Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, [1907]. "Wanted" sign to be posted "In Conspicuous Place," offering a reward for the arrest and detention of William Finney, alias Ivory L. Rolland, an inmate of the United States Penitentiary of Atlanta, Georgia, and escaped on May 27, 1907. Finney, who had been serving a.... More

New York: The American Jewish Committee, 1969. Bibliography of books, pamphlets, magazine articles, and training materials related to police interaction and race. Third Printing. Quarto (28cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 16pp. Some trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. More

Plainfield, NJ: Plainfield Joint Defense Committee, [1969]. Appeal pamphlet by the Plainfield Joint Defense Committee written on behalf of the three remaining members of the Plainfield 12 - Bobby Lee Williams, Gail Madden, and George Merritt, Jr. During the summer of 1967, Williams was shot by John V. Gleason, a.... More

Boston: John W. Luce & Co., [1917]. First English Language Edition. First appearance in English of this major work by the greatest of the American Yiddish emigre writers of the Twentieth Century. By all indications, this is only the second of Asch's novels to have been translated into English, though... More

[New York]: Published by the Author, 1889. Written during the author's 5-year sentence in Clinton Prison, New York, and self-published in the hopes that "If I can sell enough of my books to earn a living, the temptation that sometimes drives ex-convicts back to crime will, in my case at... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [6],233pp. Some light wear and tiny chips to jacket extremities, small loss at spine foot, spine crown has been quite crudely repaired, narrow three-inch strip of insect damage along rear flap fold touching... More

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2003. First Hardcover Edition. Originally published by Block under the pseudonym Andrew Shaw, as $20 Lust (Nightstand Books, 1961). On of 175 numbered copies signed by the author, this copy marked "P/C." Octavo; dark green cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; publisher's slipcase;... More

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2000. First Hardcover Edition. Handsome edition of Block's 1968 paperback original novel Two for Tanner, which his publisher (Gold Medal) mis-titled. One of 175 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.59. Octavo; green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; publisher's... More

Blakeny: Scorpion Press, 1997. First, Limited Edition. Handsome edition of Block's eighth Bernie Rhodenbarr novel, with an appreciation by James Sallis. One of 99 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.64. Octavo; marbled paper over hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; blue topstain;... More

New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1931. First Edition. Novel featuring a small-town Y.M.C.A. leader and municipal reformer who is corrupted by the forces he seeks to destroy. Set in a fictional middle-western town in the midst of bootleg wars, bombings, and general violence. HANNA 435. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm);..... More

Greenfield, NY: Greenfield Review Press, 1971. First Edition. Inmate writings from Soledad State Prison. Reproduces many works from the surreptitious, inmate-produced anthology The 6:15 Unlock (of which only ten copies were produced). "These writings were smuggled out. They are anonymous to protect the prisoners themselves" (from the editor's foreword). An... More

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1973. First Edition. Novel beginning on a prisoner's last day behind bars. "He has been respected by his friends as a successful criminal, but wants to avoid returning to that lifestyle. This desire, with no job in sight, fuels his pre-release anxiety, which he... More

New York: Hyperion, 1994. First Edition. The Edgar Award-winning author's seventh Dave Robicheax novel. Limited Issue, one of 1,525 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.113. Octavo; black cloth, with titles and author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's black, gilt-stamped slipcase;... More