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
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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
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
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
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