Quarto. Side-stapled sheets; printed cover-wrappers; 83pp. Slight external wear; ownership signature "Return to Wyckoff" to front cover; Very Good. Summary progress report on Kennedy-era anti-delinquency initiatives in New York Cleveland New Haven Boston and seven other American cities. President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime unknown books
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CRIME & UNDERWORLD PHELPS Richard H.
Newgate of Connecticut; Its Origin and Early History. Being a Full Description of the Famous and Wonderful Simsbury Mines and Caverns and the Prison Built Over Them . Also an Illustrated Description of the State Prison at Wethersfield
Hartford: Clarence W. Seymour 1927. Reprint. 12mo. Burgundy cloth boards stamped in gilt. Reprint from the original plates of the 1876 edition. Minimal evidence of wear or handling; close to fine copy with gilt bright on cover and internally sound clean unmarked. Simultaneously issued in wraps this is the somewhat less common clothbound issue. History of Newgate Prison in Connecticut. Clarence W. Seymour unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD MATSELL George W.
Vocabulum; or The Rogue's Lexicon. Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources
New-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
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MYSTERY CRIME & DETECTIVE FICTION PRESCOTT Harriet Elizabeth Spofford
The Amber Gods and Other Stories
Boston: 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
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD BURNETT WR. W. R.
Dark Hazard
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1933. Book Club Edition. With "H-H" code on copyright page. Octavo 21.5cm; dark blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in lime green across spine and covers; gray topstain; patterned endpapers; viii2951pp. Previous owners name to upper front endpaper light wear to extremities else a bright Near Fine copy. BOMC booklet laid in. Attractive copy of Burnett's seventh book a novel set in California and centered around a down-and-out gambler his interaction with gangsters and his love affair with dog racing - particularly with a greyhound named Dark Hazard. Burnett became involved in dog racing for a time while writing the novel and even owned a greyhound named War Cry. Basis for Alfred E. Green's 1934 film of the same name starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin and a 1937 B-picture titled Wine Women and Horses. Hubin p.58; Baird 359. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD BURNETT WR. W. R.
Dark Hazard Inscribed
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1933. Book Club Edition. With "H-H" code on copyright page. Octavo 21.5cm; dark blue cloth with titling and decorations stamped in lime green across spine and covers; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; viii2951pp. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page: "For Bill Paxson who likes greyhound racing as much as I do - Best regards - W.R. Burnett." Sunning to spine light wear to extremities with some scattered soil to front cover; contents clean; Very Good or better. Dustjacket is spine-sunned with modest shelfwear several tiny nicks and short tears and a 1.5" closed tear at upper front joint; Very Good. Inscribed copy of Burnett's seventh book a novel set in California and centered around a down-and-out gambler his interaction with gangsters and his love affair with dog racing - particularly with a greyhound named Dark Hazard. Burnett became involved in dog racing for a time while writing the novel and even owned a greyhound named War Cry. Basis for Alfred E. Green's 1934 film of the same name starring Edward G. Robinson and Genevieve Tobin and a 1937 B-picture titled Wine Women and Horses. Hubin p.58; Baird 359. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD KOGAN Herman
Dope - and Chicago's Children. Reprinted from The Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago: Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago 1950. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 27pp. Wrappers toned at margins else a tight Very Good or better copy. Series of articles originally published in the Sun-Times on Chicago's juvenile narcotics epidemic. Addressed to an adult audience but includes a number of reputed first-hand testimonials from young addicts including "Sam R." who recounts the story of being nabbed in a ladies' department store: ".I'd gotten very high that day so high that I didn't even know I had 10 ladies' slips in a shopping bag." Uncommon; OCLC 3 locations Chicago Public Chicago Historical Soc. and NYPL. Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD PHOTOGRAPHY HOFFMAN Ethan and John McCOY
Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla
Columbia: University of Missouri Press 1986. First paperback printing originally published 1981. Oblong quarto ca 22cm x 27cm. Pictorial card wrappers; 196pp. Light external wear; one text page with a vertical crease at center; Very Good. Evocative photo-essay documenting life inside Washington's maximum-security prison. According to the rear cover blurb the photographs were taken during a period of ".near breakdown in prison security.an atmosphere of riots murders and lockdowns." The text is by John McCoy then a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. University of Missouri Press unknown books
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CRIME & UNDERWORLD JUVENILE DELINQUENCY BURT Cyril
The Young Delinquent
New 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
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CRIME & UNDERWORLD PRISON REFORM WRIGHT Edward S.
Some Features of Prison Discipline Read Before the Baltimore Prison Congress December 5th 1892
Baltimore: 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
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD LONG Mason
The Life of Mason Long the Converted Gambler
Chicago: 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
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD MACBRAYNE Lewis E. and James P. Ramsay
One More Chance: An Experiment in Human Salvage
Boston: Small Maynard & Company 1916. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; olive green buckram with printed title labels at spine and front cover; dustjacket; 340 4pp. Mild sunning to spine with two faint stains to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket priced $1.50 at mid-spine; hint of sunning and faint vertical crease to spine light dustiness overall with a few small tears and nicks; Very Good. "Human documents from the experiences of a Massachusetts probation officer in the application of the probation system to the problems of men and women who without it would have been permanently lost to useful citizenship" from front panel. Small, Maynard & Company unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD NUMBER 1500
Life In Sing Sing
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1904. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.25cm; hunter green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover with an old-fashioned jail door embossed to front cover; 8 276pp. Mild wear to spine ends and corners with a faint stain to lower edge of textblock; Very Good with gilt still bright and unrubbed. Anonymous memoir of life in New York's Sing Sing Correctional Facility in which "the author served a six-and-a-half-year term. Describes the demise of the contract labor system in New York and his enterprising work in starting the prison newspaper The Star of Hope under Warden Sage in 1899. Includes chapters on executions escapes famous prisoners and convict slang " SUVAK 238 p.67. Bobbs-Merrill Company unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD by "A BURGLAR" in collaboration with Malcolm W. Davis
In the Clutch of Circumstance: My Own Story Inscribed
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 14 272pp. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To Mr. and Mrs. Morrell / Two good pals and sincere friends / from the Author. Oct. 12th 1923." Light overall wear hand-soil to boards top edge of textblock slightly grubby with tiny bumps to right fore-edge; Very Good. Dustjacket is deeply price-clipped lightly edgeworn and spine-sunned with a few small nicks and tears; measures 1/4" taller than the book; Very Good. Memoir of a career criminal who spent time incarcerated in Wisconsin and Connecticut State Prisons. "His career as a law-breaker ended with his well-known burglarizing of Mark Twain's home an unsuccessful attempt which won him the name of "the Mark Twain Burglar" from front flap. "Criticizes the convict labor system as slavery and unjust to free workers calls torture and punishment useless and attributes his own reform to the "human touch" SUVAK 155 p.46. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD DUNCAN Lee
Over The Wall
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; mauve cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; illus.frontispiece 368pp. Slight musty odor else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped priced $3.00 sunned and edgeworn with small chips to extremities short tears and splits along flap folds. Life story of a career criminal incarcerated in the Oregon State Prison after a career of check forging hold-ups safe-blowing and theft. "Principal incidents are Duncan's escape and recapture; otherwise this is a diary of a criminal's routine prison life" SUVAK 98 p.32. Scarce in dustjacket. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD PRINCE IMMANUEL of JERUSALEM pseud Eleasar Issac Goldreich?
Criminals of Chicago
Boston: Roxburgh Publishing Company 1921. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 258pp. Slightly shaken; spine gilt dulled legible with difficulty; internally clean tight and unmarked. A solidly VG copy lacking the presumed dustwrapper. Extremely uncommon survey of vice and crime in the Windy City presented as an exercise in "psychopathology" but written in a flat hard-boiled style by the enigmatic "Prince Immanuel of Jerusalem" whose true identity is shrouded in mystery. This pseudonym turns up in a number of unexpected locations: as a steerage immigrant to California in 1909 where he is described as "the son of the Sultan of Turkey and an Arabian Jewess" and is apparently seeking to raise funds for the construction of a "Universal University" on the site of King Solomon's Temple see The Lompoc California Journal for Jan 3 1909; as the headmaster of an institution called the "University College of Africa" in Cairo Egypt ca. 1917 see Hill The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Papers v.11 p.769n; and as the creator of an invented language "Universal" ca. 1914 see Okrent In the Land of Invented Languages p.296. In the first two sources he is identified as "I.E. Goldreich" and "Eleasar Isaac Goldreich" respectively and he appears to have been a one-time British citizen. He was responsible for at least two other published works: Postcards of Palestine Cairo ca 1912 and Chaos: Written for the Illiterati Columbia City IN: 1947. A scarce and somewhat mysterious Chicago item. Roxburgh Publishing Company unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD GAMES PRISONS
Tee-Pee-Gee The Prison Game
Milwaukee WI: Tee-Pee-Gee Company n.d. but ca.1950. Board game consisting of one 1 game board 21.5" x 22" set of two 2 red acrylic dice 41 round and square painted wood pieces in black white green red yellow blue and brown one black piece replaced 17 game cards 2.25" x 3.75" printed on rectos only and original instruction manual 6" x 4". Dice game pieces and cards housed in the original manufacturers two-piece box. Game board is hinged with linen lightly worn at extremities with some occasional board exposure; instruction manual is browned overall folded in half with some splitting along spine fold and holographic notes to front and rear wrappers. Box for entire game not present though it is unclear whether or not one was issued. Presumed complete. "The fascination of this game lies in the variety of ways chances and combinations in which it can be played. For instance - a player may decide to play all the men on the straight and narrow path to freedom by being pardoned or take a shorter but more risky method as a fugitive. The trials of fate and temptation may enter at any time and upset all plans. This novel game which may be played by two to six players illustrates the separation of prisoners from the outside world and their discipline and reformation. It is a game of chance and skill and the possibility of your opponents' chance to win depends upon where and how you make your moves. It will hold you spellbound from beginning to end" - opening statement from instruction booklet.<br/><br/>A prison-themed board game with a phantom manufacturer; our research has failed to reveal much information about either one though in theory and objective it bears remarkable similarities to the much later ca.1990's board game The Slammer produced by Ruppert Games. Tee-Pee-Gee can be played by up to six players and while it appears fairly easy at first glance the dynamics are quite complicated with game pieces representing inmates messengers guards and visitors. The possibility for numerous moves exists dictated by the roll of the dice cards chosen and each players respective positioning on the board. Prisoners can be released or can choose to escape with or without the help of visitors. The winner of the game is the player with all their prisoners outside the walls either as "pardoned" or "fugitives" and their visitors "in good standing" with the prison officials. Rare; we find no example for sale at the time of this writing March 2021 and no record in OCLC. Tee-Pee-Gee Company unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD PORTER Edward Sefton
Raw Edge
New York: Appleton-Century 1933. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 261pp. First printing with 1 present on final page of text. Gilt a trifle oxidized else a fine tight copy in scarce original dustwrapper lightly nicked at extremities but unusually bright and unfaded VG to Near Fine. A juvenile delinquent novel set in the tenements of New York told from the point of view of a hard-boiled probation officer. Quite scarce especially in dustwrapper. HANNA 2910. Appleton-Century unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD PHILLIP Alban M.
The Prison Breakers: A Book of Escapes from Captivity
New 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
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD BOOTH Ernest
Stealing Through Life
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22.5cm; purple cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 308pp 1. Vintage bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown upper board edges slightly darkened with a slight bump to upper right corner of front panel; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped with several edge tears and a dozen clear tape mends on verso; light wear and shallow chipping to extremities with a deeper chip at crown not affecting titles; just Very Good. Narrative account of Ernest Booth an unreprentant career criminal who by his own admission was an accomplished burglar and forger. "Booth's career as a thief was punctuated by several brief stays in county jails and over half of a five-year sentence at San Quentin. He secured an excellent inmate job at San Quentin photographer but after a parole denial soured on it and used the position as a front to appropriate salable items from the administration." Uncommon and rarely found in jacket. SUVAK 26. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD DOBLER Bruce
Icepick: A Novel about Life and Death in a Maximum Security Prison Inscribed
Boston: Little Brown and Company 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; blue denim paper-covered boards with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 460pp. Inscribed by the author on the second blank page inside an original drawing of a wine goblet with a caricature inside: "For David Carol / Whose cup of kindness hath cheered me much / Bruce / Putney VT. 6/17/76." Crown gently nudged with a few faint spots to right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $8.95 lightly rubbed overall with a few shallow chips at crown and faint foxing to verso; Very Good. Dobler's second book a novlized account of the five months he spent touring and visiting various prisons within the Illinois penal system interviewing and speaking with everyone from convicts to prison staff. An uncommon title inscribed. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
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CRIME & UNDERWORLD PRISONS CHESSMAN Caryl
Cell 2455 Death Row
New York: Prentice-Hall Inc 1954. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; 361pp. Base of spine gently nudged else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped lightly edge-rubbed with a few tiny tears and creases to same; Very Good to Near Fine with the spine notably unfaded. Chessman's classic account of life on San Quentin's Death Row adapted for the 1955 film of the same name directed by Fred F. Sears in 1955 starring William Campbell as Chessman. After publishing three books and exhausting a number of appeals Chessman was finally executed in 1960. An unusually nice copy. SUVAK 57. Prentice-Hall, Inc unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD OSBORNE Thomas Mott
Prisons and Common Sense
Philadelphia & 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 books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD LUCKEY Rev. John
Life in Sing Sing State Prison As Seen in a Twelve Years' Chaplaincy
New York: N. Tibbals & Co 1860. First Edition. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth; gilt spine titles; viii 375pp; double engr. frontispiece. Spine gilt a little dulled; spotting & wear to covers; corners bumped; brief fraying at upper spine; quite fresh internally with faint foxing to double frontispiece plates; Very Good. SABIN 42631. Scarce pre-Civil War account of American prison life with descriptions of the prisoners' daily routines and sketches of various criminals' careers. The author was Chaplain of Sing Sing State Prison from 1843-1856 a period during which a number of novel reforms were initiated at Sing Sing including the practice of sorting criminals on the basis of phrenological diagnosis. N. Tibbals & Co unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD JUVENILE DELINQUENCY LINDSEY Ben B. and Harvey J. O'Higgins
The Beast
New York: Doubleday Page 1910. First Edition. Octavo 20cm. Blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 340pp. Photographic frontispiece portrait halftone showing the author with a group of his "boy friends." Mild rubbing to board edges; ownership signature to endpaper else a tight Near Fine copy. Autobiographical essays from the career of Judge Ben Lindsey a prominent child welfare advocate and long-time chief of the Denver juvenile court. With many anecdotes relating to child welfare gangs and juvenile delinquency in turn-of-the-century Denver. An uncommonly well-preserved copy. Doubleday, Page unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD POWER BERREY RJ. R. J.
The Bye-Ways of Crime with Some Stories From the Black Museum
London: 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
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD ERICKSON Gladys A.
Warden Ragen of Joliet
New 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
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD PRISONS CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS SWIFT Charles R.
Prison Routine
New York: War Resisters League 1941. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet 23cm x 10cm. Printed wrappers 11pp. Mild toning & soil to cover extremities else Near Fine. Brief description of life in a federal penitentiary prepared by a convicted C.O. to give others a notion of what to expect. Rather literal - the author discusses routines policies and regulations but supplies no personal impressions - but an interesting and uncommon document. War Resisters League unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD PRISON NARRATIVES CHESSMAN Caryl
Trial by Ordeal
Englewood 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
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD WELLS Alexander H. et al Inspectors
Annual Report of the Inspectors of State Prisons of the State of New-York. Made to the Legislature on the 13th of January 1851
Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen State Printer 1851. First edition. Octavo 23cm.; original printed wrappers; 328pp. Moderate wear and soil; final ten or so leaves creased at upper right; Good or better. Includes a large ca. 20" x 22" folding plan of the newly-constructed prison at Sing Sing; this is foxed on verso but otherwise quite fresh with old folds secure and just light foxing onto image area. Charles Van Benthuysen [State Printer] unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE PRISON DISCIPLINE SOCIETY
First through Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society Boston June 2 1826 through 1829
Boston: Various Publishers 1826-1829. Various Editions. Octavo 22cm.; cloth-backed boards with original paper spine label; 330pp paginated continuously but each report with a separate title page; six inserted leaves of woodcut plates. A solid well-preserved copy with scattered foxing to text; Very Good. First four reports of Timothy Dwight's pioneering Prison Discipline Society dedicated to the amelioration of the harsh conditions prevailing in American prisons during the early republic. With six woodcut plates mostly plans of prison buildlings and grounds. Various Publishers unknown books
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CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD PEARCE Hamilton
Kidnaping of Billy Whitla. The Full and Authentic Account of the Abduction the Ransoming and the Return.
Cleveland: Wells Publishing Co 1909. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; original red cloth boards; 204p; illus. Presumed remainder issue with "Wells Publishing Co." label applied over publisher's imprint at base of title page. A moderately worn copy with lettering mostly flaked away from spine and front cover; title page darkened from laid-in clipping; scattered thumb-soil to text but still a tight Good copy overall. Uncommon and somewhat cobbled-together account of this sensational turn-of-the-century kidnaping case one of several which propelled the phenomenon of ransom kidnaping into the national consciousness. Illustrated with photographs of the Whitla family the crime scenes the perpetrators and various other key figures in the case. Wells Publishing Co unknown books
Referencia librero : 12868
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CRIME
An 1861 Letter from Woman to Her Sister Describing Events Related to the Civil War and Brutal Axe Murder
2pg. 9 ½" x 8 ½". June 4th 1861. Whitehall. A letter that discusses events linked to the Civil War and a particularly gruesome axe murder: ". It is hard times for certain as so many of the banks have gone down since the Government troubles all banks that were secured by southern bonds are smashed. Alfred Worcester has enlisted in the Army. A horrible murder was committed three weeks ago last Saturday two miles above Wilmington and about eight miles from here. An old man by the name of mace his wife and an adopted son 17 or 18 years old wer sic the victims. Two men were riding along the road about half a mile distant from the house when they heard cries of help and upon arriving at the house ther sic lay the old man near the gate shot and also cut with an ax near the porch lay the boy with his brains beat out with a club the old lady was lying on the porch with her head severed from her body with an ax. The house was burning the beds having been set afire in the upper story. It was known that the old man had a great amount of money which he kept in a safe in the house the safe was iron but could not be found after the house was burned. Intense excitement prevailed until the murderers were caught or supposed murderers. Nothing else was talked of for a great while. ". It is difficult to discern which Wilmington and Whitehall are referred to in the letter as a number of towns in the U.S. bear those names. A reference to army worms earlier in the letter makes it more likely that the author lived in a Whitehall in the North as army worms tend to attack crops in Northern states. The letter is in excellent condition. The left right and bottom margins are all rounded giving the letter the appearance of a circle with an arc section removed. There is some slight staining and the usual mailing folds unknown books
Referencia librero : 1176
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CRIME. DE BECK WILLIAM L.
MURDER WILL OUT. The First Step in Crime Leads to the Gallows. The Horrors of Queen City. Being an Account of the Two Soldiers Who Were Executed at Old Fort Washington and many other crimes
Cincinnati: s.n. 1867. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. Good. Original publisher's printed pale green wrappers chipped. 128 pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Some general wear & soiling. A touch of foxing. Unsightly abrasion to rear wrapper resulting in some loss. "A Book for the Family" in which are described in the most graphic detail over 100 murders in Cincinnati and environs. This highly curious volume represents a genuinely early American work in the literary genre now known as "True Crime" about which see especially Mark Steltzer "True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernism" 2007 passim. True Crime as a form of entertainment created important American pop culture icons namely the sociopaths the psychopath the mass murderer and the serial killer all of whom are represented herein. The full title adds useful information about the crimes including: "Trials and Executions of John May ; Philip Lewis colored ; John Cowan the Murderer of his Family ; Washburn and his Associates Davis and Hoover the Butchers of over 30 Persons ; Byron Cooley who killed John Rambo ; Henry Lecount ; Patrick McHugh the Murderer of his own Wife ; and a Careful History of the Hughes Murderers with a Precise Account of the Murder of John Brasher the Watchman ; the Summons Massacre ; Arrison and the Infernal Machine ; Mrs. Howard who Avenged her Own Wrongs ; Nancy Farrer the Child Poisoner ; with a Correct Detail of Over a Hundred Other Murders which have Taken Place in this City and County." Scarce. ¶ Sabin 19107. s.n. unknown books
Referencia librero : 2143
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President's Commission on Crime in the District..
Report of the President's Commission on Crime in The District of.
1966. President's Commission on Crime in the District of Columbia. Report of the President's Commission on Crime in The District of Columbia. Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office 1966. xxix 1041 pp. Ex-library with stamps. Cloth worn with gilt lettering. Internally clean. $75. unknown books
Referencia librero : 49273
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National Council on Crime and Deliquency
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency V.1-35 in 26 bks 1964-98
1998. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Sage Publications. Vols. 1-35 in 26 books 1964-1998. Vols. 1 to 17 green buckram with black spine stamping; Vols. 18-35 tan buckram. Ex-library with stamps very good condition. Special $250. Reports on original research in crime and delinquency new theory and the critical analyses of theories and concepts pertinent to research development in the field. unknown books
Referencia librero : 26444
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Crime James PD. P. D.
Original Sin Signed
New York: Alfred Knopf 1995. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. Stated First American Edition. An Adam Dalgliesh crime novel. 416 pp. A very good copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by Ms. James on a bookplate afixed to the half-title page. Alfred Knopf hardcover books
Referencia librero : 28556
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Crime Leonard Elmore
Unknown Man No. 89 Signed
New 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
Referencia librero : 21365
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Crime Hopley George aka. Cornell Woolrich a. k.
Fright
New York: Rinehart and Company 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. A 245 page suspense novel by the author of Night Has A Thousand Eyes. Bookplate to inside front pastedown. General light handling wear but a solid very good copy overall in price-intact dustwrapper with some light staining to the dustwrapper flaps and verso. Presents quite well. Rinehart and Company hardcover books
Referencia librero : 30296
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Crime Leonard Elmore
Gold Coast Signed
New York: Bantam Books 1980. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Pocket paperbound original crime novel by Leonard. Published two years later in a British hardcover edition this pbo is the original edition. 218 pp plus a special preview section of The Elijah Conspiracy by Charles Robertson. Crease at spine. A very good well-bound and clean copy. With a SIGNED bookplate by Leonard laid in to this copy. Bantam Books paperback books
Referencia librero : 28518
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Crime: Kansas
WANTED POSTER FOR A PRISONER ESCAPED IN PEABODY KANSAS ON OCTOBER 17th 1925
Seattle 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
Referencia librero : WRCAM52863
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African American Crime
THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE ALMS-HOUSE vs. ALEXANDER WHISTELO A BLACK MAN; BEING A REMARKABLE CASE OF BASTARDY TRIED AND ADJUDGED BY THE MAYOR RECORDER AND SEVERAL ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.
New 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
Referencia librero : WRCAM53841
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Scottish Crime
TRIAL OF JOHN STUART AND CATHERINE WRIGHT OR STUART.FOR THE MURDER AND ROBBERY OF ROBERT LAMONT ON BOARD THE TOWARD CASTLE STEAM-BOAT WHILE ON THE PASSAGE FROM TABBERT TO GLASGOW
Edinburgh 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
Referencia librero : WRCAM53865
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Australia: Crime
TRIAL OF THE CASE MUDIE V. KINCHELA FOR HORSEWHIPPING THE PLAINTIFF IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES ON MONDAY OCTOBER 26 1840. BEFORE THE HON. MR. JUSTICE WILLIS AND A SPECIAL JURY
Sydney: 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
Referencia librero : WRCAM53792
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Texas Crime
FOUR EARLY 20th-CENTURY WANTED POSTERS FOR ESCAPEES FROM THE HUNTSVILLE TEXAS PRISON
Huntsville Tx 1913. Four small broadsides approximately 11 x 8 inches with attached photographs. Printed forms completed in typescript. Three forms with chips and tears somewhat affecting text mounted on white card stock. Browning at edges evidence of tape repairs. Photos with some slight mirroring. Good. Four wanted notices dating to just before World War I for men escaped from the Huntsville Prison in Texas. The men are convicted thieves and burglars sentenced to terms ranging from two to seven years. The forms each bearing the same printed masthead are completed in typescript with descriptions of the escapee's appearance notable features residence crime committed and place of escape. A photograph mugshot of the men in question are attached to the upper portion of each form. unknown books
Referencia librero : WRCAM52964
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Texas Crime
ANDERSON COUNTY TEXAS WANTED NOTICE FOR BURGLAR C.H. CROWSON WITH AFFIXED PHOTOGRAPH
Palestine Tx 1909. Printed form 5 x 8 inches plus 1 x 1-inch photograph. Two old vertical folds left edge tanned lower right corner chipped. Photograph fine but somewhat crudely affixed. About very good. A "Wanted" notice from the City Marshal of Palestine Texas offering a fifty dollar reward for the capture of C.H. Crowson who was eventually arrested and convicted for burglary in 1909. The description given says that Crowson "Has dark hair blue eyes and light complexion. He is fond of music and plays guitar and violin. Works around saw mills and railroad shops." With a small photo of the fugitive attached to the form. unknown books
Referencia librero : WRCAM52766
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Crime Westlake Donald E.
God Save The Mark Signed Edgar Award Winner
New York: Random House 1967. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good . First edition first printing. A novel of humor and murder by the author of The Mercenaries. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A near fine clothbound copy in very good plus unclipped dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
Referencia librero : 13697
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