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2007réf. 029455Las Vegas Nevada: Huntington Press 2007. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by all three: author Frank Cullotta co-author Dennis Griffin & contributor Dennis Arnoldy. Near Fine condition. Only light shelfwear to the cover. Flat uncreased spine. NO chips. NO tears. NO fading. Sharp corners. Bright clean square and tight. NOT a remainder. Autobiography of nearly thirty years as a master thief Chicago Outfit associate and hit man. Cullotta was the technical consultant on the film CASINO. Index. Bound in the original full color pictorial wraps. From the rear cover: "From burglary to armed robbery and murder infamous bad guy Frank Cullotta not only did it all in CULLOTTA he admits to it -- and in graphic detail. This no-holds-barred biography chronicles the life of a career criminal who started out as a thug on the streets of Chicago and became a trusted lieutenant in Tony Spilotro's gang of organized lawbreakers in Las Vegas. Cullotta's was a world of high-profile heists street muscle and information -- lots of it -- about many of the FBI's most wanted. In the end that information was his ticket out of crime as he turned government witness and became one of a handful of mob insiders to enter the Witness Protection Program. 'Frank Cullotta is the real thing' says Nicholas Pileggi in the book's Foreword and in these pages Cullotta sets the record straight on organized crime witness protection and life and death in mobbed-up Las Vegas." . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Frank Cullotta and 2 others. 1st ed No additional printings listed. Softcover. Near Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xvi 296pp. 8 pages of photos. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Huntington Press Paperback
1998réf. 027023Niwot Colorado: Roberts Rinehart Publishers 1998. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket only lightly rubbed. NO chips tears or creases. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. Previous owner's small book label on the front pastedown endpaper with name blacked out. All other pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked. Bound in the original black cloth stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "In 1991 Sean McPhilemy produced 'The Committee' a sensational documentary for British television that revealed that a group in Northern Ireland -- drawn from the Unionist members of the business community Protestant clergy the police RUC and the British security forces -- was systematically colluding with Loyalist terrorists to murder Irish Republicans and other Irish Nationalists. The documentary contained exclusive firsthand testimony of a member of the Loyalist committee responsible for the murders. This source provided a detailed account of how various assassinations had been planned and carried out. The broadcast of 'The Committee' resulted in highly publicized legal proceedings in the High Court in London when the British Conservative government tried unsuccessfully to force the program makers to identify their source. Since the broadcast of his documentary McPhilemy has struggled to protect his reputation in the face of various legal actions against him over the program. Harassed by British authorities and his life threatened he has brought two libel actions against newspapers in London that sought to discredit him. THE COMMITTEE gives a full account of the murder conspiracy the making of the documentary the subsequent legal proceedings and additional evidence that substantiates the original allegations. In nthe meantime the Committee alledgely continues to operate with impunity -- and Loyalist terrorists carry on the killing.". Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. viii 418pp. 12 pages of photos. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Roberts Rinehart Publishers Hardcover
1993réf. 001704West Trenton New Jersey:: New Jersey State Police Memorial Association Inc 1993. 7.5" wide by 9.25" tall. Bright clean square tight and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp. Flat uncreased spine. Photo illustrations throughout. "First Edition: November 1993" is so stated with complete number row 10 987654321 on the copyright page. Index. Original pictorial wraps. From the rear cover: "TROOPERS BEHIND THE BADGE is an honest heartfelt look at today's troopers who still live by the motto HONOR DUTY FIDELITY laid down to them in 1921 by the NJSP's founder Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Stark takes the reader on highway patrol drug busts surveillance an aeromedical helicopter rescue; to a meeting with a 'made' Mafia member. Throughout the book troopers tell of their most harrowing escapades be it living undercover or rescuing a trapped family from a burning house. A young road trooper relives a Turnpike shootout in which he took six bullets and kept on fighting." . First Printing of the First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. xv 272pp. New Jersey State Police Memorial Association, Inc Paperback
réf. SONG1989706134Used: Good unknown
réf. a81873Washington 1968. 4 issues for 1968 of this quarterly journal bound in one volume. Hardcover. 4to. about 75pp. per issue bound in institution buckram with original covers included and white stamping on spine. University library stamps on fore-edges and covers. VG plus. . hardcover
réf. a81871Washington 1964. 4 issues for 1964 of this quarterly journal bound in one volume. Hardcover. 4to. about 75pp. per issue bound in institution buckram with original covers included and gilt stamping on spine. University library stamps on fore-edges and covers. VG plus. . hardcover
réf. a81872Washington 1965. 4 issues for 1965 of this quarterly journal bound in one volume. Hardcover. 4to. about 75pp. per issue bound in institution buckram with original covers included and gilt stamping on spine. University library stamps on fore-edges and covers. VG plus. . hardcover
1951réf. 62953New York: Dial Press 1951. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 570pp. Trivial dusting to page edges else Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.50 on front flap slightly spine-sunned and rubbed at folds; Very Good. Sprawling novel of the rise of three young Jewish gangsters in the world of Las Vegas organized crime. Less a crime novel than an occupational novel of the Jewish-American underworld - a subtle distinction perhaps but as with all of Shulman's early novels this was his third following "The Amboy Dukes" and "Cry Tough" big-city crime and corruption are offered up not so much for entertainment as for an examination of their social origins and implications. Dial Press unknown
1951réf. 62953New York: Dial Press 1951. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 570pp. Trivial dusting to page edges else Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped priced $3.50 on front flap slightly spine-sunned and rubbed at folds; Very Good. Sprawling novel of the rise of three young Jewish gangsters in the world of Las Vegas organized crime. Less a crime novel than an occupational novel of the Jewish-American underworld - a subtle distinction perhaps but as with all of Shulman's early novels this was his third following "The Amboy Dukes" and "Cry Tough" big-city crime and corruption are offered up not so much for entertainment as for an examination of their social origins and implications. Dial Press unknown books
2001réf. 011105Los Angeles: Feral House 2001 Near fine in same unclipped dust jacket first edition 305 1pp adverts survey of famous serial killers and murderers by Britain's most notorious and despised child-killer Ian Brady written from the psych ward of the prison he will never be released from. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Feral House hardcover
1929réf. A48772New York NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some bumping rubbing and edge wear. The top front cover of the book has some light fading. The text pages are clean and bright. "A century ago David Nunes Carvalho a renowned expert on ink handwriting and print became a central figure in some of the world’s most sensational investigations providing key information and contributing to the ultimate exoneration of the Franco-Jewish military officer Alfred Dreyfus.A review of Claire’s book in the Hartford Daily Courant provides one of the most compelling anecdotes of the legend surrounding David’s investigative powers: “It is indeed a fact that Sir Conan Doyle stated in a lecture in New York that Mr. Carvalho’s powers exceeded those given to Sherlock Holmes and were so startling that he would never dare put them into fiction! ”David seemed to have inherited his father’s spirit of innovation and experimentation. On the Frémont expedition Solomon successfully tinkered with chemicals in order to produce photographic images in subzero temperatures and exterior settings and later in life he patented a new process for water heating. Like Solomon David began his career as a photographer and when he later turned his attention to the science of ink and print he did so with a similar curiosity and determination." by Harold Heft April 1 2013 in Forward Magazine; B&W Illustrations; 296p. pages; Pictured 6/17/24 . 1929. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
1939réf. D170012Boston: Little Brown & Co 1939. An expose blaming corrupt local police for the crimes they permitted and championing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to fix the problems. Cooper was a close friend and supporter of J. Edgar Hoover. Second printing. Lightly bumped and rubbed with just a touch of wear at the spine ends sticker scuff on the spine. Square and solid end papers and edges of the text block foxed. Inscribed on the front end paper "To my "neighbor" W. Eldridge Smith with a load of good wishes from Courtney Ryley Cooper." Laid in is a note from Cooper typed and hand signed on his letterhead to Smith and dated May 31 1939. Inscribed By the Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Little Brown & Co Hardcover
1951réf. 24382Concord N.H.: Common Sense Publishing Co. Inc. 1951. Mild edge rubbing and soiling nearly fine copies. 24382. Small octavo two issues pictorial wrappers. Digest sized magazine. Billed on the front covers "A selection of the best True Crime stories new and old." Authors include Eleazar Lipsky Craig Rice Lillian de la Torre Stuart Palmer James Thurber and others. Published by Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications these two issues are perhaps the only two published this cataloger is unsure. Common Sense Publishing Co., Inc. unknown
1886réf. 26Akron OH: H. G. Canfield 1886. 8vo 92 pages printed wrappers; the penultimate leaf of detective Burlison's text is defective and lacks text but the following leaf tho defective retains the full woodcut image of Burlison. Rare. "On the night of April 3d 1865 the Safe of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company at Le Roy Medina County Ohio was cracked and some $61000.00 taken therefrom. . Samuel M. Felker was arrested in Chicago by Detective Pinkerton and brought to Medina and lodged in jail where he confessed that he knew where all the bonds and money were and that he could and would provide the same on condition that he should be released." ". the guilty and self-confessed thieves were permitted to escape and protected in the enjoyment of their ill-gotten gains has thus far remained a mystery. This little book proposes to give a true and faithful history of the whole matter which will read like a romance - Preface." This tale was 20 years in the telling. The prefatory Note is dated 1864. There may have been an 1885 edition the tipped-on copyright notice is dated 1885. WorldCat cites only 3 copies of any edition of this booklet - all in Ohio. Includes much correspondence with Allen Pinkerton. H. G. Canfield unknown
1975réf. 0008454Washington DC : Federal Bureau of Investigation April 10 1975. First edition. Very Good. Folio broadside two holes punched at top for posting slight loss on right margin from paper button sealer with three folds from mailing. In this infamous sequence Patty Hearst was kidnapped and converted by her captors the Cinque and his Symbionese Liberation Army in February 1974. With the Harrises and others they engaged in a series of crimes - especially bank robberies - while eluding capture. This updated wanted poster is from April 1975. Hearst was ultimately captured on September 18 1975. The Harrises and others remained "at large" until 2002 and 2003. Federal Bureau of Investigation unknown
1902réf. 006326New York: Columbia University Press 1902. Volume XV only of the Studies in History Economics and Public Law edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University 8vo size brown clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on the spine 427 pages including an index followed by a Table of Errata and several pages of listings of other books in the series. Contents include: The Evolutionary Function and Usefulness of Crime and Punishment Social Punishment Among Animals Crime Among Savages Savage Races in Australia America Asia and Africa England Under Normans and Plantagenets Parliamentary Government and the New Federalism Has Crime Increased During the Nineteenth Century Is Punishment Powerless Against Crime The Trend of Crime in Modern Times An Ethical Theory of Crime Appears to be ex-private or fraternity library with minimal markings including a non-Dewey label on spine and Phi Delta Psi bookplate inside front cover but which has no relationship to the modern fraternity with the same name. Bookplate has left ghostly image on abutting page. Ffep which had name written on it has two chips which have adhered to the previous page. Pages are tanned. We note pencilled underlining or notations including but not limited to pages 159 179 212 217-218 221-233 235-237 241-243 246-247 250-254 270-272 274-277 278 281 299-301 303-304 306 311 331-332 335-336 341-342 346 348 372-374 376 385 and 390. Most of the pencilled markings consist of a small vertical line in the margin of the text. Edgewear bumped corners and head and heal of spine some light soil to covers and a small area on back cover where cloth has lifted from board. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Columbia University Press Hardcover
1928réf. D140563London: Selwyn & Blount 1928. Lightly bumped and rubbed spine sunned. Faint foxing to the end papers and edges of the text block. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears including a 4" tear down the rear spine fold with associated tears and creases to the rear panel. Spine darkened in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Selwyn & Blount Hardcover
1970réf. 009301London: Constable 1970 original proof copy in plain wraps with title and dated 25th June 1971 copyright states 1970 sewn sheets with drawn on wrapper former owner name and address to verso of frontis port. 230pp plates index not present as issued. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Constable paperback
1968réf. 038819London: Heinemann 1968 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Ed. "Only the Foreign Office" a junior diplomat remarks "could have sent a bull to catch a matador." The bull is Alan Turner a rough-necked rough-mouthed lovable misfit from Foreign Office Security; the matador is Leo Harting a middle-aged Second Secretary from the British Embassy in Bonn "a sprite weightless as the dark slipping through the shadows as if they were a net". This is the man who after twenty years of apparently loyal service to the Crown has vanished taking with him official files hot enough to frustrate or indeed compromise the entire British position at the negotiating table at Brussels where a faltering British Government is making a desperate last attempt to save the national economy and get into the Common Market. In this atmosphere of approaching crisis Alan Turner therefore is despatched from London to find Harting. "Which do they want" he asks "The man or the files" Gradually it becomes clear that one is not enough without the other." Previous owner's book plate of ffep else fine. Heinemann hardcover
1965réf. A47690Garden City NY: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. First Edition; First 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 of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has rubbing and wear to the spine ends corners and edges. There are a couple of smallish edge tears and the rear dust jacket panel has ground-in dirt and some light toning. "A California rabbi who rejects completely the existing outlook on crime which “puts men in prisons instead of hospitals. ” has resigned as Jewish chaplain at San Quentin Folsom and Alcatraz prisons. Because society “has not yet learned that crime is but another form of mental or emotional disturbance ” being a prison chaplain was “so futile ” said Rabbi Julius A. Leibert that he could no longer continue. “All I could do was listen with never a say where it mattered for the men. ““Prisons are a carry-over from the dim cruel unenlightened past ” he asserted adding that such institutions should be called “hospitals ” with inmates considered as receiving treatment rather than punishment. He called inmates of San Quentin “poor sick persons” who were “compelled time after time to commit crimes” because they were “inadequately treated as sick persons. ” from Jewish Telegraphic Agency Aug 29 1957; 223p. pages; Pictured 1/18/24 . 1965. Doubleday hardcover
1963réf. 019880New York: The Julian Press Inc. 1963. Mid-Century Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; Mid-Century Edition; 323pp; DJ clean & bright with slight edgewear & protected by mylar sleeve boards square clean & bright pen notes to rear flyleaf text unmarked binding is sound VG/VG condition. Scarce vintage study and history of sex crimes in history from ancient to modern times. This edition the "Mid-Century Edition" titled in order to evade obscenity laws at the time of publication was marketed to institutions of higher learning and libraries while the alternately titled but identical text "Sex Crimes in History" was marketed to the general public. The Julian Press, Inc. hardcover
1993réf. 250123-MB17Avon Books 1993. Very Good paperback As New Signed by author. Signed. First Paperback Printing. Mass Market Paper Back. Very Good. Avon Books
1966réf. 15859Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1966. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. iv 777 3 pages. Paper clip marks to several pages. Maps. Graphs. Tables. Footnotes. Ink notation on title page indicates this was Ned Sloan's copy. Sloan Elvin "Ned" Sloan was a DC Statehood Activist and an Attorney in Washington DC. Cover has some wear creases and soiling. Previous owner's name in pencil in several places. Lyndon B. Johnson by Executive Order 11234 established this Commission to study the causes of crime and delinquency in Washington DC and measures for their prevention; the organization and adequacy of law enforcement and the administration of justice; the correction and rehabilitation of offenders particularly first offenders; the adequacy and effectiveness of the criminal laws; and the mutual relationships between police authorities and the citizens of Washington. The appendix contains four studies in the District of Columbia: one on police one on offenders one on corrections and one on delinquency. The first study a survey of the Metropolitan Police Department reviews the management administration and operations of the department. It examines the traffic investigation and youth functions as well as records management communications buildings and equipment and police community relations. The second study a description of active juvenile offenders and convicted adult felons in the District of Columbia characterizes criminals by factors such as family background location of residence employment history and personal data. The third study the organization and effectiveness of the correctional agencies discusses the functions and problems of the department of corrections and the parole and probation agencies. The final study analyzes the social environment and delinquency in the District of Columbia. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback