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 about Ghetto Sketches
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 about $60 Reward
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1972. First Edition. Anthology of prison writings by inmates of the Norfolk Prison Colony in eastern Massachusetts. Foreword by Elma Lewis, under whose auspices much of the work was completed. With an introduction by James A. Lang, an inmate who presumably shared the editorial credit... More about Who Took The Weight? Black Voices From Norfolk Prison [Review Copy
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 about The Police and Race Relations: A Selected Bibliography
Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Company, 1973. First Edition. Sharp copy of the Detroit author's fourth stand-alone novel, "a gutsy account of an inncer city gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover...He's known as Earl the Black Pearl, and he's up from the ghetto - way up. He views the streets from his fashionable... More about Street Players
Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Company, 1973. First Edition. Sharp copy of the Detroit author's fifth stand-alone novel. "In this, his fifth novel, the author introduces Chester Hines and takes you inside prison walls. From bust to county jail - with its caste system, beatings, and rapes - to the... More about White Man's Justice: Black Man's Grief
Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Company, 1975. First Edition. Novel of vengeance after a Black father's son is taken from him by a stray bullet from a local crime syndicate. Hitmen are hired, syndicate members are killed, and a war between Godfather's ensues. OCLC finds 14 copies. First Printing, a.... More about The Big Hit
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 about Speak Out! For the Release of Plainfield's Black Hostages: Bobby Lee Williams, Gail Madden,...
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Tucson: Dennis McMillan Publicatons, 1996. First, Limited Edition. The author's highly regarded second novel, following Sympathy for the Devil. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Anderson and James Crumley, this being copy no.99. Octavo; 3/4 marbled paper over quarter black morocco, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket;... More about Night Dogs [Limited Edition, Signed
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 about Mottke the Vagabond (Mottke Ganef
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Buffalo: Attica Defense Committee, 1973. Quarto (29cm). Bifolium, on newsprint [4pp]. Paper slightly toned, else a fresh, unworn copy, Very Good to Near Fine. Fundraising brochure for the Attica Defense Committee, calling for the dismissal of indictments against the 28 prisoners indicted for participating in the Attica Prison riots of... More about Attica: Two Years Later [drop-title] "We Have The Solution. The Solution is Unity"
[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 about Ups and Downs of a "Crook's" Life. By an Ex-Convict
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First American Edition. Bentley's follow-up to his 1913 novel Trent's Last Case, co-written with his friend H. Warner Allen. HUBIN, p.31. First Printing. Octavo; orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; 324pp, [2]. Hint of darkening... More about Trent's Own Case
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 about Thieves' Market
[Washington, D.C.]: Police Foundation, [1974]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); original red staplebound card wrappers; [2],vii,[1],67pp.; illus. Fine. Post-Equal Rights Amendment evaluation of policewomen. More about Policewomen on Patrol: Final Report
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 about Cinderella Sims
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New York: William Morrow and Company, 2008. First Edition. First Printing, Limited Issue, one of an unstated number of copies stamped, canceled and signed on the first day of publication, this being copy no.675. Octavo; black and red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; publisher's slipcase;... More about Hit and Run [Limited Edition, Signed
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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 about The Scoreless Thai [Limited Edition, Signed
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Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2001. First Hardcover Edition. Handsome edition of the fifth Evan Tanner novel, first published as a paperback original in 1968 by Gold Medal. One of 175 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.27. Octavo; brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine;... More about Tanner's Tiger [Limited Edition, Signed
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 about The Burglar in the Library
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Gladestry: Scorpion Press, 2002. First, Limited Edition. Handsome edition of the British crime writer's third novel, featuring Derbyshire detectives Cooper and Fry. One of 80 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.76. Octavo; marbled paper over hunter green leather, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; green... More about Blood on the Tongue [Limited Edition, Signed
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 about Crusade
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1949. First Edition. Basis for Gerd Oswald's 1958 film noir, starring Anita Ekberg, Philip Carey, and Gypsy Rose Lee. HUBIN, p.54. First Printing. Octavo; yellow paper-covered boards, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in black to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 248, [8]pp. Slight... More about The Screaming Mimi
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 about Words From the House of the Dead: An Anthology of Prison Writings from Soledad
New York: William-Frederick Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Cloth boards, dustjacket, 117pp. Fine and unmarked in crisp but faintly foxed dustwrapper, Near Fine. Collection of short fiction by an inmate of the Lorton, Virginia penitentiary. Includes several stories of prison life. More about Baby Chocolate and Other Short Stories: Aspects of the Black Experience. An Original Collection
