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Styles in Crime
by Still, Charles E
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia/New York/London/Toronto: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1938. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A comprehensive & saucy overview of all types of crime that infected New York City in the early decades of the 20th century, noting changing fashions in crime as well as in crime reporting & punishments. The author served as such a reporter for the New York Sun. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1938, in 366 pages with a Frontispiece + 20 duotone photos throughout text. Hardcover 8vo has red cloth-covered boards lettered in black to spine. Though completely clean & unmarked inside, condition is downgraded to VG due to some faded black stains to rear board. Else, pages white & unmarked, binding strong & straight, just a tad of rubbing to extremities & slight corner bumping. NO DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022733
- Title
- Styles in Crime
- Author
- Still, Charles E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia/New York/London/Toronto
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- CRIME CRIMINAL NEW YORK CITY PROHIBITION GANGS VIOLENCE POLICE CORRUPTION VICE PRISON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana-Regional History; Urban/Rural/Regional Studies;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
All books shipped promptly that day or next; tracking # provided on all orders. Refunds issued gladly in accordance with Biblio policies.
About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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