THE INCIDENCE OF FEMALE CRIMINALITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD.
NY: NYU Press, 1981. Review copy. 8vo, pp. 275. A nice copy, name on title-page. IP@$50. * A survey covering the US, eastern and western Europe, Africa, Latin America, & Asia. More
Crime
CONTEMPORARY ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF MURDERER ELIZABETH BROWNRIGG
(1825). COOPER, R. 7 x 4-1/2 in. image in cream matte. Engraved by R. Cooper and taken from the Newgate Calendar, vol. 2, 1825. Brownrigg was a midwife who was also accused as an abortionist and of being willing to dispose of unwanted babies. She was convicted of murdering two..... More
WOMEN IN PRISON.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1973. First edn. 8vo, pp. 465. VG copy in dj. OP. * Interviews and informal conversations with over with over 900 inmates and prison officials about the justice system, prison life and the like. More
TOWARDS ZERO
NY: Pocket Books (#398), (1946?). First Pocket Books edition. Small 8vo, pp. (202) + adv. Littl nicked illustrated wraps. Inspector Battle mystery. More
WARPED IN THE MAKING,; rimes of love and hate. With illustrations.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First edn. 8vo, Pp. 323. VG copy. English born, but raised in Arizona and Colorado, Ashton-Wolfe selected these stories from official records of great criminals. Includes a chapter on Mata Hari. More
THE INNOCENCE OF EDITH THOMPSON.
NY: Roy, (1952). First edn? 8vo, Pp. 302. Pages little browned, a good copy. OP? Thompson and her supposed lover Frederick Bywaters were hung after being convicted of murdering her husband Percy Thompson. More
CRIME OF PASSION.
NY: Greenberg, (1958). First edn. 8vo, Pp. 251. Little soiled cloth. The story of men and women who have committed crimes of passions in England and France. More
WOMEN WHO KILL.
NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1980). First edn? 8vo, Pp. 408. Fine in dj. "A social history of women in America ... told through the stories of women driven to kill." More
THE WOMAN IN THE CASE.
NY: Scribner, 1955. First edn. 8vo, Pp. 218. Fine in dj. A discussion of four famous murder cases in which women are the central figures. More
KIDNAPPED; Child abduction in Amerlca
NY: Oxford, 1997. First printing. 8vo, pp. xi, 324. Notes, index. Illustrated. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in slightly scuffed dj. More
I KNEW THEM IN PRISON.
NY: Viking, 1936. First edn. 8vo, pp. 401. Frontis portrait, a VG copy in tattered dj. Harris served 16 years as superintendent of the Federal Industrial Institution for Women in West Virginia as well as terms in other penal institutions. More
TEN YEARS AMONG THE MAIL BAGS:; or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department ... with illustrations.
Philadelphia: Cowperthwait, 1855. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 432. Bound in brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Full page plates (frontispiece foxed), a very good copy. Sabin 32447. More
THE MURDER OF STANFORD WHITE
Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill, (1962). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 270. Index. Paper over boards. Edges slightly soiled, cover little soiled and scuffed, o/w a VG tight copy, Account of the murder of White, one of New York's premier architects, by millionaire Harry K. Thaw, over Evelyn Nesbit, a coctail waitress. More
Extraordinary life and character of Mary Bateman:; the Yorkshire witch, traced from the earliest thefts of her infancy through a most awful course of crimes and murders : till her execution at the New Drop, near the Castle of York, on Monday the twentieth of March, 1809.
Leeds: Edward Baines, [ca 1810]. Sixth edition. 8vo, pp. 56. Engraved portrit by Topman, of Bateman holding one of her fradulent eggs lettered "Christ is Coming". Untrimmed and bound in modern cloth. A nice clean copy. Very scarce. OCLC locates the copies at Cornell and UPenn. Bateman (1768-1809) had several..... More
THE DANGEROUS CLASS; Crime and poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1860-1885
Cambridge MA: Harvard, 1975. First Edition. 8vo, pp. ix, 186. Notes, index. Tan cloth. Top edges little spotted, o/w a VG tight copy in browned and slightly chipped dj. More
HUGGER MUGGER; A Spensr Novel
NY: Putnam, (2000). Uncorrected proof Copy. Large 8vo, pp. 307. Printed wraps (Label partially removed from cover, some of the yellow rubbed off), a very good copy. More
SCOTTSBORO BOY.
NY: Doubleday & Co., (1950). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 309. End papers stained from old staples, bookplate partially removed from rear e.p., o/w very good. This is the autobiography of Haywood Patterson who was one of the accused in the famous Scottsboro rape case of the 1931. "On March 25..... More
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE; Appointed by the Aldermen of the City of Portland to investigate the causes and consequences of The Riot, on the evening of June 2, 1855
Portland: Benjamin C Peck, 1855. First edn. 8vo, pp. 60. Bound in yellow printed wraps, some foxing and toning, a very good copy. The Portland Rum Riot, also called the Maine Law Riot, was a brief but violent period of civil unrest that occurred in Portland, Maine on June 2..... More
A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE BOSTON WATCH AND POLICE FROM 1631 TO 1865; Together with the Recollections of a Boston Police Officer or, Boston by Daylight and Gaslight from the diary of an officer fifteen years in the service.
Boston: by the author, 1865. Second edition, revised. 8vo, pp. 408. Bound in black cloth, stamped in gilt. Some of the cloth rubbed off, some loose leaves, a good copy. The first part is a chronological record of the Boston Watch and Police from 1636 to 1873. The second p[art..... More
POLICE RECORDS AND RECOLLECTIONS;; or, Boston by Daylight and Gaslight for two hundred and forty years
Boston: John P. Dale, (1873). 8vo, pp. 402. Bound in red/brown cloth stamped in gilt. Some rubbed and faded, a good copy. The first part is a chronological record of the Boston Watch and Police from 1636 to 1873. The second p[art contains the policeman author's recollections. More
POLICE RECORDS AND RECOLLECTIONS;; or, Boston by Daylight and Gaslight for two hundred and forty years
Boston: John P. Dale, 1873. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 402. Bound in red/brown cloth stamped in gilt. Some rubbed and faded, a good copy. The first part is a chronological record of the Boston Watch and Police from 1636 to 1873. The second p[art contains the policeman author's recollections. More
ESSAYS ON THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH
Boston: Published by the author, 1845. 11th edition. 8vo, pp. 237 + adv. Bound in brown cloth, stam[ed in blind and gilt (wear at the extremities of the spine), a very good copy. Sabin 89066. Spear (1803- 1863) wrote critically of capital punishment, which he said was a usurpation of..... More
GIRLS ON PAROLE.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First edn. 8vo, pp. 243. A VG copy in worn dj. Sullivan spent 10 years with the Mass Parole Board. A knowledgeable account of the parole situation for women. More
MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS OF MORAL OFFENSES.; Translated from the original French and enlarged by Arthur W. Weysse.
Illustrated with 17 engravings including four charts and diagrams. Phila. Davis, 1913. First edn. 8vo, pp. 487. Bound in original cloth. A very good copy. Weysse was a professor at Boston University. The basis of this book was a course of lectures delivered at the Medical School of Paris: to..... More
CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT; The Last of the New England Highwaymen: A Narrative of His Life and Adventures, with Some Account of the Notorious Captain Thunderbolt
Topsfield, MA: The Wayside Press, 1926. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 162 Black and white illustrations in text. A fine copy in nicked and worn dj. "Captain Lightfoot, whose real name was Michael Martin, is believevd to have been the last person in Massachusetts to be hanged for highway robbery. Shortly..... More