Peter Van Slingerland (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: First Edition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition in Good DJ. Small taped tear to DJ. Light shelf wear to DJ. Clean boards. Unmarked clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Harper & Row, NY, c.1966, 8vo., cloth, 328pp., G/G $.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Jacket ha light edgewear.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 328 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good/Good condition. Top inch of spine has been water damaged, and there is some trace of very little trace of that into the text itself. The book has been price-clipped, and the dust jacket has been repaired with tape on top corner.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first edition bound in black cloth with red and green spine lettering. Photo illustrations. A near fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Dust soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. The dust jacket has rubs to its corners and frays to the head and heel of its spine. The rear panel is dust soiled and has some frays along its upper edge.…

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (Hawaii, homicide).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Something Terrible Has Happened. Peter Van Slingerland. [1966] first edition; Harper & Row; very good or better vintage jacketed hardcover. Illustrated (with fold-out map). The account of the sensational Thalia Massie affair, which burst from prewar Hawaii to incense the nation. Black cloth hardcover with crisp red text on spine; only light wear to extremities; generally sharp and clean. Unmarked internally. Dust jacket is good, housed in archival cover. A couple of chips; light edgeear. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. THE ACCOUNT OF THE SENSATIONAL THALIA MASSIE AFFAIR, WHICH BURST FROM PREWAR HAWAII TO INCENSE NATIONS.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Thalia Massie, Homicide, True Crime) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Condition: Very Good. Harper & Row 1966.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Something Terrible Has Happened Peter Van Slingerland Harper & Row 1966 HB First Edition The account of the sensational Thalia Massie affair, which burst from prewar Hawaii to incense the nation. FINE, very clean and bright, no marks, no writing, no bumps, no soiling, with FINE fold-out map of Honolulu. FINE dustjacket, not price clipped, no soiling, no creases, now protected in archival mylar. See also "Honor Killing" by David Stannard, another book about the infamous Massie affair.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. hardback, 8vo, 327pp, illustrated, endpaper maps, edges slightly browned, text clean and sound, corners bumped, Good / Good dustwrapper. wrapper edges bumped and scuffed.

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardback. It began as an ordinary quarrel between a young wife and her naval officer husband over whether or not to go to a dance. But with the quick virulence of plague, it spread through the Eden of pre-Pearl Harbour Hawaii, bringing violence and death, inflaming latent racial bitterness, corrupting justice and nearly toppling the Territorial government. The elements of the story were a sensation when they occurred in 1931: the lush, tropical background of Honolulu and its hard-drinking, easy-living naval colony; the lovely Washington girl, Thalia Fortescue Massie. whose accusation brought five Oriental boys to trial for rape; the killing of a defendant; the indictment of Thalia's mother and husband for murder; their defence by the famous criminal lawyer, Clarence Darrow; and the dramatic trial which aroused all Hawaii, turned the Navy against the civilian administration, and set Floyd Gibbons and the Hearst press to a campaign 'to make the streets of Honolulu safe for white women.' When the tangled web that Thalia Massie wove can be seen more clearly, an even more dramatic, and more important pattern emerges. For Hawaii, of course, the Massie Affair brought about a new political, economic and social era. For the US as a whole, it brought a rough reminder of the once vigorous whiteman's-burden colonialism. In this vivid reconstruction the author provides a new solution and an astonishing denouement. With Map eps + Folding Map, Illus. 328pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp. o/w Vg+ in nr. f. dw. …

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. Cloth, (328)pp. Bookplate o/w fine in d/w.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Faded ink on front flap.

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. DJ price clipped.; Comprehensive account of the facts behind the notorious Massie case, in which five men of Asian descent were falsely accused of rape. INSCRIBED by the author on page facing title-page: "To Thomas Hedges Massie, with many thanks for your kind encouragement. Peter Van Slingerland". This book originates from one of the largest Clarence Darrow collections in the country.; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 328 pages.…