Boston: D. Lothrop & Co, 1866. Sixth edition. 12mo; publisher's terra-cotta cloth, decoratively stamped on spine and covers; 236pp. Snag to cloth at crown of spine; old institutional blindstamp to half-title and title page (Hartford Theological Seminary); a Good, complete reading copy of this standard devotional work for prisoners. More

Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition. First novel by the Chicago author and screenwriter, an original member of the Watts Writers' Workshop founded by Budd Schulberg in 1965. "Hawkins has filled his canvas with unforgettable people, not just the dopefiends, pimps, hustlers and other victims of exploitation..... 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

[New Haven? 1867?]. First Thus. Scarce handbill issued within the first two years of the founding of the Association, this version of the Constitution listing XII clauses, chiefly "to aid the development of Social Science, and to guide the public mind to the best practical means of promoting the Amendment..... 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

London and New York: Routledge, 1996. First Edition. Historical account of the Camorra criminal organization in Naples, a major rival to the Sicilian Mafia. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's printed slip laid in. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],225,[7]pp. ISBN sticker..... 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

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

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

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Clean copy of the author's first book, a novel following the struggles of three down-and-outer's in Louisiana. First Printing. Octavo; tan cloth, blocked and titled in dark brown and white on spine and front cover; burgundy topstain; dustjacket; 312pp. Bookplate signed by the..... More

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1917. First American Edition. Best-known book by Burke (1886-1945), a collection of 14 short stories set in the Limehouse borough of London's poverty-stricken East End, featuring the the Chinese character Quong Lee as narrator. "The Chink and the Child," the first story in..... More