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CARVALHO, CLAIRE AND SPARKES, BOYDEN.  Crime in Ink.
NY. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1929. First Edition. Signed/Presentation copy probably by the author's brother: "Charles Welles Gross from B.N. Carvalho--Nov. 1929." Her father, David N. Carvalho, the famed handwriting expert and subject of this book, had died before the book was published. With 1929 and Scribner's Seal on copyright page. VG+/G+ in lightly edge-worn orange cloth stamped in black; in a worn and heavily rubbed dustjacket with several tears and considerable chipping to the top and bottom of the spine.
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 100.25 | £UK 90.25 | JP¥ 13239] Book number: 2350
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GADDIS, THOMAS.  Birdman of Alcatraz.
NY. Random House. 1955. First Edition (First Printing) stated. The amazing but true story of the prisoner with the longest record of solitary confinement in the US--who became a leading authority on birds. VG+/VG- in crisp, woven gray cloth stamped in black and white. In a lightly edge-rubbed dustjacket with its original price of $3.95. With light chipping to the top and bottom of the spine ends.
USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 167 | £UK 150.25 | JP¥ 22064] Book number: 2595
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MACDONALD, JOHN D.  No Deadly Drug.
Garden City, NY. Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1968. First Edition (Stated) . The anatomy of a celebrity murder trial. "This is an unprecedented view of an F.Lee Bailey in action, with enough analysis of his strategy to illuminate what distinguishes the celebrity criminal lawyers of our times from their brethren of the courtrooms. This is the first opportunity to see and hear F. Lee Bailey, Dr. Milton Helpern, Mrs. Marjorie Farber, Carl Coppolino, Mary Coppolino on stage, in the dramatic framework of the adversary trial in our times. No Deadly Drug is a singular achievement, quite unlike any other book ever written about a notorious trial." VG+/VG+ in black woven cloth stamped in gold and red on the spine. Very clean and tight internally. In a lightly soiled white dustjacket printed in red and black. With some light scratches to the rear panel photograph of MacDonald and journalist John Pete Schmidt in the Sarasota courtroom where Dr. Coppolino was arraigned.
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4413] Book number: 2567
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