Search Results: True Crime from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

New York: Collier Books, 1962. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Collier 8572; the classic work on cross examination, used for years not only by lawyers but anyone whose work involves asking questions -- job interviewers, journalists, social workers, teachers; Wellman earned his reputation as one of the great trial lawyers as assistant corporation counsel and district attorney in New York City in the late 19th century; first published in 1903, the book had appeared in four editions and fifty printings by the time of this edition -- the First Printing of the First Paperback Edition -- in 1962. Edges lightly soiled, o/w text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers showing slight age-discoloration and soiling along spine and edges, minor surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: HarperCollins, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Schiller's fourth True Crime book, presents a truly unusual case: a young New Jersey doctor sues Ford Motor Company for wrongful death, claiming his pregnant wife was killed by a faulty air bag in a minor accident in the family's Explorer. But Ford, after an exhaustive investigation, claims the woman was manually strangled and points the finger at the doctor. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Knopf, 1961. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fair/Fair. Two true crime volumes sold as a set, exhaustively covering the most notorious murders, murderers and murder trials in Great Britain from 1900 to 1950; both books have suffered considerable water staining to lower edges of boards, spines and dustjackets; jackets are edgeworn; text blocks are clean and tight though edges are somewhat soiled. Reading or reference copies.

New York: Vintage Books, 1968. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Vintage Giant V-416; an editor and a lawyer present an in-depth study and discussion of the conflict between two constitutional rights -- a free press and a fair trial, an issue as current today as it has been throughout the nation's history. Text is clean, tight, square, somewhat age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing only minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce.

London: Penguin Books, Inc., 1953. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Penguin 888; a survey of law enforcement in United Kingdom in the 1950s, detailing its organization, training, and the specialized work of the CID and Scotland Yard, illustrated with case histories of current crimes; foreword by R.M. Howe, assistant commissioner, CID; text is clean, tight, square, age-tanned with slightly soiled edges in wrappers with age-tanned spine, blank price sticker on back cover. Collectable.

New York: Pocket Books, 1971. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Pocket Books Non-ficition 78529; the former attorney general's commentary on crime and crime prevention in America is as pertinent today as it was more than thirty years ago; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in white pictorial wrappers showing very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. The sixth non-fiction work by North Carolina criminal lawyer McGinnis decribes the 1988 murder of Lieth Von Stein, the attempted murder of his wife, Bonnie, the subsequent investigation, trial and conviction of his stepson, Chris; a remainder mark on bottom edge of the text, o/w a Fine copy in like dustjacket.

New York: Collier Books, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Collier AS436; a collection of True Crime accounts of murders committed by teachers or students from 1840 to the 1950s for a wide range of motives from greed to jealousy; Paperback Original, First Printing of the True First Edition; text is clean, tight, with a slight spine lean in white pictorial wrappers showing light age discoloration and soiling along spine, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. A scarce true crime collectable.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. True crime reporter Ruddick re-visits a 19th century murder in Victorian England's upper class, a death by poisoning that was never solved in spite of an intensive, months-long investigation; text is clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. A True Crime account of a sensational murder among the elite in Victorian England in 1875 when the second husband of a beautiful and wealthy woman was poisoned in a case that captured headlines for weeks and ultimately remained unsolved until author Ruddick began to study the crime; illustrated with black & white photos and drawings; lower corner of the front cover slightly bumped, o/w book is clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows only very minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Collier Books, 1964. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage Paperback, Collier AS 554 V; Originally published in 1957 as a series of articles in the London Sunday Times, this book is Fleming's True Crime account of South African diamond smuggling netting $30 million a year until the Diamond Corporation created its own private intelligence agency and brought a master spy chaser to South Africa to block the illegal pipelines at their source. Illustrated with black & white photos. Text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; pictorial wrappers show a trace of foxing along spine on back cover, o/w only very minor surface and edgewear. Quite Scarce. Collectable.

London: Virgin Books, Ltd., 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine/No Jacket. A survey of organized crime as it currently exists in the new century by experienced True Crime writer and reporter Southwell, who asserts that crime has gone global with large criminal enterprises in several dozen countries competing for billions of dollars in illegal drugs, prostitution and arms sales. True first edition, first printing. Text is clean and unmarked, tight and square. Pictorial wrappers show small price sticker next to bar code on back cover; tiny dogear on lower corner of back cover, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Curtis Books, 1968. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Curtis 01001; Heller, a New York State Supreme Court Justice, brings 41 years of experience as a trial lawyer and judge to his detailed, anecdote-laced description of the trial process in a U.S. court from pre-trial preparation to the closing argument; it puts fictional accounts to shame; foreword by Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned; pictorial wrappers' spine is age-browned and stained, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Hard To Find.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1974. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. Tidyman, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter of 'The French Connection' and author of the "Shaft" novels, wrote this True Crime account of one of the most unusual murder cases in the history of the U.S. criminal justice system. In 1965, Donald Lang, a young African American, was arrested for the murder of a Chicago prostitute. He was later accused of a second murder and thought to be responsible for other deaths as well. Lang was poor; he was also illiterate, deaf and dumb and could not understand sign language. He presented the criminal justice system with a defendant who was unable to communicate and could not, therefore, defend himself. A lawyer named Lowell Myers, who was also deaf, was appointed to defend Lang. Tidyman has written the story of two men's years of confrontation with a legal system unprepared to handle the case of a man whose disabilities put him outside the… Read More

New York: Perigord Press/William Morrow, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Wambaugh's third non-fiction title is this True Crime account of the 1979 murder of a Philadelphia teacher that became known as the "Main Line Murder Case;" boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minor surface and edgewear, no tears or chips.

New York: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2003. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The True Crime bestseller account of the 1996 murder of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin by Ireland's Gilligan Gang, cosidered the first instance of narco-terrorism in Europe. Illustrated with black and white photos and includes an epilogue not contained in European editions.

New York: Dell, 1974. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage paperback, Dell 3143; translated from the German by Catherine Hutter; an autobiographical True Crime story of a young German girl, raped by her stepfather, who became a bar girl and prostitute and her relationship with a sadomasochistic man which led to murder and a sensational trial; text and wrappers slightly rolled o/w text is clean, tight, square, with wrappers showing only very minor surface and edgewear. Very scarce. Collectable.

New York: The Viking Press, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A careful account of author Clifford Irving's forgery of a Howard Hughes biography that fooled a major New York City publisher and resulted in a literary hoax that made headlines with its discovery and Irving's subsequent arrest; with photos; text edges lightly soiled; text is clean, tight and square, lower end of spine slightly bumped; dustjacket shows some light soiling, minimal surface and edgewear, upper corner of inside front flap creased. Nice reading copy.

New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1973. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Ace Non-Fiction 37055; Davidson, a nationally-known investigative reporter, spent six months inside the California attorney general's office as it prosecuted a variety of cases including a sensational murder, narcotics arrests, an art fraud investigation,and a bribery indictment. Text is clean, tight, lightly age-tanned with a slight spine lean; blue pictorial wrappers show minor wear at base of spine, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable True Crime.

New York: Hart Publishing Co., Inc., 1966. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback; a collection of True Crime accounts of murder in the tropics ranging from a Maori tribesman who shot up the whole countryside in New Zealand to a quiet Brazilian businessman who hacked his wife to pieces to a criminal caught by fingerprinting an entire island's population; First Printing of First American Edition and First Paperback Edition; text is clean, tight, square in black pictorial wrappers showing only light surface and edgewear. Collectable. Harder to find than hardcover published in Australia in 1962.