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Shaw George Bernard
The Crime Of Imprisonment
New York: Philosophical Library. Very Good. 1946. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers are mostly clean and bright. There is some light bumping rubbing and nicking to the spine ends and corners with some very beginning fraying. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is an ink stamped previous owner's name and address on the top corner of the front pastedown page and both front and rear endpapers have spots of toning. "An ardent socialist Shaw was angered by what he perceived to be the exploitation of the working class. He wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes which included gaining equal rights for men and women alleviating abuses of the working class rescinding private ownership of productive land and promoting healthy lifestyles. For a short time he was active in local politics serving on the London County Council." from Goodreads . Philosophical Library hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A38860
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SAX PHD. BORIA; WILLIAM BRANDON INTRODUCTION H. D.
Stealing Fire: Memoir Of A Boyhood In The Shadow Of Atomic Espionage
Softcover. Brand new book. When Saville Sax and Theodore Hall first met as undergraduates at Haravard little did either realize that a day would come when they would be passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. Their acts of espionage could have led as in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death in the electric chair. But unlike others Klaus Fuchs David Greenglass Morton Sobell they were never even tried for what they did let alone convicted. Professor Boria Sax an eminent scholar in the field of human/animal studies and the elder son of Saville Sax here relates his stressful experiences growing up in a troubled home one in which his father lived in constant fear of the FBI. It was only as an adult that Professor Sax came to fully comprehend the magnitude of his father's deed one he does not condone. As a result he can now relate how Saville Sax's puzzling behavior affected every member of his family and the price each one had to pay. This very personal memoir is also an account of a Russian Jewish community that settled in the United States torn between the desire for continued intimacy and the need to assimilate. The examination of social and political events over several generations invites readers to reflect back on their own experience and its implications. Includes an Index. Professor Boria Sax has published more than a dozen books many of which deal with animal folklore. He is also the author of Animals in the Third Reich depicting the complex and insidious views of the Nazis and their impact on the German people. "An important and unique addition to the literature on Soviet Atomic Espionage providing insight into one of the key participants." --Athan Theoharis author Chasing Spies. "What is most amazing about Stealing Fire is the author's ability to balance the objectivity demanded of the biographer and the sensitivity and compassion required of the son" -- Marcia Mitchell author The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 82219X23
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National Crime Prevention Council US. U. S.
Powerful Partnerships : Twenty Crime Prevention Strategies that Work for Refugees Law Enforcement and Communities
National Crime Prevention Council 1998. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks our motto is: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. National Crime Prevention Council hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : G0934513740I3N00 ISBN : 0934513740 9780934513746
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Thomson Basil
My Experiences At Scotland Yard
New York: A. L. Burt Company. Very Good. 1923. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The lettering on the spine has dulled. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown page. "After three years at the Native Lands Office in Suva Thomson resigned from colonial service and returned to England in 1893 due in no small part to the deteriorating health of his wife. There he embarked on a career as a writer drawing on his experiences in the South Sea Islands to produce South Sea Yarns 1894; written in Fiji The Diversions of a Prime Minister 1894 about his government work in Tonga and The Indiscretions of Lady Asenath 1898. Basil Thomson used his Fijian assistants to organise the first ever done census of Fijian marriage on Viti Levu. He found that the Fijians did not marry as claimed in the specialised literature their mother's brother's daughter but married any girl and recalculated her kinship status after the marriage so as to address her by the term meaning mother's brother's daughter. This result was anathema to Radcliffe-Brown's anthropology school and was ignored. Later L�vi-Strauss would not take it into account either. But anthropologists of the time would not try to build any complete census of any culture trait. The result was that their material was partly insufficiently documented but they would not recognise it even today." from Wikipedia . A. L. Burt Company hardcover
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Accoce Pierre and Pierre Quet translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith
A Man Called Lucy
New York: Coward - McCann Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some very beginning bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright. There are several very small edge nicks and tears to the spine ends. The white covers have some light spots of ground-in dirt. "Rudolf Roessler R��ler November 22 1897 - December 11 1958 was a German refugee who had moved to Switzerland in 1933 and was the proprietor of a small publishing firm in Switzerland Vita Novi. During World War II he managed to provide through a Soviet espionage ring operating in Switzerland intelligence about German operations and intentions on the Eastern Front usually within a day of operational decisions being made." from Wikipedia . Coward - McCann, Inc. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A37480
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Ashton Wolfe H. Harry Ashton Wolfe
Crimes Of Violence And Revenge
Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good. 1929. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have bumping rubbing and beginning fraying. The cloth covers have spots of ground-in dirt . The text pages are generally clean and bright though there are spots of foxing throughout. There is a previous owner's inked name and chinese "chop" on the front endpaper. "A marvellous combination of Action Man cheerleader for �modern� scientific detection adventurous ashton-wolfemaster of disguise and shameless name-dropper Harry Ashton-Wolfe doesn�t just recount the cases he inhabits them. He�s an important part of investigating teams in Paris tracking down fiendishly cunning criminals such as the Eurasian Hanoi Shan; he gets locked up and threatened with death by vicious gangsters; he is at the elbow of the greatest forensic scientists of the day such as Edmond Locard of the Surete and earlier the legendary Alphonse Bertillon; he is allowed to peruse the �secret archives� of the Paris Prefecture; by chance he recognises a famous anarchist bandit Jules Bonnot as having once been his chauffeur; he dons disguises such as that of a Parisian apache or a Corsican bandit to infiltrate criminal rings delightfully his books sometimes include photographs of him in disguise complete with picturesque hats and moustaches! " From the website Feathers of the Fireside . Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A37250
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Chevrillon Claire
Code Name Christiane Clouet: A Woman in the French Resistance
College Station TX: Texas A & M University Press. Fine. 1995. Trade paperback. 089096629X . Book is as new. Personal gift inscription on half-title page signed by translator and dated March 1996. No other marks on book. Clean and undamaged. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages; Signed by Translator . Texas A & M University Press paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 17331 ISBN : 089096629X 9780890966297
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Vaus Mrs. Jim Alice as told to Dorothy C. Haskin
They Called my Husband a Gangster
Wheaton IL: Van Kampen Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. There is some light ground-in dirt to the top edges of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several smallish edge tears nicks and a couple of small chips to the spine ends along with some rubbing to the spine joints. "This intimate testimony of a wife and mother speaks clearly of the power there is in laying hold of the Lord in prayer for some dear one. Alic eVaus had to learn to adjust herself to an entirely new life when God changed her husband's heart career and ambition." This book along with Jim Vaus's Why I Quit Syndicated Crime are the basis for the 1955 movie Wiretapper. Jim Vaus finds himself working for a mob boss has a conversion after his wife takes him to a Billy Graham revival and ends up working for the police to help convict the very mob for which he used to work. . Van Kampen Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A37133
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Bruce Ritter
Sometimes God Has A Kid's Face The Story of America's Exploited Street Kids
Covenant House 1988 . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. very good condition typical reader wear. Covenant House paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 181016010 ISBN : 0384242146 9780384242142
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Lindner Robert M.
Stone Walls and Men
New York: Odyssey Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1946. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright but has several small edge tears and has a couple of chips especially to the spine ends. "Robert M. Lindner May 14 1914 � February 27 1956 was an American author and psychologist best known as the author of the 1944 book Rebel Without A Cause: The Hypnoanalysis Of A Criminal Psychopath from which the title of Nicholas Ray's 1955 film was adapted. His book described a psychopath as someone who is "incapable of exertions for the sake of others". Lindner's arguments on gambling psychology are well regarded and have been noted as "definitive statements" by the American Academy of Political and Social Science." . Odyssey Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A37202
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Erskine Ralph & Michael Smith
The Bletchley Park Codebreakers
London: Biteback Publishing. Fine. 2011. Trade paperback. 1849540780 . Appears to be brand new not a remainder. No ownership or other marks. ; Dialogue Espionage Classics; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 560 pages . Biteback Publishing paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 17311 ISBN : 1849540780 9781849540780
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Klehr Harvey & John Haynes
In Denial: Historians Communism and Espionage
San Francisco: Encounter Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1893554724 . Book and DJ as new. No ownership or other marks. Not a remainder. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages . Encounter Books hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 17242 ISBN : 1893554724 9781893554726
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Krantz Professor Sheldon Robert A. Bell Jonathan Brant and Michael Magruder
Model Rules And Regulations On Prisoners' Rights And Responsibilities
St. Paul MN: West Publishing Co. Very Good-. 1973. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is an oversized paperback book with illustrated covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing and bumping. There is a one inch tear to the top front spine. The text pages are clean and bright. "In the United States the Prison Litigation Reform Act or PLRA is a federal statute enacted in 1996 with the intent of limiting "frivolous lawsuits" by prisoners. Among its provisions the PLRA requires prisoners to exhaust all possibly executive means of reform before filing for litigation restricts the normal procedure of having the losing defendant pay legal fees thus making fewer lawyers willing to represent a prisoner allows for the courts to dismiss cases as "frivolous" or "malicious" and requires prisoners to pay their court fees up front if they have three previous instances of a case having been dismissed as "frivolous." " . West Publishing Co. paperback
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MCCARTHY DAVID S
Selling The Cia: Public Relations And The Culture Of Secrecy
University Press of Kansas Lawrence: 2018. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Dubbed the "Year of Intelligence" 1975 was not a good year for the Central Intelligence Agency CIA. Caught spying on American citizens the agency was under investigation indicted in shocking headlines its future covert operations at risk. Like so many others caught up in public scandal the CIA turned to public relations. This book tells what happened next. In the mid-1970s CIA officials developed a public relations strategy to fend off the agency's critics. In Selling the CIA David Shamus McCarthy describes a PR campaign that proceeded with remarkable continuity�and effectiveness�through the decades and regimes that followed. He deftly chronicles the agency's efforts to project an image of openness and accountability even as it did its best to put a positive spin on secrecy�"more openness with greater secrecy" in the Orwellian words of one director of public affairs. A tale of machinations and manipulation worthy of Hollywood McCarthy's work exposes a culture of secrecy unwittingly sustained by the forces of popular culture; a public relations offensive working on all fronts to perpetuate the CIA's mystique as the heroic guardian of national security. "Our failures are known our successes are not" has been the guiding mantra of this initiative. Selling the CIA spotlights how the agency's success in outmaneuvering Congress and avoiding public scrutiny stands as a direct threat to American democracy. "David McCarthy has written an original and valuable study of an important facet of recent intelligence history. His main argument�that the CIA's deliberate use of public relations has paradoxically enabled it to preserve an institutional culture of secrecy�is trenchant and persuasive." �Hugh Wilford author of The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America "With both synoptic breadth and monographic depth this ground-breaking study offers the first comprehensive history of CIA public affairs. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of secrecy US foreign policy and US government public relations."�Simon Willmetts author of In Secrecy's Shadow: The OSS and CIA in Hollywood Cinema 1941-1979 University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2018 hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 92024X1
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Hoare Geoffrey
The Missing MacLeans
New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. The spine ends have some beginning bumping The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears nicks and small chips missing along with some light ground-in dirt and rubbing. "Donald Duart Maclean 25 May 1913 � 6 March 1983 was a British diplomat and member of the Cambridge Five who acted as spies for the Soviet Union. As an undergraduate Maclean openly proclaimed his left-wing views and was recruited into the Russian intelligence service NKVD. However he gained entry to the Civil Service by claiming to have foresworn Marxism. In 1938 he was made Third Secretary at the Paris embassy where he kept the Soviets informed about Anglo-German diplomacy. He then served in Washington D. C. From 1944 to 1948 achieving promotion to First Secretary. Here he became Moscow's main source of information about US energy policy greatly helping the Russians to evaluate the relative strength of their own nuclear arsenal." . Viking Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A36386
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Wise David and Thomas B. Ross
THE U-2 Affair
New York: Random House. Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1962. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright but has a two inch tear to the bottom spine end. "Washington after Francis Gary Powers crashed in Russia and gives a full account of the conception development and use of the secret U-2 airplane." . Random House hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A36209
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Fuller James and Yumi Gay
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary 1934-1963
San Francisco CA: Asteron Production. Very Good. 1985. 7th Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book with illustrated cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The spine of the book has several light creases and the covers have some small spots of rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are two laid in items - a flier on the Gardens of Alcatraz and a Self-Guided Trail of Alcatraz. "Alcatraz Island is located in San Francisco Bay 1.25 miles 2.01 km offshore from San Francisco California United States. The small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse a military fortification a military prison 1828 and a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. Beginning in November 1969 the island was occupied for more than 19 months by a group of Native Americans from San Francisco who were part of a wave of Native activism across the nation with public protests through the 1970s. In 1972 Alcatraz became part of a national recreation area and received designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1986." . Asteron Production paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : A36481
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Winning James R.
Behind These Walls
New York: MacMillan Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1933. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and tears along with several very small chips missing and spots of rubbing. The spine of the dust jacket has darkening / toning. . MacMillan Company hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A36331
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SAX PHD. BORIA; BRANDON WILLIAM INTRODUCTION H. D.
Stealing Fire: Memoir Of A Boyhood In The Shadow Of Atomic Espionage
Decalogue Books Mount Vernon: 2014. Hardcover no dustjacket as issued. Printed Casebound Cover. Brand New Book. When Saville Sax and Theodoere Hall first met as undergraduates at Haravard little did either realize that a day would come when they would be passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. Their acts of espionage could have led as in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death in the electric chair. But unlike others Klaus Fuchs David Greenglass Morton Sobell they were never even tried for what they did let alone convicted. Professor Boria Sax an eminent scholar in the field of human/animal studies and the elder son of Saville Sax here relates his stressful experiences growing up in a troubled home one in which his father lived in constant fear of the FBI. It was only as an adult that Professor Sax came to fully comprehend the magnitude of his father's deed one he does not condone. As a result he can now relate how Saville Sax's puzzling behavior affected every member of his family and the price each one had to pay. This very personal memoir is also an account of a Russian Jewish community that settled in the United States torn between the desire for continued intimacy and the need to assimilate. The examination of social and political events over several generations invites readers to reflect back on their own experience and its implications. Includes an Index. Professor Boria Sax has published more than a dozen books many of which deal with animal folklore. He is also the author of Animals in the Third Reich depicting the complex and insidious views of the Nazis and their impact on the German people. "An important and unique addition to the literature on Soviet Atomic Espionage providing insight into one of the key participants." --Athan Theoharis author Chasing Spies. "What is most amazing about Stealing Fire is the author's ability to balance the objectivity demanded of the biographer and the sensitivity and compassion required of the son" -- Marcia Mitchell author The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War Decalogue Books, Mount Vernon: 2014 hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 82120X8
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Thompson Leon Whitey
Last Train To Alcatraz
Fiddletown CA: Winter Book Publisher. Very Good. 1991. 9th Printing. Paperback. SIGNED EDITION. This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping rubbing and edge wear. There is a noticeable crease to the bottom front corner and several creases to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed by the author on the front endpaper. "Leon "Whitey" Thompson an Alcatraz convict who became an author lecturer on crime and a celebrity on the Rock died on June 7 at his home in the Gold Country. Mr. Thompson who suffered from congestive heart failure was 82. He was a tough guy of the old school a bank robber and hardened criminal who spent 24 years in prison including four years of hard time in Alcatraz. He also turned his life around becoming a best-selling author who spent his last free years riding motorcycles and gardening painting and raising two wolves among other pets at his home in Fiddletown an old Gold Rush town in Amador County." ; Signed by Author . Winter Book Publisher paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : A36298
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Dougherty George S. George Samuel
The Criminal As A Human Being
New York: D. Appleton and Company. Very Good. 1924. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. Both endpapers have noticeable toning. "George Samuel Dougherty April 5 1865 � July 16 1931 was an American law enforcement officer detective and writer. He was considered one of the leading detectives in the United States first for the Pinkerton Detective Agency and then as a private investigator and was responsible for the capture of many notorious criminals during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While serving as Second Deputy Police Commissioner and head of the NYPD Detectives Bureau he is credited for his assistance in solving the 1912 murder of Herman Rosenthal which ultimately resulted in the conviction and execution of the Lenox Avenue Gang and NYPD police detective Lieutenant Charles Becker. He also introduced the modern-day fingerprinting to the police force." . D. Appleton and Company hardcover
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Crime Sisters in
Virginia is for Mysteries: Volume II
Koehler Books. PAPERBACK. 1633931498 Brand New Direct from the Publisher! Not overstocks or marked up remainders! Ships in a sturdy cardboard container with tracking!VCF . New. Koehler Books paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : OTF-S-9781633931497 ISBN : 1633931498 9781633931497
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Sisters in Crime
Virginia is for Mysteries
2014-06-05. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 1938467647q ISBN : 1938467647 9781938467646
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Minnesota Crime Wave
Resort to Murder: Thirteen More Tales of Mystery by Minnesota's Premier Writers
2007-05-05. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 1932472479q ISBN : 1932472479 9781932472479
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Collins Crime
Why I Love My Mummy
2009-11-05. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 0007867220 ISBN : 0007867220 9780007867226
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Ron Boostrom
Enduring Issues in Criminology
Greenhaven Press 1995. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. hardcover no DJ former library book typical issues musty smell Greenhaven Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 180202006 ISBN : 1565102568 9781565102569
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Soho Crime
The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers
Soho Press Inc 2016. Book. New. Hardcover. New and in stock. Soho Press Inc Hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 1616957751 ISBN : 1616957751 9781616957759
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SAX PHD. BORIA; BRANDON WILLIAM INTRODUCTION H. D.
Stealing Fire: Memoir Of A Boyhood In The Shadow Of Atomic Espionage
Softcover. Brand new book. When Saville Sax and Theodore Hall first met as undergraduates at Haravard little did either realize that a day would come when they would be passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. Their acts of espionage could have led as in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death in the electric chair. But unlike others Klaus Fuchs David Greenglass Morton Sobell they were never even tried for what they did let alone convicted. Professor Boria Sax an eminent scholar in the field of human/animal studies and the elder son of Saville Sax here relates his stressful experiences growing up in a troubled home one in which his father lived in constant fear of the FBI. It was only as an adult that Professor Sax came to fully comprehend the magnitude of his father's deed one he does not condone. As a result he can now relate how Saville Sax's puzzling behavior affected every member of his family and the price each one had to pay. This very personal memoir is also an account of a Russian Jewish community that settled in the United States torn between the desire for continued intimacy and the need to assimilate. The examination of social and political events over several generations invites readers to reflect back on their own experience and its implications. Includes an Index. Professor Boria Sax has published more than a dozen books many of which deal with animal folklore. He is also the author of Animals in the Third Reich depicting the complex and insidious views of the Nazis and their impact on the German people. "An important and unique addition to the literature on Soviet Atomic Espionage providing insight into one of the key participants." --Athan Theoharis author Chasing Spies. "What is most amazing about Stealing Fire is the author's ability to balance the objectivity demanded of the biographer and the sensitivity and compassion required of the son" -- Marcia Mitchell author The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 82119X22
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Haynes Alan
Invisible Power: The Elizabethan Secret Services 1570-1603
Phoenix Mill-Thrupp-Stroud-Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. Fine. 1994. Trade paperback. 0750906766 . Appears to be brand new book. No ownership or other marks. Not a remainder.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages . Sutton Publishing paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 16990 ISBN : 0750906766 9780750906760
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Ian Crime Rankin
Black and Blue
1997-01-01. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 0752805142 ISBN : 0752805142 9780752805146
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ALVAREZ DAVID & EDUARD MARK
Spying Through A Glass Darkly: American Espionage Against The Soviet Union 1945-1946
University Press of Kansas Lawrence: 2016. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. For the period between World War II and the full onset of the Cold War histories of American intelligence seem to go dark. Yet in those years a little known clandestine organization the Strategic Services Unit SSU emerged from the remnants of wartime American intelligence to lay the groundwork for what would become the CIA and in ways revealed here for the first time conduct its own secret war of espionage and political intrigue in postwar Europe. Telling the full story of this early and surprisingly effective espionage arm of the United States Spying through a Glass Darkly brings a critical chapter in the history of Cold War intelligence out of the shadows. Constrained by inadequate staff and limited resources distracted by the conflicting demands of agencies of the U.S. government and victimized by disinformation and double agents the Strategic Services Unit struggled to maintain an effective American clandestine capability after the defeat of the Axis Powers. Never viscerally anti-communist the Strategic Services Unit was slow to recognize the Soviet Union as a potential threat but gradually it began to mount operations often in collaboration with the intelligence services of Britain France Italy Denmark and Sweden to throw light into the darker corners of the Soviet regime. Bringing to bear a wealth of archival documents operational records interviews and correspondence David Alvarez and Eduard Mark chronicle SSU's successes and failures in procuring intelligence on the capabilities and intentions of the Soviet Union a chronicle that delves deeply into the details of secret operations against Soviet targets throughout Europe: not only in the backstreets of the divided cities of Berlin and Vienna but also the cafes hotels offices and salons of such cosmopolitan capitals as Paris Rome Budapest Prague and Warsaw. A remarkable account of a clandestine war of espionage kidnappings blackmail disinformation and political subversion Spying through a Glass Darkly also describes the quantity and quality of intelligence collected by SSU and disseminated to its "customers" in the U.S. government �information that would influence the attitudes and actions of decision makers and as the Cold War evolved the course of the nation in a new and dangerous world. David Alvarez is professor emeritus of politics at Saint Mary's College of California and a former scholar-in-residence at the National Security Agency. He has published many books including three with Kansas: Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy 1930-1945; Spies in the Vatican: Espionage and Intrigue from Napoleon to the Holocaust; and The Pope's Soldiers: A Military History of the Modern Vatican. At the time of his death in 2009 Eduard Mark was senior historian in the Office of Air Force History. He published a number of groundbreaking articles on Cold War history as well as two books Aerial Interdiction: Air Power and the Land Battle in Three American Wars and Defending the West: The United States Air Force and European Security 1946-1998. "Poses a fresh challenge to revisionists about the origins of the Cold War Scholars of intelligence U.S. foreign relations and the Cold War will find this work valuable."�Journal of American History "The product of prodigious research in a dizzying array of sources this volume is both a meticulously detailed study of the organizational and operational history of the Strategic Services Unit and a superb primer in how to tease information from often stingy archives."�Diplomatic History University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: 2016 hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 89356X1
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Goron English version by Florence Crewe Jones
The Red Nights of Paris From the Coup Double and Policiers et Rastas
New York: G. W. Dillingham Company. Very Good. 1912. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping rubbing and edge wear. The covers have some lightish ground-in dirt edge wear and water spotting. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. The front inner hinge has cracked. The author Goron was the chief of the S�ret� - Head of the Secret Service of France during the late 1890's. This book has been translated by Florence Crewe-Jones and combines portions of two of Goron's biographical books: Coup Double and Policiers et Rastas. 1847-1933 French soldier from 1865 and police officer from 1881 eventually head of the S�ret� best known for Les Memoires de M Goron: Ancien Chef de la S�ret� "Memoires of Monsieur Goron: Former Head of the S�ret�" 1897. "Scarce. . G. W. Dillingham Company hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A34239
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Irvine Leigh H.
By Right Of Sword A Defense of Capital Punishment Based on a Searching Examination of History Theology and Philosophy
New York: Baker & Taylor Company. Very Good. 1915. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and was possibly issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean bright condition. The front cover of the book has some ground-in dirt and spotting / foxing. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "Among the Pacific Coast writers Mr. Leigh H. Irvine author of the Iron Highway.and others is attracting attention throughout the country by the strong and masterful manner in which he is placing the various labor and other problems before the people. It is often a fact that labor reformers and writers who address themselves to the wage-earner fail to make themselves understood." "Although some U. S. States began abolishing the death penalty most states held onto capital punishment. Some states made more crimes capital offenses especially for offenses committed by slaves. In 1838 in an effort to make the death penalty more palatable to the public some states began passing laws against mandatory death sentencing instead enacting discretionary death penalty statutes. The 1838 enactment of discretionary death penalty statutes in Tennessee and later in Alabama were seen as a great reform. This introduction of sentencing discretion in the capital process was perceived as a victory for abolitionists because prior to the enactment of these statutes all states mandated the death penalty for anyone convicted of a capital crime regardless of circumstances. With the exception of a small number of rarely committed crimes in a few jurisdictions all mandatory capital punishment laws had been abolished by 1963. Bohm 1999 " . Baker & Taylor Company hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A33752
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SCHECTER JERROLD & LEONA
Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History
Brassey's Washington and London: 2001. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. In the last decade of the twentieth century the public release of previously classified records revealed numerous "sacred secrets" that Cold Warriors had carried to their graves. These revelations have challenged our understanding of significant historical events. In Sacred Secrets Jerrold and Leona Schecter use information from recently acquired Russian archival material and original interviews to cast new light on such shadowy topics as the attack on Pearl Harbor atomic espionage Alger Hiss McCarthyism and the the Rosenberg case. The Schecters also reveal details of their own extensive exposure to the world of sacred secrets. Includes an Index. ". . . a compelling and coherent account of the seventy-year secret struggle between the Soviet Empire and the United States." - High Sidney Time ISBN: 1574883275. Brassey's, Washington and London: 2001 hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 68587X2 ISBN : 1574883275 9781574883275
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Mynderse Bart Pseudonym
Four Years Nine
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Very Good-. 1900. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generallyclean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light but noticeable bumping rubbing and light fraying. The covers of the book have toning and faiding. The grey lettering of the author's name on the front cover has faded. The text pages are generally clean but there are noticeable spots of ground-in finger dirt and foxing. The rear inner hinge has cracked and been repaired. . Frederick A. Stokes Company hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A33227
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Myagkov Aleksei
Inside The Kgb
New Rochelle NY: Arlington House Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are text pages are clean but noticeably toned due to the acid content of the paper. The dust jacket has some edge wear rubbing and nicking along with several small edge tears. The white portions of the dust jacket have toning / yellowing to edges and spine. "Aleksei Myagkov is running fo his life. Ever shince he defected to the West in 1974 agents of the Soviet secret police KGB have been harassing him. Already a Communist kangaroo court has sentenced him to death in absentia." . Arlington House Publishers hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A32841
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J. Dwight Dobkins; Robert J. Hendricks
Winnie Ruth Judd: The Trunk Murders
Grosset & Dunlap 1973. Hardcover. very good/very good. Hardcover very good condition typical wear mostly to DJ which is very good. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 160806003 ISBN : 0448021870 9780448021874
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Yallop David A.
In God's Name an Investigation Into the Murder of Pope John Paul I
New York: Bantam Books. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1984. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. " The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears nicks and small chips missing. This extraordinary book product of more than three years' intensive investigation unfolds a story so powerful in its revelations so persuasively argued so shocking in its inescapable conclusions that it is certain to make a stunned world take note." . Bantam Books hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A32633
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Kirkpatrick E. E.
Crimes' Paradise The Authentic Inside-Story of the Urschel Kidnapping
San Antonio TX: Naylor Company. Good. 1934. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Good only condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book has edge wear bumping rubbing and fraying to the spine ends corners and spine joints. The Spine of the book has a couple of horizontal tears that have been repaired. The text pages are generally clean though there are spots of occasional foxing throughout along with a couple of edge tears to the foredges of some pages. The front endpaper has the faded inked signature that has been blotted out and the blotting is also somewhat faded. Unfortunately whatever was used to blot out the name left burn replications of itself on the pastedown page the half title page the reverse of the frontis and slightly on the title page. This copy has been signed by the author in ink on the title page. Sketches and Layouts in the book are by Daniel Esser. "Whatever may be the depths of his cultural attainments or the extent of his education there is rarely to be found a man who does not turn to detective tales for relaxation and enjoyment.In his splendid book Mr. Kirkpatrick pays a well deserved tribute to J. Edgar Hoover and the men of his organization." "Charles Frederick Urschel March 7 1890 � September 16 1970 was a Texas oilman and kidnap victim of George "Machine Gun Kelly" Barnes. Urschel eventually thwarted the crime by carefully noting every piece of evidence of his whereabouts during his captivity despite being blindfolded and leaving fingerprints on every surface he could reach. After being released after the ransom was delivered Urschel was able to supply ample information for the FBI to solve the crime." ; Signed by Author . Naylor Company hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A32698
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Stringfellow William and Anthony Towne with A Preface by Daniel Berrigan S. J.
Suspect Tenderness The Ethics of the Berrigan Witness
New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1971. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This is a Review copy. The book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's ink stamped name and address on the front endpaper and also on the front pastedown page. Laid-in is a tri-fold review blurb. The dust jacket has edge wear and tears to the spine ends and corners. There are a couple of spots of rubbing and wear to the black dust jacket. "Daniel Joseph Berrigan S. J. May 9 1921 � April 30 2016 was an American Jesuit priest anti-war activist and poet. Like many others during the 1960s Berrigan's active protest against the Vietnam War earned him both scorn and admiration but it was his participation in the Catonsville Nine that made him famous. It also landed him on the FBI's "most wanted list" the first-ever priest on the list on the cover of TIME magazine and in prison. His own particular form of militancy and radical spirituality in the service of social and political justice was significant enough at that time to "shape the tactics of resistance to the Vietnam War" in the United States." . Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : A32745
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Jesse Kornbluth
Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken
William Morrow & Co 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. former library book with library/mylar covered dustjacket. Former library book other than the normal library markings it is in excellent condition. Probably never read. Mylar DJ. William Morrow & Co hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 160114006 ISBN : 0688109373 9780688109370
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MORLEY JEFFERSON; SCOTT MICHAEL FOREWORD
Our Man In Mexico: Winston Scott And The Hidden History Of The Cia
University Press of Kansas Lawrence: . Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Mexico City was the Casablanca of the Cold War�a hotbed of spies revolutionaries and assassins. The CIA's station there was the front line of the United States' fight against international communism as important for Latin America as Berlin was for Europe. And its undisputed spymaster was Winston Mackinley Scott. Chief of the Mexico City station from 1956 to 1969 Win Scott occupied a key position in the founding generation of the Central Intelligence Agency but until now he has remained a shadowy figure. Investigative reporter Jefferson Morley traces Scott's remarkable career from his humble origins in rural Alabama to wartime G-man to OSS London operative and close friend of the notorious Kim Philby to right-hand man of CIA Director Allen Dulles to his remarkable reign for more than a decade as virtual proconsul in Mexico. Morley also follows the quest of Win Scott's son Michael to confront the reality of his father's life as a spy. He reveals how Scott ran hundreds of covert espionage operations from his headquarters in the U.S. Embassy while keeping three Mexican presidents on the agency's payroll participating in the Bay of Pigs fiasco and most intriguingly overseeing the surveillance of Lee Harvey Oswald during his visit to the Mexican capital just weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy. Morley reveals the previously unknown scope of the agency's interest in Oswald in late 1963 identifying for the first time the code names of Scott's surveillance programs that monitored Oswald's movements. He shows that CIA headquarters cut Scott out of the loop of the agency's latest reporting on Oswald before Kennedy was killed. He documents why Scott came to reject a key finding of the Warren Report on the assassination and how his disillusionment with the agency came to worry his longtime friend James Jesus Angleton legendary chief of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton not only covered up the agency's interest in Oswald but also after Scott died absconded with the only copies of his unpublished memoir. Interweaving Win Scott's personal and professional lives Morley has crafted a real-life thriller of Cold War intrigue�a compelling saga of espionage that uncovers another chapter in the CIA's history. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence: hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 78300X2
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DiFonzo Luigi
St. Peter's Banker: Michele Sindona
New York: Franklin Watts. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some minor bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. "On a warm spring night in 1969 Michele Sindona's Mercedes slid through the gates of the Vatican without even a check on his identification. In a private meeting with Pope Paul VI Sindona was given complete control of the Vatican's foreign investments. " . Franklin Watts hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 31721
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Epstein Edward Jay
Counterplot
New York: Viking Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of smallish edge tears nicks and small chips. "One of the few things most critics and defenders of the Warren Commission agree on is that Edward Jay Epstein's first book Inquest unlike some of its competitors was a serious and responsible work raising questions that still remain unanswered." . Viking Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 31116
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Willoughby Charles A. Major General with a Preface by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
Shanghai Conspiracy The Sorge Spy Ring
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. There is some very beginning rubbing and wear to the book covers along with some beginning bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears nicks and wrinkles. The reverse of the dust jacket has been taped along the spine ends and corners. Both the author Charles Willoughby and the subject of this book Richard Sorge have fascinating mixed histories -- Sorge was born in Imperial Russia and moved to Germany in his early youth. Willoughby was born in Germany and moved to the United States during his teenage years. Willoughby had a long and somewhat distinguished career in the Army both in World War I and World War II and beyond that into the Korean War. During World War II he became the Chief of Intelligence as part of Douglas MacArthur's staff - interestingly he had always had a fascist background which didn't play much into World War II but did seem to affect his career in the Korean War. Sorge on the other hand had ties to the communist hierarchy family members were associated with both Marx and Engles and he became a member of the party while recuperating from injuries received in World War I. After being recruited as a spy in the 1920's and participated in a number of operations both in Germany and later in Japan. In Japan he was directed to discover information about the Nazi Party and anything to do with anti-communism based in Japan. During this time Sorge suppposedly warned Stalin about the the Pearl-Harbor Attack and even possibly gave a drop date for Operation Barbarossa which was largely ignored by the Soviets. The Japanese became increasingly suspicious of Sorge's actions and he was arrested in 1941. He was convicted of spying and was executed in 1944. . E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc. hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 31113
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Gibson Walter B. editor
The Fine Art of Spying A Gathering of True and Sinister Tales
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. Trade Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. There is a red star remainder mark to the top edge of the text block. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has several edge tears nicks and rubbed spots. The spine of the book has noticeable fading and there is tidemarking to the top inside spine of the dust jacket. "To conceal warriors within a hollow horse outside the gates of Troy was in Homer's time a most successful stratagem. But in course sophistication set in - tattooed scalps codes cables micro-dots and electronic devices beyond description." . Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 31021
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Ravitz Abe C. and James N. Primm selected and edited by
The Haywood Case Materials for Analysis
San Francisco CA: Chandler Publishing Company. Very Good. 1960. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This book a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. There is some light edge wear and one small nick / tear to the top spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. "Big Bill Haywood is as much a part of American folklore as of history for the collision of forces in Boise 1907 spellbound the entire nation and aroused the most incendiary passions of politicians and proletarians alike." "Seldom in the history of American labor have the differences between management and employees been so dramacally emphasized and so sharply focused as during the period following the surrreptitious removal of William D. Haywood.for trial for the murder of former Governor Frank Steuneberg of Idaho." . Chandler Publishing Company paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : 30530
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Salazar Evelio Buitrago Sergeant 2nd Class translated by M. Murray Lasley
Zarpazo the Bandit Memoirs of an Undercover Agent of the Columbian Army
Alabama: University of Alabama Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of smallish semi-closed edge tears and a couple of light coffee rings to the bottom rear panel. "The bandit Zarpazo born Conrado Salazar Garcia no koin to Sgt. Buitrago Salazar like others of his kind in Columbia was no romantic Robin Hood stealing from the rich and giving to the poor; he stole from and often raped and butchered anyone who had anything at all worth stealing." . University of Alabama Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 30167
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Bazna Elyesa in collaboration with Hans Nogly
I was Cicero
New York: Harper & Row Publishers. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- to Near Very Good condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition with the exception of the top half of the title page being excised by a former owner. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge nicks and a one inch semi-closed tear to the top spine end. "Ankara autumn 1943 - capital of Neutral Turkey battleground of diplomats maneuvering for concessions hotbed of Axis and Allied agents. In the kitchen of the First Secretary of the British Embassy Elyesa Bazna a Turkish national hides his Leica in a saucepan above the hearth finishes a generous serving of baklava and goes to bed with a susceptible nurse of the First Secretary's infant daughter." . Harper & Row, Publishers hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 29973
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Vaus Jim as told to D. C. Haskin
Why I Quit Syndicated Crime
Wheaton IL: Van Kampen Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. 5th Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of small edge nicks and tears along with some light rubbing and chipping especially to the spine ends and corners. "Jim Vaus - young and confident brilliant and ambitious - who thought that success was spelled C-A-S-H adn whos electronic genius made traffic in crime a paying proposition." . Van Kampen Press hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 29873
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