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Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. Translated and with a new introduction by Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter 8vo size trade paperback; 424 pages including index. There are a few black and white photographs within the text. From back cover: "Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the 'born'… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. Stated First Edition 8vo size green clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on spine, illustrated dust jacket; 246 pages. From dust jacket: "In 1949-50, City College (New York) became the first and only team ever to win both the NIT and the NCAA tournaments in the same season. The… Read more about this item

New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1990. 1990 First Edition, or First Thus, with full numberline 8vo size trade paperback; 262 pages including glossary From back cover: "This book exposes for the first time the most prized secret techniques of professional card mechanics, dice hustlers, grifters, and con men - the methods that are used today in Friday… Read more about this item

New York: Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 1994. One of the Need to Know Library Series 8vo size pictorial hardcover with library binding; 64 pages with black and white and color photographs Contents include: What Is Violent Crime? What to Do If It Happens to You Recovery Your Rights and the Law Crime Prevention: For You, Your School,… Read more about this item

New York: John Day Company, 1927. Edited by Sir John Hall One of the Notable British Trials Series First American Edition 8vo size black clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on the spine; 402 deckle edged pages with red topstain, black and white frontispiece on glossy stock and several other full page black and white illustrations also on… Read more about this item

New York: Knightsbridge Publishing, 1990. Stated First Edition with full numberline (a First Thus) 12mo size mass market paperback; 286 pages including multiple indices plus a section of black and white photographs on glossy stock. From back cover: "On November 11, 1988, Sacramento police investigators unearthed the first of seven bodies from the well-kept yard of Dorothea… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia University Press, 1902. Volume XV (only) of the Studies in History, Economics and Public Law edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University 8vo size brown clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on the spine, 427 pages including an index, followed by a Table of Errata and several pages of listings of other books in… Read more about this item

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 238 bright, white pages From jacket: "Sixty years after the end of World War II, not all those who were faithful to the Third Reich are gone - some members of the Nazi party and their collaborators are still alive but… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2000. 8vo size trade paperback; 390 bright, white pages. From back: "A true story of a man named Bland, the greatest map thief in American history... the writer who pursued him ... and the lure of the unknown" Edgewear, worn top corners, some light soil to outside pages, the last four page tips… Read more about this item

History Press, 2007. Signed, dated and inscribed on fep. First Edition 8vo size trade paperback; 125 bright, white pages with black and white photographs throughout From back: "Why do people kill? In the case of the young and mentally unstable Frank Zastera, the rationale was as simple as the act was brutal: he wanted William Sheppard's… Read more about this item

Currency, 2002. Rare, Signed Copy. Signed by author on title page. 8vo sized trade paperback; 225 pages. "The world-famous former con artist and bestselling author of Catch Me If You Can (upon which the movie of the same name is based) reveals the ingenious tricks of the scam trade - with advice that has made him… Read more about this item

Boston: Little Brown, 1996. New Old Stock (NOS). Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 383 pages plus a section of glossy black and white photographs. From jacket: "It is a journey into a bizarre hacker counterculture studded with an eclectic supporting cast that includes an exotic dancer, a… Read more about this item

Xlibris Corporation, 2000. True Crime Novel. 377 pages, Edgewear, worn bottom corner and crease to front cover. From back: "This is the first person narrative of a man who served as Juror Number Nine, and his daily observations of testimony and evidence as the trial progressed..." Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property… Read more about this item

New York: New American Library, 1966. From jacket: "He was naked as the day he was born and covered with blood from the top of his head to his toes.' Thus ran the testimony of hte police officer who arrested John Balt at the scene of the crime." 240 creamy pages. Stated First Printing. Wear… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Collins, 1993. Stated First Edition. 339 pages plus a glossy section of black and white photographs. From jacket: "Kentucky never more deserved its Indian appellation A Dark and Bloody Ground then when a small-town physician...called in an emergency...his own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter..."… Read more about this item

Wilmington, MA: Thomas S. Neuberger, 2012. 4to size blue clothbound hardcover with bright gilt titles on spine and cover; 469 pages This is an academic book written and published by an attorney who handled more than 100 cases of childhood sexual abuse involving Roman Catholic priests in Delaware. It includes testimony from victims. There are almost 600 endnotes,… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1950. Stated First Printing A collection of articles that previously appeared in the New Yorker magazine. 8vo size tan clothbound hardcover with red and black titles on cover and tanned spine. 339 tanned pages. A book review by Ben C. Clough is pasted onto fep and has caused some tanning transfer to… Read more about this item

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. 242 bright white pages plus a section of black and white photographs. In great condition with only slight bump to top corners. From jacket flap: "...(the author's) pointed exploration of the disappearance of her sister and her family's descent into the surreal world of psychics and detectectives they once dismissed as the… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Smith Novelty Co., 1974. Artist sketches by Heather King Photographs by Sandor Balatoni 8vo size staple-bound booklet. Unpaginated - about 30 pages - with black and white illustrations and color and black and white photographs. Color photo illustrated covers. From booklet: "On this 12-acre chunk of rock where Public… Read more about this item

PowerHouse Books, 2010. 12mo size hardcover; 207 pages with some color illustrations. From back: "Tales of Woe compiles today's most awful narratives of human wretchedness... This is Greek Catharsis: you watch people suffer horribly, and then feel better about your own life. Tales of Woe tells stories of murder, accident, depravity, cruelty, and senseless unhappiness:… Read more about this item