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
![Drop title] Wanted by the FBI: Interstate Flight - Assault with Intent to Commit Murder / Leroy...](/pictures/medium/43971.jpg?v=1562105433)
Washington DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, December 13, 1968. First Edition. Issued on December 13, 1968, and signed in facsimile by J. Edgar Hoover, three days after a Federal warrant was issued in San Francisco, "charging Cleaver with unlawful interstate flight to avoid confinement." Additionally, "CLEAVER ALLEGEDLY HAS ENGAGED POLICE..... 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
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
![Who Took The Weight? Black Voices From Norfolk Prison [Review Copy]. AFRICAN AMERICANS - PRISONS,...](/pictures/medium/29341.jpg?v=1529353603)
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
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
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
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
Leipzig: Internationalier Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1925. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Original tan cloth, 290pp. Bit of spotting and wear to covers; brief splits to cloth at spine ends; about Very Good and internally tight and free of markings. Text entirely in German. A pioneering work in the psychoanalytic study of adolescents..... More
New York: The Viking Press / Compass Books, 1965. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 241pp. Very Good, unmarked copy of the first paperback edition in English, reprinted from the 1935 Viking Press edition. A pioneering work in the psychoanalytic study of adolescents and juvenile delinquency. 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: 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
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
[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
![Hit and Run [Limited Edition, Signed]. Lawrence BLOCK](/pictures/medium/39644.jpg?v=1529353961)
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
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
![Blood on the Tongue [Limited Edition, Signed]. Stephen BOOTH, Reginald HILL, novel, appreciation](/pictures/medium/33555.jpg?v=1529353733)
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
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: 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
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: 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
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
![Black Cherry Blues [Signed]. James Lee BURKE](/pictures/medium/39803.jpg?v=1529353964)
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1989. First Edition. The third Dave Robicheaux novel, winner of the Edgar Award. First Printing. Octavo; red and gray paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [x],290,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Light remainder mark at upper and lower..... More
![Dixie City Jam [Limited Edition, Signed]. James Lee BURKE](/pictures/medium/20897.jpg?v=1529353292)
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
