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BYRNES, THOMAS F. Professional Criminals of America
New York, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886, First Edition. Hard Cover, 29 cm.[Royal 8vo] 432 p. Ill.: Heliotype Printing Co.. Very Good/No Jacket.ΒΆ [c1886] Frontis portrait of the author and 204 photos on 34 plates, plus a plate entitled "The Inspector's Model"; all printed by Heliotype. Byrnes propounds photography as a means to identifying criminals, and shows its use by an object lesson within this book. It is the first such book to be published in the United States and important in both the history of photography and criminology. The text describes the crimes committed and the circumstances leading up to arrest and conviction in the biography which is accompanied by a photo of the criminal. It includes a chapter "Why Thieves are Photographed." In Addition it includes short, chapters on criminal methods, executions, opium addiction, fugitives from justice, and prison commutation laws, as well as intriguing chapters on mysterious unsolved murders, adventurers and adventuresses. Not in NYPL[1977]. Very good in the original cloth. One front blank has been removed margins of a few plates are soiled..
Offered for US$ 750.00 by: Zita Books - Book number: 000069
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