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Boston, MA, American Citizen Company , c1892. Hard Cover. 419p., [15] leaves of plates map, ports., 23 cm. Harris had been on the military commission that tried John H, Surratt and concluded that there were "just grounds for charging Jefferson Davis and others for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to murder Lincoln." Binding of the special G.A.R. edition for the 26th National Encampment. Monaghan, J., Lincoln, 1103.Stock #29,988. Vg, t.p. loosening/ no dj.

New York : Basic Books, ©2008.. Hard Cover. xix, 263 p. : illus., map, ports., index, 25 cm. Based largely on the witness testimony of Louis Weichman, Larson tells the true story of Mary Surratt, a shadowy figure behind the assassination of Abraham Lincoln--and the first woman executed by the federal government. Surratt, a Confederate sympathizer, ran the boarding house in Washington where the conspirators, including her rebel son, John Surratt, met to plan the assassination. Stock# 44,276. Near fine / dj fine

Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1988. Hard Cover. xiv, 489 p., ports, 24 cm. Details how J. Edgar Hoover used the powers of the FBI for his private purposes. Intimidating anyone who questioned his methods, life-style, of Conservative agenda. Atwisted man who did much damage. Stock# 32,644. Fine/ dj fine.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. Hard Cover. [ix], 515 p., 1 leaf; 24 cm. "Criminal defense lawyer Alejandro "Sandy" Stern copes with his wife's suicide, his three grown children and a government investigation of his brother-in-law's successful brokerage house." ISBN (10): 0374117349. Gift inscription on front flyleaf; Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#47475.

New York, Random House, c1993... First Edition. Hard Cover. xv, 607 p., illus., index, 24 cm. Posner argues, as John Kaplan did in a 1967 Stamford Law Review article, that, despite flaws in procedure, the Warren Commission conclusions on the Assassination of President Kennedy make sense. Posner's contibution is to provide details on Oswald, and particularly Ruby, which help demolish conspiracy theories. Bibliography (p. [579]-585). NEU066. Good+, Prof Charles new has annotated in red ink. / dj vg.Vg/ dj vg.

New York : Scribner, c2000.. First Edition. Hard Cover. 352 p., illus. index, 1 map ; 24 cm. Title continues: "the FBI's legendary mindhunter sheds light on the mysteries that won't go away." "America's foremost expert on criminal profiling provides his uniquely gripping analysis of seven of the most notorious murder cases in the history of crime -- from the Whitechapel murders to JonBenet Ramsey -- often contradicting conventional wisdom and legal decisions." Stock# 43,704. Vg / dj vg.

Philadelphia, Printed For Robert Campbell. 1792. Hard Cover. xv, 464 pages. (A-Gg8). Title continues: High-Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables, Gaolers, Jury-Men, And Overseers Of The Poor. As Also, The Office Of Clerks Of Assize, And Of The Peace, &c. Compiled... by James Parker, late one of the Justices of the Peace for Middlesex County, in New-Jersey; and now revised and adapted to the United States of America. By A Gentleman Of The Law. The whole Alphabetically digested under the several Titles; with a Table directing to the ready finding out... To Which Are Added, The Excise and Militia Laws of the United States; and the Acts called the Ten Pound Act of the States of Pennsylvania and New-York. "On the adoption of the New Constitution, a considerable part of that power and authority which had hitherto belonged to each of the states respectively, was, for the common good, wisely transferred to the general government." Bound in full contemporary leather; pp. 51-62 started at bottom;… Read More

NY, Harper & Row [1967]. Hard Cover. xvi, 710 p., maps (part color), plans; 25 cm. " A detailed account of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, who had been the subject of an earlier book by Manchester. Manchester was commissioned in 1964 by the Kennedy family to write the book. Manchester, who retraced the movements of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination, concluded, based on his study of Oswald's psychology and their similar training as Marine sharpshooters, that Oswald had acted alone. Manchester had the support of Robert and Jacqueline Kennedy, but later had a falling-out with Robert Kennedy over Manchester's treatment of President Lyndon B. Johnson." Stock#46643. Vg / dj vg.

NY, Viking, 1988. Hard Cover. xx, 499 p., [8] p. of plates, illus., index; 24 cm. On Mexican drug lords and the February 1985 kidnapping and murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena. Bibliography: p. 455-483. Stock#NEU051. Vg / dj vg.

Oxford University Press, 1987. Soft Cover. x, 429 p. Biograhy of Earl Warren, 1891-1974, Republican Governor of California, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Stock#101203. Vg/paperback.

Berlin, Fischer, 1925.. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 183 p.; 22,5. German translation of his writings from prison. Stock# 30,262. Vg, some pencil annotations/ dj; good, small tears. Irish literature.

Stanford, Ca.: Academic Reprints, 1953. Hard Cover. 239 pages; 21 cm. Title continues: With a Commentary by M. de Voltaire. Facsimile reprint of the American edition of 1819, translated from the French by Edward D. Ingraham. Philadelphia, P.H. Nicklin, 1819. Dei delitti e delle pene was first published Livorno, 1764; see Printing and the Mind of Man 209. "One of the profoundly revolutionary works of a revolutionary era was Beccaria's essay on the relationship of the individual to the state." The Italians and the Creation of America 88. Stock#47233 (mnb). Vg; owner name /no dj.

Springfield, Ill., Charles Thomas, 1975. Hard Cover. xix, 889 p. "The culmination of twenty-five years of practical experience in criminal investigation." Vg/ dj good+. 101887.

Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association, c1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. 690 p., [5] leaves of plates : illus. ; 23.5 cm. Contents Egleton, C. The stealing of Muriel McKay.--Jenkins, E. Neill Cream, poisoner.--Garve A. The case of Stanley Setty.--Graham, W. The Wembley job.--Kennedy, L. The Portland spy case.--Williams, E. Doctor Crippen's diary.--Braddon, R. The Shepherd's Bush case.--Symons, J. The siege of Sidney Street Stick# 43,629. Good+ / no dj.

Madrid, Imp. de la 'Rev. de Arch., Bibl. y Museos', 1923. Hard Cover. lv, 310 p., facsimile title-page; 19.5 cm. Series: Real Academia Española. Biblioteca Selecta de Clásicos Españoles. First published Madrid, 1620, with title continuing: A Donde se les ensena a huir de los peligros que ay en la vida de Corte; y debaxo de nouelas morales, y exemplares escarmientos, se les auisa, y aduierte de como acudiran a sus negocios cuerdamente. With a lengthy biographical prologue by Manuel de Sandoval. Red cloth, leather spine label; minor wear; VG. stock#45434.

[Cambridge, MA : Houghton Library], ©1987.. Soft Cover. [10], 30 p. ; 36 cm. An edition, in typescript, of fragments of Henry Fielding's unpublished treatise on eighteenth century law. Introductions by Charles Donahue, Jr. and Hugh Amory. Stock# 44,275. Vg / soft cover.

Hartford, S. S. Scranton, 1869. First Edition. First edition of the first book of American commercial law that treated the entire nation. Written by the Dane Professor of Law at Harvard from 1848 to 1870, the book became the national standard through numerous editions. Hard Cover. xxi, 681 pages, forms, index; 23 cm. Handsomely bound in 21st-century half-leather in the style of the era; very good. Stock#OB741.

NY, McGraw-Hill [c1968]. Hard Cover. xxvii, 270 p.; 23 cm. "This book has been written in non-legal language specifically for those engaged in designing or erecting buildings." Stock#46504. Vg / dj vg.

New York, Morrow, 1984. Hard Cover. 304 p., index, plates; 24 cm. Salvatore "Momo" Giancana (born Salvatore Giangana) (1908 – 1975) was an Italian-American mobster and boss of the Chicago Outfit 1957–66. As the daughter of the most powerful gangland leader in Chicago, Antoinette Giancana was a poor little rich girl in a special sense. Stock# 44,176. Vg / dj good+.

Rochester, N.Y.: Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., ©1964. Hard Cover. xii, 862 p.; 25 cm. Includes: Executioner, Balzac; Billy Budd, foretopman, Melville; Rosalie Prudent, Maupassant; Devil and Daniel Webster, Benet; Lord Arthur Savile's crime, Wilde. Stock#46638. Vg / dj good+, some wear.[removed][removed]