[Various locations in California: ca. 1920-1940]. [159] leaves, rectos only. Light wear, some chipping at edges. Some manuscript corrections and annotations. A collection of twelve typescripts by actor and gunslinger Jack Ganzhorn. Ganzhorn (1878-1956) was an Arizona cowboy, soldier, and silent film actor; he also wrote articles and short stories..... More
Albany: Comstock & Cassidy, 1863. 37pp. Original tan printed wrappers. Light chipping and small tears, spine partially perished. Text lightly toned. A report against the Metropolitan Police Force, describing unlawful arrests made by the police in New York City during the Civil War. Among these charges, incidents of which are..... More
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[Kansas City, Mo. 1895-1899]. Ten carte-de-visite photographs, 4 x 2.5 inches or slightly smaller, on thick cardboard mounts, four with partially-printed "rap sheets" on verso, completed in manuscript. Occasional edge and surface wear, as well as generally light dust-soiling. A nice group. A group of ten fabulous mugshot photographs or..... More
[Raleigh, N.C. 1922]. 32pp. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Uniformly toned, minor chipping, faint marginal stain to lower corner throughout. A scarce autobiographical account of Evangelist Moses Laflaver Cummings (1876-1963), beginning with his life of crime in Florida through his conversion to Christianity. Cummings served as a Free Will Baptist..... More
[N.p. ca. 1935]. Photographically illustrated film herald, 12 x 6 inches. Even toning, minor edge wear, short closed tear near top edge. A rare small broadside advertising a true crime presentation including real footage related to the shooting death of famed gangster John Dillinger. This "sensational story," most likely a...... More
St. Louis: A.R. Fleming & Co., 1893. 220pp. including frontispiece. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt. Corners and spine ends lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on front flyleaf. Some staining to several leaves in lower corner. A solid copy of this unusual autobiography of a 19th-century police matron, featuring..... More
[Mineral del Monte: 1775]. [8]pp. Small folio. Stitched. Minor wear at edges. Light toning. Minor darkening and patchy staining at upper corner and along top edge. Fascinating documents of a murder in a colonial Mexican mining town during the late 18th century. Nicolas Gregorio Picazo was killed in the town..... More
Chicago: Coburn & Newman, 1882. Various paginations. Original red cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Corners bumped, extremities rubbed, light soiling. Ownership inscription on front pastedown. Internally clean. A salesman's dummy for this life of the James Brothers, published hot on the heels of Jesse James' death. The work is..... More
[N.p. ca. 1915-1925]. Eight silver gelatin photographs, 5.25 x 2.75 inches, all with pencil annotations on verso. Mild edge wear. An intriguing collection of eight annotated vernacular photographs picturing construction and other work taking place at an unnamed western riverside fort. The manual labor for the project was performed by..... More