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1831ref. 827581831. Rare Account of a 14-Year-Old Murderer Murder. Bell John Any Bird 1816-1831. A Narrative of the Facts Relative to the Murder of Richard Faulkner Taylor In the Woods Between Rochester and Maidstone On Friday the 4th of March 1831 With the Proceedings on the Coroner's Inquest: The Highly Interesting Evidence of James Bell Not Adduced on the Trial Comprising a Complete and Circumstantial History of the Diabolical Affair Together with the Trial of John Any Bird Bell for the Murder: Including the Confession of the Prisoner And an Account of His Behaviour After Condemnation: Also an Abstract from the Very Excellent Discourse of the Rev. J. Winter Being the Condemned Sermon Preached at the Chapel of the Gaol on the Sunday Previous to the Execution: To Which is Added A Sketch of the Prisoner's Life. Rochester England: Printed and Sold by S. Caddel; And May be Had of Every Bookseller in the County 1831. 42 pp. Lithograph portrait frontispiece of John and James Bell. Octavo 9" x 5-3/4". Stab-stitched pamphlet in recent wrappers incorporating front cover of original printed wrappers untrimmed edges. Negligible light edgewear and a few minor creases light soiling and a few faint spots to original wrapper. Moderate toning to interior light soiling and wear to outer edges of several leaves light foxing to a few leaves early owner signature J.S. Bullard dated August 1831 to head of title page. $500. The fourteen-year-old Bell confessed to killing Richard Faulkner Taylor 1817-1831 thirteen presumably for the small sum of money Taylor was carrying home. Any Bird Bell's name is sometimes given as James probably a result of confusion with his younger brother James Bell. The younger brother apparently a witness to the crime testified against him at trial where he was convicted of murder. Bell was the youngest person executed in England in the nineteenth century. Death sentences were often given to children and teenagers but they were usually commuted. He was also the first person hanged by William Calcraft 1800-1879 who went on to become one of the most prolific British executioners and something of a celebrity. An online search of Rochester genealogy resources locates a J.S. Bullard who was a solicitor's clerk during the 1830s. OCLC locates 4 copies British Library 2 copies Library of Cong. unknown books
ref. 110619025Script Format reprint. Like New. / EARLY 6/13/1995 REVISED DRAFT / I HAVE MORE TITLES LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR OTHER TITLES /THE SCRIPT IS PRINTED ON THREE-HOLE PUNCHED PAPER AND BOUND WITH 2 BRASS BRADS /. unknown
1966288p. Profusely illustrated with seven and fifty photographs and drawings. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Original dust jacket with small tear on top of spine. Hardbound. A pictorial history of crime from 1850 to 1966. Nice copy. CRIME BOX 1
First edition, [2], 57, [1]pp., with half-title, disbound. Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.
199012mo, 150 pages, not illustrated. eng
183356p. Unbound Good condition, closed tears in margins repaired
1969Book
ref. 0107XKRRGLMGood. Farrar & Rinehart New York 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. About The Murder Of A Man Afraid Of Women. Anthony Abbot pseudonym for Charles Fulton Oursler Sixth mystery title out of eight Thatcher Colt titles with the first one being "About the Murder of Geraldine Foster". Condition is good with slightly bumped corners nice light green boards hinges starting . Our pics hardcover
1988285 pages, jacket artwork by Martin White. eng
19948vo, 448 pages, not illustrated. eng
2006As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Demy 8vo. (21 x 15 cm). In Turkish. [iii], 364 p. B/w ills. Turkish Edition of Schechter and Everitt's 'The A to Z encyclopedia of serial killers'. A'dan Z'ye seri katiller ansiklopedisi. Translated by Sinan Güneyli.
ref. 12315- Le Club, 2001 Fort Volume au format 12.5 x19 cm, reliure pleine toile titrée en doré en creux sous jaquette jaune et noire, bel exemplaire, 1344 pages.Présentation de Jacques Baudou Bibliographie filmographie de Jean-Jacques Schléret. Volume 5 de la collection: « Les années 1936-1937 »
1836ref. 665381836. Concord NH 1836. Concord NH 1836. "Oh! Lust Accursed Lust! 'Twas This for Which I Did the Deed" Broadside. Murder. A Private Individual at the Bar. Abr'm Prescott's Confession Of the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran of Pembroke N.H.--June 23 1833. Concord NH.: S.n. 1836. 17" x 11-1/2" 43.2 x 29.2 cm broadside. Two columns of verse in twenty stanzas within woodcut ornamental border text headed by large woodcut vignette of a coffin. Light browning and a few minor stains faint horizontal and vertical fold line chipping to edges section lacking from bottom margin just touching bottom right corner of border a few tears along fold lines with no loss to text later repairs to verso. $1950. Abraham Prescott was convicted of the murder of Sally Cochran following two separate highly publicized trials held in Concord New Hampshire in September 1834 and September 1835. Despite a robust and well-crafted insanity defense mounted by his counsel Prescott was sentenced to death. Originally scheduled to be hanged in Hopkinton New Hampshire on December 23 1835 his execution was delayed and he was ultimately executed on January 6 1836. This rare broadside features a verse account that explicitly frames the murder as a crime of passion capturing the sensationalized public sentiment of the era: "Oh! lust accursed lust! 'twas this / For which I did the deed; / Forfeiting heaven and life and bliss / Forfeiting all I need." OCLC locates 7 copies American Antiquarian Society Brown Dartmouth Harvard Peabody Essex Museum University of Michigan Yale. See McDade The Annals of Murder 769. Burt American Murder Ballads 66-67. unknown
1836ref. 665381836. Concord NH 1836. Concord NH 1836. "Oh! Lust Accursed Lust! 'Twas This for Which I Did the Deed" Broadside. Murder. A Private Individual at the Bar. Abr'm Prescott's Confession Of the Murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran of Pembroke N.H.--June 23 1833. Concord NH.: S.n. 1836. 17" x 11-1/2" 43.2 x 29.2 cm broadside. Two columns of verse in twenty stanzas within woodcut ornamental border text headed by large woodcut vignette of a coffin. Light browning and a few minor stains faint horizontal and vertical fold line chipping to edges section lacking from bottom margin just touching bottom right corner of border a few tears along fold lines with no loss to text later repairs to verso. $1950. Abraham Prescott was convicted of the murder of Sally Cochran following two separate highly publicized trials held in Concord New Hampshire in September 1834 and September 1835. Despite a robust and well-crafted insanity defense mounted by his counsel Prescott was sentenced to death. Originally scheduled to be hanged in Hopkinton New Hampshire on December 23 1835 his execution was delayed and he was ultimately executed on January 6 1836. This rare broadside features a verse account that explicitly frames the murder as a crime of passion capturing the sensationalized public sentiment of the era: "Oh! lust accursed lust! 'twas this / For which I did the deed; / Forfeiting heaven and life and bliss / Forfeiting all I need." OCLC locates 7 copies American Antiquarian Society Brown Dartmouth Harvard Peabody Essex Museum University of Michigan Yale. See McDade The Annals of Murder 769. Burt American Murder Ballads 66-67. unknown books
1824ref. BB056Murder Trial Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare . the coroner's inquest the trials of the prisoners and the execution. By George Henry Jones. London 1824. With 3 landscapes 2 folding plates finely lithographed by C J Hullmandel. 8vo iv344pp; half-leather marbled boards spine label "Thurtell's Trial" lightly scuffed very solid and clean throughout. First edition. William Weare was a solicitor of Lyon's Inn and a gambler. His killer was John Thurtell 1794–1824 a sports promoter amateur boxer a former Royal Marine officer and a son of the Mayor of Norwich. Thurtell owed Weare a gambling debt of £300 an immense sum at the time equivalent to £24500 in 20151. Thurtell believed Weare had cheated him of the money. Whatever the truth when Weare demanded payment Thurtell murdered him rather than pay up. He invited Weare to join him and his friends – Joseph Hunt a tavern landlord and William Probert a former convict and alcohol merchant – for a weekend of gambling at Probert's cottage at the site of Oaks Close off Gills Hill Lane subsequently popularly known as Murder Lane23 Radlett. On 24 October 1823 they journeyed from London in Thurtell's horse-drawn gig but Weare was killed in a dark lane just short of their destination. The gruesome and callous events created such public sensation that it attracted numerous ballads and theatre shows at the time along with comment by the essayist Babington Macaulay and the crime used variously in the work of Sir Walter Scott William Hazllitt and Robert Louis Stevenson. After the trial one of the accused was hanged and another Joseph Hunt was transported to Botany Bay Australia. Charles Joseph Hullmandel 1789–1850 studied art and printmaking and is considered amongst the most important figures in the development of British lithography. He developed a method for reproducing gradations in tones and for creating the effect of soft color washes which enabled the reproduction of Romantic landscape paintings of the type made popular by J. M. W. Turner. Hullmandel's essay The Art of Drawing on Stone 1824 was an important handbook of lithography issued the same year as this account of the trial.
1824ref. BB056Murder Trial Account of the Murder of the late Mr William Weare . the coroner's inquest the trials of the prisoners and the execution. By George Henry Jones. London 1824. With 3 landscapes 2 folding plates finely lithographed by C J Hullmandel. 8vo iv344pp; half-leather marbled boards spine label "Thurtell's Trial" lightly scuffed very solid and clean throughout. First edition. William Weare was a solicitor of Lyon's Inn and a gambler. His killer was John Thurtell 1794–1824 a sports promoter amateur boxer a former Royal Marine officer and a son of the Mayor of Norwich. Thurtell owed Weare a gambling debt of £300 an immense sum at the time equivalent to £24500 in 20151. Thurtell believed Weare had cheated him of the money. Whatever the truth when Weare demanded payment Thurtell murdered him rather than pay up. He invited Weare to join him and his friends – Joseph Hunt a tavern landlord and William Probert a former convict and alcohol merchant – for a weekend of gambling at Probert's cottage at the site of Oaks Close off Gills Hill Lane subsequently popularly known as Murder Lane23 Radlett. On 24 October 1823 they journeyed from London in Thurtell's horse-drawn gig but Weare was killed in a dark lane just short of their destination. The gruesome and callous events created such public sensation that it attracted numerous ballads and theatre shows at the time along with comment by the essayist Babington Macaulay and the crime used variously in the work of Sir Walter Scott William Hazllitt and Robert Louis Stevenson. After the trial one of the accused was hanged and another Joseph Hunt was transported to Botany Bay Australia. Charles Joseph Hullmandel 1789–1850 studied art and printmaking and is considered amongst the most important figures in the development of British lithography. He developed a method for reproducing gradations in tones and for creating the effect of soft color washes which enabled the reproduction of Romantic landscape paintings of the type made popular by J. M. W. Turner. Hullmandel's essay The Art of Drawing on Stone 1824 was an important handbook of lithography issued the same year as this account of the trial. books
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2001344 pages. eng
198612mo, 227 pages, not illustrated. Previous owner's inscription on the inside front cover. eng
1938First appearance of this prescient series of fictional letters, spanning sixteen months between 1932 and 1934, between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his gentile business partner who has returned to Germany in the formative years of the Nazi regime. Simon & Schuster published the first book edition in 1939 and a film noir version followed in 1944. Subsequent stage play performances have continued globally until recent years. The magnum opus of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor [1903-1996], she was assigned the nom de plume Kressman Taylor by her husband and Story's editor Whit Burnett who, per an online reference, felt the concept of murder by mail was too strong to appear under the name of a woman. Occupies pages 20-32 of this 104 page magazine which is clean and unmarked with respectful wear. Front cover beginning to loosen and must be handled gently. Two-inch openings at head and foot of front cover at spine. A quality copy of this stunning literary achievement. Book
19938vo, 192 pages, not illustrated. Ex library copy. eng
193896 pages. Features: Blood Money - A Swedish Mercinary in R.F.C. Uniform and the most merciless killer on the Western Front; Murder in the Mess - A modern R.A.F. Bomber Squadron is the setting of Murder in an Officer's Mess; Smoking Prohibited - Misadventure in the Fleet Air Arm; True Story - Continuing the Personal Narrative of a Young Airman who fought in Spanish War Skies; A Spot of Snooping - A Bristol Fighter and its mission where success meant a German Gaol and failure the annihilation of fifty thousand men; and more. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Book
193996 pages. Features: Palestine Party - The Air Fleet Arm is sent into action to meet the Greatest Menace of the Arab Rebellion; Masquerade Murder - the Squire's 'Ghost Plane'; Raiders Ride High - A Hybrid Monster bears a load of venomous purpose; True Narrative - The Conclusion of a British 'Ace' who served in the War in the Air from First to Last; The Bloke in the Bowler - When certain Brain Guys from the U.S.A decided to go into aviation, Flt.-Lt. Kinley of the Secret Service was bound for adventure; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Upper right corner of front cover obscured. Book
1935Volume I, No. I of this publication. Contents include two long complete novels of war flying entitled "One Man's War", a tale of a Handley-Page night-bomber, and "Gas-Bag Aces", a tale of Seaplane and Blimp adventures of the Coast Defence Forces in the Great War; Terror in the Sky - A Pilotless R.A.F. Fighter crashes in the centre of New York; Murder in the Air - The Red Prop School trained the Foreign Legion of the Air; Cundall of the Camels - The remarkable life of a Camel pilot of the R.F.C. on the Western Front; Real Life Adventures - Crashing Aeroplanes for Movie Thrills and Thrills and Spills in Parachuting; and more. Interesting cover illustration depicts kilt-wearing machine-gunner. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Book
2003ref. 762002003 Editions Gallimard, Collection "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade" - 2003 - In-12, reliure pleine peau havane, dos lisse orné de titres et filets horizontaux dorés, signet jaune, rhodoïd et étui cartonné de l'éditeur illustré en couleurs - 318 pages - Iconographie en N&B et en couleurs (390 illustrations)
