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| This selection contains 5 title(s) on 1 page. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 5 |
 | PAGET, JOHN Legal Recreations, Vol. III: Judicial Puzzles, Gathered from the State Trials San Francisco, Sumner Whitney, 1876. Hard Cover. Small green cloth hc with bevelled edges and gilt lettering. Moderately/heavily bumped and scuffed. Binding solid. Text unmarked. Includes trials of Elizabeth Canning,"The Campden Wonder" the Perrys, Annesley Case, Eliza Fenning and Spencer Cowper's Case. Good . USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 009820 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books. | |
| SUTHERLAND, EDWIN H. Sutherland Papers, the Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1956. Hard Cover. Collection of the papers of noted criminologist covering the period 1925-1951. Includes these papers "White-Collar Criminality", "Crime and the Conflict Process", "Wartime Crime", "The Person versus the Act in Criminology", "Mental Deficiency and Crime" and more. These papers were the building blocks for his ground-breaking book-length work. Text is clean and unmarked but binding and boards are somewhat scuffed and shaken. Binding was cracked at title page but has been repaired with archival materials. Some sunning to spine and edges of boards. Also some speckling. Paper on Sutherland from "Issues in Criminology" 1973 layed-in. Good/No Dust Jacket. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 | £UK 45.25 | JP¥ 6619] Book number: 005470 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books. | ||
 | THEOBALD, WILLIAM H. Defrauding the Government: True Tales of Smuggling, from the Note-Book of a Confidential Agent of the United States Treasury New York, NY, Myrtle, 1908. Hard Cover. Book square and solid. Red linen boards show some staining, moisture discoloration and handling-wear. Still very presentable. Good/No Jacket. USD 19.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.75 | £UK 11.5 | JP¥ 1677] Book number: 002661 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books. | |
| TIPPET, GARY; IAN MUNRO Lives of Crime: The Melbourne Gangland Murders and Other Tales of True Crime Australia, Harper Collins Australia, 2008. Soft Cover. Fine condition. Very light reading-wear. Clean, square and unmarked. Fine . USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 | £UK 27.25 | JP¥ 3972] Book number: 011902 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books. | ||
 | WHITEHEAD, DON; J. EDGAR HOOVER Fbi Story, the: Young Reader's Edition [Signed by J. Edgar Hoover] Random House, 1963. First thus. Hardcover. SIGNED "Best wishes, J. Edgar Hoover" on title page. Presented to previous owner's uncle who was an FBI Agent. Attractive oversize hardcover. "Landmark Giant #1". Pictorial boards. Light bumping/rubbing to edges. Attractive EPS showing agent doing a quick draw in 4 photos. Book square and unmarked. Small chipping/flecks from edges of black EPS. Matching Jacket intact showing light/moderate nicking to edges and finger soiling. Laminate splitting and peeling over spine. Jacket in new Brodart protector. The heavily illustrated "Young Reader's Edition" is harder to find than the adult edition, and this is the only Hoover signed copy I can find for sale. Very Good/very good. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 | £UK 150.25 | JP¥ 22064] Book number: 014791 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books. |
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