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1905réf. List2839Boston Massachusetts 1905. Single 8.5 x 8.5 inch sheet cut from a larger whole; likely missing a portion. Marks at upper left side some folding. Otherwise excellent to near fine. Wanted poster for Mary S. Dean dated December 16 1905. Three months prior a young woman's torso had been found in a suitcase floating in Boston Harbor. A month later a suitcase containing her limbs was found and she was identified as Susanna Geary. In September Geary had gone to the medical practice on Tremont Street where Dean worked as a nurse and Dean had performed an abortion for her - at the time an illegal procedure in Massachusetts. Geary developed sepsis from the surgery; when she died Dean and three men one a doctor conspired to dismember Geary and dispose of her body in the ocean.1 The doctor was acquitted and the two men pleaded guilty but Mary S. Dean was never found. 1 "Says McLeod Made Plans: Crawford Testifies in Suit Case Trial" The Boston Globe November 28 1905. unknown books
20083 vols., 8vo., First English Edition; red cloth, backstrips lettered in silver, coloured endpapers (pale blue/dark blue/green respectively), a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Complete sets of the original English edition are already elusive in this condition.
1896réf. STLL0129Hamburg, Verlagsanst. u. Druckerei A.-G. 1890-1896. Gr.-8°, XXXI(1) S. (Tit., Einführ. u. Vorw. d. Verf.), 545(1) S., IV (Tit. u. Vorw. d. Übers.), 412 S. mit 1 Tafelbild u. Tit. II S. (Vorw. d. Verf.), 29(1) S., 64 meist gefaltete Tafeln mit z. Tl. photogr. Abb. Mit etlichen Tabellen u. einigen wenigen Fig. im Text. HLdrBde. d. Zt. auf vier falschen Bünden m. Tit. u. reichen Verz. in Goldpräg. auf Rü., marmor. Buchschnitt u. gemusterten Vorsätzen. Kanten u. Kapitale berieben. Stempel auf Tit. unschön m. Exlibris überklebt. Im Text etwas gebräunt u. stellenw. stockfleckig. Mischauflage der ersten und zweiten Auflage dieser ersten deutschen Ausgabe, übersetzt nach der 1876 veröffentlichten Originalausgabe ("L'uomo delinquente in rapporto all'Anthropologia, alla Giurisprudenza ed alle discipline carcerarie"). Der italienische Mediziner und Anthropologe Cesare Lombroso (1836-1909) war Militärarzt in Pavia, leitete fünf Jahre die Nervenanstalt von Pesaro, lehrte später in Turin gerichtliche Medizin, Hygiene sowie Psychiatrie und gilt als Begründer der Kriminologie. Er vertrat die These, es gebe geborene Verbrecher, die durch körperliche und psychische Merkmale zu erkennen seien. Abstehende Ohren, zusammengewachsene Augenbrauen, schmale Lippen und hervorstehende Eckzähne waren für ihn u. a. Erkennungszeichen krimineller Neigungen. Europaweit lieferten Lombrosos umstrittene Theorien den Anstoß für wissenschaftliche Debatten über die Ursachen des Verbrechens. (vlg. dazu Brockhaus, 19. Aufl. XIII, 509).
1834réf. 829741834. London: G. Smeeton Printer 1834. London: G. Smeeton Printer 1834. One Other Copy Located Broadside. Crime. Gee William. A True Account of the Most Extraordinary Outrage on Mr. Gee A Respectable Solicitor Of Bishop Stortford Who was Inveigled into a House in York Street Commercial Road Where He was Dragged into a Den And Not Only Chained from Behind But Fastened by His Feet by Cords to the Floor: And Thus Obliged to Sign Over to the Perpetrators A Cheque for 800. And an Order for Some Deeds. London: G. Smeeton Printer 1834. 10" x 7-1/4" 25.5 x 18.5 cm broadside mounted to 11" x 8-1/2" 28 x 21.5 cm backing sheet text in single column below headline. Moderate toning a few tiny stains offsetting from adhesive to corners of broadside tiny clean tear to its right edge. Rare. $1600. After Gee was engaged to invest 2000 as part of executing an estate he received a letter from a prospective client inviting him to a house in York Street to discuss business. When he got out of the coach he quickly realized that things were not as they seemed. Three men attacked him bound him and demanded that he sign over the investments and the remaining money from his estate case. The participants were led by a disgruntled relative who had been left out of the will. Gee managed to escape his captors and report the abduction and theft to a local magistrate. The perpetrators were eventually acquitted of theft on a technicality but convicted of assault and imprisoned. This broadside is a fine example of the work published by George Smeeton 1780-1847 one of the best-known publishers of crime-related pamphlets and broadsides in the early-nineteenth-century London. This is a rare item. OCLC and Library Hub locate 1 copy British Library. unknown
1834réf. 829741834. London: G. Smeeton Printer 1834. London: G. Smeeton Printer 1834. One Other Copy Located Broadside. Crime. Gee William. A True Account of the Most Extraordinary Outrage on Mr. Gee A Respectable Solicitor Of Bishop Stortford Who was Inveigled into a House in York Street Commercial Road Where He was Dragged into a Den And Not Only Chained from Behind But Fastened by His Feet by Cords to the Floor: And Thus Obliged to Sign Over to the Perpetrators A Cheque for 800. And an Order for Some Deeds. London: G. Smeeton Printer 1834. 10" x 7-1/4" 25.5 x 18.5 cm broadside mounted to 11" x 8-1/2" 28 x 21.5 cm backing sheet text in single column below headline. Moderate toning a few tiny stains offsetting from adhesive to corners of broadside tiny clean tear to its right edge. Rare. $1600. After Gee was engaged to invest 2000 as part of executing an estate he received a letter from a prospective client inviting him to a house in York Street to discuss business. When he got out of the coach he quickly realized that things were not as they seemed. Three men attacked him bound him and demanded that he sign over the investments and the remaining money from his estate case. The participants were led by a disgruntled relative who had been left out of the will. Gee managed to escape his captors and report the abduction and theft to a local magistrate. The perpetrators were eventually acquitted of theft on a technicality but convicted of assault and imprisoned. This broadside is a fine example of the work published by George Smeeton 1780-1847 one of the best-known publishers of crime-related pamphlets and broadsides in the early-nineteenth-century London. This is a rare item. OCLC and Library Hub locate 1 copy British Library. unknown books
196924 vols., 8vo., First Edition; decorative black cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and red, red tops, red endpapers, red lettering on backstrips heavily faded on only three volumes, an unusually bright, clean, crisp set in unclipped dustwrapper. A notably bright, clean set of the definitive collected edition, including the author's short stories, issued on a subscription basis by the publisher and not available through bookshops. Each volume contains three stories or story collections. It would seem that many subscribers may have lacked commitment during the four years of publication for complete sets are far less common than one might imagine. The attractive bindings incorporate a golden dagger. The dustwrappers feature an attractive design format with every volume carrying a striking illustration symbolising one of the stories therein (without plot spoilers!) but were less successful in production terms for the backstrips in particular are notoriously prone to fading (the present set is far better than many). The set comprises The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, They do it with Mirrors, Mrs. McGinty's Dead (1969); Cards on the Table, N or M?, A Murder is Announced (1969); Appointment with Death, Crooked House, Sad Cypress (1969); 4.50 from Paddington, Lord Edgware Dies, Murder in Mesopotamia (1969); Murder on the Orient Express, Death in the Clouds, Why didn't they ask Evans? (1969); The Murder on the Links, A Pocket Full of Rye, Destination Unknown (1969); The Hollow, The Moving Finger, Three Act Tragedy (1969); Mystery of the Blue Train, The Listerdale Mystery (short stories), Murder at the Vicarage (1970); Murder is Easy, Dead Man's Folly, The Man in the Brown Suit (1970); The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, They came to Baghdad, The ABC Murders (1970); Ordeal by Innocence, One Two Buckle my Shoe, Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1970); Cat among the Pigeons, The Labours of Hercules, Hickory Dickory Dock (1970); The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Ten Little Niggers, Dumb Witness (1970); The Pale Horse, The Big Four, The Secret Adversary (1970); Peril at End House, The Body in the Library, Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1970); Death on the Nile, Towards Zero, After the Funeral (1970); Sparkling Cyanide, The Secret of Chimneys, Five Little Pigs (1970); Evil Under the Sun, Death Comes as the End, The Sittaford Mystery (1970); A Caribbean Mystery, Taken at the Flood, The Seven Dials Mystery (1971); By the Pricking of my Thumbs, The Mysterious Mr. Quin, Endless Night (1971); Hallowe'en Party, Passenger to Frankfurt, The Thirteen Problems (1971); The Clocks, Third Girl, Murder in the Mews (1971); Partners in Crime, At Bertram's Hotel, The Hound of Death (1972); Nemesis, Parker Pyne Investigates, Poirot Investigates (1972). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITIONS ARE SELDOM OFFERED FOR SALE
1855réf. 5437New York: H.H. Randall 1855. First edition. Printed self wraps stitched at spine. Measuring 220 x 140mm and complete in 64 pages. Some rubbing along spine and scattered foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves; toned throughout else clean. A scarce piece sensationalizing the tragic affairs and subsequent suicides of Sarah and Maria Williams OCLC reports fewer than twenty copies with libraries with this being the only example on the market. We've been unable to determine whether the tragic story of the Williams twins is in fact historically true. What is clear whether the narrative is fiction or non-fiction is that the damage caused to women and their lives as a result of their social positions and sex had a wide audience and attracted a variety of readers -- some who hoped to judge the parties involved some who sought the experience of empathy and catharsis some with prurient fantasies and some who simply wanted a thrill. According to this story Sarah and Maria Williams were firstborn daughters to a loving and prosperous middle-class New York family and that like any "perfect victims" they combined "sincerity kindness and judgement" with "the bloom of loveliness grace and innocence." Chaste and well behaved in their boarding-school days their lives took a turn at twenty. During their father's extended absence on business Maria began receiving visits from Mr. Knight an insidious but well-recommended brother of an old schoolmate. Seduced by him into a fraudulent marriage Maria is ultimately separated from her family and forced into sex work for his profit. Rising eventually to "a high position among those of her kind.as a prostitute of superior grade" Maria operated on her own and refused to return to the Williams household despite Sarah's urgining; being degraded by her old neighbors and parents when she could be respected by her own was too much to bear. Sarah's insistence on maintaining a relationship with her twin and visiting her disreputable home led to her own reputation being cast into doubt. And when Sarah's intended eventually fell for engaged in keeping and ultimately got pregnant Maria all participants in the affair ended their own lives. In many ways the sensationalized stories of these twins reveal how no woman is safe and how no woman can rely on her chastity to protect her socially. Though Maria and Sarah were identical and took opposite paths their violent ends wind up being identical and equally scandalous. H.H. Randall unknown
1855réf. 5437New York: H.H. Randall 1855. First edition. Printed self wraps stitched at spine. Measuring 220 x 140mm and complete in 64 pages. Some rubbing along spine and scattered foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves; toned throughout else clean. A scarce piece sensationalizing the tragic affairs and subsequent suicides of Sarah and Maria Williams OCLC reports fewer than twenty copies with libraries with this being the only example on the market. We've been unable to determine whether the tragic story of the Williams twins is in fact historically true. What is clear whether the narrative is fiction or non-fiction is that the damage caused to women and their lives as a result of their social positions and sex had a wide audience and attracted a variety of readers -- some who hoped to judge the parties involved some who sought the experience of empathy and catharsis some with prurient fantasies and some who simply wanted a thrill. According to this story Sarah and Maria Williams were firstborn daughters to a loving and prosperous middle-class New York family and that like any "perfect victims" they combined "sincerity kindness and judgement" with "the bloom of loveliness grace and innocence." Chaste and well behaved in their boarding-school days their lives took a turn at twenty. During their father's extended absence on business Maria began receiving visits from Mr. Knight an insidious but well-recommended brother of an old schoolmate. Seduced by him into a fraudulent marriage Maria is ultimately separated from her family and forced into sex work for his profit. Rising eventually to "a high position among those of her kind.as a prostitute of superior grade" Maria operated on her own and refused to return to the Williams household despite Sarah's urgining; being degraded by her old neighbors and parents when she could be respected by her own was too much to bear. Sarah's insistence on maintaining a relationship with her twin and visiting her disreputable home led to her own reputation being cast into doubt. And when Sarah's intended eventually fell for engaged in keeping and ultimately got pregnant Maria all participants in the affair ended their own lives. In many ways the sensationalized stories of these twins reveal how no woman is safe and how no woman can rely on her chastity to protect her socially. Though Maria and Sarah were identical and took opposite paths their violent ends wind up being identical and equally scandalous. H.H. Randall unknown books
1967Silver print cm 23 x 30. Stampa vintage. Al verso didascalia manoscritta e timbro del fotografo Gabriele Milani piu' altro timbro e ritagli del del giornale dove comparve l'articolo. Alcune pieghe agli angoli. Questo reportage realizzato dal giornalista Vittorio Lojacono e dal fotografo Gabriele Milani, venne pubblicato sulla Domenica del Corriere il 2 aprile 1967. E' considerato ancora oggi uno dei grandi scoop del giornalismo italiano. Fotografia di grande valore simbolico, possibile ritratto di tutti i ribelli di ogni tempo e ogni luogo. Una immagine che umanizza il bandito, lo emenda e lo consegna al mito.
1840réf. 53792Sydney: W.A. Duncan Australasian Chronicle Office 1840. Australian Criminal Trial A rare trial account of a peculiar though perhaps an oddly-justified assault in Australia in 1840. "James Mudie had in his book THE FELONRY OF NEW SOUTH WALES reflected upon the capacity of Kinchela's father in his office as judge. The younger Kinchela waited for Mudie who had recently returned to the colony and administered many lashes one witness said 50 with a horsewhip. The defence was that Mudie well deserved what he got as a common libeller and that Judge Kinchela was now aged and unable to take his own part. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of £50 - one pound for each stroke" - Ferguson. Some might call the horsewhipping a simple case of frontier justice. Together Ferguson and OCLC locate only five copies all in Australia. Dbd. Small close tear to titlepage no text affected minor toning some loose leaves. Good. FERGUSON 3104. OCLC 220294602. unknown
1840réf. 53792Sydney: W.A. Duncan Australasian Chronicle Office 1840. Australian Criminal Trial A rare trial account of a peculiar though perhaps an oddly-justified assault in Australia in 1840. "James Mudie had in his book THE FELONRY OF NEW SOUTH WALES reflected upon the capacity of Kinchela's father in his office as judge. The younger Kinchela waited for Mudie who had recently returned to the colony and administered many lashes one witness said 50 with a horsewhip. The defence was that Mudie well deserved what he got as a common libeller and that Judge Kinchela was now aged and unable to take his own part. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of £50 - one pound for each stroke" - Ferguson. Some might call the horsewhipping a simple case of frontier justice. Together Ferguson and OCLC locate only five copies all in Australia. Dbd. Small close tear to titlepage no text affected minor toning some loose leaves. Good. FERGUSON 3104. OCLC 220294602. unknown books
199226 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine run in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Death at La Fenice (SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE) (Chapmans, 1992); Death in a Strange Country (Chapmans, 1993); The Anonymous Venetian (Macmillan, 1994); A Venetian Reckoning (Macmillan, 1995); Acqua Alta (Macmillan, 1996); The Death of Faith (Macmillan, 1997); A Noble Radiance (Heinemann, 1998); Fatal Remedies (Heinemann, 1999); Friends in High Places (Heinemann, 2000); A Sea of Troubles (Heinemann, 2001); Wilful Behaviour (Heinemann, 2002); Uniform Justice (Heinemann, 2003); Doctored Evidence (Heinemann, 2004); Blood from a Stone (Heinemann, 2005); Through a Glass Darkly (Heinemann, 2006); Suffer the Little Children (Heinemann, 2007); The Girl of his Dreams (Heinemann,2008); About Face (Heinemann, 2009); A Question of Belief (Heinemann, 2010); Drawing Conclusions (Heinemann, 2011); Beastly Things (Heinemann, 2012); The Golden Egg (Heinemann, 2013); By its Cover (Heinemann, 2014); Falling in Love (Heinemann, 2015); The Waters of Eternal Youth (Heinemann, 2016; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE); Earthly Remains (Heinemann, 2017; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE). A SPLENDID RUN, COMPLETE TO DATE, WITH THE FIRST AND MOST ELUSIVE VOLUME (TOGETHER WITH TWO OTHERS) SIGNED BY LEON ON TITLE.
1835réf. 859291835. Murder and Infanticide in Berkshire: No Copies Located on OCLC or Library Hub Broadside. Crime. Smith Thomas b.1814. An Account of a Dreadful Murder Committed by Thomas Smith Aged 21 on the Body of Eliz. Young Aged 18 at Sutton In Berkshire On Thursday February the 5th 1835. Reading: Walker Printer 1835. 10" x 7.5" 25.3 x 19 cm broadside mounted on a slightly larger backing sheet. Text in single column below headline followed by two columns of verse separated by ornamental rule. Light toning faint fold lines minor dampstaining to corners just touching the headline. A well-preserved example. Rare. $1850. This gripping and graphic broadside details a tragic case of murder and infanticide in Berkshire. Thomas Smith and Elizabeth Young were both employed as servants in a "respectable" household when their intimate relationship resulted in Young's pregnancy. Seeking to end the affair after shifting his affections to a local farmer's daughter Smith lured the eight-months-pregnant Young into the woods and stabbed her in the chest. According to the text and accompanying verses the crime took an even more horrific turn: ".it appears by his confession and other circumstances that in her dying agonies she was delivered of a living child which the hard harted monster sic dashed on the ground." A highly significant survival of 19th-century street literature. No references to this specific crime or the execution of Thomas Smith have been located in contemporary newspapers or standard genealogical records suggesting this ephemeral broadside may be the only surviving historical account of the event. No copies located on OCLC or Library Hub.Unrecorded in the primary British and American crime fiction/broadside collections including Oxford University Bodleian the British Library and Harvard University. unknown
1835réf. 859291835. Murder and Infanticide in Berkshire: No Copies Located on OCLC or Library Hub Broadside. Crime. Smith Thomas b.1814. An Account of a Dreadful Murder Committed by Thomas Smith Aged 21 on the Body of Eliz. Young Aged 18 at Sutton In Berkshire On Thursday February the 5th 1835. Reading: Walker Printer 1835. 10" x 7.5" 25.3 x 19 cm broadside mounted on a slightly larger backing sheet. Text in single column below headline followed by two columns of verse separated by ornamental rule. Light toning faint fold lines minor dampstaining to corners just touching the headline. A well-preserved example. Rare. $1850. This gripping and graphic broadside details a tragic case of murder and infanticide in Berkshire. Thomas Smith and Elizabeth Young were both employed as servants in a "respectable" household when their intimate relationship resulted in Young's pregnancy. Seeking to end the affair after shifting his affections to a local farmer's daughter Smith lured the eight-months-pregnant Young into the woods and stabbed her in the chest. According to the text and accompanying verses the crime took an even more horrific turn: ".it appears by his confession and other circumstances that in her dying agonies she was delivered of a living child which the hard harted monster sic dashed on the ground." A highly significant survival of 19th-century street literature. No references to this specific crime or the execution of Thomas Smith have been located in contemporary newspapers or standard genealogical records suggesting this ephemeral broadside may be the only surviving historical account of the event. No copies located on OCLC or Library Hub.Unrecorded in the primary British and American crime fiction/broadside collections including Oxford University Bodleian the British Library and Harvard University. unknown books
1851réf. List3716Panama City Panama 1851. Single three-page letter measuring appx. 8 x 10 inches. Stampless cover marked "STEAMSHIP" and circled rate marking "40. Folded with some small tears and fading at folds some stains with tear at seal overall bright and legible; excellent. A letter from Henry Francis Douglass 1826-1897 while on his way to the California gold mines sent to his wife Lydia Lillibridge 1828-1904 in Voluntown Connecticut. The letter is highlighted by Douglass' description of Panama City including a brutal execution that he witnessed there: "of all the wickedest places that I ever saw this is the worst there is robery evry day most and murders I keep myself clost nights last night there was a lady on the other side of the street robed of her watch worth $100 and seventy dollars I saw while seting on the piaser piazza to the house. about fifteen minets ago two black men were brout out of the prison by the soldiers dresed in white acompaned by a cathalic prest led up to the stakes the preist sat down on a stool the murders kneeled down to prests throde the cloaks over ther heads and whispered to parden there sins then they was each one tied to the stake while forteen native soldier shot them one strugld but they shot him over again such site I never saw before but it was two good for them they was two of the five that murderd the ten on shagres Chagres river men women and chrilden". The murder for which the men were executed had occurred around the end of February 1851. Eleven people Americans and Europeans transiting the Isthmus were killed: six men three women and two children. Contemporaneous newspaper reporting described the murderers as "Carthagenians negroes and half-breed Indians who hate the whites."1 The gold rush in California had caused a massive influx of people and money to Panama and with it an increase in crime and racial tension. Douglass had arrived in Chagres and traveled to Gorgona which Douglass renders "gorgoney" via the Chagres River then overland to Panama City the typical route before the construction of railroads or the canal. Chagres is "the most sunken place that I ever saw all kinds of bisness carred on that anyon could think of" and the route is "very Dangers at this time" "very wet" and plagued by lice disease and seasickness. However he reports encountering "a lot just returning from the mines with good nuse" and felt "in couraged to go on". Douglass mined in California for two years before returning to his family.2 Of interest to historians of Panama in the California Gold Rush and of social conditions there especially crime and punishment before the construction of the railroads and canal. 1 "Murders on the Isthmus" The Brandon Post April 3 1851 2. 2 Charles Henry James Douglas A collection of family records with biographical sketches and other memoranda of various families and individuals bearing the name Douglas or allied to families of that name E.L. Freeman & Co. 1879.
1851réf. List3716Panama City Panama 1851. Single three-page letter measuring appx. 8 x 10 inches. Stampless cover marked "STEAMSHIP" and circled rate marking "40. Folded with some small tears and fading at folds some stains with tear at seal overall bright and legible; excellent. A letter from Henry Francis Douglass 1826-1897 while on his way to the California gold mines sent to his wife Lydia Lillibridge 1828-1904 in Voluntown Connecticut. The letter is highlighted by Douglass' description of Panama City including a brutal execution that he witnessed there: "of all the wickedest places that I ever saw this is the worst there is robery evry day most and murders I keep myself clost nights last night there was a lady on the other side of the street robed of her watch worth $100 and seventy dollars I saw while seting on the piaser piazza to the house. about fifteen minets ago two black men were brout out of the prison by the soldiers dresed in white acompaned by a cathalic prest led up to the stakes the preist sat down on a stool the murders kneeled down to prests throde the cloaks over ther heads and whispered to parden there sins then they was each one tied to the stake while forteen native soldier shot them one strugld but they shot him over again such site I never saw before but it was two good for them they was two of the five that murderd the ten on shagres Chagres river men women and chrilden". The murder for which the men were executed had occurred around the end of February 1851. Eleven people Americans and Europeans transiting the Isthmus were killed: six men three women and two children. Contemporaneous newspaper reporting described the murderers as "Carthagenians negroes and half-breed Indians who hate the whites."1 The gold rush in California had caused a massive influx of people and money to Panama and with it an increase in crime and racial tension. Douglass had arrived in Chagres and traveled to Gorgona which Douglass renders "gorgoney" via the Chagres River then overland to Panama City the typical route before the construction of railroads or the canal. Chagres is "the most sunken place that I ever saw all kinds of bisness carred on that anyon could think of" and the route is "very Dangers at this time" "very wet" and plagued by lice disease and seasickness. However he reports encountering "a lot just returning from the mines with good nuse" and felt "in couraged to go on". Douglass mined in California for two years before returning to his family.2 Of interest to historians of Panama in the California Gold Rush and of social conditions there especially crime and punishment before the construction of the railroads and canal. 1 "Murders on the Isthmus" The Brandon Post April 3 1851 2. 2 Charles Henry James Douglas A collection of family records with biographical sketches and other memoranda of various families and individuals bearing the name Douglas or allied to families of that name E.L. Freeman & Co. 1879. books
1886réf. 140042London: Irwin Langley & Co. 1886. Advice to Strangers" - avoiding the criminal pitfalls of 1880s London First and only edition of this extraordinary little volume offering practical advice against the thieves and tricksters plaguing the streets of London. The first half of the text is a spotter's guide on pickpockets "Who they are and what they are like" with explanations of their methods the distraction of the "stall" the techniques of the "wire" given in sufficient detail and with such specifics as to suggest that the author genuinely was of the profession claimed. The second section offers "Advice for Strangers" to the metropolis illuminating the operations of the "Mysterious Dental Rooms" "swell assignations houses" that thrive on the "carnal weaknesses of casual visitors to the city"; forwards an explanation for "the mysterious disappearances which are almost daily reported" the lure of "a pretty face snapping black eyesand red lips" drinks in a café ending with a "bloated disfigured swollen corpse" pulled from the river; and looks into the "women and young girls who have a great mania for disappearing". A respectable and highly cultivated young girl in Liverpool taking "short cut through a disreputable part of town" reappears in London the story never made public but understood to be "horrible in the extreme". The final sections comprise a short piece on "the Dark Ways of Street-sharpers" and a lengthier description of a rather complicated American scam to illustrate "High Class and Ingenious Roguery on a Grand Style" followed by a brief explanation of cipher writing and reading which concludes with a "Prize Competition £1000 in Prizes" requiring the solution of three ciphered messages. Noting well what has gone before this has more than a hint of "roguery" to it but where the catch might have been is beyond our wit to discover. We have been unable to trace any other publications or enterprises put out over the name of Irwin Langley & Co. Scarce just two locations world-wide BL and Harvard Medical School. Octavo 180 x 120 mm. Portrait frontispiece 6 stock portraits in text one full-page illustrations in text printed in menacing sanguine throughout. Wire-stitched in original green cloth-backed sanguine printed boards. A little rubbed and soiled head and tail of spine chipped hinges with some give to them but sound staples rusted but intact text block lightly browned overall very good. hardcover
1544réf. ABC_46700The Hague: sold by Frans Duyck Pietersz. colophon: Delft printed by Symon Jansz. 1544. Modern half brown buckram marbled paper sides blue endpapers with an older ca. 1840 front wrapper bound in. 4to. With the woodcut crowned coat of arms of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V with the order of the Golden Fleece a column on either side and the motto plus oultre on the title-page. Set in 2 sizes of textura gothic type with 2 lombardic initials cast type. First and only edition of a rare ordinance printed in Delft. The ordinance promulgated 19 May 1544 tried to reduce or at least prevent a further rise in crime in Holland and even in other parts of the Holy Roman Empire by addressing the negligence of officers in enforcing the law. It notes that crime rates - from murders to fraud and other smaller incidents - are rising in Holland and across the Holy Roman Empire because officers of the law are failing to do their jobs in the eyes of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and other lower ranking officials like the stadtholders in the Low Countries. The present ordinance addresses problems concerning the enabling fraudulent behaviour towards creditors of any kind authorities too readily issuing letters permitting deferment of payment resulting in an exorbitant volume of unpaid debts. In total the ordinance contains 40 rules and regulations mainly for officers of the law but also for criminals and others profiting from the lack of law enforcement decreed and published with the intent of bringing down crime rates and reminding officers of their duties. The printer Simon Jansz. in Delft printed the ordinance in two issues the present for Frans Duyck Pietersz. in the Hague and the other with his own imprint Typ. Batava 5796 2 copies.With contemporary marginal annotations and underlining of the text in pen. The second flyleaf is the older front wrapper with an inscription in brown ink on the back: "19 Mei 1544" along with an old catalogue clipping and a few pencilled bibliographical notes. With edges of the leaves slightly frayed slight browning throughout mostly around the edges but overall in good condition.l Petit Pamfletten 1 1882 71; STCN 119453460 2 copies cf. 831527528: Delft issue; Typ. Batava 5797 4 copies cf. 5796: Delft issue; USTC 421160 same 4 copies 1 listed as if it were 2 cf. 421163: Delft issue; not in Knuttel; Kress; Van der Wulp. sold by Frans Duyck Pietersz. (colophon: Delft, printed by Symon Jansz.), hardcover
1840réf. 16052Paris: Imp. de Lemercier 1840. First Edition. Original cloth backed publisher's burgundy patterned gilt stamped cloth. This copy has the original binder's ticket from Barth in Tours. Very good; title-page somewhat spotted; some modest scuffing to the binding; hinges strained; the plates have some scattered modest spotting. Oblong folio. Tinted lithographic title and 20 tinted lithographic plates. A facility for juvenile delinquents that was founded by Frederic Demetz in 1840. It was revolutionary at the time because it was the first segregated penal institution for juveniles. The goal was to rehabilitate juvenile criminals by promoting manual labor education religious and moral instruction. The book offered here illustrates daily life at Mettray. The camp fell into disarray and overcrowding in the late 19th century and became infamous for its cruel and harsh treatment. Jean Genet spent time at Mettray as a youth and wrote about his experiences. The lithography is by Sauve Tirpenne and Faivre after A Thierry. See J. Bourquin et E. Pierre 'Une visite à Mettray par l'image: l'album de gravures de 1844' in "Sociétés & Représentations" 2004/2 no. 18 p. 207-216. Imp. de Lemercier hardcover books
1919Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Gilt lettering and gilt spine lettering faded. Hinges started. One page with rough paper and affecting the contents - apparently from an attempt to separate two pages that were stuck together. ; Darrow's autobiographical novel, a fictionalized account of his boyhood. Presentation copy: Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: "Inscribed to Mary Hoover with the regards of Clarence Darrow, March 4th 1927". Additionally laid in is Ms. Hoover's contemporaneous account of a talk given by Darrow at the Negro Industrial Schho, Daphne, Alabama on February 10, 1927: "I can't help you, you will have to help yourselves, but I advise always an attitude of defiance toward the white man who calls himself your friend. How has he manifested this friendship? By hanging and burning you; by making you do his work and use his back door..." In blue linen custom box; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 220, 2 pages
2003réf. 031688Beverley Hills California: Blue Pearl Press 2003. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the front inside cover. SIGNED copies are SCARCE. Fine condition with only a hint of very mild shelfwear to the cover. Flat uncreased spine. NO chips tears creases or fading. NOT price clipped $16.00. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh crisp clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Camelot fiction -- a unique take on the King Arthur tale. 4.33 Goodreads rating. Bound in the original full color pictorial wraps From the rear cover: "Born of Betrayal is a totally unique view of the story of King Arthur. It centers on the influence of a charismatic Merlin and upon the parents of King Arthur. It is their love story.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. 1st ed No additional printings listed. Softcover. Fine condition. Illus. by Anido Vince cover art by. 8vo. 327pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Blue Pearl Press Paperback
1870réf. 58640Potosi MO. November 23 1870. Dramatic Crime in Rural Missouri with Native American Suspects An unrecorded possibly unique reward broadside printed in the immediate aftermath of the brutal crime which became known as the "Lapine Murders." The broadside advertises a substantial reward from Washington County Missouri Sheriff John T. Clarke for the apprehension of two men Charles Jolly "very dark complexion.about a half breed Indian" and John Armstrong "shows Indian blood". According to contemporary reports Armstrong and Jolly both men in their thirties were working as miners just north of Potosi Missouri. On November 19 1870 they supposedly went in to town with Jolly's younger brother Leon to sell their minerals where they purchased liquor and became aggressively drunk. The group went to the Lapine family home on the outskirts of town where they left young Leon outside before entering the house. According to one slightly later account: "The most extensive most horrible and outrageous crime ever committed in Washington County was the murder and burning of the Lapine family. This family consisted of David Lapine and Louisa his wife and their infant son about eighteen months of age and Mary Christopher and her infant daughter a baby and they lived in a log cabin about one mile northeast of Potosi. The murderers were John Armstrong and Charles Jolly Jr.On the evening of November 19 1870 these men being under the influence of liquor took with them a lad named Leon Jolly and went to the house occupied by the Lapine family and there according to the evidence of young Leon Jolly Charles Jolly Jr. shot David Lapine through a crack in the wall of the house and then John Armstrong rushed into the house with an ax in hand and with it severed the head of David Lapine from his body then turned and severed the heads of the two women from their bodies and then struck each of the infants on the head with the edge of the ax. The terrible deed was done! A family of five persons was slain and the heads of three were severed from their bodies! Was ever the demon of destruction more hellish Not being satisfied with their work the fiends then set fire to the house thinking perhaps that it might be made to appear that the family burned to death. The house was consumed by the fire as was mostly the bodies of the victims of the murderers. After committing the terrible crime the murderers with the boy went on to town where they got more whisky and then returned to their homes" - History of Franklin Jefferson Washington Crawford & Gasconade Counties Missouri. Other descriptions of exactly what happened inside the home vary considerably but all agree that the father David Lapine was shot with a firearm before his wife and children were killed with an axe and decapitated and the house burned. The assumed perpetrators fled to Jefferson County but Leon was found on November 23 and quickly confessed to what he had seen. The two men were located and arrested the following day where lethal force was required to protect them from an angry mob intent on a lynching. After being transferred to St. Louis for their own protection the pair received a perfunctory trial and were promptly hanged before an eager crowd before the end of January. Since the men were identified as suspects on November 23rd and arrested on the 24th the printing of this broadside can only date from the afternoon of the 23rd or morning of the 24th. It is worth noting that the two men pleaded "Not Guilty" at their trial although according to contemporary reports the jury deliberated for fewer than ten minutes before reaching the opposite verdict and the case has never been investigated further. An intriguing and extremely rare artifact from a sensational crime in 19th-century rural Missouri. We locate no other copies of the present broadside. Old vertical and horizontal folds. Previously framed text portion tanned. Slight edge wear modern pen annotations in lower margin beneath prior matting. Very good overall. History of Franklin Jefferson Washington Crawford & Gasconade Counties Missouri Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company 1888 pp.502-3. unknown
1870réf. 58640Potosi MO. November 23 1870. Dramatic Crime in Rural Missouri with Native American Suspects An unrecorded possibly unique reward broadside printed in the immediate aftermath of the brutal crime which became known as the "Lapine Murders." The broadside advertises a substantial reward from Washington County Missouri Sheriff John T. Clarke for the apprehension of two men Charles Jolly "very dark complexion.about a half breed Indian" and John Armstrong "shows Indian blood". According to contemporary reports Armstrong and Jolly both men in their thirties were working as miners just north of Potosi Missouri. On November 19 1870 they supposedly went in to town with Jolly's younger brother Leon to sell their minerals where they purchased liquor and became aggressively drunk. The group went to the Lapine family home on the outskirts of town where they left young Leon outside before entering the house. According to one slightly later account: "The most extensive most horrible and outrageous crime ever committed in Washington County was the murder and burning of the Lapine family. This family consisted of David Lapine and Louisa his wife and their infant son about eighteen months of age and Mary Christopher and her infant daughter a baby and they lived in a log cabin about one mile northeast of Potosi. The murderers were John Armstrong and Charles Jolly Jr.On the evening of November 19 1870 these men being under the influence of liquor took with them a lad named Leon Jolly and went to the house occupied by the Lapine family and there according to the evidence of young Leon Jolly Charles Jolly Jr. shot David Lapine through a crack in the wall of the house and then John Armstrong rushed into the house with an ax in hand and with it severed the head of David Lapine from his body then turned and severed the heads of the two women from their bodies and then struck each of the infants on the head with the edge of the ax. The terrible deed was done! A family of five persons was slain and the heads of three were severed from their bodies! Was ever the demon of destruction more hellish Not being satisfied with their work the fiends then set fire to the house thinking perhaps that it might be made to appear that the family burned to death. The house was consumed by the fire as was mostly the bodies of the victims of the murderers. After committing the terrible crime the murderers with the boy went on to town where they got more whisky and then returned to their homes" - History of Franklin Jefferson Washington Crawford & Gasconade Counties Missouri. Other descriptions of exactly what happened inside the home vary considerably but all agree that the father David Lapine was shot with a firearm before his wife and children were killed with an axe and decapitated and the house burned. The assumed perpetrators fled to Jefferson County but Leon was found on November 23 and quickly confessed to what he had seen. The two men were located and arrested the following day where lethal force was required to protect them from an angry mob intent on a lynching. After being transferred to St. Louis for their own protection the pair received a perfunctory trial and were promptly hanged before an eager crowd before the end of January. Since the men were identified as suspects on November 23rd and arrested on the 24th the printing of this broadside can only date from the afternoon of the 23rd or morning of the 24th. It is worth noting that the two men pleaded "Not Guilty" at their trial although according to contemporary reports the jury deliberated for fewer than ten minutes before reaching the opposite verdict and the case has never been investigated further. An intriguing and extremely rare artifact from a sensational crime in 19th-century rural Missouri. We locate no other copies of the present broadside. Old vertical and horizontal folds. Previously framed text portion tanned. Slight edge wear modern pen annotations in lower margin beneath prior matting. Very good overall. History of Franklin Jefferson Washington Crawford & Gasconade Counties Missouri Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company 1888 pp.502-3. unknown books
1920réf. 216411920. Japan OccupationWWII Primary-source photo album of United States military governance during the occupation of Japan with particular emphasis on the enforcement of legal authority and the administration of war crimes proceedings under Allied control. Centered on the career of General Charles Sabin Ferrin in his capacity as Provost Marshal of Tokyo the album captures the institutional frameworks through which U.S. forces maintained order supervised political transition and participated in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East IMTFE. The collection includes images of high-ranking military and political figures official proceedings connected to the war crimes trials and formal and informal interactions with Japanese leadership situating Ferrin's role within broader systems of occupation-era administration legal oversight and diplomatic engagement. The album contains 85 black-and-white silver gelatin photographs varying in size from 2.5" x 2.5" to 6" x 4.25" mounted in a clothbound album measuring approximately 7" x 5". The images begin in the United States depicting early domestic life before shifting focus to Ferrin's stationing in China from 1919 into the 1920s and later to his critical role in postwar Japan where he engaged with Japanese political and military officials at the highest levels. The China-era photographs include striking scenes of the U.S. Army's presence in Tientsin Tianjin as indicated by labeled photographs of "U.S. Army Buildings Tientsin" designed by architect Albert Benz. Other images capture American cavalrymen of the 15th Infantry Regiment on horseback lined up in disciplined formation labeled "1921 Tientsin China 15th Infantry U.S.A." The album also contains personal family moments such as a uniformed soldier cradling a small child on horseback annotated "1918 Russell" and an image of two children dressed formally on a walkway inscribed "Aug 26 1919 leaving for China." Additionally candid moments in Tientsin show a young child riding in a rickshaw pulled by a Chinese laborer and another with a Chinese woman identified as an "Ama" caring for the family's child at a beach in Chinwangtao Qinhuangdao in July 1921. By the late 1940s the album shifts focus to Ferrin's tenure as Provost Marshal of Tokyo a role that placed him at the center of postwar military governance and legal oversight. Several photographs depict U.S. military officials dining and meeting with Japanese political figures. One particularly notable photograph shows Ferrin standing beside a dignitary identified as "Prince Takamatsu Hirohito's younger brother." Other images depict high-ranking officers including Admiral James O. Richardson testifying at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East IMTFE with a caption stating: "Admiral James O. Richardson Commander-in-Chief United States Fleet testifies on the witness stand at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East during the Pearl Harbor phase of the trials of the 27 accused Japanese war criminals." A separate image shows troops of the 720 MP Battalion executing a right-dress formation in front of the War Ministry Building in Tokyo on October 13 1947. The presence of these high-ranking officials alongside candid social and formal meetings with Japanese elites underscores Ferrin's prominent role in enforcing law and order during the American occupation and his involvement in overseeing war crimes proceedings. The album is in very good condition overall. A rare and historically significant visual chronicle of General Charles Sabin Ferrin's career across pivotal moments in 20th-century history with firsthand images of U.S. military presence in China the occupation of Japan and high-level engagements with political and military leadership. unknown
1920réf. 216411920. Japan OccupationWWII Primary-source photo album of United States military governance during the occupation of Japan with particular emphasis on the enforcement of legal authority and the administration of war crimes proceedings under Allied control. Centered on the career of General Charles Sabin Ferrin in his capacity as Provost Marshal of Tokyo the album captures the institutional frameworks through which U.S. forces maintained order supervised political transition and participated in the International Military Tribunal for the Far East IMTFE. The collection includes images of high-ranking military and political figures official proceedings connected to the war crimes trials and formal and informal interactions with Japanese leadership situating Ferrin's role within broader systems of occupation-era administration legal oversight and diplomatic engagement. The album contains 85 black-and-white silver gelatin photographs varying in size from 2.5" x 2.5" to 6" x 4.25" mounted in a clothbound album measuring approximately 7" x 5". The images begin in the United States depicting early domestic life before shifting focus to Ferrin's stationing in China from 1919 into the 1920s and later to his critical role in postwar Japan where he engaged with Japanese political and military officials at the highest levels. The China-era photographs include striking scenes of the U.S. Army's presence in Tientsin Tianjin as indicated by labeled photographs of "U.S. Army Buildings Tientsin" designed by architect Albert Benz. Other images capture American cavalrymen of the 15th Infantry Regiment on horseback lined up in disciplined formation labeled "1921 Tientsin China 15th Infantry U.S.A." The album also contains personal family moments such as a uniformed soldier cradling a small child on horseback annotated "1918 Russell" and an image of two children dressed formally on a walkway inscribed "Aug 26 1919 leaving for China." Additionally candid moments in Tientsin show a young child riding in a rickshaw pulled by a Chinese laborer and another with a Chinese woman identified as an "Ama" caring for the family's child at a beach in Chinwangtao Qinhuangdao in July 1921. By the late 1940s the album shifts focus to Ferrin's tenure as Provost Marshal of Tokyo a role that placed him at the center of postwar military governance and legal oversight. Several photographs depict U.S. military officials dining and meeting with Japanese political figures. One particularly notable photograph shows Ferrin standing beside a dignitary identified as "Prince Takamatsu Hirohito's younger brother." Other images depict high-ranking officers including Admiral James O. Richardson testifying at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East IMTFE with a caption stating: "Admiral James O. Richardson Commander-in-Chief United States Fleet testifies on the witness stand at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East during the Pearl Harbor phase of the trials of the 27 accused Japanese war criminals." A separate image shows troops of the 720 MP Battalion executing a right-dress formation in front of the War Ministry Building in Tokyo on October 13 1947. The presence of these high-ranking officials alongside candid social and formal meetings with Japanese elites underscores Ferrin's prominent role in enforcing law and order during the American occupation and his involvement in overseeing war crimes proceedings. The album is in very good condition overall. A rare and historically significant visual chronicle of General Charles Sabin Ferrin's career across pivotal moments in 20th-century history with firsthand images of U.S. military presence in China the occupation of Japan and high-level engagements with political and military leadership. unknown books
