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Illustrated Life, Career, and Trial of William Palmer of Rugeley, containing Details of His Conduct as Schoolboy, Medical Student, Racing-Man, and Poisoner; together with Original Letters of William and Anne Palmer, and other Authentic Documents; the Whole of His Private Dairy up to the Hour of His Arrest. with Illustrated and Unabridged Edition of The TimesReport of the Trial of William Palmer for Poisoning John Parsons Cook, at Rugeley
First Edition
London: Ward & lock, 1856. 2 pamphlets: 136 pages plus 2 page folded extract from diary; 184. Frontispiece of William Palmer in first pamphlet; frontispiece in second pamphlet is folded view of the courtroom, image size 13 x 9.5 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1048681.
First edition (first printing). Disbound copies but together. Very good copy without covers. One edge of the frontispiece of second pamphlet is worn with small closed tear.
Book ID: 263914More details Price: $200.00 -
Criminal Sociology
First Edition
New York: D. Appleton, 1897. viii, 284 pages. "A translation of that portion of Professor Ferri's volume on Criminal Sociology which is immediately concerned with the practical problems of criminality." Ferri offered "scientific" criteria to ascertain guilt or at least criminal tendencies. Among his criteria were tattooing, physical and mental conditions, vaso-motor reactions, and the range of sight (p. 166). Ferri's work was widely translated and many of his conclusions influenced policing and justice systems around the world. ISBN: B000877IUU.
A very good copy in half-leather over marbled paper-covered boards. This copy is from the Harvard office library of the paleontologist and leading advocate for evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, with a posthumous tipped in bookplate indicating the provenance. Gould cites this work and quotes several long passages from it in his National Book Critics Circle Award winning book, The Mismeasure of Man.
Intellectually, Gould understood the true nature of these bookplates, but the book collector in him appreciated them. In his essay "A Seahorse for All Races" Gould writes about one of his prized possessions, a book from Charles Dickens' library: "Dickens made no annotations, but a bookplate on the cover, presumably inserted as a come-on for a sale after Dickens' death in 1870, does prove that [he] kept and shelved the book."
We offer our Gould bookplates, printed letterpress in two colors, in the same spirit.
Book ID: 226063More details Price: $75.00 -
Bucks County Law Reporter, Vol. 1 No. 27 (November 15, 1951)
First Edition
Quakertown, PA: Bucks County Bar Association, 1951. [1]- 20 pages, with front wrapper serving as page [1]. Weekly legal periodical reporting court decisions of Pennsylvania's Seventh Judicial District. Cozzens' 'Notes on a Difficulty of Law by One Unlearned in It' paginated (11/15/51--p. 3) - (11/15/51--p. 7), with the excised page preceding the article as issued. An introduction notes the rarity of a contribution by a leading novelist (Cozzens won the Pulitzer in 1949), but that the author had spent much time observing court proceedings and enjoyed an especially close relationship with the lawyers: Cozzens "met with us in the privacy of the attorney's room, listened to us discuss legal problems with one another, questioned us and joined in discussions.". ISBN: 281AIB1041275.
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in stapled wrappers (paperback). Cover a bit toned, light wear to spine head and a short creased snag on rear cover. Rare.
Book ID: 207779More details Price: $50.00 -
Pravidla, prislovi a povedeni, vztahujici se k sprave verejne a obecni i k pravu obcanskemu a trestnimu
First Edition
Praze (Prague): Nakladem Jednoty Pravnicke, 1872. 275 pages. Czech legal maxims. ISBN: 281AIB1039619.
First edition (first printing). Rebound in cloth and decorated paper, preserving what may be the original leather spine lable. An attractive copy.
Book ID: 200923More details Price: $40.00 -
The Trial of Neville George Clevely Heath (Notable British Trials series)
First Edition
London: William Hodge and Company, 1951. 239 pages. Edited transcript of a sensational murder trial that resulted in Heath hanging. ISBN: B004BLSYA2.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 136016More details Price: $37.50 -
The Case of David Lamson: A Summary
First Edition
San Francisco: Lamson Defense Committee, 1934. 103 pages. Lamson was convicted of murdering his wife in their home on the campus of Stanford University and sentenced to die. He was later released after 2 new trials failed to reach a verdict. ISBN: B000MZ8T0G.
First edition (first printing). Very good copy in tan paper wrappers with label pasted on front cover. wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 261995More details Price: $35.00 -
The Executioner's Song
First Edition
London: Hutchinson, 1979. 1056 pages. Winner of the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The book chronicles true events in the quest of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore for immediate execution following his sentence. ISBN: 9780091395407.
First British edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 267560More details Price: $35.00 -
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Harper, 2019. ISBN: 9780062882943.
Markdown New
Book ID: 232002More details Price: $27.99 -
The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019. ISBN: 9780802147301.
NEW
Book ID: 235041More details Price: $27.00 -
The Business of Organized Crime: A Cosa Nostra Family
First Edition
Stanford: Hoover Institute Press, (1979). 179 pages. Hoover Institution Publication 201. Book provides detailed information on a Mafia family's illegal eneterprises and their legitimate business interests. ISBN: 9780817970116.
Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper and dated April 4, 1979. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 260718More details Price: $25.00 -
The Rosenbergs: Their Story
The Los Angeles Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case, n.d. 48 pages. 12 x 9 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1047916.
Tan illustrated paper wrappers. Covers are separated and torn at spine fold but present. Edge and corner wear. Scarce.
Book ID: 262803More details Price: $20.00 -
The Deadly Silence
First Edition
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1965. 254 pages. "From the current files of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a dramatic case history of the undercover work that put the top narcotics trafficker of the U.S. and Canada behind bars." - fom the cover. ISBN: B0007DZ3T8.
First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 263497More details Price: $20.00 -
Police Operational Intelligence
First Edition
Springfield, Ilinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1968. ISBN: 281AIB0018263.
Very good in a very good dust jacket. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining. Mild foxing to page edges.
Book ID: 11111More details Price: $18.75 -
The Finger Print Instructor - Text Book For The Guidance Of Finger Print Experts ... Based On The Sir E. R. Henry System...
Scientific American Pub, 1927. ISBN: B002LEDWT4.
Very Good
Book ID: 206229More details Price: $18.00 -
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
Gallery Books, 2017. ISBN: 9781501191961.
NEW
Book ID: 261713More details Price: $17.99 -
Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer―America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
Gallery Books, 2019. ISBN: 9781982120504.
NEW
Book ID: 248062More details Price: $17.99 -
The Stranger Beside Me
Gallery Books, 2018. ISBN: 9781501139147.
NEW
Book ID: 258034More details Price: $17.99 -
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Harper Perennial, 2019. ISBN: 9780062319791.
A new copy.
Book ID: 268114More details Price: $17.99 -
Helter Skelter : The True Story of the Manson Murders
W W Norton & Co Inc, 2001. ISBN: 9780393322231.
NEW
Book ID: 260697More details Price: $16.95 -
American Grotesque: An Account of the Clay Shaw-Jim Garrison Affair in the City of New Orleans
First Edition
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. 669 pages. An account of the trial of Clay Shaw, a New Orleans businessman accused of conspiring to assassinate John F. Kennedy. ISBN: 9780671206840.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Jacket with a two-inch tear at the base of the spine.
Book ID: 116888More details Price: $15.00
