Resultados de búsqueda: Crime & Law from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. x, 473pp. Near fine/very good. Slightest of jacket edgewear. First edition, tight and handsome.

Mexico City: Imprenta y Litografía de Juan Flores, 1897. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Quarter brown calf with gilt spine lettering and compartments and marbled paper over boards. 666pp. Very good. Binding board edgeworn and corner rounded, though calf spine nice and giltstamping bright; text block typically age toned; frontispiece an appropriate contemporary replacement. Tight and decent copy of this Spanish text which translates as "Civil Code of the Federal District and Territories." Unusual -- and quite handleable.

St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green leatherette with gilt lettering and rules. x, 304pp. Very good. Binding faintly edgeworn only; circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on rear flyleaf; a dozen or less pages with inked underlining and margin squiggles. A tight and nice first edition of this memoir and essays by a notable long-time UCLA law professor (1915-99) whose influential 1963 work "Language of the Law" began a lifelong crusade to remove gobbledygook from legalese and simplify and improve legal grammar. Rather scarce, and this copy features a fine decorative-edged bookplate on front flyleaf signed boldly in black ballpoint by legal eagle F. Lee Bailey (1933-2021), criminal defense attorney famed for representing Sam Sheppard, Albert DeSalvo, Patty Hearst, O.J. Simpson and other celebrity clients.

Los Angeles: Loyola Law School, 1987. Paperback. (Volume 7, Number 2). Small 4to. Pp. 263-97. Near fine. Offprint of this "Loyola Entertainment Law Journal" essay, tight and nice.

Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954. Hardcover. Introduction and notes by Cameron Rogers. Small 4to. Blue cloth. 268pp (many uncut). Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. First edition. A clean, tight, handsome copy. SIX-GUNS 1984.

Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954. Hardcover. Introduction and notes by Cameron Rogers. Small 4to. Blue cloth. 268pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Partly uncut. First edition. SIX GUNS 1887.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Dark olive green blind-embossed leatherette with gilt spine lettering. 304pp. Frontispiece, illustration. Very good. Faint edgewear at head and tail of spine. A tight, attractive later printing of this 1912 nonfiction overview of the criminal justice system by this New York County assistant district attorney better known as a mystery novelist (1875-1945) who pioneered the courtroom thriller genre and immortalized attorney Ephraim Tutt.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 212pp. Fine/fine. Laid in is the business card of a trial lawyer whose circular blind-embossed ownership name appears on a front and rear inner flyleaf. Pristine first edition.

N.p.: The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 1963. Paperback. (Volume L, No. 2). Small 4to. Stiff green wrappers (stapled, as issued). Pp. 213-34. Near fine. Scholarly offprint of this political study of North Carolina judge and politician John J. Parker. From the private library of noted social protest poet and fine press publisher JOHN BEECHER (1904-80), whose artist wife BARBARA BEECHER (b. 1925) neatly pens "Dear friend of / John Beecher" to a 3" X 3" yellow Post-It note affixed inside the front wrapper.

New York: Arco Publishing Company, 1961. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. xv, 239pp. Very good/very good. Slightest bit of jacket edgewear; ownership last name inkstamped on front and rear pastedown. First edition, tight and attractive, of what the front jacket panel subtitles "A Handbook for Police Officers, Detectives, Coroners, Judges, and Attorneys.

Hanover, NH: J.B. Parker, 1874. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff wrappers. 30pp. Very good. Age toning, mainly to outer wrappers. Uncmmon first edition of this typical eulogy fare, focusing of course on the Civil War years. Tipped to top of front wrapper is a fine example of Evarts' full bold signature (below which he adds "President") on a 3" X 1" slip. Evarts (1818-1901) served as Johnson's attorney general and Hayes' secretary of state before serving New York in the U.S. Senate. Salmon P. Chase (1808-73) served Ohio as governor and senator before becoming Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and finally the sixth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1864-73). Not in Sabin.

New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. Introduction by Edward Mead Earle. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xlv, 622pp, (2pp ads). Grey decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faintest of mild jacket edgewear; small front pastedown ownership signature. Tight and attractive later printing of #139 -- first published in 1941, here undated but likely mid- to late-1950s. A bright, lovely copy.

New York: BasicBooks, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 274pp. Fine/fine. Pristine, bright and tight first edition of the expose that established and popularized the phrase "junk science," handsomely inscribed and signed in blue fineline on front flyleaf: "To Bob Malott / With great appreciation / for your support / Peter Huber / October 3, 1991." Huber (1952-2021) was a noted attorney and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Black paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 207pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket slightly creased. First edition.

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1981. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale green cloth with blue spine lettering and pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 197pp. Fine/near fine. Superb, tight and bright first edition of this slim account of the infamous 19th century bandit (1806-44) -- and this sharp copy handsomely inscribed and signed by the author in black ballpoint on front flyleaf: "for George, / A good friend / Jim.

Alexandria: Morielle Press, 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 132pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/fine. Absolutely pristine third printing of the second edition of this slim study first published in 1976 but here enlarged. Boldly inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on front flyleaf: "Best wishes on / Smokey's 50th Birthday / Ellen Earnhardt Morrison / August 9, 1994." Rarely found signed. Promotional leaflet laid in.

Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 263pp. Very good/very good. Small stain upper right corner of front board. Later (14th) printing, tight and decent, of this National Rifle Association mouthpiece's thoughts. Front flyleaf bears large bookplate printed specially for this book with printed sentiment ("I can't tell you how much your support means to me and the NRA") and a FACSIMILE LaPierre signature (first name only) -- repeat, nonauthentic. One sees numerous copies of this title bearing this facsimile signature on the market, seldom properly identified as nonauthentic.

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1982. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Maxwell Brown. 16mo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. xlii, 454pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, foldout map, illustrations. Near fine. Tight, perfect volume in the "Lakeside Classics" series, this a reprint of the classic 1928 title.

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1982. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Maxwell Brown. 16mo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. xlii, 454pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, foldout map, illustrations. Very good. Circular blind-embossed ownership imprint on title page. A tight and handsome volume in the "Lakeside Classics" series, this a reprint of the classic 1928 title.

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc, 2003. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xvii, 313pp. Fine. Pristine first edition, with choice and huge presentation inscription from the author in black fineline on half-title page: "For Senator / Adlai Stevenson / with admiration / & appreciation for / all you've given to / our country! / Warmly -- / Paul / Lisnek / 4/11." Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021) served Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1981.