New York: Published for the Council on Foreign Relations by Praeger Publishers, [1972]. First Edition. Thick octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in orange pictorial dust jacket; x,470pp.; text map. Top textblock edge a bit foxed, else Near Fine. More
New York: The Century Co., 1899. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); tan cloth boards, printed in red; xiv, 398pp; illus. Brief wear; spine slightly sunned; corner chip to front endpaper; contemporary ownership signature. A tight, straight Very Good copy. Collects Flynt's writings on America's transient underworrld, a subject with which he..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1910. First Edition. Autobiographical essays from the career of Judge Ben Lindsey, a prominent child welfare advocate and long-time chief of the Denver juvenile court. With many anecdotes relating to child welfare, gangs, and juvenile delinquency in turn-of-the-century Denver. An uncommonly well-preserved copy. Octavo (20cm). Blue..... More
Chicago: Donnelley, Lloyd & Co., 1878. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's brown decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt, blue-grey glazed endpapers; 256pp.; frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Some light wear to extremities, spine gilt rather dulled, else Very Good or better. Memoir of the professional gambler/drunk-turned-evangelist. See BANTA's Indiana..... More
Cleveland: Wells Publishing Co., 1909. First Edition. Uncommon and somewhat cobbled-together account of this sensational turn-of-the-century kidnaping case, one of several which propelled the phenomenon of ransom kidnaping into the national consciousness. Illustrated with photographs of the Whitla family, the crime scenes, the perpetrators and various other key figures in..... More
London: Greening & Co., 1899. First Edition. A charming survey of British low-life, documenting the methods and practices of pick-pockets, safe-crackers, card sharpers, portico thieves, shoplifters, forgers, and other criminals in common circulation in Edwardian London. Includes a chapter on "Rogues and Vagabonds." With about 50 text illustrations, all of..... More
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1932. First Edition. A guide to the detection and proof of forged documents. Illustrated with many facsimile examples. Zinnel was a handwriting expert from Minneapolis. Uncommon, and this an uncommonly nice copy. Small octavo (19cm). Original red cloth boards; titles in gilt; dustjacket; 142pp; illus..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1929. Very nice copy of this classic of juvenile criminal psychology. Burt achieved great eminence during his lifetime, in 1946 becoming the first British psychologist to be knighted as a reward for his research. Burt's methodologies came into question after his death, however, and..... More
[Baltimore? Shaw Bros. Print, 1892]. First Edition. Paper read by the Warden of the Western State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. This printed version appears to be unrecorded, though we do find mention of it in an issue of The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy from the same year. Wright blames..... More
Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1936. First edition. Quarto. Original printed wrappers; 253pp. Minor external wear; internally Fine. A socio-genetic survey of Danish prostitutes, with extensive and detailed individual case studies. Tage Kemp (1896-1964), was a eugenicist and the founding director of the International Institute of Human Genetics in Copenhaven. Though..... More
[Nottingham]: Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute, 1974. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm.); original white pictorial card wrappers; ix,[1],118pp. Bottom fore-edge corner bumped, else Fine. Modern China Series no. 6. More
Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press / Barnes & Noble, 1982. First Edition. American issue, with Barnes & Noble slug at base of jacket spine (otherwise identical to the U.K. issue). Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Fine copy in jacket. More
Dayton, OH: Press of U.B. Publishing House, 1905. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; viii,[9]-363pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, plates. Boards a bit rubbed with brief exposure at corners, some minor soil including to textblock, else Very Good and sound. Self-published collection of essays, including travel..... More
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., [1970]. Second (1979) Printing. New, abridged edition of Cunard's seminal anthology, first published in 1934. A monumental work, compiling some 250 contributions by more than 150 authors (two-thirds of whom were Black), first published and financed by Cunard, a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin..... More
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[Dallas: Bradburn Books, 1958]. First Thus. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 216. Octavo (20.5cm.); original pale grey pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in red and black; [6],25pp.; photographic illus. & engravings by John McIntosh throughout. Facsimile edition of a work originally published in the "Rodeo Town" of..... More
London: Hayman, Christy & Lilly, 1916. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 18pp. Mild external soil; internally clean, tight and unmarked. Transcript of Curzon's speech of December 19th, 1916. More
New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1961. First Edition. Study of women and their changing status in the modern world of the 1960's. Octavo (21cm); burgundy cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; x, 241, [5]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped, gently spine-sunned and edgeworn, with a...... More
Accra: Ghana Universities Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original blue staplebound printed wrappers; 19pp.; illus. Fine. Inaugural lecture delivered on May 16th, 1969, at the University of Ghana, Legon, where the author was a professor of Home Science. Delineates a number of imperatives, including the improvement of women's education..... More
[St. Lucia, West Indies: D. Sinclair Dabreo, n.d., 1975?]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 120pp.; illus. Mild dust-soiling, else About Fine. Errata slip mounted inside front wrapper. Covers the state of poverty and political unrest in Cuba, Trinidad, Grenada, Dominica, Antigua, Guyana, and Jamaica. More
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[St. Lucia, West Indies: D. Sinclair Dabreo, n.d., 1974?]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original red pictorial staplebound wrappers; 62pp.; illus. Fine. Errata slip tipped in between pp. 8 & 9. Account of the violence and unrest in Grenada leading up to independence in February, 1974. Dedicated to the author's friend..... More
London: "Daily News" 1900. Revised Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's drab printed wrappers; vii,[8]-175pp. Wrappers rather fragile with a few shallow chips and closed tears along extremities, textblock significantly toned and brittle due to poor paper stock. Still, a Near Very Good copy overall. Collected articles first published in the Daily..... More
Austin: University of Texas Press, [1966]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in brown pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, reddish-brown topstain; [10],186pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket extremities including shallow chipping at spine ends, rear cover cloth shows the faintest dampstain, else Fine in Very Good jacket. More
[Poona]: Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, 1953. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); black library cloth-backed boards, original wrappers and integral dust jacket bound in; [2],xii,191pp.; tables and graphs throughout. Ex-Princeton Library with their markings throughout (bookplate inside upper cover with "Withdrawn" rubberstamp). A Very Good, sound reading copy. More
Annandale: Speech Communication Association, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Printed pictorial card wrappers; 73pp. Fine. Brief history, from a first-hand perspective, of the formation of the Black Caucus of the SCA (now called the National Communication Association). Afterwords by Lucia Hawthorne, Dorthy Pennington, Melbourne Cummings, Carolyn Calloway-Thomas and Venita Kelley... More
Washington DC: Association of American Colleges, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. Printed staple-bound wrappers; 43pp; includes bibliography. Fine, unread copy. Report for the Project on the Status and Education of Women. Daniels was Director of the Project and a professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. More
