![Pastime [Limited Edition, Signed]. Robert B. PARKER](/pictures/medium/39867.jpg?v=1529619074)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991. First Edition. Handsome edition of the 19th installment in Parker's best-selling Spenser series. Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.65. Octavo; maroon cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's matching..... More
![Thin Air [Limited Edition, Signed]. Robert B. PARKER](/pictures/medium/39869.jpg?v=1529619074)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. First Edition. Handsome edition of the 23rd installment in Parker's Spenser series. Limited Issue, one of 75 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.49. Octavo; full orange cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in black on spine and front..... More
![Walking Shadow [Limited Edition, Signed]. Robert B. PARKER](/pictures/medium/39849.jpg?v=1529619074)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994. First Edition. Handsome edition of the 22nd installment in Parker's best-selling Spenser series. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.34. Octavo; pale gray cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in silver on spine and..... More
![Double Deuce [Limited Edition, Signed]. Robert P. PARKER](/pictures/medium/39850.jpg?v=1530138583)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992. First Edition. Handsome edition of the 20th installment in Parker's best-selling Spenser series. Limited Issue, one of 135 numbered copies signed by the author. Octavo; dark green cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's matching..... More
San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1976. First Edition. Personal narrative of prison life in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester. The author, son of the prison warden, grew up in the shadow of the penitentiary, then did time there after being convicted of forgery. Illustrated with photographic plates (halftones), and..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. First Edition. The story of criminal lawyer Samuel Leibowitz, who defended Al Capone in 1925, and by the age of 40 had already been involved in cases for a number of major murder headlines: the Harlem Baby Massacre, the Vivian Gordon murder, the Auburn..... More
New York: Schocken Books, 1984. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 283pp. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper, free of markings or significant wear. Scholarly social history of crime and criminal culture in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries. More
![Nick's Trip [Signed]. George P. PELECANOS](/pictures/medium/39742.jpg?v=1529353962)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. First Edition. Sharp copy of the author's second book, featuring recurring character Nick Stefanos. First Printing. Octavo; blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],276pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Tiny stray ink mark to right edge..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. The African-American author's first novel, the principal characters of which are an Irish-American family living in a Brooklyn slum. The protagonist, "a young man of generous and innocent nature," drops out of school and goes to work for the hoodlums who rule..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1981. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brown cloth and pale green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 223pp. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, spine ends slightly nudged, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with light..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1979. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; beige cloth and green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 191,[1]pp. Faintest trace of foxing to text edges, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with mild shelfwear and faint foxing to..... More
London: Macmillan, 1981. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; hunter green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 220pp. Previous owners name and rubber-stamped to upper front endpaper, else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with one short tear and some trivial rubbing to upper corners;..... More
[New York]: Medico-Legal Society, [ca. 1888]. First separate edition; octavo (23.75cm.); bifolium; 3 tables in text. Previous vertical fold, else Fine. The published results of a study on the use of electricity for the execution of criminals, establishing the electric chair as an official method of capital punishment. The New..... More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's red cloth; xxi,[1],180pp. Light edge wear, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking dust jacket. The sociologist's controversial, arguably antifeminist, treatise in which Pollak argued that women commit as many crimes as men but hide them better and..... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1870. Offprint. Post-mortem account by a forensic examiner of a female murder victim. The author's testimony, based on examination of the victim's gun-shot wounds, resulted in a verdict of "not guilty" for her husband, the accused. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet; printed wrappers; 48pp. Paper on spine partially..... More
New York: Edward J. Clode Publisher, [1908]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's red pictorial cloth embossed in black, white, and gilt; vi,302pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, corners gently bumped, front hinge starting to crack but holding, else a Very Good, bright copy. The author's third collection of stories featuring the..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. First Edition. Wrapper issue (no priority known). Small octavo (17.25cm.); publisher's mustard yellow decorative wrappers; xv,[3],284,[2](ads)pp. Some light toning to wrapper extremities, minor shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Forms part of the Hudson Library series. West Virginia author's second collection of short..... More
Boston: Chapman & Grimes, 1939. First Edition. Fictionalized (but highly detailed & accurate) account of "Uncle Sam's secret agents in tracking down dealers in marijuana, cocaine, and other debasing drugs." Not in Hanna, presumably because it is a "crime novel," though the content reads more like an occupational novel than..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1905. First Edition. Detailed account of political conditions and criminal details relating to the assassination, in 1900, of newly-elected Kentucky Governor William Goebel. The author, the sitting Attorney-General, was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for complicity in the crime. Powers goes to great lengths to provide evidence..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1938. First Edition. Classic hard-boiled, hard-luck tale of the Thirties, long-forgotten but revived in the Eighties and given a new cult following by Black Lizard Press. Though generally discussed as a crime novel, You Play The Black has many great proletarian elements, including a drifter..... More
New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1930. First Edition. Attractive copy of Burnett's second novel, chronicling the career of a prizefighter. Basis for two films: Tod Browning's early talkie, starring Lew Ayres, Robert Armstrong, and Jean Harlow, and Joseph Pevney's 1951 film noir, starring Jeff Chandler, Evelyn..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. A hard-boiled novel set in a Mid-Western town which is taken over by "native terrorists who make the gangsters look like boyscouts;" the men are opposed by a contingent of brave men who eventually regain control of the town. Though the novel..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. First Edition. Proletarian drama involving "the cruel alliance between the criminal, the politician and the judiciary," and the level to which gangs are entrenched in the American political structure. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front..... More
![Boundary Against Night [Limited Edition, Signed]. RADICAL, PROLETARIAN LITERATURE](/pictures/medium/37747.jpg?v=1554414998)
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First Edition. Stunning copy of the Massachusetts author's second novel. "Ostensibly an account of the Boston police strike of 1922, this is actually a Gothic novel in which murder, rape, robberty, flogging, and sexual titillation run wild. By the end of the novel all..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First Edition. Terrific copy of Tully's second and most celebrated book, a memoir of his hobo youth. Source for William Wellman's well-regarded 1928 film of the same name, which starred Richard Arlen in the role of young Tully and Wallace Beery as his..... More
