Search Results: Crime from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: The Viking Press, (1977) First edition, this copy boldly signed in blue marker at the title page by Edward Bunker. 8vo, 202 pp. Publisher's tan paper over boards backed in brown cloth lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Covers lightly soiled & sunned mostly in the margins, one corner bruised, brief offsetting at endpapers & pastedowns, binding cracked at half-title page causing three leaves to partially detach, still good in very good dust jacket with brief wear at the spine extremities & tips. Edward Bunker's second novel and the basis for the neo-noir film of the same name. This title continues the gritty prison fiction based on Bunker's experiences during 18 years of incarceration Uncommon signed, Edward Bunker died in 2005

[Warrendale, Pennsylvania]: Board of Managers, Thorn Hill School, [1919]. First edition 8vo (9" x 6"), 40 pages including several illustrations from photographs. Original stapled, printed paper wraps.
Covers lightly tanned & soiled, brief edge wear, soft corner crease throughout, otherwise Very Good
"Thorn Hill School for Boys, also known as the Allegheny County Industrial and Training School for Boys, was a reform school in Marshall Township, Pa, which operated from 1909 until 1978 The school housed, trained, and educated boys ages 11 through 18 who were delinquent wards of Allegheny County The complex occupied 1500 acres of land and held 70 structures Total annual enrollment peaked near 500 in the early 1920s."Excerpted from the website of "Historic Pittsburgh"

Seattle, Washington: Hangman Press as presented by Superior Publishing Company, (1970). First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink by Breihan at the ffep. Small4to (10.25" x 7.5"),144 pages, with illustrations from photographs, facsimiles, & portraits.Publisher's pictorial red fabricoid lettered in white on the spine & upper cover.
Brief wear at extremities & tips, otherwise very good.
Author Breihan was a former St. Louis, Missouri County Police Commissioner as well as a prolific writer & signicant collector of materials related to lawmen & outlaws.

Boston: Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, printed by Wright & Potter, April 4, 1881. First edition. Original folio broadside measuring approximately 15 inches by 9.5 inches printed recto only on medium paper. Not found in OCLC as of 3/30/2024.
Old folds, Moderately toned & soiled, edge wear including creasing & a one inch tear, otherwise good or better & still quite attractive.
"The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals asks the attention of all good citizens to the law of the Commonwealth for the protection of our small birds and their nests, and it invites their co-operation in the enforcement of the same. The penalty is ten dollars for killing each bird, and for wilfully destroying, disturbing or taking their nests or eggs, the same sum; one-half of the fine goes to the complainant, and one-half to the city or town where the offense is committed …" ~Excerpted from the text.

Benjamin, Park (editor). Celebrated Crimes ... The Countess of Saint Geran ... as published in The New World. New York: J. Winchester, Extra series, number 81, May, 1843. Small folio, (12.25" by 8.25"), 32 pages & covers. Original self wraps, sewn, with an engraved illustration at the masthead with sentiment below: "No pent-up Utica contracts our powers; For the whole boundless continent is ours." Text in two columns.
Toned, stained, soiled, tattered, small losses not affecting text, shallow diagonal corner creasing throughout, about good & still quite useful.
An early edition, perhaps the first American, of part of Dumas' "Celebrated Crimes" series, originally published in 1839 & 1840. The series provides semi-fictionalized accounts of the most noteworthy criminal cases in European history.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, (1965). First edition. 8vo, xii, 500 pp., illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered red cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Modest shelf wear, text block beginning to slip at the top of the spine, otherwise very good in price-clipped dust jacket, a bit toned & soiled, with edge wear including a couple of small losses, good or better.
"Includes material on Alphonese Bertillon, Scotland Yard, Adolf Beck, Doctor Crippen, Bernard Spilsbury, Marie Lafarge, Marie Besnard, Sacco-Vanzetti, St Valentine's Day Massacre, among other topics." ~OCLC.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927. First edition Octavo (8.5" x 6"), 303 pages plus 15 pages of illustrations mostly from photographs. Publisher's green cloth lettered & decorated in gilt
Edges moderately rubbed, light fraying at the spine extremities, spine gilt dull, sporadic foxing & occasional handling marks, a Good or better copy
Chapters include: Why was the old West wild? - The border code - The shot in the dark - "Fanning" from the hip - "Fill your hand!" - "Shoot first and never miss" - Six-shooters and curses - Old Tascosa - Border justice - Booming into Oklahoma - The Wild Bunch - Thirty notches on his gun - Wiping out the Doolin Gang - The outlaw queen - The ill-starred Starr - The man who wouldn't be good - With his boots on - Tilghman's last trail.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, (1930 per K-E date code). Reprint, originally published in 1921. Tall quarto (12.5" x 9.25"), xvii, [2] & 3 - 246 & [1] pages plus 25 plates in black & white plates & 11 in color with two smaller color illustrations tipped-in. Publisher's buff paper over boards with a large color illustration applied to the front cover backed in gilt-lettered & decorated black cloth.
Covers toned & a bit soiled, small split in the cloth at the upper joint, light wear at corners, occasional minor foxing, a good or better copy.
Chapters include:

Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main; The Ghost of Captain Brand; With the Buccaneers; Tom Chist and the Treasure Box; Jack Ballister's Fortunes; Blueskin, the Pirate; Captain Scarfield; & The Ruby of Kishmoor.

New York, N.Y.: Parc Publishing Company, Volume iv, No. 25, April 9, 1967; Volume iv, No. 33, June 4, 1967; Volume iv, No. 35, June 18, 1967; Volume v, No. 4, October 29, 1967 First editions, four folio tabloid newspapers (15" x 11.25"), 20 pp. each, illustrated.
Folded horizontally, moderately tattered & toned, otherwise good or better.
Features sensational headlines & fascinating articles including "They Maim and Torture for Profit," "Phony Health Officer Made Wives Strip," "Rapist Demands: You or Your Daughter," "Rapist Caught in the Act While Crowd Watches," and "Coed Claims It's Square to be a Virgin."

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1944). First edition. Tall octavo (9.5" x 6.75"), xiv, 591, & xvi pp. plus 15 plates, & 4 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in printed & decorated dust jacket. Red top stain.
Modest toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise near fine in good only dust jacket, browned at the spine, moderately soiled, with edge wear including tears, small losses, & old tape repairs on the verso.
"Miss Ratchford, Librarian of the Rare Books Collections of the University of Texas, after years of research, has now edited the the letters of Wise to his American friend Wrenn, proving further forgeries and involving in the guilt H. Bruxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse, distinguished menof letters." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Detroit: Johnson Smith & Co., no date [ca 1925]. Small 8vo, unpaginated [36 pp.], including illustrated front wrapper. Publisher's pictorial, stapled stiff paper wraps.
Trace edge wear, moderately toned, otherwise very good.
The story of John "Babbacombe" Lee relayed in the first person who survived execution by hanging on three different occasions in February of 1885. After the final attempt the attending medical officer declined to proceed. Released from prison in 1907, Lee emigrated to the United States where he died in 1945. The story inspired the 1971 album "Babbacombe Lee" by the English folk rock group Fairport Convention, making it the first "folk rock opera" in music history.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First edition, this a presentation copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink by Liebling at the ffep to Alger & Priscilla Hiss. 8vo (8.25" x 5.75"), 251 pages. Publisher's cloth-patterned yellow paper over boards lettered in brown on the spine, lacking the dust jacket.
Spine darkened, soiled, upper joint splitting, shallow loss at spne extremities, corners bruised & rubbed through, a worn but historically significant copy.
"For Alger and/ Priscilla Hiss,/ Joe Liebling,/ with friendship./ July 14, 1949."
The second collection of Liebling's articles critical of New York newspapers which were originally published in the NEW YORKER, this copy presented to Hiss & wife exactly one week after his first trial ended in a hung jury. During the course of the trial Liebling formed a warm friendship with the defendant, & thereafter aggressively criticized the House Un-American Activities Committee.

New York, N.Y. : Inter-Press Corporation, Volume 7, No. 5, October 24, 1966: Volume 8, No. 13, June 19, 1967; Volume 9, No. 8, November 13, 1967. First editions, three folio tabloid newspapers (15" x 11.25"), 16 pp. each, illustrated.
Folded horizontally, moderately tattered & toned, June 19th issue with two inch tear without loss pervasive throughout, otherwise good or better.
Features sensational headlines & fascinating articles including "Attacked by Four Men, Movie Actress Charges … YOU RAPED ME," He Rapes Teen Girl Then Sells Her to His Dad," "Harlots Hook American GI's in Vietnam," "Hippies Lead a Happy Life and "Squares" Often Foot the Bill," and "A Ku Klux Kutie - Heaven Help Us."

Boston: Printed by Joshua Cushing, 1808. Second edition. 12mo, 44 pp. Printed text only, lacking wraps (if issued).
Soiled & foxed, apparently removed from a larger volume, still good.
The second edition adds 4 pages not found in the first printing comprising "interesting documents, furnished by a gentleman lately from London."

Boston: Massachusetts Temperance Society, printed by Ford and Damrell, agents of the Society, First series, number 5, May, 1834. First edition. 12mo, vi, [7] - 28 pp. Sewn pamphlet lacking wraps. Sabin/ Dictionary of Books Relating to America 6541. Lacking wraps, sporadic foxing, title page becoming detached, small printed label of Edmund J. Cleveland on the verso of the first blank, truncated title in manuscript at the last blank signed by Charles C. Cleveland, "Chaplain of H.C." [House of Correction]. Chaplain Cleveland provides a statement on page 13 projecting the percentage of "habitual drunkards," at the House of Correction. "Rev. Charles Cleveland (1772-1872), a clergyman and philanthropist ... In 1816 he organized the Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor at his home. He also labored to collect funds for a mission-house, which was dedicated in May 1821 and in 1830 became a missionary to the Boston poor. Charles received a license to preach in 1835 and was ordained an… Read More

New York: American Social Hygiene Association, publication no. 59, 1916. Sextodecimo (6.25" x 3.5"), 14 pages. Publisher's stapled paper wraps.
Toned & lightly soiled, otherwise very good.
Author Raymond B. Fosdick was the fourth president of the Rockefeller Foundation. He wrote & lectured extensively on issues regarding law enforcemeint, vice, & alcohol abuse.

[Providence, Rhode Island., General Assembly, Committee on Abolishment of Capital Punishments], 1838. Folio broadsheet (13 inches x 7.75 inches), 2 pp.
Couple of short tears in the upper margin, lightly stained, otherwise very good.
"To the Honorable the General Assembly: January session, AD 1838 The subscribers, two of the Committee appointed to revise the Penal Code, Respectfully Represent, That it will appear by the Report of said Committee, which accompanies the bill presented by them, that they were divided equally on the abolition of capital punishments, and that it was agreed to report a bill that should not provide for their infliction in any case, that the point might be brought directly before the Legislature Hence, the subscribers, in this separate report, propose to lay before the Assembly some of the reasons why they think such punishments ought to be abolished in this State. "Among the reason these dissenters offer for opposition is the reluctance of many persons who will not complain… Read More

Havana, Cuba: Sans Souci Night Club, no date (ca. 1950's). Illustrated broadside handbill, octavo (8.5" x 5.5"), printed in green & black inks on light paper.
Toned, margins lightly browned, shallow creasing at corners, moderate edge wear including a couple of nicks & a half inch tear at the bottom, otherwise good or better.
Firmly in the grip of Santo Trafficante Jr. & other American Mafioso, the Sans Souci Night Club was closed on January 1, 1959 by decree following the Cuban Revolution & the advent of Fidel Castro.

Columbia, South Carolina: State Printing Company, (1970). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated by the author ("Sam L") in ink at the half-title page to Cartha"Deke" DeLoach, then number 3 at the FBI. Octavo (9.25 x 6.25"), xv & 407 pages including numerous illustrations (some in color, some folding) Publisher's white cloth lettered in blue at the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Inscription faintly offsets to title page, otherwise fine in very good dust jacket, lightly browned, foxed & soiled mostly at the spine, with modest edge wear incuding short tears & small losses.
The author was the long-time editor & publisher of The State newspaper.
Cartha "Deke" DeLoach was deputy associate director of the FBI, the third highest ranking position behind only J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson. In 1963, just after the assassination of John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson requested of Hoover that DeLoach be assigned to the White House. As described by New York Times reporter Tim Weiner… Read More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1962) First edition, this copy with the armorial bookplate of Cartha D and Barbara De Loach at the ffep. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), 247 pages, illustrated. Publisher's gray cloth lettered & decorated in gilt & white, in pictorial dust jacket
Upper portion of the spine sunned, otherwise Very Good in dust jacket with loss at the top of the spine affecting lettering, light rubbing & modest edge wear, still Good or better
"On April 27, 1865, the Mississippi packet boat Sultana exploded on its way North with over 2,000 paroled prisoners on board" 
~Abstract courtesy OCLC.
Cartha "Deke" DeLoach was deputy associate director of the FBI, the third highest ranking position behind only J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson In 1963, just after the assassination of John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson requested of Hoover that DeLoach be assigned to the White House As described by New York Times reporter Tim Weiner "DeLoach was always at LBJ's beck and call, night and day, he was a… Read More