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New York: Indian Head, 1994. Facsimile Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W era photos illustrate. CONDITION: UNREAD and undated Facsimile Edition Indian Head trade paperback. Very light edge wear. CONTENT: Marketed as an "authentic" biography of Billy the Kid, this book has some truths in it and some fabrications. It is an interesting read and if you are researching The Kid, it is essential, but beware - check your facts with someone like Nolan before betting the house on the information here. IMHO.

Simon & Schuster, 1997. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/As New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD 1997 Simon & Schuster large hardcover (blue boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Tiny "repaired" tear bottom DJ panel at fold. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: Recounts the trial of a radical union leader for the murder of Idaho's former state governor, a case that ultimately involved President Theodore Roosevelt and the tumultuous relationship between capital, labor, and the law in the 1900s. Multiple Pulitzer Prize winner Lukas, who committed suicide at age 64, aspires in his final book to use the 1905 assassination of Frank Steunenberg, governor of Idaho, as a platform from which to survey the panorama of the turn-of-the-century's incessant labor strife. The murder, investigation, and trial quickly became a cause for business, labor, and law enforcement, both private and public. Lukas attempts to gather every… Read More

Titan Books / Hard Case Crime, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Paul Mann cover art painting. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Hard Case Crime/Titan Books trade paperback, first PB edition, printing unknown. Wonderful Paul Mann cover art painting. CONTENT: A sharp and funny tale of a daring art heist gone wrong-inspired by the same real-life, still-unsolved crime depicted in the Netflix hit series "This Is A Robbery." A group of criminals in 1946 pull off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. But while the thieves get caught, the art is never found. Forty years later, the last surviving thief gets out of jail and goes hunting for the loot, involving some innocent college students in his dangerous plan - and thirty years after that, in the present day, the former college kids, now all grown up, are drawn back into danger as the still-missing art tempts a deadly new generation of treasure hunters. A… Read More

Sports Publishing, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: UNREAD 2013 Sports Publishing (Skyhorse) hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. B&W era photo section. CONTENT: The pro football season of 1963 was dominated by the unexpected. In April, months prior to the beginning of play, it was revealed that two All-Star players, Paul Hornung and Alex Karras, were gambling on the sport and would be suspended from play for at least a year. Even worse, in May, one of the league's bigger-than-life personalities, Big Daddy Lipscomb, was found dead, with police saying he perished from a heroin overdose, something those who knew him best still dispute. As play began in September, the Pro Football Hall of Fame opened its doors in Canton, Ohio, the same town where the National Football League was founded in 1921 and inducted its first class. Also, the war for players and prestige raged with the upstart American Football League trying to… Read More

Waterbrook Press, 2018. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Chapter decorations. CONDITION: NEW 2017 Waterbrook Press hardcover (ivory boards) and dust jacket, first edition, 3rd printing. Chapter decorations only. CONTENT: "A must-read for anyone who longs for the day when the dividing lines of race, class, and bigotry are finally overcome by the greater forces of love, forgiveness, and brotherhood."-Rev. Samuel Rodriguez Racial tensions had long simmered in Benton Harbor, a small city on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, before the day a white narcotics officer-more focused on arrests than justice-set his sights on an innocent black man. But when officer Andrew Collins framed Jameel McGee for possession of crack cocaine, the surprising result was not a race riot but a transformative journey for both men. Falsely convicted, McGee spent three years in federal prison. Collins also went to prison a few years later for falsifying police reports. While behind bars, the faith of both men… Read More

Razorbill/Penguin/Dutton, 2018. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/No Jacket Issued. Color photo section; B&W illustrations througout. CONDITION: What makes this book "as new" - small red remainder dot bottom edges at spine. UNREAD 2018 Razorbill/Penguin/Dutton hardcover (pictorial boards) but NO dust jacket issued, first edition, first printing. Great color photo section with B&W photos throughout. CONTENT: This is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders, who came together in the aftermath of one of the deadliest mass-shootings in American history to lead an ongoing movement to end gun violence in all communities. Glimmer of Hope illustrates how a group of teenagers channeled their rage and sorrow into action and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. With personal essays from survivors and a close look at how their collective activism turned conversation into action - via rallies, social media postings, televised town halls,… Read More

Random House, 2017. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. CONDITION: LIKE NEW 2017 Random House hardcover (beige boards) and dust jacket, first edition, second printing. Round stamp remainder dot bottom edges at spine. CONTENT: Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there were the Borgias - one of history's notorious families. It is 1502 and Rodrigo Borgia, a self-confessed womanizer and master of political corruption, is now on the papal throne as Alexander VI. His daughter Lucrezia, aged twenty-two-already three times married and a pawn in her father's plans-is discovering her own power. And then there is his son Cesare Borgia, brilliant, ruthless, and increasingly unstable; it is his relationship with Machiavelli that gives the Florentine diplomat a master class in the dark arts of power and politics. What Machiavelli learns will go on to inform his great work of modern politics, The Prince. But while the pope rails against old age and his son's increasingly erratic behavior, it is… Read More

Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Color photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Twelve/Hachette Book Group hardcover black boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. Color photo section. CONTENT: Joshua Powell for the former Chief of Staff to Wayne LaPierre and senior Strategist for the NRA. What Powell uncovered was horrifying: "the waste and dysfunction at the NRA was staggering." INSIDE THE NRA reveals for the first time the rise and fall of the most powerful political organization in America--how the NRA became feared as the Death Star of Washington lobbies and so militant and extreme as "to create and fuel the toxicity of the gun debate until it became outright explosive." INSIDE THE NRA explains this intentional toxic messaging was wholly the product of LaPierre's leadership and the extremist branding by his longtime PR puppet master Angus McQueen. In damning detail, Powell exposes the NRA's plan to "pour gasoline" on the fire… Read More

Steerforth Press, 2020. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Color photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2020 Steerforth Press trade paperback, UPDATED information, first paperback edition, first printing. Substantial color photo section. CONTENT: Investigative journalist Michele R. McPhee reports the details and delivers the facts, piecing together the puzzle so readers are able to come to their own conclusions. This page-turning narrative goes a long way toward answering questions that still linger about the notorious Boston Marathon bombing, such as: Where were the bombs made? And what had been Tamerlan Tsarnaev's relationship to the FBI? Mayhem casts a spotlight on the U.S. Government's relationship with the older Tsarnaev brother as his younger brother, Dzhokhar, will continue his efforts to have his death sentence commuted in October, just days after the Boston Marathon will be run for the first time since 2019. The federal government may be forced to… Read More

St. Martin's Griffin, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2018 St Martin's Griffin trade paperback, first paperback edition, first printing. No illustrations. Extensive notes. The full subtitle is: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported. NEW FORWARD. CONTENT: American democracy was never supposed to give the nation a president like Donald Trump. We have never had a president who gave rise to such widespread alarm about his lack of commitment to the institutions of self-government, to the norms democracy requires, and to the need for basic knowledge about how government works. We have never had a president who raises profound questions about his basic competence and his psychological capacity to take on the most challenging political office in the world. The award-winning authors of One Nation After Trump explain Trump's rise and the danger his administration… Read More

Oxford University Press/Natural History Museum Publications, 1990. 1st Revised Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/Very Good +. B&W drawings, maps, era photos. CONDITION: UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 1990 Oxford University Press/Natural History Museum Publications hardcover (taupe boards) and dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Problem: The dust jacket shows "sunning" from dark yellow to light and back again. the interior is clean and very tight. Illustrated by B&W drawings, maps, and B&W era photos. CONTENT: The most famous case of fraud in science is that of Piltdown Man, a specimen consisting of a partial skull and lower jaw which were once purported to belong to a prehistoric human ancestor. Its discovery was announced in 1912, but it was not until the 1950s that Piltdown Man was proved to be a fraud. There have been many hypotheses as to the perpetrator or perpetrators of this sophisticated hoax. On the night of December 18, 1912, a packed meeting of the Geological Society of London… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: What makes this book "As New?" Small remainder mark top edges. UNREAD, but not quite perfect, 2020 Simon & Schuster hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first edition, first printing. No illustrations. CONTENT: "For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement. This book is his amazing story. Thanks to him, and to courageous prosecutors, witnesses, and FBI agents, justice finally prevailed." -John Grisham. On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the "Mississippi Burning" case, were among the most brazen acts of violence during the civil rights movement. And even though the killers' identities, including the sheriff's deputy, were an open secret, no one was charged with murder… Read More

Skyhorse Publishing, 2017. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. No illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2017 Skyhorse hardcover (black boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. While the font size is larger than normal, it's not actually "large print" either. Odd. CONTENT: The incredible true story of a British physicist who was an undercover spy for the Soviets. The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over sixty years disinformation and lies surrounded the story of Klaus Fuchs as the Governments of Britain, the United States and Russia all tried to cover up the truth about his treachery. Piecing together the story from archives in Britain, the United States, Russia and Germany, The Spy Who Changed the World unravels the truth about Fuchs and reveals for the first time his long career of espionage. It… Read More