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1990Best.-Nr. 927456Kerry: Brandon, 1990. 156 S. Broschiert.
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1913Best.-Nr. 72313Paris, Èdit.de "La Tribune Russe", 1913. Original-Broschur, kl.8°, 43 Seiten.
1990Best.-Nr. 927456Kerry: Brandon, 1990. 156 S. Broschiert.
1903Best.-Nr. FD6-512London, Heinemann, 1903. original vloth, 8?, viii, 309 pages, Bibliothekstempel / bibliotheekstempel / cachet de biblioth?que / librarystamp, binding a bit rubbed, scratched, worn, and binding a bit stained
1823Best.-Nr. 1757Hamburg, Hoffmann & Campe, 1823. 5 Bll., 70 S. Mit 1 gestoch. Taf. und 1 lith. Frontispiz (Portr. d. Verf. nach e. Gemälde v. F. C. Gröger.) 4to. Pp. d. Zt.
1823Best.-Nr. 38133Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1823. 5 Bll., 70 S., 25 Bll. Mit 18 gefalt. tls.gestoch. Tab., 1 gestoch. Taf., 1 Abb. und 1 lith. Frontispiz 4to. HLdr. d. Zt.
1931Best.-Nr. 46420New York: Macmillan Company 1931. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.; publisher's maroon gilt-lettered buckram blue-green printed dust jacket; vii7318pp.; photographic frontispiece eleven leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. A hint of shelf wear to cloth extremities endpapers toned bottom corner of upper jacket flap clipped though upper corner retaining original price of $3.50 shallow chips along jacket extremities most notably at spine ends spine additionally a bit toned with brief soil spot at foot not affecting cloth binding else Near Fine in a Very Good copy of the scarce dust jacket. This work the result of a year-long study of penological practices across the globe from the criminal tribes in India Japanese penal institutions and the Parchman prison farm in Mississippi. John L. Gillin 1871-1958 was president of the American Sociological Association and showed little qualms at Parchman Farm's use of the strap as a disciplinary practice. Macmillan Company unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 44769New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24.25cm; beige paper and brown cloth-covered boards with titling and author's initials stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv3804pp; illus. Some trivial wear to board edges else Fine in a lightly shelfworn Near Fine dustjacket. Memoirs of a Cuban political prisoner held in Isla de Pinos prison for 22 years detailing the day-to-day conditions he and his fellow inmates lived in tortures they suffered through and his release. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 29341Boston: Little Brown & Co 1972. First Edition. First Printing a review copy with the publisher's complimentary slip laid in. Octavo 20cm; dark gray paper-covered noards with titles stamped in silver and black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 265pp; illus. Fine in a lightly shelfworn else Near Fine dustjacket. Anthology of prison writings by inmates of the Norfolk Prison Colony in eastern Massachusetts. Foreword by Elma Lewis under whose auspices much of the work was completed. With an introduction by James A. Lang an inmate who presumably shared the editorial credit. Includes a section of biographical sketches of the authors; illustrated throughout with photographs by Ted Pollumbaum. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 25986Milwaukee 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. 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
1954Best.-Nr. 19322New 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
1937Best.-Nr. 16674New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1937. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth cover decoratively stamped in gilt and green; dustjacket; 332pp. Top edge of text block a little dusty else a tight VG copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper worn at edges and with a closed tear to base of front panel; Good or better. Fictionalized account of the author's real-life experiences on San Quentin's Death Row following a wrongful murder conviction. Lamson also published a non-fiction account We Who Are About To Die 1935. Oddly the setting is changed to Washington State Penitentiary for this fictional version. HANNA 2080. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 14614New 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
1949Best.-Nr. 7364Washington DC: United States Bureau of Prisons 1949. First Edition. Full pebble-grained leather; dustjacket; 317pp; illus. Mild rubbing to leather at board edges and spine ends; bookplate to verso of rear endpaper; early presentation to front endpaper to architect Stanley McGaughan with ownership label of McGaughan and Johnson Architects. Text clean complete and unmarked. Jacket rubbed at extremities with shallow chips to spine ends. Scarce monograph including a section on the history of prison design and construction. United States Bureau of Prisons unknown books
1917Best.-Nr. 17764New York: Division of Intelligence and Publicity of Columbia University 1917. Small 8vo. 6 2 pp. First edition. Columbia War Papers series 1 number 2. Some notes on the possibilities of internment. "Published with the approval of the Department of Justice. In self-wrappers. Pencilled library call number at bottom edge of p. 1. First leaf torn at bottom margin without affecting text; short tear at outer margins of pp. 5/6 and last leaf not intruding upon text. Division of Intelligence and Publicity of Columbia University unknown books
1847Best.-Nr. 4980Troy: Published and Sold by L. Willard 1847. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers uncut and unopened; some chipping at margins sporadic foxing. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contains: The Condemned: A Chapter from Our City Prison: A Tale of Truth and Horror. Wright I 2444 Published and Sold by L. Willard unknown books
1833Best.-Nr. 39519Paris: Au Dépôt de Lois Chez Gustave Pissin Imprimerie de P. Dupont et Laguionie 1833. Pp. 1-32 49-128 lacking part of "Nouvelle lois actes rendues en Angleterre" and much of Victor Foucher's "Code pénal de la république de Bolivia". 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound accompanied by upper cover some light spotting inked underlining of a few pages else very good. Pp. 1-32 49-128 lacking part of "Nouvelle lois actes rendues en Angleterre" and much of Victor Foucher's "Code pénal de la république de Bolivia". 1 vols. 8vo. Penal systems extradition transportation. Intended to provide the readers with recent changes or papers in the international legal and economic fields. Includes Mittermaier's paper on the British Penal System "Renseignemens nouveaux et récens sur l'efficacité du systeme pénal des Anglais et spécialement de la transportation" pp. 7-24 a section on "Nouvelle Publications" the "Chronique" M. Pinnheiro-Ferreira former minister of Portugal's "Observations sur la loi belge du 1er Octobre 1833 concernant l'extridition des réfugiés" pp. 65-80 an extract of the article by M. Wagener on "De l'Administration de la Justice criminelle en Autriche" pp. 113-122. Au Dépôt de Lois, Chez Gustave Pissin [Imprimerie de P. Dupont et Laguionie unknown books
1917Best.-Nr. 23145Boston: Little Brown and Company 1917. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Small rubber receipt stamp from the Government of Vermont 1918. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with one small chip at top edge. 201 pages plus index. Scarce in jacket. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1910Best.-Nr. 14969n.p.: State of New York Prison Department 1910. First printing. Black pebbled cloth. Lightly rubbed else very good. Stamp of State Assemblyman on endpapers. Small faint stain to fore edge. Tiny tear to last leaf. A tight clean copy. 461 pp. 8vo. Report covers Sing Sing Prison Auburn clinton Great Meadow Sate Prison for women Matteawan State Hospital Danneomora State Hospital and the Bureau of Identification. State of New York, Prison Department hardcover books
1943Best.-Nr. 001675Washington DC: United States Prison Service 1943. Softcover. Revised edition; 9 x 6; pp. 55; green textured wraps; small vignette to front wrap; several closed cuts to edges; rubbing to spine; very light foxing to first and last pages only else clean; illustrated with photographs; overall very good condition. An uncommon manual for training prison emploees it was prepared to meet changes in the nature of the personnel of the Bureau of Prisons its turnover advanced age and poor physical fitness. The course outlined in the booklet was divided into sections on Semi-military drill defense holds and calisthenics and illustrated - in photographs and descriptions "Punch to head" "One-arm strangle" "Overhand knife attack" and so on. Washington, DC: United States Prison Service paperback books
1841Best.-Nr. 27566Boston: n.p. 1841. First edition. Removed. A very good copy browning along extremities. 9 pp. 8vo. The committee reported that prisons were overcrowded the legislature did not reduce the harshness of sentences so prisoners could not be release early to alleviate overcrowding and the mentally ill should be prodided different treatment. Nothing has changed in 160 years. n.p. unknown books
1856Best.-Nr. 823091856. A New Hampshire Prison "For Juvenile and Female Offenders" Prisons. New Hampshire. "House of Reformation for Juvenile and Female Offenders Against the Laws" To be Erected for the State of New Hampshire at Manchester. Under the Direction of Hon. Frederick Smith Hon. Matthew Harvey and Hon. Hosea Eaton Commissioners. William R. Lincoln and Gridley J.F. Bryant Designers and Architect. Disbound from First Annual Report of the Commissioner for Locating and Building House of Reformation for Juvenile and Female Offenders Against the Laws. Concord: Amos Hadley State Printer 1856. Lithograph signed Kramer & Co. Removed 16-3/4" x 21-3/4" 42.5 x 55.25 cm sepia lithograph image size 11-1/2" x 19" 29.2 x 48.25 cm. Moderate toning faint offsetting horizontal and vertical fold lines a few tiny clean tears along fold lines with minor loss to image. $450. An impressive mid-19th-century architectural rendering showing the proposed reformatory situated along the banks of the Merrimack River in Manchester New Hampshire. Authorized by the state legislature in 1855 construction began on the site the following year. The structure was designed by the prominent Boston architect Gridley J.F. Bryant 1816-1899 a pioneer in Victorian institutional architecture who designed numerous municipal buildings custom houses and prisons throughout New England and who would later renovate the New Hampshire State House in 1866. Bryant worked here alongside co-designer William R. Lincoln. Intended as a progressive state-of-the-art facility for the rehabilitation of juvenile and female offenders the House of Reformation officially opened in 1858. The grand building depicted here was short-lived however; it was severely damaged and largely destroyed by a catastrophic fire in 1865. The site was subsequently rebuilt and went on to become the long-running State Industrial School later the Youth Development Center. OCLC locates 3 individually catalogued copies of this lithograph Library Company of Philadelphia Boston Athenaeum American Antiquarian Society. We located additional copies at Dartmouth and the New Hampshire Historical Society. Reed Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant 186. unknown
1780Best.-Nr. 824611780. Paris 1780. 4-3/4" x 7-1/4" sheet manuscript text. Paris 1780. 4-3/4" x 7-1/4" sheet manuscript text. You Have Your Prisoner Now I'd Like My Money Manuscript. Prisons. France. Receipt for the Transport of Pierre Barbillon. Montmorency Paris 7th Nov 1780. 1 pp. 4-3/4" x 7-1/4" 12.1 x 18.4 cm sheet manuscript text and signature to recto. Text in neat secretarial hand with docket to bottom name of payer and signature of payee completed in a different hand. Light toning a few faint fox-spots "34" in red pencil to lower left corner. $250. This document indicates that the signatory has received the sum of thirty livres for transporting and attending the punishment of the prisoner Pierre Barbillon and erecting two notices announcing his punishment. Barbillon whose crime is not indicated was sentenced to be whipped and placed in an iron collar in the central square of Montmorency a commune in northern Paris. unknown
1912Best.-Nr. 1080Londres etc.: Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company Limited. 1912. First edition. Large quarto. Publisher's original full dark-green morocco; the upper board triple-ruled in gilt and with the Uruguayan crest in gilt; the spine with five raised bands compartments ruled and decorated in gilt and with titles in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title page contents page introduction and first text page with gilt borders and embellishments. Illustrated profusely throughout with black and white photographs and one map. Ownership inscription of the Australian writer Mary Gilmore to the head of the title page: "Mary Gilmore / Her book / 16. 3. 26". A very good copy the binding square and firm with a few small marks and scuffs to the boards rubbing to the spine and joints and wear to the corners. The contents with scattered foxing to the endpapers are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. An interesting association copy of this comprehensive extensively illustrated and luxuriously produced survey of the people culture history politics economy industry agriculture geography and natural history of Uruguay at the beginning of the twentieth-century belonging to the influential Australian author journalist and poet Dame Mary Gilmore 1865-1962. A prolific contributor to Australian literature and the broader national discourse during the first half of the twentieth-century Gilmore wrote for a number of leading newspapers and journals of the period serving as the editor of the women's section of The Australian Worker 1908-1931 as well as The Bulletin The Sydney Morning Herald and the Communist Party's Tribune becoming known as a campaigner for the welfare of the disadvantaged. Her first volume of poetry was issued in 1910 thereafter publishing prodigiously for the ensuing half-century coming to be regarded as one of Australia's most popular and widely read poets. Her poetry essays and memoirs covered a wide variety of themes although public imagination was particularly captured by her evocative views of country life with her best known work - 'No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest' - serving as a morale booster during the Second World War. A political progressive Gilmore gained a reputation as a 'fiery radical' - a champion of the workers and the oppressed. Involving herself with the burgeoning labour movement early in her life she had become a devotee of the utopian socialism of William Lane 1861-1917. In 1896 Gilmore and two hundred others followed Lane to Paraguay where they established a communal settlement called New Australia. She started a family there with William Gilmore whom she married in 1897 but the colony was ultimately short-lived with Gilmore leaving in 1900 living in Buenos Aires for six months followed by a period in Patagonia returning to Australia in 1902 after having saved enough money for a return passage. Gilmore maintained a strong interest in Latin American politics culture and literature for the rest of her life. Indeed she also engaged in translation projects bringing Latin American literature to a wider audience notably endeavouring to produce a 'Uruguayan anthology' for which she corresponded with friends and associates in the country. This was perhaps also the origin of the present volume which itself forms a pleasing representation of Gilmore's wide-ranging ambitions. By her later years Gilmore was a doyenne of the Sydney literary world and became something of a national icon making frequent appearances in the new media of radio and television and maintaining a significant literary output into old age publishing her last book of verse in 1954 aged 89. She died at the age of 97 and was accorded a state funeral a rare honour for a writer and has featured on the reverse of the Australian ten-dollar note since 1993. Londres [etc.]: Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company, Limited. hardcover
1819Best.-Nr. 91196Paris: Imprimerie de Denugon 1819. A collection of 18 reports issued between April and December 1819 for the French Royal Society for the Improvement of Prisons comprising: 1. Rapport au Roi 9 avril 1819. 8 pp. Signed in print by the Comte Decazes. 2. Ordonnance du Roi 9 avril 1819. Pp. 9-14 Signed in print by Louis and Decazes. 3. Circulaire de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur à MM. les préfets 4 mai 1819. 5 pages. 4. Statuts de la Société royale pour l'amélioration des Prisons 15 mai 1819. Pp. 15-18. 5. Liste des Fondateurs de la Société royale pour l'amélioration des Prisons. Pp. 19-30. 6. Arrêté de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur 7 août 1819. Pp. 8. 7. Réglement de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur 7 août 1819. Pp. 9-14. 8. Procès-verbal d'installation de la Société royale des prisons 14 juin 1819. Pp. 15-29. 9. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans sa séance du 25 mai 1819 M. le duc de la Rochefoucauld rapporteur. Pp. 31-38. 10. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans ses séances des 25 mai et 8 juin 1819 M. Pariset rapporteur. Pp. 39-71. 11. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans sa séance du 2 juin 1819 M. le comte Bigot de Préameneu rapporteur . Pp. 73-88. 12. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans sa séance du 8 juin 1819 M. le comte de La Borde rapporteur. Pp. 89-100. 13. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans la même séance M. Try rapporteur. Pp. 109. 14. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons dans la même séance M. Jacquinot ded Pampelune rapporteur. Pp. 111-121. 15. Visite des prisons des départemens de l'Eure et de la Seine-Inférieure en octobre 1819 M. le marquis de Barbé Marbois. Pp. 44. 16. Rapport fait au Conseil général des Prisons M. le comte Bigot de Préameneu. pp. 136. 17. Arrêté de S. Exc. le ministre de l'intérieur 25 décembre 1819. Pp. 137-154. 18. Extraits des lois et réglemens concernant l'administration et la police des prisons. Pp. 2 39. Quarto 243 x 192 mm. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Occasional light spotting; a very good copy. unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 84379New York: Doubleday 1969. First American Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Original black cloth spine over maroon boards titled in silver gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xxvi; 251pp. Strong and handsome with very light wear and some minor bumping to the spine ends; internally clean fore-edge untrimmed; in a strong bright illustrated dustjacket with some light scuffing in places and light wear to spine ends and corners. A very good copy. Originally published in French in 1967 as Les Hommes Dans Le Prison detailing Serge's experiences as a French political prisoner jailed in 1912 for revolutionary crimes. Doubleday unknown
