Stringer's Books and Ephemera
Rare and Fine Books and EphemeraTrue Crime (32 items)
- THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY City of Industry, CA Collectors Publication 196825.00Condition for this magazine is near fine with slight edge wear, slight wear to corners. Magazine is 8 1/2" x 10 3/4"Magazine on the Robert Kennedy assassination in Los Angeles in 1968.00088View Full Details
- GREAT ROBBERIES AND HOW THEY WERE SOLVED75.00
1965
Vol 1, No. 1. New York Male Publishing Corp. 1965About very good with some edge wear, some tanning to pages, some wear to corners, some light scuffing back cover.
82 pages with photos.Magazine size is 8 1/2First, and I believe only, issue of this magazine on great robberies, with articles on the Brinks Job, England's Great Train Robbery, the Stern Gang and more.00148View Full Details - RACKETS45.00
June 1956
Volume 1, Number 1 New York 148 Publishing Corp. 1956Magazine is in good+ with edge wear, couple small tears along edges, some browning to pages, slight roll along the spine.
64 pages.Magazine, size is 8First issue of this 1956 magazine dedicated to protecting the consumer from rip-offs. This issue has articles on auto repairs, fake chinchilla furs, weight-reducing scams. This magazine contains some pretty questionable ads itself.00165View Full Details - FRAUDS AND RACKETS45.00
November 1955
Volume 1, Number 10 New York 147 Publishing Corp. 1955Magazine is in good+ condition with small chip front cover right corner, some edge wear and wear to spine ends, some tanning to pages.
66 pages.Magazine, size is 8 1/4Starting with this issue Rackets Magazine became Frauds and Rackets. This issue has articles on phony insurance, Harry M. Hoxsey cancer scammer, what is really in those candy bars, key switch racket, and more.00166View Full Details - POLICE DETECTIVE30.00
June 1970 New York Rostam Publishing, Inc. 1970Magazine is in very good condition with some edge wear, some wear to corners and spine ends, couple very small tears to edges.
82 pages.Magazine, size is 8 1/4" x 11"True crime magazine from the 1970s.00169View Full Details - BAADER-MEINHOF GROUP, THE30.00
THE INSIDE STORY OF A PHENOMENON London Bodley Head 1987First English editionHardcover book in very good condition with dustjacket. Jacket has some edge wear, some wear to jacket corners and spine ends. Some tanning to the pages.
559 pages with photos.Hardcover with dustjacket, book size is 6 1/4" x 9 1/2".The history of the West German terrorist group.01103View Full Details - CHICAGO GANG LAND THE TRUE STORY OF CHICAGO CRIME Chicago Chicago Tribune (1929)485.00Condition is good only with soiling and scuffing to covers, wear to corners and spine ends, soiling to some of the pages as well, first page has some nick right side.
87 pages with photos.8vo. (6” x 9”), illustrated wrappers.From the Foreword, "Here begins the story of the gangsters of boozedom and what they have done to Chicago. It is the story of quiet, sinister John Torrio; boisterous, brutal Dean O'Banion; slick Al Capone, and the ruthless Genna brothers, ...01647View Full Details
"It is important to see them as they are - criminals in business and business men in crime, pimps and bawdy house keepers and safecrackers turned bootleggers - and not as just cheery racketeers whom supposedly reputable officials are not ashamed to palter with and dine with and traffic for votes with.
"So here begins the story which purposes the debunking of the gangsters of boozedom."
A very scarce contemporary look on the roaring twenties, from the beginnings of Prohibition to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, of Chicago by James O’Donnell Bennett for the Chicago Tribune. - MURDER AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE London Robert Hale 198125.00First editionCondition of this hard cover book is fine with jacket. Jacket has slight edge wear, slight scuffing to jacket.
158 pages with photos.Book size is 5 3/4" x 8 3/4".Murder conspiracy at Buckingham Palace.01108View Full Details - THE EMPTY ROBE15.00
THE STORY OF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JUDGE CRATER New York Dell 1964First printingCondition for this paperback is very good+ with slight edge wear to corners, some wear to top of spine, some tanning to pages.
159 pages (no photos).Paperback"The most famous and baffling case of the century..."00297View Full Details - SWINDLE! A DECADE OF CANADIAN STOCK FRAUDS Canada Gage Publishing 197525.00Condition of this book is fine with jacket in very good+ condition. Edge wear to jacket, a few creases to jacket.
198 pages with index, and photos.Hardcover book size is 6" x 9 1/4"Recounting of Canadian stock frauds. Chapter s on the Mafia's involvement in a Montreal based promotion, Northwest Sports an NHL fraud, and more.00730View Full Details - LEGS DIAMOND New York Belmont Tower Books 197315.00First thus.Paperback is in very good+ condition with some edge wear, some wear to corners and spine ends.
184 pages with photos.Paperback"New York's most famouos playboy gangster - his violent days and wild nights, as he really lived them."00713View Full Details - 1,000,000 DELINQUENTS New York Signet 195725.00First paperback edition. Signet no. D1368Condition is very good+ with some edge wear, some wear to spine ends.Paperback"An expert analyzes juvenile crime in America."00147View Full Details
- CATCH ME BEFORE I KILL MORE New York Pocket Books 195610.00First paperback printing Paperback is in very good condition with some edge wear, slight wear to corners and spine ends, single crease across top of back cover.
357 pages.Paperback"Lucy Freeman reveals the true story behind the most sensational teen-age crime in American history. She tells how and why William Heirens committed hundreds of burglaries and three horrible murders."00399View Full Details - SIX DAYS OR FOREVER? New York Signet 196020.00First printing. "Printed in Canada"Paperback in very good+ condition with slight edge wear, slight wear to corners and spine ends, faded number in marker on base of spine, former owner's name stamp and book? number in pen on first page.
224 pages.Paperback"Darrow versus Bryan -- the clash of titans at the famous 'Monkey Trial' ..." Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes.00263View Full Details - Alcatraz: 1868-1963 New York Pocket Books 196425.001st Paperback edition. Pocket Books no. 50017Near fine with some tanning to pages, very light crease down spine.
211 pages with photos."The extraordinary story of America's super-prison for super-criminals..."00141View Full Details - SEX IN BUSINESS Derby, CT Monarch Books 196435.00Condition for this paperback is fine, with slight indent to back cover top left corner.
159 pages.PaperbackA "serious" study of the sex-sales lady.00096View Full Details - MURDER AT THE HARLEM MOSQUE New York Crown Publishers, Inc. 1977165.00First printing.Hardcover with dustjacket. Condition of dustjacket is good+ with small 1" x 1" chip front cover top near right corner, wear and small tears to jacket at top of spine, wear to jacket corners, couple small tears to jacket at top of back cover. Book is in very good condition with slight indent to bottom right corners.
224 pages with photos.Hardcover with dustjacket, book size is 6" x 9"."A white cop is murdered inside the Harlem Mosque, temple of the militant and hostile Black Muslims. A violent riot floods out into the streets..."01218View Full Details - THE HAND OF HAUPTMANN Plainfield, NJ Hamer Publishing Co. 1937100.00First editionHardcover book is in fine condition with dustjacket in like condition.
362 pages with photos.Hardcover with dustjacket, book size is 6" x 8 3/4""The handwriting expert tells the story of the Lindbergh case."00501View Full Details - DAUGHTERS OF CAIN London Pan 196115.00Paperback in very good condition with some wear to corners, some wear to spine ends and along the spine edges.
(315) pages with photos.Paperback"A new and haunting account of the crimes which led to the scaffold the nine women hanged in Great Britain since 1923."00167View Full Details - PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE. THE ALVIN KARPIS STORY Toronto McClelland & Stewart c. 185.00Hardcover book in near fine condition, with dustjacket in good+ condition. Jacket has edge wear, wear to jacket spine ends, some scuffing to jacket. 256 pages with photos.Hardcover with dustjacket, book size is 6" x 8 1The exploits of former FBI Public Enemy Alvin "Creepy" Karpis.00022View Full Details
- CONSPIRACY OF BROTHERS Toronto Seal Books 198925.005th printingCondition for this paperback is very good with some edge wear, some wear to spine ends, a 6" light crease to back cover, some tanning to pages.
454 pages with photos.Paperback"A shocking true story of murder, bikers, justice and injustice."01185View Full Details - MEMPHIS MURDERS, THE New York Seabury Press 197445.00Hardcover book is in good+ condition with jacket in very good condition. Jacket has edge wear, jacket has chips to extremities and spine ends, book is slightly cocked along spine.
248 pages.Hardcover with dustjacket. book size is 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".A series of gruesome murders strike Memphis in 1969.01104View Full Details - NEWTON BOYS, THE State House Press 199430.00First editionCondition of this book is near fine with jacket. Jacket has slight edge wear and some scuffing. Some fading to jacket along spine.
332 pages with index, and photos.Hardcover book size is 5 3/4" x 8 3/4".The story of the 1920s Outlaw gang. Signed by co-author Middleton.01106View Full Details - THE TRUE AND COMPLETE STORY OF MACHINE GUN JACK MCGURN Leicester, UK Matador c. 200550.00Condition for this softcover book is near fine with slight edge wear and wear to corners.
316 pages with photos.Softcover book, size is 6" x 9 1/4".The so-called true story of one of Al Capone's more infamous killers, Machine Gun Jack McGurn.01217View Full Details - THE CEREMONY. THE MAFIA INITIATION TAPES New York Dell Publishing 199240.00First printing.Paperback is in very good+ condition with slight edge wear, some wear to corners and spine ends.
143 pages with photos.Paperback"The first time ever! Taped transcripts of the mob's most secret ritual." The recording took place in a home in Medford, Massachusetts.01187View Full Details - THE GRIM REAPERS New York Bantam 197210.0010th printing.Near fine with slight edge wear and slight wear to corners.
342 pages.PaperbackEd Reid looks at organized crime throughout the United States.00106View Full Details - THE TRIAL OF AL CAPONE Chicago Robert Ross, Publisher 1933485.00First printing, second issue (first printing, first issue has price of 25¢ printed on the front cover).Condition for this softcover book is better than very good but not quite near fine with a bit of smudging on the back cover, slight edge wear, slight wear to spine ends.
124 pages with photos.8vo., pictorial wrappers.Contemporary coverage of Al Capone's two court trials during the early 1930s in Chicago. The contempt of court, he was convicted, and the trial that put him out of the gangster business the tax evasion trial.01648View Full Details
Scarce publication. - BURKE AND HARE New York Notable Trials Library, Gryphon Editions c. 199640.00Special reprint.Hardcover book in fine condition with "Notable Trials Library" bookplate affixed front free endpaper.
412 pages with illustrations.Hardcover book with no dustjacket as issued, size is 5 3/4" x 8 1/2", 1/2 leather with all gilt edges.Originally published in 1921, in the British Notable Trials series, this reprint special edition is done from the 1948 "New and enlarged" edition.00503View Full Details
The infamous bodysnatchers case from 1820s Scotland. - THE MEMORABLE DUEL AT PERTH Perth, ON Perth Museum 197025.00Condition for this softcover staple-bound book is very good with name in pen on front cover, some edge wear, some wear to spine ends, some wear along the spine.
66 pages.Softcover staple-bound book, size is 6" x 9"History of a duel that took place in Perth Ontario in 1833 between John Wilson and Robert Lyon.00572View Full Details - BARBARIANS ON WHEELS Secausus, NJ Chartwell Books 1977465.00Condition for this hardcover book is near fine with dustjacket which has slight wear top of spine, otherwise is in near fine condition.
160 pages with numerous photos (colour and b/w).4to. (13 1/2" x 9 3/4"), large hardcover with dustjacket."Barbarians on Wheels is an exhaustive documentation of the curious underworld of the motorcycle cult and of the savage gangs which have established themselves firmly as an element of violence in society on both sides of the Atlantic."01486View Full Details
A fascinating look at the biker culture of the 1960s and 1970s.
