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1857réf. 818P4London: W. Kent & Co; J. & C. Brown & Co c1857-60. First edition. Leather. Good. 6.5" by 4.5". None. A lovely set of the first and second series of William Russell's collection of short stories about detectives in Victorian England a gripping series. The first and second series of 'Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer'.The second series is a first edition of 1859. The first series is an undated early reprint not the first edition as it does not have a date to the title page but is c1856-7 as there are four Captain Mayne Reid titles listed to the adverts all of which were published before 1857 the final title in this list being 'The Quadroon' which was published in 1856.One page of adverts to the rear of the first series. This work was named second in 'Queen's Quorum' Ellery Queen's conclusive list of the best detective short stories to have been written over the course of a century named only after the 'Tales' of Edgar Allan Poe.An interesting and early example of crime and mystery fiction.Twenty-one popular detective short stories which was been previously published in 'Chambers' Edinburgh Journal'.Including 'One Night in a Gaming-House' 'Guilty or Not Guilty' 'Legal Metamorphoses' 'Mary Kingsford' 'The Dramatic Author' 'Mark Stretton' 'The Two Widows' and more.By William Russell under the pen-name 'Waters'. A notable Victorian detective writer he was one of the most prolific author of 'police memoirs'. He was a mysterious figure with little known about his life.Collated the first series is bound without the frontispiece. In a half calf binding first series with cloth to the boards second series with marbled paper to the boards. First series is rebacked. Externally with some rubbing heavier to the boards of the second series. A little loss of leather to the extremities of the first series and to the raised bands. Some bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine of the second series with a little loss. Tidemark to the front board of the first series. Hinges of the first series are reinforced with cloth. Front hinge of the second series is starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with the occasional spot mostly to the first and last few pages. Good W. Kent & Co; J. & C. Brown & Co hardcover
1856réf. 781P33London: J. & C. Brown & Co. 1856. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 6.5" by 4". Not Stated. The first edition of this influential short story collection by William Russell named by Ellery Queen as one of the most important detective pieces of the nineteenth century. The first edition of this collection.Illustrated with a frontispiece.Thirteen popular detective short stories which was been previously published in 'Chambers' Edinburgh Journal'.Including 'One Night in a Gaming-House' 'Guilty or Not Guilty' 'Legal Metamorphoses' 'Mary Kingsford' and more.This story collection was named in 'Queen's Quorum' Ellery Queen's conclusive list of the best detective short stories to have been written over the course of a century.An interesting and early example of crime and mystery fiction.By William Russell under the penname 'Waters'. A notable Victorian detective writer he was one of the most prolific author of 'police memoirs'.One page of publisher's adverts to the rear. Rebound in a half calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally smart with some rubbing to the boards and spine. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with just a couple of light spots. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the first leaf of text. Very Good Indeed J. & C. Brown & Co. hardcover
1868réf. 732591868. Murder Will Out" "Waters" Russell William 1806-1876. Recollections of a Sheriff's Officer. London: Aldine Chambers c.1868. iv 140 pp. Octavo 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Contemporary cloth blind fillets and gilt title to spine speckled edges. Some soiling faint dampstaining and fading to boards and spine corners just bumped hinges cracked light offsetting to endleaves contemporary armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places crack in text block between pp. 94 and 95 small tear to lower edge of second leaf not affecting text. Rare. $450. Second edition. This fine example of the genre of Victorian detective fiction first appeared in 1840 under a different imprint. Short anecdotes narrated by down-on-his-luck sheriff's officer William Sharpe cover murder abduction and theft. Contents include "Murder Will Out" "Diamond Cut Diamond" "Very Mysterious" "The Dead Alive" "A Writ of Capias" and "Nobs and Snobs." Russell was an early and prolific writer of crime stories and detective fiction sometimes under his own name and sometimes as here under the pseudonym "Waters" or "Thomas Waters." OCLC locates 2 copies of all editions and 1 copy of the present edition UT-Austin. Hubin Crime Fiction 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography 416. unknown
1856réf. 23900London: J. & C. Brown & Co 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 12mo. 309pp. Engraved frontispiece. Previous ownership name on title page dated 1858. Contemporary half-leather spine in four compartments tooled in blind with raised bands tooled in gilt black leather lettering label gilt. Marbled paper sides. Bookseller label on the front pastedown. Light wear to the edges large ownership name on the title else a near fine copy. Thirteen popular detective short stories which were previously published in 'Chambers' Edinburgh Journal' including 'One Night in a Gaming-House' 'Guilty or Not Guilty' 'Legal Metamorphoses' 'Mary Kingsford' and more. This is their first collected edition. Important early example of detective fiction. Queen's Quorum 2. . J. & C. Brown & Co hardcover books
1856réf. 53813London: J. & C. Brown & Co 1856. First edition. Very good. First authorized edition in book form of these collected police detective stories the first ever of their kind to feature an investigator from Scotland Yard. Originally published in CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL the thirteen stories of the First Series plus an eight additional episodes gathered three years later in the Second Series mark the first appearance in fiction of a Scotland Yard detective. Russell in the persona of "Waters" presented his narratives as first-person recollections in line with the conventions of the mid-Victorian police memoir then enjoying great popularity while offering to the reading public a new kind of hero: a policeman with intelligence curiosity and integrity. Detective fiction has always pressed up against the porous borders of that much-derided segment of popular literature now known as "true crime": just as the latter is frequently embellished and distorted for the sake of a better story crime and detective fiction in its earliest forms borrowed the shock of the real insisting as a matter of genre convention that the events depicted were only lightly fictionalized that the reader was given entrée into the "marginalized social space between 'respectable' and 'criminal'" Saunders occupied by the real-life police detective; that they were being told a true story by an insider. Verisimilitude was the point: "The genre was designed to take the private spaces operations and methodologies of the police force and publicize them for the reader and Russell himself explained that his memoir writing was designed to present an inside view into policing for readers" Saunders. Given the bedrock importance of this interplay between the real and the unreal at the dawn of detective fiction it is perhaps unsurprising that Sherlock Holmes the most famous fictional private detective of later Victorian decades would inspire a legion of devotees to insist on his factual reality perfectly well aware that this was not true and sublimely indifferent to it. A handsome copy of this scarce and vital Queen's Quorum and Haycraft-Queen title - especially uncommon complete in one volume. Two octavo volumes bound in one 6.25'' x 4''. Contemporary half calf marbled boards. Gilt-ruled spine with spine label. Lacking frontispiece as sometimes seen. 8 310 pages. In custom cloth slipcase. Sympathetically rebacked with reinforcement to hinges. Some rubbing chipping rear joint. Overall clean and sound. J. & C. Brown & Co unknown books
1852réf. 5759New York: Cornish Lamport & Co 1852. First Edition/Pirate Edition. Hardcover. Good Textblock Very Good. No DJ. First Edition/Pirate Edition. Hardcover. Unusual little tome of early crime fiction and one of only 5 or 6 known copies bound in red boards typically found in brown boards. "Waters" was the pseudonym for William Russell one of the earliest crafters of detective fiction in the UK. The first "official" printing was in London under a slightly different name in 1856 and then in the US later that year. This printing was apparently a pirate edition preceding the official by an inexplicable 4 years Waters Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer. London J&C Brown 1856. Queen's Quorum 2. Hubin 1994 p. 843. Noted flaws notwithstanding a rather handsome copy of this very scarce title rare in red boards. Moderate shelf/edge wear fraying at head and tail tips through light toning at spine minor soiling to boards corners gently bumped light foxing at preliminaries minor cutting error at 181/2 edge only else tight bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards gilt lettering in blind decorative elements decorative/advert endpages blue ink decorative borders and ads for various Cornish titles. Small 8vo. 238pp. Cornish, Lamport & Co hardcover books
1868réf. 732591868. Murder Will Out" "Waters" Russell William 1806-1876. Recollections of a Sheriff's Officer. London: Aldine Chambers c.1868. iv 140 pp. Octavo 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Contemporary cloth blind fillets and gilt title to spine speckled edges. Some soiling faint dampstaining and fading to boards and spine corners just bumped hinges cracked light offsetting to endleaves contemporary armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places crack in text block between pp. 94 and 95 small tear to lower edge of second leaf not affecting text. Rare. $450. Second edition. This fine example of the genre of Victorian detective fiction first appeared in 1840 under a different imprint. Short anecdotes narrated by down-on-his-luck sheriff's officer William Sharpe cover murder abduction and theft. Contents include "Murder Will Out" "Diamond Cut Diamond" "Very Mysterious" "The Dead Alive" "A Writ of Capias" and "Nobs and Snobs." Russell was an early and prolific writer of crime stories and detective fiction sometimes under his own name and sometimes as here under the pseudonym "Waters" or "Thomas Waters." OCLC locates 2 copies of all editions and 1 copy of the present edition UT-Austin. Hubin Crime Fiction 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography 416. unknown books
1964réf. 9003611New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1964. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Black-and-white pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's name in ink on the title page. Holt, Rinehart & Winston hardcover
1964réf. 88806Boone and Crockett Club 1964. First Edition of the 1964 edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 24.5 x 16 cm. Octavo. xvii 398pp. Red cloth in dust jacket. Front gutter is starting to split. This copy is signed and inscribed by Milford Baker on the half-title page. Also included are two typed letters signed TLS by Baker dated 1965 both discussing the book. Fifth volume in the Boone and Crockett series of Records of North American Big Game. Boone and Crockett Club hardcover
1965réf. SKU2010023281Holt Rinehart and Winston 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Second Printing. Some small pieces missing to edges of dustjacket which a 3" tear to rear panel some short tears and edgewear. Now in protective sleeve. A Book of the Boone and Crockett Club compiled by The Committee on Records. 6 3/8 in. x 9 ½ in. pp. xvii 398. Illustrated with b/w photos tables. Fifth in the series of Boone and Crockett Records and doubling the listings and amount of information as the previous volume listing more than 5000 individual trophy specimens. Also contains discussion on the history of the Club The Satisfactions of trophy hunting by Arthur Popham The Sagamore Hill Medal by Archibald Roosevelt Some stories behind the records by Grancel and Betty Fritz fair chase and conservation and more. Please see our other hunting fishing and natural history titles. Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
1964réf. 44808New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1964. Tall 8vo. xvii 1 398 pp. Colour frntsp. numerous photo illusts. text diagrams tables illusts. Burgundy cloth illust in gilt on frnt cvr gilt lettng on spine mnr shlfwr w/ d.j. slght chppng hd of spine couple sml clsd tears mnr creasng still VG/VG- copy. First edition stated of this fifth in the series of Boone and Crockett Records and doubling the listings and amount of information as the previous volume listing more than 5000 individual trophy specimens. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, hardcover
1964réf. 9003611New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1964. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Black-and-white pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's name in ink on the title page. Holt, Rinehart & Winston hardcover books
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réf. B9780813954882Paperback / softback. New. The first biography of one of Virginia's greatest social reformers When Dr. Kate Waller Barrett died in 1925 the governor of Virginia ordered flags to be flown at half-staff the first time in its four-century history that the commonwealth paid such a tribute to a woman. This is the first biography of Barrett the ardent and remarkably successful Progressive Era social reformer. Barrett's life spanned a time of seismic change in the nation and in women's lives particularly Southern women as they forged new identities in the changing environment of the post–Civil War years and the Progressive era. Barrett rebelled against the restrictions imposed on Southern women and established her reputation as a strong-willed advocate for what many people at the time considered to be society's "outcasts": unwed mothers and prostitutes. She successfully combined evangelism with a maternalist strategy that brought a uniquely feminine approach to bear on social issues affecting women and children and her years of activism propelled her onto the national stage and earned her global recognition. President Theodore Roosevelt called her "one of the most useful women in the United States." The outcast and lonely women of Richmond's slums of Butchertown called her simply "Mother Barrett." paperback
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2026réf. x-0813954886Univ of Virginia Pr 2026. Paperback. New. 294 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. Univ of Virginia Pr paperback
2026réf. x-0813954878Univ of Virginia Pr 2026. Hardcover. New. 294 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. Univ of Virginia Pr hardcover
2013réf. AME_9781849736527Royal Society of Chemistry 2013. 1 ST. Hardcover. New/New. _ Royal Society of Chemistry hardcover
