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Published by Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1969
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Few open tears. Light shelf wear on front/rear panels.
Published by Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1969
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket.
Published by Cassell and Company, 1886
Seller: HGG Books, Slingerlands, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. Professional Criminals of America by Inspector Thomas Byrnes, 1st edition published by Cassell and Company in 1886. Full of stories of crime from the mean streets of New York with high quality photogravures of noted criminals.Rare late nineteenth century rogues' gallery of America's foremost murderers, bank robbers, conmen, forgers, embezzlers, and pickpockets, with more than 200 photographs.Pages clean with light toning, boards clean with shelf / rub wear, hinges and binding weak Pages clean with light toning, b.
Published by Cassell & Co, New York, 1886
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece photograph and 34 plates, each containing 6 photographs. Original morocco, blind-stamped on spine, title in gilt on front cover and spine; marbled endpapers and paste-down.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 2 volume set. Uniformly bound. Contains both the first edition, first published in 1886 and the revised edition published by Dillingham in 1895 (volume 2), with additional mug shots. 433 & 402 pp.: illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. A late-nineteenth century rogues gallery of America's foremost murderers, bank robbers, con men, forgers, embezzlers, and pickpockets. Written in 1886, Professional Criminals of America contains biographical sketches, including photographs, of some four hundred of the nation's leading criminals. Each profile details the crimes committed and the circumstances leading up to arrest and conviction. Also included are short, informative chapters on criminal methods, executions, opium addiction, fugitives from justice, and prison commutation laws, along with intriguing chapters on mysterious unsolved murders, adventurers and adventuresses, and a list of every prison and state penitentiary in America at the time of publication. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.