Pat Crowe (10 results)
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.Reader's Corner, Inc.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. This is a fine hardcover first edition copy in a near fine mylar protected DJ that is price clipped, gray spine. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, Extra for airmail or international shipping.
Published by Demis Products, Lithonia, Georgia, 1984
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.Lowry's Books
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Stapled Pamphlet. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some minor wear. Text is clean and tight in binding, no ownership or other markings. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.Andre Strong Bookseller
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. good +. first edition. 10 x 12 in. Cloth boards. With letter inside from Crowe. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, sunned at bottom edges, no wear. BInding tight, text spotless. DJ is GOOD+ ; clean but rubbed, minor edge wear. Phot. Stax.
Published by New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1919., 1919
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition (per matching dates upon title and copyright pages). 220, [4] pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.5cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Bluish-gray cloth with brown lettering; modest soiling to boards; small brown stains upon spine and front board; light wear at spine ends with two patches of white discoloration below… center. Non-authorial gift inscription dated July 1919 on front free endpaper with names obscured under swaths of black marker; front free endpaper soiled at top corner with faint residue from removed price sticker. Introductory biographical essay titled "Concerning Crowe" by editor W.B. Chase; four pages of publisher's advertisements at rear. A Sheffield, Alabama native and a 1911 graduate of Vanderbilt University, James Richard Crowe (1889-1918) was employed as a newspaper reporter in Memphis and New York City before enlisting with the United States Air Service in 1917. Upon completion of initial training in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Minneola, New York, Crowe was assigned to the 15th Foreign Detachment, Aviation Section, Signal Corps but, shortly after being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in July 1918, Crowe died in a plane crash on September 29, 1918 at the 3rd Aviation Instruction Center at Issoudun, France. PAT CROWE, AVIATOR is a collection of Crowe's well-regarded literary "letters-home" featuring personal impressions and reflections on France and World War I. The book includes his famous "Jacqueline of the Chateau" which was first published in The New York Times Magazine upon its enthusiastic acceptance by editor Thomas Russell Ybarra. A good+ copy of a quite uncommon book.
Published by The N. G. Hamilton Publishing Co, Cleveland, OH, 1909
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.Fahrenheit's Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, binding is a little loose but solid and without a lean, has slight bumps to spine ends, very slight shelfwear to edges and corners, slight sunning to spine, faint foxing starting to top edge of text block, and some slight rubbing, otherwise a…solid VG copy.
- Hardcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Atlanta
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
More imagesPublished by The Branwell Company, [1927]., New York, 1927
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst edition. 8vo. Dark blue cloth, titles stamped in red on the spine, xvi, 331 [1] pp., biographical note, editor's note, appendix. Crowe terrorized the Colorado, Nebraska, and Missouri areas for a number of years. Six Guns 520 says "Scarce." An all around hell-raiser whose specialties were diamond robbery, train robbery, and… bank robbery carried out for a number of years. He also was one of two men who in 1900, kidnapped the Cudahy Meat Packing Company's owner's son and ransomed him for $25,000.00. A bit of wear to the spine ends, else a very good copy.
Published by New York, 1927
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: T A Swinford, Bookseller, sun city west, AZ, U.S.A.T A Swinford, Bookseller
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., xvi+252 pp., cloth, vg+ 6-Guns #520 scarce Crowe terrorized the Colorado, Nebraska and Missouri area for a number of years, scarce.
Published by Patrick Crowe
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Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
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Condition: Good. Chicago: Patrick Crowe, 1907. 1st edition. 16mo. 242pp. Illus. Good book. Owner's name on pastedown and front endpage. (crime, criminals) Inquire if you need further information.
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Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc., South Orange, NJ, U.S.A.Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.
Contact seller2-star sellerPATRICK THOMAS CROWE (1869-1938). Crowe, also known as Frank Roberts, was an American criminal whose exploits as a bank and train robber and kidnapper made him a prominent celebrity and writer early in the 20th century. TLS. 1 pg. 8 x 10. July 11, 1921. Boston. A typed letter signed Pat Crowe to Mr. Edward L.B. Howard: Business…duties have prevented my granting your humble requests to present. It will be my pleasure to send you at an early date, a petition relating to our national welfare, that I would be pleased to have you circulate among your friends By 1921, the celebrity surrounding Pat Crowe had begun to fade. The publicity that surrounded his success at being the first man to successfully obtain a ransom for kidnapping and not be captured, and years later being acquitted of kidnapping despite 40 prosecution witnesses and no testimony on his behalf, had faded, and Crowe was working as a nightwatchman for the Salvation Army in New York. His references to national welfare and, later in the letter, to publicity campaigns, likely have to do with his work for the Salvation Army. In 1938, Crowe would die greatly impoverished in Harlem, yet 100 people still attended his funeral mass. This letter is therefore a good reminder of a man who was his generations Jesse James, though even more media-savvy. It is in very good condition.
