Search Results: Law & True Crime from Ainsworth Books

New York: Viking. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0670806064 . DJ and boards show shelf wear, with light chipping and short tears and creasing head of spine. Remainder stamp bottom page edges ; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Photographs; 9.5 X 6.5 X 1.7 inches; 438 pages; Re-creates the social and political climate of the time and dramatically re-evaluates the roles of the police, the judiciary, and others in a study of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case and the subsequent execution of Richard Hauptmann for the crime. .

Portland, OR: BLS Publishing Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show light shelf wear. Moisture stain on inside front DJ panel, doesn't show through, scuffing on back panel of DJ ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 186 pages .

New York: Harpercollins Publishers Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 0060394072 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W Photographs ; 6.5 X 1.25 X 9.5 inches; 426 pages .

Surrey, BC: Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd. Very Good. 2000. First Edition. Softcover. 1894384113 . Card covers show very light shelf wear and corner curl. Some spotting of page fore edges ; A bright, solid book, card covers are clean and crisp.; 8.40 X 5.50 X 0.70 inches; 236 pages; "Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith was the victim of a 1924 tragedy that ignited racial tension in a very young Vancouver. At the core of the issue were the mysterious circumstances surrounding Smith's death, particularly the fact that the only other adult in the house at the time was the Chinese houseboy. When Smith's death was followed by the assassination of Davie Lew, a well-known Chinese man, it only strengthened the European view that Vancouver's Asian community was a hotbed of violence and corruption.Newspaper editors and most of Vancouver's white community raised an outcry, charging the police with incompetence and demanding arrests, while Presbyterian indignation called for law… Read More

Langley, BC: Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Boards show shelf wear, with tape repair on upper spine area. DJ is in poor shape with large 2" wide section missing from top back panel; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 248 pages; This book is broken up into five parts: Part one goes back to the 1600s, fighting the aboriginal population for the land, the siege at the Long Sault, the defence of Fort Vercheres etc., part two deals with the French - English wars such as Louisbourg, the Plains of Abraham etc., part three comes forward to the War of 1812. Part four deals with the problems of a growing country the French population of Quebec becoming restless under the largely English government, the Battle of Ridgeway also known as the Fenian uprising. Part five deals with the problems of a population spreading west , problems with Riel and the… Read More

New York: Touchstone Books. Very Good+. 1996. 1st Thus. Paperback. 0684824477 . Card covers show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book.; Trade PB; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 701 pages; "Bergreen shows the seedy and glamorous sides of the age, the rise of Prohibition, the illicit liquor trade, the battlefield that was Chicago. Delving beyond the Capone mythology. Bergreen finds a paradox: a coldblooded killer, thief, pimp, and racketeer who was also a devoted son and father; a self-styled Robin Hood who rose to the top of organized crime. Capone is a masterful portrait of an extraordinary time and of the one man who reigned supreme over it all, Al Capone." .

Vancouver BC: Arsenal Pulp Press. Very Good+. 2016. First Edition. Softcover. 1551526298 . Card covers show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book. B&W photographs ; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 182 pages; "Cold Case Vancouver delves into fifty years of some of Vancouver's most baffling unsolved murders. In 1953, two little boys were found murdered in the city's storied Stanley Park, and who remain unidentified to this day. In 1975, a country singer was murdered just as she was on the verge of an amazing career. And in 1994, Nick Masee, a retired banker with connections to the renegade Vancouver Stock Exchange, disappeared along with his wife Lisa, their bodies never found. Cold Case Vancouver is an intriguing whodunit for true-crime aficionados and armchair detectives." .

Surrey, BC: Hancock House Pub Ltd. Very Good+. 1999. Third Printing. Paperback. 0888393210 . Card cover show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book. Colour photos. ; Trade PB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 361 pages; "The tangled path of a crazed fugitive leads through the wilds, the courts, and eventually ends on the final trail. The incredible diaries of Michael Oros outline his thoughts, actions, and reactions throughout his 13-year descent into madness. Michael Oros' confiscated diaries, with entries faithfully kept right to the time an Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) bullet ended his life, chronicle this tragic story, including the murder of RCMP Constable Michael Joseph Buday." .

Toronto: Prospero Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. Facsimile. Hardcover. 1552671429 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 428 pages; "Samuel Benfield Steele was born Orillia, Ontario, in 1851. Orphaned in his early teens. he joined the Canadian Militia, fought against the Fenians, and was on the Red River Expedition against Louis Riel's Metis. He joined the new North-West Mounted Police and took part in the epic march west to Fort Edmonton. In his career with the NWMP he was involved in many of the historic episodes of the Canadian West - the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the North-West Rebellion of 1885, the Gold Rush of 1898... From 1899 to 1901 he fought in the South African War and spent the next five years in the South African Constabulary, returnining to Canada in 1907 (where this autobiography ends). (jacket blurb) .

New York: Arco Publishing Company, Inc. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 0668018976 . DJ spine faded, shows edge wear, the book , only light wear, remnant of previous owner's address label on half title page. ; A tight solid book. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 1.1 x 8.5 x 5.6 Inches; 207 pages; "The chilling true stories behind 20 infamous assassinations including the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King" .

New York: Hachette Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2017. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0316399051 . Only slight wear ; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W and color photos ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 336 pages; "A revelatory account of the cloak-and-dagger Israeli campaign to target the finances fueling terror organizations--an effort that became the blueprint for U.S. efforts to combat threats like ISIS and drug cartels." .

New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First English Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth boards show some shelf wear, sun-faded on spine, corners bumped. ; A tight solid book, hinges intact. B&W photos and map, This was first released in Danish as Helvedet Hinsides Havet. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 297 pages; The author has taken the notes from Convict #44,792 and turned them into a startling autobiography of a man suddenly thrust into a life of penal servitude. The subject's name is never revealed. .

Toronto: HarperCollins. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002000245 . DJ and boards show very light shelf wear. Some yellowing of pages.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 466 pages .

London: Black Dog Publishing Ltd.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 1908966769 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. B&W and colour photographs throughout. ; Square Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 174 pages; A largely photgraphic record of life in the Kingston Penitentiary during its final months .

Tyne Valley, PEI: Geoffrey Robinson & Dorothy Robinson. Very Good+. 1995. Fifth Edition. Softcover. 0969194390 . Card covers show some shelf wear, small notation on front fly leaf. ; A bright, solid book.; B&W Illustrations; 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.4 inches; 136 pages; "Between 1920 and 1941, many hundreds of vessels of all shapes and sizes scurried up and down the Atlantic coast taking alcohol, in one form or another, to the United States and Canada. The quantity of liquor involved was so large that it boggles the mind to think of it. Take a minute or so to look at page II, an extract of the Special Parliamentary Committee on the Department of Customs and Excise which sat in 1926. It lists the alcoholic drinks that passed through Halifax over the period of a few weeks in 1925. Some of it was of Canadian origin, produced for export, while the remainder was direct from Europe, being loaded on smaller ships. The destinations are, of course, all false as most of the vessels were en route… Read More

New York: Crown. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 0609608738 . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 337 pages; "Here in one volume are Dominick Dunne's mesmerizing tales of justice denied and justice affirmed. Whether writing of Vicki Morgan's hideous death; Claus von Bülow's romp through two trials; the media frenzy of Los Angeles in the age of O.J. Simpson; the death by fire of multibillionaire banker Edmund Safra in Monaco; or the ominous silence surrounding the death of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the indictment — decades later — of Michael Skakel, Dominick Dunne tells it honestly and tells it from his unique perspective. His search for the truth is relentless. " .

Toronto: Hanover Square Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. 133591403X . Only slight wear ; A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; 9.3 X 6.4 X 1.2 inches; 400 pages; "No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of President Kennedy, a troubled nightclub owner named Jack Ruby quietly slipped into the Dallas police station and assassinated the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Millions of Americans witnessed the killing on live television, and yet the event would lead to questions for years to come. It also would help to spark the conspiracy theories that have continued to resonate today. Under the long shadow cast by the assassination of America’s beloved president, few would remember the bizarre trial that followed three months later in Dallas, Texas. How exactly does one defend a man who was seen pulling the trigger in front of millions? And, more important, how… Read More

New York: The Dial Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1961. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, with short tears and light chipping. Previous owner's name on front pastedown.; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 597 pages .

New York: Scribner. Very Good. 2011. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 074327704X . Card covers show light shelf wear, shallow crease full length of front cover. ; A bright, solid book. Illustrated with B&W plates ; Trade PB; 5.5 X 1.26 X 8.4375 inches; 468 pages; "A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages." .

Regina, SK: Your Nickel's Worth Publishing. Very Good+. 2016. First Edition. Softcover. 1927756650 . Signed by Author; Very light soiling to page edges, otherwise crisp. ; A bright, solid book. Signed by the author on the title page. ; 8.4 X 5.9 X 0.7 inches; 188 pages .