Search Results: True Crime from Mary Riversong Books

By Oscar Wilde. Ballad of Reading Gaol (The Golden Books) Barse & Hopkins NY. Undated, circa 1910. POETRY. RARE EDITION with printed dedication related to the prison period in Wilde's biography - "In Memoriam C.T.W. Sometime trooper of the royal horse guards OBIIT H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire, July 7, 1896". USED. Good condition/ no DJ if issued. Gray paper boards with gold titling and ornamentation as shown in this stock photo. 4 ÂĽ X 7. 30 deckle-edge pages. Ships from United States.

Blind Ambition. By Former White House Counsel John Dean. Simon and Schuster First Edition, 6th Impression thus. Used. VG Condition? Good price-clipped Dust Jacket. 415 pages, indexed. A VERY TIMELY TITLE. Summary: HISTORICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY. WATERGATE SCANDAL. "As White House counsel to Richard Nixon, a young John W. Dean was one of the primary players in the Watergate scandal—and ultimately became the government's key witness in the investigations that ended the Nixon presidency."

Sinclair, Upton. Boston: A Novel. Complete in two volumes by Upton Sinclair. The Sacco & Vanzetti Case. Albert and Charles Boni, NY. 1928 1st Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust jackets included. Green, embossed Independence Hall with golden dome front boards. Pages no longer bright. Please see our photos. Based on the true story of Industrial Age Massachusetts. Per Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. site. "The trial resulted from the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, of F.A. Parmenter, paymaster of a shoe factory, and Alessandro Berardelli, the guard accompanying him, in order to secure the payroll that they were carrying. On May 5 Sacco & Vanzetti , two Italian anarchists who had immigrated to the United States in 1908, one a shoemaker and the other a fish peddler, were arrested for (and later executed for) the crime..the two men were sentenced to death on April 9, 1927."

Law West Of The Pecos: The Story of Judge Roy Bean. Text of the original manuscript. Copyright 1936,1967 Sixth Printing Thus, The Naylor Company, San Antonio. Texas. Used.
Very Good/ Good unclipped original dust jacket. $2.00 price on front flap. A History of Texas. Summary: Biography. "Here for the first time all the Roy Bean stories, in addition to all the facts of his life and career have been brought together in permanent form. Every fact pertaining to the life of Roy Bean will be found in this volume". A nice find. Includes a bonus vintage linen postcard of a photo of "the Jersey Lilly" , rebuilt as a set for the Gary Cooper film.

Lowndes, Marie Belloc. The Lodger. Scribner's Original Copyright 1913. The Readers League of America Edition, Stated 9th Printing Thus, January, 1945. A terrifying tale of Jack the Ripper. Summary: The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog; original source material for the Directed by, Alfred Hitchcock ; Screenplay by, Eliot Stannard ; Based on "The Lodger", 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes. USED. Good- condition/ No DJ is Included. Black boards with large yellow titling on spine and front panel. 305 pages, TONED. 5 1/8 X 7 ½. RARE. Please see stock photo of similar binding to ours. Large gold titling on ours on front panel and spine.

Mata Hari: Courtesan And Spy. 1930, Blue Ribbon Books Photoplay Edition featuring actress Greta Garbo. Coulson, Major Thomas, OBE. BIOGRAPHY. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 312 pages 5 Âľ X 8 3/8. BIOGRAPHY. Summary "Femme Fatale Mata Hari's True Story Remains a Mystery 100 Years After Her Death. Mata Hari (1876-1917), real name Gertrude Margarete Zelle. Dancer on French stage, executed as a spy by the French. Please see our stock photos. " HARD TO FIND.

Nullification and Secession in the United States. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. By Edward Payson Powell. Uncommon/ rare in this 1897 FIRST EDITION+, AND IN THIS TITLE IN GENERAL. TRUE FIRST EDITION. Please see our photos. USED. VG-/ No Dust Jacket included if issued. Brown cloth boards with bright gilt titling and ornamentation. No topstain. 461 pp. "A study of secession and nullification movements in the United States from the Nullification Resolutions of 1798 to the American Civil War. The plot for a northern confederacy (1803-04), the Burr plot (1805-1806), New England nullification and the Hartford Convention (1812-1814), and South Carolina's attempts at nullification in 1832 are also considered. Powell [1833-1915] goes on to propose that the secession of the southern states in 1861 was not a unique event in American history, but the culmination of a tradition as old as the nation. Indeed, he argues, it was an expression of the "intense individualism which was most potent factor in the… Read More

Shapiro, Harry L. The Pitcairn Islanders (aka The Heritage of the Bounty) Simon And Schuster, First Clarion Printing Thus, 1968. USED. Good condition. Softcover. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY. POLYNESIA, SOUTH SEAS, TAHITI. "An account of the colony which the nine mutineers of the H.M.S. Bounty founded on Pitcairn Island in 1790. Provides an in-depth analysis of culture contact between the English and Tahitians. Written with thoroughness and candor." VERY hard to find in USA. 297 pages Indexed, 5 3/8 X 8 ÂĽ. Will ship from Oregon.