Search Results: Crime from Nick Bikoff, Bookseller

London: Charles Knight. Very Good. 1832/35. Hardcover. Leather corners and spine with gilt lettering and four raised bands. Marbled boards. Texts tight and intact. Vol. #1; Trials of Sir Throckmorton, Duke of Norfolk, Dr. William Parry, Robert Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh. Vol. #2; Pictorial frontispiece. Drawing illustrations. Narrative of Guy Fawkes who was apprehended in the cellars of the House of Parliament with several barrels of gunpowder. Found guilty, was hung, drawn & quartered . Prior owners signature in both vols. Vol. #1 with handwritten notes on front endpaper. Small spine nick. Top corners with light wear. Half-title page with small mended edge tear "No Tape". Crime; Drawings; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 923 pages .

Bennington, Vt.: Bennington Historical Museum. Very Good. 1945. Softcover. Soft covers with black lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Pictorial frontispiece of the author. The truth, the trial and execution; the record and the skeleton. Minor chipping at top edge. Crime ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 68 pages .

New York: Guido Bruno. Near Fine. 1919. First Edition Thus. Soft Cover. This edition includes the preface, George Bernard Shaw's Advice to the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice Regarding Edna, and The complete story of the arrest and subsequent trial of Guido Bruno. In immaculate original clean greenish-blue wraps. Booklet is encased in a custom blue cloth folder with gilt title on spine & lined with marbled paper. Folder spine cloth is slightly faded. Crime, Social Issues; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 27 pages .

Philadelphia: Wm. F. Geddes. Very Good. 1832. Hardcover. Nicely rebound in brown cloth: black leather spine with gilt lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. X-Cleveland Public Library book plate & ink stamp. Light foxing. Decorated endpapers. Fascinating information on the State of Pennsylvania: Native Americans; railroad, alchemist; prison & crime; Philadelphia's crime chart for the year 1830. Pennsylvania; Ex-Lib; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 432 pages .

London: Order of the House of Commons. Very Good. 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. This is the original Journal # 94 issued in 1839. 586 pp + Index, 140pp. Items of Note: Corn Laws, Education (pro & con of a National system not founded on the Established Church) , Ireland, Scotland, Supply Resolution: Army, Navy, Ordnance, Misc. (Prison, Courts, Post Offices) , Police, Hospitals etc. Blue paper covered boards. Brown leather spine with raised bands and two spine labels. Deckle page edges slightly age toned. Front corners protected by leather. Lightly scuffed edges. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Rare Section, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 586 pages .

Paris: Calmann-Levy. Very Good+. 1928. Hardcover. Clean marbled boards. Leather spine has raised bands and gilt title. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpaper. The original light blue soft covers are incorporated in this hard bound text. French text tight, clean & intact. Crime, Sylvestre Bonnard; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 323 pages .

Halls, Mo.: G. A. Warnica. Very Good+. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Continued Title : (Whose Acts of fearlessness and Chivalry Kept the Frontier Trails Afire with Excitement, and whose Robberies and other Depredations in the Platte Purchase and Elsewhere, have been a Most Frequent Discussion to this day, all of which Transpired During and Just After The Civil War. ) Bound in clean red cloth, gilt title on front cover with a double ruled border. Texts Interior is tight, clean & intact. B/W photograph illustrations. Decorated endpaper. The life of Polk Wells is exceptionally full of the frontier life of the West. Written by himself while an inmate in the Fort Madison Penitentiary, Iowa. Unusual inscription to A H Greenly (the noted Michigan Historian) on front endpaper dated Oct. 28, 1942 " Presented to A. H. Greenly - as a monument to the folly of .........Wright Howes". Wright Howes (of antiquarian americana fame) had derided this book as the "feeble… Read More

Hallowell,: Goodale, Glazier & Co.. Very Good+. 1823. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean brown leather, slightly age darkened with a black spine label. Text tight, clean & intact. Prior owner's signature & stain on front endpaper only. The powers and duties of Justice of the Peace, civil & criminal. Law ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages .

New York: D. Appleton & Co.. Very Good. 1890. Paperback. Clean tan soft covers with lightly rubbed spine head. Text tight, clean & intact. Engraved illustrations. Egypyology, Glass Making, Education & Crime, Tin and its Native Land. Page numbers 146-288. Whitman Club Rules attached to rear cover. Science; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 142 pages .

Philadelphia: The American Academy of Political and Social Sceience. Very Good+. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean maroon cloth decorated with gilt. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Part #1, American Prisons. Part #2, Prisons Abroad, German, Belgium, Scandinavia, Italy, English and Mexico systems Crime, Prisons of Tomorrow ; Table Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 262 pages .

Washington: Rufus H. Darby. Near Fine. 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Originally published in very brittle green softcovers. This copy has been rebound in green cloth with the rare original front cover pasted-on. Hinges & text are tight & intact without foxing. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of the author and 28 additional full-page photographs of people, places & artifacts connected to the assassination. The author was the door keeper who was present in Ford's Theatre on the evening of April 14, 1865. US President, Civil War, Americana ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 89 pages .

Northfield, Minn.: Christian Way Co.. Good+. 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Green/grayish cloth with gilt titles on spine and front cover. Cover color slightly faded. Top edge gilt. Light cover wear includes rubbed spine ends and front corners. Pictorial frontispiece. B/W photograph illustrations. Crime, Bank Robbery; B/W Photograph Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 119 pages .

New York: Samuel R. Wells. Very Good. 1873. First Edition. Soft Cover. Clean orange soft covers. Pictorial front cover. Text block tight, clean & intact. 8 additional pages of advertisements. Contents: Myology of Muscular Fibre; Natural Food for Infants and Children. ; The Prevention of Crime; Health vs. Fashion; The Man of Long Life. Front cover with a few tiny edge nicks. Spine heel lightly rubbed. Health; Engraving Illus.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 39 pages .

Auburn: Derby & Miller. Good+. 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather, two spine labels with gilt lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Agriculture, canals, colonial history, crimes, firemen, highways, indians, prisons, slavery, state officers. Rear hinge cracked, front hinge starting with both covers firmly attached. Light wear/scuffing to extremeties. Light foxing. Law ; Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 1165 pages .

New York: National Mooney-Billings Committee. Very Good+. 1929. Pamphlet. Clean tan paper covers. Pamphlet tight, clean & intact. Thomas J. Mooney & Warren K. Billings, two militant trade-unionists are serving their life sentences in California prisons Convicted on perjured testimony of planting the bomb that killed 10 & wounded 40 persons during a Preparedness Day Parade in San Francisco in 1916. The perjury, disclosed after their conviction, could not be reviewed by the courts. Crime; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 23 pages .

[place of publication not identified]: Privately Printed.. Very Good+. 1935. First Edition; Privatly Printed. Soft Covers. Clean Illustrated paper wrappers with portrait on front cover. First edition. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact with rear cover lightly foxed This is a scarce 31pp. Pamphlet recording the Bruno Hauptmann trial for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby, (and published shortly afterwards) which was broadcast live on the radio, as events unfolded, twice a day from Flemington Court House by the author. Crime ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 31 pages .