Commit Murder by Ahearn Danny (8 results)
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Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.World of Books (was SecondSale)
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- Softcover
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.GreatBookPrices
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- Softcover
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Condition: Paperback, New. Eureka: Stark House Press:, 2022. Paperback, New, 163 pp. "'Listen, mister,' said Danny, and began. He told me how one went about covering one's tracks after committing a murder, then branched out into a description of the underworld and its professions. All unconsciously he gave me the underworld's po…int of view, which is his own-the underworld's code of ethics, its needs, and its safeguards against attack. He made me realize for the first time that there existed in our midst a people as foreign to our own society as any group of raw immigrants-a group that thought differently, lived differently, and reacted differently to social standards and customs. Prompted occasionally by a question he talked for four and a half solid hours-from two-thirty to seven-painting a picture of the underworld which was fascinating in its color and intimacy.
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Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United KingdomGreatBookPricesUK
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Language: English
Published by Ives Washburn, New York 1930
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Black Letter Books, LLC., Stillwater, MN, U.S.A.Black Letter Books, LLC.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, 254pp. Hardcover, bound in original red cloth. In very good condition. Firm binding and crisp, clean, interior. No markings or signs of prior ownership. Minor shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities, else fine. The book is now protected in a new custom-made clear archival wrapper.
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Published by George Routledge and Sons, London 1930
- Hardcover
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, , United KingdomEdinburgh Books
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Presumed First UK Edition. 1930. Presumed first UK edition, with a preface by Richard Church. [v], 254pp. and a frontispiece portrait. Danny Ahearn (1901-1960) was the oldest of nine children. In 1926 he was wounded in a gun battle in Brooklyn where two men were killed, and in 1934 he received 2 ½… years in New York's notorious Sing Sing Prison for fraud—his second term there also for fraud came in 1937. Though not a writer of any sort—he was, in fact, a career criminal at this time. Later on he would be a reporter for The Daily Worker and several newspapers, as well as script writer for Warner Brothers in Hollywood in 1932-33. At 45 years of age, he was sentenced to 20 years to life for robbery. This book, narrated by Danny Ahearn, was first published in the USA under the title 'How to Commit a Murder'. It is a career criminal's "how to" guide for the uninitiated, crimes certainly not limited to murder. Chapter titles include: How to Rob a Jewelry Store, How to Stick Up a Fur Joint, Straight Stickups, How to Run a Crap Game, Pulling a Phony Pinch, Beating a Frameup, and How to Commit a Murder. The book is bound in the original black cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling to the boards and fading along the top 1 1/4" of the front board. There is wear with a little bit of damage to the cloth on the corner tips and about 1/4" of damage to the cloth on the fore edge of the front board. Both spine ends are bumped with some damage and a little loss to the cloth. The contents are tight and clean with slight age-browning to the page margins and a name and address has been written in pencil on the front free endpaper. The front fixed endpaper bears the attractive "seahorses" bookplate of F. [Fryniwyd] Tennyson Jesse, an English journalist, author and criminologist.
Published by Ives Washburn, New York 1930
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.Babylon Revisited Rare Books
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst Edition. An uncommon title by known gangster and jailbird describing ways to commit various crimes, includes drug dealing. Very Good, tiny cloth break at top spine end, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at lower spine end and flap corners, centimeter deep chipping at top spine end.
More imagesPublished by Ives Washburn Inc, New York 1930
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First edition. Signed by Danny Ahearn, inscribed on the bottom half of the title page to Hollywood columnist Jimmy Starr, "Best of Good-Luck in[?] anything you ever [?] take to. May our friendship go on for decades to come, from one Human guy to another. Sincerest regards [signed] Danny Ahearn." Hollywood bookstor…e (The Satyr Book Shop) ticket on rear endpaper. 254 pp. with photo frontispiece. Bound in publisher's red cloth with yellow lettering. Fine in Good pictorial dust jacket with chip to bottom of front panel, interior chip to spine panel, head chipped as well, tape mends to verso, unclipped ($2.50). Back in print in 2022, scarce signed.One career criminal's how to guide for the uninitiated, crimes certainly not limited to murder. The chapter titles tell it all: "How to Rob a Jewelry Store" (classic), "How to Stick Up a Fur Joint" (nowadays not so easy to do), "Straight Stickups," "How to Run a Crap Game" paired with its logical rejoinder "Taking a Crap Game" (heads I win, tails you lose), "Pulling a Phony Pinch," "Easy Money," "The Political Racket" (another timeless classic), "The Automobile Racket," "Beating a Frameup," and lastly the titular "How to Commit a Murder--" with the all-important next chapter "-- And Get Away with It." All told in '20s hoodlum slang. This is one Ahearns guide with an appeal to a much broader audience than book collectors and sellers, basically to anyone with an id.
