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
![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
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 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: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); two toned cloth in black and green; titled in white on cover and white and lime green on the spine. dustjacket; 302pp.; illustrated with photographs. Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95) with long tear along lower rear flap;..... More
Boston: Fay & Co., 1849. First Edition. Quite uncommon collection of "faits divers," the opening article on John Jacob Astor, "the richest man in America." Contents also cover the sentence of Henry L. Foote for the murder of his niece Emily Cooper "after brutally violating her" (p. [17]). Concludes with..... 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
Bologna: Il Mulino, 1998. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 179,(4)pp. Fine. Text entirely in Italian. 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
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: 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
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
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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
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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
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1971. First Edition. The Edgar Award-winning author's third book, and the first Hackberry Holland novel. First Printing. Octavo; light brown cloth, with titles stamped in red and black on spine; dustjacket; 266pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Base of spine gently..... 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
New York: The Dial Press, 1929. First Edition. Burnett's first novel, following the rise and fall of a Chicago gangster Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello. Basis for Mervyn LeRoy's 1931 film of the same name, starring Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Glenda Farrell. HUBIN, p.58; COAN, p.102; HANNA 529..... More
