Resultados de búsqueda: True Crime from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

Golden, CO: North American Press, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A careful, detailed description and analysis of what became known as the Mohawk Civil War or the Mohawk Gambling War of 1989-90 in the Akwesasne community on the border between Upstate New York and Canada, requiring massive intervention by the U.S. and Canadian governments as fire fights with automatic weapons became a daily occurence; a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author, a lawyer and historian, makes a diligently-researched case that the 1924 unsolved murder of Zeo Zoe Williams, a beautiful, ruthless Ohio high school dropout, who discovered marrying a series of wealthy men was an easy way to make a living, was committed by the son of outlaw legend, Jesse James. This is classic American crime: a toxix mixture of sex, lies, mystery and murder. Boards and text are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket is as new, no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A very collectable copy.

New York: Mysterious Press, 1986. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. James' venture into True Crime details what became known as the Ratcliffe Highway Murders that resulted in seven deaths in two London families in 1811; with drawings and other line illustrations; light remainder mark on bottom edge, o/w text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minor surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Berkley Books, 1983. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. the True Crime account of the investigation of a Swedish dentist, Dr. Sten Forshufvud, into the death of Napoleon Bonaparte after his exile to St. Helena and his conclusion, with documentation, that the former emperor was murdered, a victim of arsenic poisoning; with illustrations and index; text is clean, tight, square; pictorial wrappers shows only minor surface and edgewear.

San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Kates, an investigative reporter for the New York Daily News, spent four years piecing together the True Crime story of Phyllis Iannotta, one of New York City's homeless, 67 years old when she was raped and murdered in a Hell's Kitchen parking lot in 1981, a story not untypical of thousands of other women living on the streets in major U.S. cities; introduction by former NY Governor Mario Cuomo. Text is clean, tight, with a slight spine lean; dustjacket shows some light rubbing, very minor edgewear. Scarce.

Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Evans' sequel to his earlier "The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes;" covers 100 cases solved by forensic science on four continents over almost a two hundred year period; it's an excellent reference as well as fascinating reading; page 21-22 lightly dogeared, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Airmont Publishing Co., 1965. First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Airmont Books CL 88; The story of the mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty in the Pacific in 1789, written by the Bounty's captain, William Bligh, upon his return to England and originally published in 1792; First Airmont Books Edition, First Printing; one-reader text is clean, tight and square, lightly age-tanned; wrappers show light reading creases, age-tanning along spine, only very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is the True Crime memoir of author James Ellroy, whose mother, Jean, was murdered in Los Angeles in 1958 when the author was ten years old. This book is the story of the police investigation of the murder, which remained unsolved, and of Ellroy's own investigation more than thirty years later. It is fascinating reading by a very good writer on a very personal issue. Signed on the fep by Ellroy in the scrawl he's used since he's become well-known and signed a lot of books. Text and boards are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear, no chipping, no tears. A collectable copy.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/Fair. With this book, MacDonald left fiction for True Crime to describe in careful detail the New Jersey murder trial of Dr. Carl Coppolino, defended by F. Lee Bailey; boards and text as well as dustjacket have suffered what appears to be water damage along bottom edge of text and lower end of spine; book still tight and square; white dustjacket is whole though soiled and age-discolored. A decent reading copy.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Novelist John D. MacDonald's foray into True Crime resulted in this painstaking, 656-page account of the first murder trial of Dr. Carl Coppolino in New Jersey in 1966. This story, which covers every detail of the trial from jury selection to the final verdict without passing judgement, is in many ways, MacDonald's best work; text is clean, tight, very slight spine lean; boards show minor rubbing at corners and edges; white dustjacket is basically whole but shows some slight yellowing and soiling, with minor chipping and tearing on edges and corners and two closed tears at upper corner of back panel. Collectable.

New York: Dutton/Penguin, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The True Crime story of Mark Hoffman, a near genius and perhaps the greatest liteerary forger of the 20th century as well as one of its most remorseless murderers; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Pocket Books, 1970. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 77202; Mills creates a True Crime classic as paints a truly great portrait of James Mosley, chief of the homicide bureau of the Queens County, New York, District Attorney's Office as he prosecutes two 1960s murder cases -- one involving a woman who murdered her children, the other an organized crime hit on one of its own killers. Text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with a slight spine lean; blue pictorial wrappers show a light reading crease, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Pocket Books, 1967. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books 75213; an informal report by Duffy, a well-known penologist and former warden of San Quentin Prison, asserting that the cause of nearly all criminal behavior is sex-related. Text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers showing very minimal surface and edgewear; Very Good to Fine. Very Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A true crime story about four men who, as youths, experienced abuse and brutality in a New York City reform school and returned years later seeking revenge; very small indentation on front cover near spine with corresponding tear in front panel of dustjacket, minor edgewear.

New York: Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Another bestseller from Rule, widely acknowledged as the "Queen of True Crime." In late 2004, Jean Corbin, mother of two living with her husband, Bart, in a posh home in an upscale Atlanta suburb, was found dead, a bullet in her head and the revolver lying beside her body. Suicide? Law enforcement wasn't convinced, especially after it was discovered Dr. Corbin had, 14 years earlier, dated a dental school student, Dorothy Hearn, who also commited suicide. As usual Rule's report of the case is detailed and exhaustive. A remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows some slight edge and surface wear but no tears, chipping or creasing, not price-clipped. Collectable.

London: Carlton Books Ltd., 2005. First Printing, Second Edition. . Trade Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Subtitled, "The Infamous Villains of Modern History and Their Hideous Crimes," Fido's "True Crime" utilizes an out-of-the-ordinary tabloid newspaper format with numerous photographs to chronicle the actions of some of the worst of the world's criminals beginning in 1800 and spanning the next two hundred years. Some of those given in-depth commentary include Burke and Hare; Jack the Ripper; Ned Kelly, Lizzie Borden, Al Capone, Albert Fish, Dr. Crippen, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Fred and Rosemary West, Dr. Harold Shipman and Ian Hunter, as well as special features on 9/11 and killers who committ suicide. Lower front corner of book and text very slightly bumped, o/w book is clean, tight square in pictorial wrappers showing minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Citadel Press/Carol Publishing Group, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A painstakingly researched history of legal execution in the U.S., including John Wilkes Booth, Nat Turner, Sacco and Vanzetti, Ruth Snyder, Ted Bundy, Gary Gilmore and many more, as well as those put to death and later found to be innocent; illustrated with many black & white photos and drawings; upper edge of text is lightly foxed, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket's front flap is creased, o/w only minor surface and edgewear. A somewhat unusual True Crime volume.

New York: Union Square Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A True Crime account of the 1880 shooting death of Charles de Young, the founder of the San Francisco Chronicle, the leading newspaper in the western U.S. from the 1870s until well into the 1990s. In 1879, de Young and the Chronicle began a bitter feud with Isaac Kalloch, a prominent city preacher running for mayor, with a headline which called Kalloch an "unclean leper." The preacher retaliated from his pulpit labeling de Young and his brother "bastards of progeny of a whore born in the slums and nursed in the lap of prositution." De Young, enraged by the insult to his family, escalated the feud by shooting Kalloch in the chest and leg. Kalloch survived the attack, and in 1880, Kalloch's son, Milton, shot de Young in the neck, killing him instantly. Read's account of this particular bit of California history captures the violent and riotous time of late 19th century San… Leer más

New York: Pocket Books, 1970. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage paperback, Pocket Book 75461; a collection of strange and simply weird true crime stories including the 17th century Scottish family that, over a 25-year period, robbed, murdered and ate their victims and the South African police detective who investigated the rape and murder he, himself, had committed; top edge of last dozen pages and back cover very lightly water-stained o/w text is clean, tight, age-toned, with a slight spine lean in black pictorial wrappers showing minor surface and edgewear. Scarce true crime collectable.