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London: Secker & Warburg, 1962. Hardcover. First UK edition. Jacket is a little tanned, with a few minor marks - no notable shelfwear, however, and unclipped. Page block is slightly foxed; pages are clean and sound. Graded very good for age. TS. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Used.

Secker & Warburg, London, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition (ex-library)/Good. bibliography. Black coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the backstrip. Plain text dustwrapper with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "On a July night in 1912, a New York gambler, Hermann Rosenthal, was shot dead outside the Metropole Hotel on West 43rd Street. From this developed probably the most notorious murder trial in American history and revealed a whole city riddled with corruption, from Tammany Hall, the police Department, to the gamblers and thugs of the 'tenderloin' district in midtown. To New York's district attorney, Charles Whitman, corruption was personified in police Lieutenant Charles Becker. From the moment of the murder, Whitman determined, though Becker had not been on the spot, to pin it on the policeman as accessory before the fact. To that end he would use every means, a foul or fair, including as unsavoury collection of… Read More

GB: Secker & Warburg, 1962. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Entire DW is dust marked etc.. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/G++ DW.

London. Secker & Warburg. 1962. . Hardback. 1st Ed. Black cloth with silver spine titles in worn, unclipped dustwrapper with several small tears to edge, now protected by a removeabl eclearview cover. 7.9" x 5.3". 288 pp. Wt: 0.5" Good (Poor).