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Manor 127, 1972. Book. Very Good. Paperback. 1st Manor edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. The story of a man who spent 24 years in prison, convicted on an eyewitness's lie of supplying to a killer the pistol used to kill a policeman. 320 pages, introduction by Drew Pearson. Some edgewear, thin crease to top left corner of back cover, date stamp to top edge, toned pages. A nice copy, internally tight and clean..

New York: Mentor ME1439, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Paperback. 1st paperback edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A man sentenced to seven years in jail reveals "what it is like behind the walls of a maximum security prison, what it does to guards and inmates, and why and how it must be changed before it is too late." 178 pages (including appendices, glossary). Internally tight and clean w/a bit of wear to corners/spine ends. Appears unread..

Toronto: Macfadden Magazines of Canada, 1932. Magazine. Illus. by Dalton Stevens (cover illustration). Good. Magazine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Vintage true crime magazine presenting the luridly sensationalist details of the dastardly deeds of various criminals, each one eventually proving that crime does not pay (although the hours are apparently pretty good). This issue features articles on Hawaii's Fortescu-Massie murder case (socialite Grace Fortescue and accomplices were charged with murdering Joseph Kahahawai, a prizefighter whom Fortescue's daughter, Thalia Massie, accused of being in a group of men who raped her); the second part of a series looking at "The Ape-Like Monster That Terrified Europe"; Catawissa, Missouri's Bertha Gifford, accused poisoner of at least 17 people, most of them children; Ruth Judd, dubbed the Arizona Trunk Murderess, who shot a couple of roommates, then hacked them to pieces and hid the bits in travel trunks; the first of three parts… Leer más

Toronto: Macfadden Magazines of Canada, 1933. Magazine. Fair to Good. Magazine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Vintage true crime magazine boasting the kind of blood-and-guts sensationalism without which our lives would be duller than dirt. This issue features articles on solving the Boettcher kidnapping, the capture of Barton "The Chopper", the truth about Sterling Wyman (apparently it's astounding), something called the crimson crime aboard a yacht, a hold-up on a Canadian Pacific train, the fourth part in a series about the mysterious Bluebeard murders, Folsom's most hated criminal, and much else, including a piece by Clara C. Walters, who at the time was warden of the Oklahoma State Reformatory, making her the only woman in the United States to serve in that capacity. 112 pages, illustrated. The cover looks like the work of Dalton Stevens, TDM's frequent cover illustrator, but since it's uncredited and there's no signature, I'm not going to claim it as his.… Leer más

Fredericton: Broken Jaw Press, 2008. Book. Near Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The title and sub-title pretty much cover it. Among the miscreants who were incarcerated were serial killer Allan Legere, Henry More Smith (better known as The Lunar Rogue), and a pair of Colombian drug merchants (Jose Ali Galondo-Escobar and Fernando Augusto Mendoza-Jarmillio). 71 pages + one page promoting other Broken Jaw Press books, illustrated..