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The Book of the Bench; with thirty-nine reproductions in colour from paintings by "Spy" and other cartoonists

By: N/A

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London, James Mackenzie Limited: 1909

Seller ID: 24617

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(embossed royal blue cloth; no dust jacket) [front hinge cracked but holding, otherwise a good sound copy; moderate wear to cloth at extremities, one-inch tear in cloth at top rear hinge, another tiny tear in cloth at top of spine; internally quite clean, with all plates present and in excellent condition]. (tipped-on color plates) An illustrated directory of prominent British judges and lawyers of the time, with each color plate accompanied by a one- or two-page biography. It starts at the top, with The Right Honourable Lord High Chancellor and The Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice of Engl...
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Beverly Hills is My Beat

By: Anderson, Clinton H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice-Hall, Inc.: (c.1960)

Seller ID: 24621

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[a very nice copy, with slight wear to spine extremities, otherwise clean and solid; the jacket has a few tiny nicks at spine ends, minor edgewear along top and bottom edges of rear panel, tiny closed tear and associated creasing at bottom of rear panel]. (B&W photographs) At the time this memoir was published, the author was a 30-year veteran of the Beverly Hills Police Department, and had been its Chief since 1942. (He would go on to become the longest-serving Chief of Police in the city's history, on the job until 1969.) As such, he definitely had the inside dope on all manner of misbeh...
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After Prison -- What?

By: Booth, Maud Ballington

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Fleming H. Revell Company: (c.1903)

Seller ID: 14293

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [worn but still solid copy, some exterior soiling, white lettering on spine and front cover rubbed but still readable, rear hinge cracked but not separated; school library property label (see description) on front pastedown, unused circulation slip affixed to rear pastedown, no other library markings]. (B&W photo frontispiece) An impassioned plea for the humane treatment and rehabilitation of prisoner inmates, the author's attitude pretty much summed up by her dedication: "Lovingly dedicated to our boys in prison by their Little Mother who believes in them and looks with ...
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Convicting the Innocent: Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice

By: Borchard, Edwin M.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Garden City Publishing Co. , Inc.: (c.1932)

Seller ID: 13908

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [good solid copy, moderate shelfwear, some spotting/scuffing to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) "The sixty-five cases, although susceptible of dramatic presentation, are set forth in simple narrative form to indicate how the error occurred and how it was later discovered and unraveled. The cases were taken somewhat at random, for cases of this type are not systematically reported. The research was usually begun from a clue often afforded by a governor's pardon, by the report of a trial, or by a newspaper item, and was then pursued by an examination of the record and by c...
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Portraits of Guilt: The Woman Who Profiles the Faces of America's Deadliest Criminals [SIGNED]

By: Boylan, Jeanne

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 2000

Seller ID: 5545

ISBN: 0-671-03485-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[tight, lovely, as-new copy]. (B&W photographs, drawings) SIGNED boldly on the title page by the author, a "facial identification specialist" described in the jacket copy as "the investigative world's secret weapon." Among the cases which her uncannily accurate sketches have helped to solve have been the Polly Klaas kidnapping, Susan Smith's drownings of her own children, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Unabomber case. Signed by Author
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Deathman Pass Me By: Two Years on Death Row

By: Brasfield, Philip, with Jeffrey M. Elliot

Price: $15.00

Publisher: San Bernardino CA, Borgo Press: 1983

Seller ID: 4228

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[a tight, clean, unread copy, with just a trace of edgewear]. (Borgo Bioviews, No. 3) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) First-person narrative by a man convicted of first degree murder and kidnapping in Wichita County, Texas, in 1978, and sentenced to death by lethal injection -- despite no hard evidence (and what evidence there was containing obvious irregularities), court-appointed attorneys who mounted no defense, witnesses who either refused to testify or could not be positive in their identification, etc. He spent two years on Death Row before his conviction was overturned, during which t...
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Ten Thousand Public Enemies

By: Cooper, Courtney Ryley

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books: (c.1935)

Seller ID: 17465

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice tight copy with only minimal wear, small piece torn away at top corner of one page (no text affected); jacket a bit worn along top and bottom edges, small tear at bottom corner of front panel, a little bit of scuffing to spine]. (B&W photographs) "An inside picture of the underground workings of crime in the United States and a description, with hundreds of hitherto unknown details, of the workings of the forces of law and order seeking to detect and capture our 10,000 public enemies." And of course the anointed head of said "forces of law and order" at the time was FBI...
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Yesterday in Old Fall River: A Lizzie Borden Companion

By: Hoffman, Paul Dennis

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Durham NC, Carolina Academic Press: (c.2000)

Seller ID: 24092

ISBN: 0890897999

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[as-new, unread, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, line drawings) "For the first time, here is a book that provides information on each and every individual involved in the Borden murder case and clarifies inconsistencies in spelling and attribution that have often bewildered Borden enthusiasts. [The book] lists in alphabetical order 650 people involved with the case, trial, and aftermath of the Lizzie Borden mystery, including suspects, witnesses, investigators, lawyers, jurors, Borden family members and associates," providing biographical information on each and ...
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An International Casebook of Crime

By: Hyde, H. Montgomery, with John H. Kisch

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Barrie and Rockliff: 1962

Seller ID: 5363

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderate wear, mild edge-soiling; jacket worn/torn at top of spine, a little wear and some slight insect-chewing evident along top edge of rear panel, rear panel a bit soiled]. Accounts, "from a number of countries [of] ten of the most remarkable criminal cases that have occurred since the last war." Chapters deal with Caryl Chessman (U.S.); Gordon Lonsdale and the Navy spies (England); Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel (U.S.); murderer Brian Donald Hume (tried for murder in both England and Switzerland); Dr. Richard Muller (Germany); the Moscow trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers ...
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Forty Whacks: New Evidence in the Life and Legend of Lizzie Borden

By: Kent, David

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Emmaus PA, Yankee Books: (c.1992)

Seller ID: 24091

ISBN: 0899093515

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean tight book, appears unread, slight bumping to bottom corners the only blemish; jacket shows just a touch of wear at lower extremities]. (B&W photographs, illustrations) A major work of scholarship about the endlessly fascinating (and probably ultimately unsolvable) case of Lizzie Borden, who gave her parents forty whacks -- or did she? -- in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892. The author has been called "the consummate Borden scholar, researcher and writer."
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Gideon's Trumpet

By: Lewis, Anthony

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: (c.1964)

Seller ID: 24708

Binding: Hardcover First Printing

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[covers very slightly bowed, otherwise a nice clean book with no significant shelfwear; jacket has a few short closed edge-tears, a touch of visible wear at top front hinge, minor soiling along top edge of rear panel]. The story of the extraordinary legal case that begin with a petition from a Florida man, Clarence Earl Gideon, incarcerated on a burglary conviction, who had been denied a lawyer because he couldn't afford one. His case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in 1963 "that henceforth the 'due process of law' guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment meant that p...
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FBI Girl

By: Marlowe, March

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Arcadia House: (c.1959)

Seller ID: 15397

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice copy, spine a little turned but virtually no significant shelfwear, the only blemishes being small strips of black residue at bottom of front pastedown and rear fep (remnants of old jacket protector, now removed and replaced); jacket itself is bright and attractive, looks almost brand-new except for some slight fading to narrow strips along the top and the right-hand side of the front panel]. "The thrilling story of a career girl in government service." Mary Casey is a only a secretary in a Midwestern field office of the FBI, but for some reason or another she gets teamed up wit...
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The Genteel Murderer [Dorothy B. Hughes's copy, signed]

By: Norman, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1956

Seller ID: 15425

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket) [nice clean copy, minimal handling wear, very slight bumping at top front corner; review copy, with publisher's slip laid in; see note about signature]. (B&W frontispiece) An account of the life and crimes of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, artist, writer, and poisoner. This copy of the book is distinguished by bearing the SIGNATURE of underappreciated crime novelist Dorothy B. Hughes on the ffep; no doubt she received this review copy in her capacity as mystery-book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers, a job which she began doing in 1940, and continued for ...
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Point Blank [SIGNED by Grosso]

By: Rosenberg, Philip, and Sonny Grosso

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1978

Seller ID: 24932

ISBN: 0448145472

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[minor shelfwear to bottom edges, light spotting/foxing to top of text block; jacket shows some surface rubbing, light wear at spine extremities, one tiny closed tear at bottom edge of front panel]. INSCRIBED with a humorous bit of doggerel ("To my pal ___ / Roses Are Red / Besides my Good Looks / How Lucky we are / For All These Crooks!!") and SIGNED by co-author Grosso on the ffep; the inscribee (the book's previous owner) has added a note at the bottom of the page, documenting the inscription/signing as having taken place at Joe Tecce's Restaurant in Boston in 2001. One-half of th...
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Proceedings: Lizzie Borden Conference

By: Ryckebusch, Jules R., ed.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Portland ME, King Philip Publishing Co.: (c.1993)

Seller ID: 24090

ISBN: 0961481153

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[lovely copy, as-new, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. Addresses and papers presented at a three-day conference about the Lizzie Borden case held at Bristol Community College in (of course) Fall River, Massachusetts, August 3-5, 1992; the book represents "the culmination of the 100th Anniversary Observance of the Borden Murders." The contributions are divided into five thematic sections: Psychological and Women's Issues; Literary; Historical; Legal and Forensic; Bibliographical (the latter section including a lengthy annotated bibliography of books and articles abou...
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Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman

By: Scott, Cathy

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Fort Lee NJ, Barricade Books Inc.: (c.2002)

Seller ID: 19132

ISBN: 1-56980-238-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[bottom front corner of book bumped, no other significant wear; jacket shows light surface rubbing only]. (B&W photographs) The subject of this book, writer Susan Berman, was "reared in the lap of Las Vegas luxury as the daughter of Dave Berman, a notorious casino mogul and mafia leader. It wasn't until college -- well after her father's death -- that she learned what he really did. She ultimately dedicated her life to learning about Vegas and its underworld chiefs, publishing two acclaimed books on the subject." On Christmas Eve 2000, however, Susan Berman became the victim of a ho...
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John Marshall's Law: Interpretation, Ideology, and Interest

By: Shevory, Thomas C.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Westport CT/London, Greenwood Press: 1994

Seller ID: 21431

ISBN: 0-313-26804-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean book with no discernible wear; essentially as new]. (Contributions in Legal Studies, No. 77) Series An examination of the legal career of John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and his influence in various areas of American law. Chapter titles are: "Law and Language in Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence"; "John Marshall and the Interpretive Enterprise"; "John Marshall as Republican"; "Property, Contracts, and the Politics of Interest"; "Dilemmas of Liberal Constitutionalism: Joseph Story and John Ma...
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The Story of a Prison [Stacy Keach's prison library copy]

By: Southerton, Peter

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Reading, Berkshire (U.K.), Osprey Publishing Ltd.: 1975

Seller ID: 15401

ISBN: 0-85045-260-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Near Fine dj

(price-clipped) [book is only lightly worn, but with tape marks on both pastedowns and endpapers, numerous notes in ink on rear fep; jacket is in almost perfect condition, with just a smidge of surface wear]. Beginning with a history of Reading Gaol, a "rather horrific account of cruelties practised upon the criminal," the book examines the history of penal practice in Britain from the 16th century to the present day. The jacket blurb declares it to be "of great interest to workers in the prisoner and probation services, magistrates, [and] students in social studies and social hi...
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The Sewers of Gold

By: Spaggiari, Albert (translated by Martin Sokolinsky)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Granada Publishing Limited: 1979

Seller ID: 22444

ISBN: 0-246-11131-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[bottom corners moderately bumped, otherwise a nice clean book with minimal wear; jacket shows some wear at extremities, particularly some rubbing and dog-earing to the top corners]. (B&W photographs, map) True-crime account of "the most audacious bank robbery of the century," perpetrated on a Société Générale bank in Nice, France, in July 1976. The author was "the mastermind behind the caper, [an] adventurer and dreamer, who pulled it off and got away." He was briefly captured later that year, but soon escaped from jail; although eventually sentenced to life in prison i...
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Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s (Studies in Legal History)

By: Stevens, Robert

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill NC/London, University of North Carolina Press: (c.1983)

Seller ID: 8646

ISBN: 0-8078-1537-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [solid copy, minor wear at extremities, a couple of light spots on front cover, some traces of erased (by me!) pencil underlining].
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Category: Crime and the Law