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Lockdown America
by Parenti, Christian
Christian Parenti is the author of The Soft Cage and The Freedom, and is currently writing a book on Afghanistan. He is a visiting fellow at the CUNY Graduate School’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and his articles appear regularly in The Nation. He lives in New York City.
The Living Legend
by Phillips, Alan
Toronto: Harlequin # 522 1st Printing , 1960 ----------vintage paperback, Canadian publisher. Small front cover creases top and bottom right corners, pen name on front cover, a VG+ copy.. .. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+. Note: our prices on Biblio are the LOWEST of any of the sites on which we list our books.
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£4.71
Recollections of a New York Chief of Police; An Official Record of Thirty-Eight Years as Patrolman, Detective, Captain, Inspector, and Chief of the New York Police
by WALLING, George W
New York: Caxton, 1888. hardcover. very good(+). Many black and white woodcut illustrations. 608 pages. Thick 8vo, original 3/4 black morocco, marbled boards. New York: Caxton Book Concern, 1888. Slight paper damage on front marbled endpapers, still a very good(+) copy.<br/> <br/>
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£404.75
Partial Autograph Document Signed
by BIRNIE, Richard (1760-1832)
London, 1827. unbound. very good. Partial Autograph Document Signed, 3.5" x 4.5", an endorsement, removed from a larger document, including the words: "London - July 2nd 1827 - Edward Carrington - Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, R. Birnie: J.P." *Solf as an exceptional example of his signature. Fine condition.<br/> <br/> Scottish police magistrate in London who came to prominence for his involvement with the Cato Street Conspiracy and for the publicity he...
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£121.42
Violence and Police Culture
by Coady, Tony et al [Editors]
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2000. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. A Near Fine copy. An excellent copy. 326 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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£11.64
ENEMY UNSEEN : An Inspector French detective Story
by Crofts, Freeman Wills
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1945. 1st ed. A couple of small stains else a bright copy in dust jacket with light edgewear, a few small chips, else a lovely copy. Inspector French is called to the Cornwall coast in May, 1943.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.
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£143.77
The Police and Young People in Australia
by White, Rob and Alder, Christine (Editors)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 252 pages. . 1st Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback.
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£10.58
MURDER MUST WAIT: Insp. Napoleon Bonaparte
by Upfield, Arthur
Garden City, New York,: Crime Club Doubleday, 1953. 1st American Edition. Pages browned as usual, slight spine slant else fine in a nice very good-near fine dustwrapper with a couple of short tears, not price-clipped, $2.50 price intact, light rubbing and a few small creases.. Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte arrives in the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, to find that five babies have been abducted and a murder committed. The half-aborigine sleuth calls in policewoman Alice McGorr to...
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£97.14
The Living Legend; The Story of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
by Phillips, Alan
Boston: Little, Brown 1957, 6th printing. (Hardcover) 328pp. Very good, no dust jacket. (Fiction, Canadian, Royal Canadian Mounted Police).
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£21.25
A TREATISE ON THE POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS; Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors By Which Public and Private Property and Security are, at present, injured and endangered; and Suggesting Remedies for Their Prevention.
by By A Magistrate. (Colquhoun, Patrick)
London: Printed by H. Fry Finsbury-Place, for C. Dilly, Poultry, 1796. The Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged.. hardcover. near very good. Octavo, xvii [7] 440 pages. plus xxviii -- index. Contemporary calf, gilt, with coat of arms on top cover and bookplate on front paste-down endpaper (no name, just coat of arms). Folding plate between pages 230-231. No half-title. Patrick Colquhoun (1745-1820) was one of the founders of the River Thames Police and greatly influenced subsequent police forces. "As...
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£283.32
RICHARDSON'S SECOND CASE
by Thomson, Sir Basil
N.Y.: A.L. Burt Company, 1934. Reprint. Light wear, lightly sunned at spine, else a very good-near fine copy of the Golden Age title. (British title : Richardson Scores Again (Eldon, 1934, hc)) P.C. (Supt.) Richardson; England. In the hall he found the body of his maidservant, Helen Dunn, aged about fifty, lying on the floor near the telephone. She had bled profusely from a wound in the head and her body was cold. Richardson's second case begins with a murder and robbery at a quiet house in Laburnum...
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£19.43
Ten Feet Tall And Not Quite Bulletproof. Drug busts and helicopter rescues: one cop's extraordinary true story
by Hardiman, Cameron
Sydney: Hachette Australia. 2020. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Gift inscription to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 321 pages. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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£10.58
Ayoob Files The Book
by Massad F. Ayoob
Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Binding is tight; pages are clean and unmarked. See photos for more on the condition.
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£22.26
Policing Industrial Disputes 1893-1985
by Geary,Roger
London: Cambridge University Press. 1985. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 171pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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£13.23
THE WATERS OF ETERNAL YOUTH **SIGNED COPY**
by Leon, Donna
N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016. 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on special page. Endpaper maps of Venice. "In Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti series, the Venetian inspector has been called on to investigate many things, from shocking to petty crimes. But in The Waters of Eternal Youth, the 25th novel in this celebrated series, Brunetti finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a case at all....
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£31.08
THE DEAD CAN TELL
by Reilly, Helen
N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1943. 1st pbk printing, September 1943. Dell Mapback #17. Vintage paperback. Great skull cover illustration by Gerald Gregg. Back cover map of "Scene of the Murder", area on East River Drive, NYC, including apt. bldg at 66 Franklin Place. A few cover creases, spine edge rubbed, paper age-toned, good-very good copy of this early Dell Mapback. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not...
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£15.54
The Black Panther Black Community News Service. Vol. II, no. 1 (March 16, 1968)
Oakland: Black Panther Party, 1968. Newspaper. 24p., tabloid format newspaper, paper evenly toned, very good. Also thrown in is an example of vol. 1 no. 5 which unfortunately has an advertisement clipped out of the rear cover. Many Emory Douglas cartoons throughout including a memorable one with the caption "Assemblyman Willie Brown on the issue of Huey Newton." Centerfold show images of a "Free Huey Rally Oakland Auditorium." Front cover cartoon "Pigs Run Amuck!
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£141.66
DOVER TWO
by Porter, Joyce
N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. 1st US edition. Slight spie slant, lightly sunned at spine else very good in dust jacket, spine rubbed as well as front edge and front cover, indent ring from glass, not price clipped, $3.50 price intact, in protective mylar cover. Previous owner's name in ink at front end paper. The 2nd misadventure of the world's worst detective, as well as one of the funniest. Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is the most idle and avaricious hero in all of...
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£19.43
The Living Legend: The Story of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
by Alan Phillips
Hardback. New.
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£56.94
Police in Urban Society. Edited with an Introd. by Harlan Hahn
by Hahn, Harlan (Ed. )
Beverly Hills [Calif. ] Sage Publications [C1971], 1971. First Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 319 pages; Description: 319 p. 25 cm. Bibliography: p. 309-316. Subjects: Police. Police-community relations.
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£22.34
DEATH GOES WINDOW SHOPPING
by Symonds, F. Addington
London: UK: Ward Lock, 1961. 1st edition. Red cloth with black titles at spine. Fine in dust jacket, not price clipped, very minor wear, in protective mylar cover. "At first glance, it seemed to be no more than a rather original window display-and Madame Charmian's gown shop was noted for that. But those who paused and took a closer look saw something very odd about that macabre setting; that wax figure garbed in funereal black, the vase, containing a single lily, set beside it. Soon a crowd...
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£38.86
The Street Smart Gun Book
by John Farnam
Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Binding is tight; pages are clean and unmarked. Two books in one! Cover shows shelf wear. See photo.
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£12.91
Inscribed Photograph
by TENNYSON, Jean
1934. unbound. Sepia tone, 14 x 10.5 inches, with the photographer's signature and date in white in the lower right corner, mounted on cardboard, no place, 1934. This photo of the American operatic soprano, in the role of Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, is inscribed to New York City Police Commissioner Joseph Schulz: "To Mr. J. Schultz [sic] with my very best wishes Jean Tennyson 1934." Near fine.<br/><br/>
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£202.38
War-date Typed Letter Signed to a British ship captain
by THOMPSON, Charles Ralfe (1894 - 1966)
London, 1943. unbound. very good(+). 1 page on Prime Minister's letterhead, 9.5 x 7.5, 10 Downing Street, London, May 11, 1943, to British captain C.G. Illingworth, who commanded the Queen Mary during World War II, when Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his staff commandeered her for a special mission, in part: "...The Prime Minister has asked me to send you the attached message. He asks that you personally will accept the enclosed photograph as a slight memento of the voyage. May I add the...
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£141.66
Autographed Album Page
by CANNON, George Quayle (1827 - 1901)
1890. unbound. near fine. Measures 3 x 4.75 inches, no place, no date, circa 1890. Signed "Geo. Q. Cannon, Salt Lake City, Utah" by the Mormon leader, Utah's first congressman, and executor of Brigham Young's will. On the back is the signature of Alabama Senator and Confederate Congress member "James L. Pugh Ala." Near fine.<br/><br/>
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£141.66
Police work with juveniles and the administration of juvenile justice
by John P. Kenney
Book is as shown on main listing. No dust jacket, believe to be as issued. No stickers/residue. Some writing/marking/highlighting is noted. Tanning is present. Binding and pages are tight. Overall, a very decent copy. Nonsmoking environment.
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£8.10
