Simon & Schuster, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. 312 pp. True memoirs of Norma Jean Almodovar, former LAPD officer who, disallusioned by corruption and hypocracy she saw, became a high-priced Beverly Hills prostitute. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
University Of Chicago Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. xv+ 217 pp. with index. Illustrations. Over the course of fifteen years, from 1877 to 1892, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered seven women in England and North America. All seven were prostitutes seeking abortions.....
New York: Putnam, 1976. proof. Sheet_music. Uncorrecetd proof in printed stiff wrappers. 575 pp (page numbede hand printed top corners of the text). Shows general use as well as a notation non the front cover as to projected publication price and price.
Facts On File, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Oversized softcover (not issued in hardcover). Fine, apparently unread copy, tiny corner crease to the top front tip. 367 pp with index. Illustrated. Unique and comprehensive reference to what has been probably the most significant--and strongest--criminal organization in the world. With over 400.....
Hyperion, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xvi+232 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrations. The story of how fingerprints came to be used in criminal investigation. In England in 1905, a elderly couple were murdered in their shop--the only clue a single bloody fingerprint.....
New York and London: A.S. Barnes and Thomas Yoseloff, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. 252 pp. with index. Fine in somewhat toned dust jacket. The first definitive treatment of the genius-criminal; the book looks at the crimes of seven men and one women, whose transgressions ranged from embezzlement.....
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 450 pp. Fine but with a defaced ownership signature top corner of front free endpaper. In very good dust jacket. True-life story of Joey "Crazy Joe" Gallo (1929-1972), a Columbo crime family mafioso, and his wife Jeffie. The.....
Barnesly, U.K. Wharncliffe Books/ Pen & Sword, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. New in dust jacket. First printing. Hardcover. xv+ 174 pp. with select bibliography. Profusely illustrated. An encyclopedic gazeteer of London murders from 1381 to the 21st century. Herein we find the famous killers like Jack the Ripper, Franz Muller.....
Running Press Book Publishers, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/printing. As new in dust jacket. INSCRIBED ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE, "___/ Happy Birthday/ Best/ Joe Pistone". Hardcover. 336 pp. with index. Ilustrated with photographs. "Donnie Brasco" author Joe Pistone, who as an undercover FBI agent in the 1970s infiltrated New.....
University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Hardcover. Hardcover. In fine condition with a fine dustjacket. 300 pages with index.
Running Press Book Publishers, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. First edition/ printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 336 pp. wth index. Illustrated with photos. "Donnie Brasco" author Joe Pistone, who as an undercover FBI agent in the 1970s infiltrated New York's Bonanno crime family, here sequels his 1988 best seller.....
New York: Kroy Wen Publishers, 1932. Hardcover. Very scarce. Hardcover in orange cloth lettered in black. 275 pp. Frontis and six additional photographic plates. A tight, bright example with some holing along the front gutter. In the virtually never seen dust jacket featuring an image of the child, chipping about.....
Akron: Werner Ptg & Litho Co, 1890. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in brick colored cloth woth spine lettered in gilt. Fronis portrait engraving of the author. 512 pp. with index. A tight, fine, bright example and quite unusual thus. Joseph Grannan, founder and operator of the Grannan Detective.....
Oak Knoll Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. xix+ 393 pp. with index, bibliography. Illustrations. Fascinating look at literary forgers from late 17th-early 18th century George Psalmanazar, late 1700s "Ossian" James MacPherson, Thomas Chatterton, who invented a medieaval monk and his poetry, to.....
New York: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. 321 pp. plus appendix of documents. Illustrated. Explosive and controversial story of private eye, police informant and modern-day bounty hunter Kevin Maher. At times employed with the NYPD and FBI, Maher.....
London: Heinmann, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Inscribed on the half-title page in fountain pen, "To my good friend/ ____ ____ with thanks & best wishes/ Leonard Burt/ 10.6.59". Hardcoverin black cloth with spine lettered in silver. 246 pp. Illustrated with photographs. some spotting to the cloth. In orifginal.....
NY: Dillingham, 1912. First. Cloth. First edition. Scarce collection of true crime stories from New York City in the first decade of the 20th century. Featured are "Ike The Blood", "Indian Louie", "Big Mike Abrams", "The Cooking of Crazy Butch" and eight others. Illustrated with drawings. Light soiling to the.....
Crown Publishing Group, 2011. First edition. Hardback. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 325 pp. with index. The grisly find on a Long Island duck pond on June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era's most baffling murder mystery. Two boys playing near the pond found a......
London: Heinemann, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Hardcover. xix+ 315 pp. with index of names and index of subjects. Very good in dust jacket with short tape marks where it had been affixed to the book, closed tear foot of spine and some soiling to the spine. Scholarly work.....
Albany: Argus, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in navy blue cloth wth spine lettered in gilt; patterned endpapers. 228 pp. with index. Illustratared throughout with photographic plates of especially European prisons as a good portion of the report deals with the Association's fact-finding trip to Europe in 1911. A tight.....
McFarland & Company, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. In fine condition. Issued without dust jacket.
Houston: Cordovan Press, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. First edition (stated). Hardcover. 232 pp. INSCRIBED ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER: "Henry Schwartzchild/ with best wished/ Don Reid". Fine in very good, rubbed dust jacket. Journalist Don Reid spent 35 years covering the Texas prison system for the Huntsville Item and the.....
Grosset & Dunlap, 1981. First edition. Unknown. First edition/printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 540 pp. Autobiographical story of one of the most feared and respected Mafioso in America, Sonny Gibson. Born a poor Indiana farm boy, Gibson rose to infamy in the Mob, served a prison term and.....
New York: The Press of the Readers Club, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Grey cloth, 365 pp. Introduction by Alexander Woollcott. Says the author: "I am a teller of tales, and the tales which I tell are true although they ae regrettably bloody..." Six tales of true crimes including.....
David Mckay Co, 1976. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in generally fine dust jacket with a couple miniscule flaws. Hardcover. 264 pages, with bibliography and index. One of the more respected and informative examinations of the Jack The Ripper murders in which the author, an investigative reporter.....
