Crime from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Jaffrey, NH: Jaffrey Historical Society, 1996. PB. very good, wraps (softcover) owner's name and address. Owner's name and address. 176pp.

Gloucestershire, UK: Sutton Publishing, 2001. HC. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0750925841 218pp.

London: Museum Press Limited, 1958. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. 224pp.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) - BCE. B&W illustrations. ISBN 0312088663 Book Club Edition. 298pp.

Jaffrey, NH: Margaret C. Bean, 1989. PB. good, wraps (softcover). It was only through a series of coincidences that the Court Reporter's shorthand notes turned up after more than sixty years. The transcript takes us back to 1919, to the Court House in Keene, where the Attorney General of New Hampshire conducted an eight-day Inquest. The witnesses come… Read more

Columbia, Missouri: Artcraft Press, 1956. HC. very good, green cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. The story of a famous murder in Salem, Massachusetts in 1830 and the trials of John Francis Kanpp and of Joseph Jenkins Knapp. Daniel Webster played a part in those trials, and "his summation in one of those trials is thought by some to be… Read more

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1957. HC. good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. In 1865 and improbable character named Arthur Orton visited a lawyer in the equally improbable frontier town of Wagga Wagga, Australia, setting in motion one of the most preposterous impersonations in history. 288pp.

Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Co, 1974. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0884102114 211pp.

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1995. HC. fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0226808246 "The most comprehensive exposition of research and experience concerning crime prevention ever published." 704pp.

New York: Bloomsbury, 2004. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 1582342288 In September 1891 a masked man boarded the American Express Special train as it sped through New York State and single-handedly stole a fortune. 240pp.

Victoria, Australia: Hutchinson of Australia, 1973. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 09118990X "A social history with a difference: it is an account of the times and crimes of certain of Australia's more colourful villains, the anti-heroes of colonial days." 222pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. HC. good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover). Four famous murder trials examined by the foremost British crime expert." Contents include: The Acquitted: Alma Rattenbury; The Witness: Helen Lambie; The Victim: Harriet Staunton; and, The Enigma: Madeleine Smith. 218pp.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1929. HC. good w/chipped & soiled dustjacket (hardcover) SEE NOTE. B&W illustrations. Among the cases included are those of Mrs. Gordon-Baillie, Laura Bell, Edith Carew, Mary Ann Clarke, Maria Manning, Lola Montez, Cora Pearl, Lavinia Ryves, Henrietta Strangway, and Catherine Walters. CONDITION NOTE Cont: light foxing to endpapers, and loss of small loss of… Read more

Brockton, MA: Forum Press of Brockton, 1970. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). A Documentary Study of the ANTHONY BIMBA TRIAL for Blasphemy and Sedition in Brockton, Massachusetts, 1926. 141pp.

New York: Mallard Press, 1990. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0792452690 Contents include: Al Capone and His Underworld; Lucky Luciano and His Underworld; Infamous Rural and Suburban Outlaws; John Dillinger; Pretty Boy Floyd; Baby Face Nelson; Ma Barker and Her Boys; Machine Gun Kelly; Bonnie and Clyde. 87pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 039456037X The New Orleans adventures of a young novelist covering the trials of the Governor of Louisiana, with digressions on smoldering nightclubs, jazz-crazed bars, and other aspects of life in the tropic zone. 165pp.

New York: Duffield & Company, n.d.. HC. good, blue cloth (hardcover) a few pencil marks. Collection of short stories. Part I--Small Clues To Big Crimes; Part II--Mysteries That Have Puzzled The World; When "Justice" Has Blundered, Innocent People Who Have Been Wrongfully Convicted; Bygone Perils Of The Road, Murder Inns, Smugglers, And Highwaymen; Murder By Post; Historical Crimes… Read more

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1980. HC. very good, rust color cloth (hardcover). B&W tables and figures. ISBN 0891589120 This study presents a comprehensive description and analysis of how much money was actually spent in New York in 1977-1978, at all levels of government, for each of the control systems that incarcerate or supervise criminal offenders/defendants. 160pp. … Read more

Chicago, IL: Finger Print Publishing Assn, 1930. HC. good, blue cloth (hardcover). B&W illustrations. The purpose of this book is to explain and demonstrate that criminal identification and modern scientific secret service methods are based on simple, common-sense facts which are easily mastered by any normal person of average intelligence. 78pp.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934. HC. good, purple cloth (hardcover) light fray top of spine. B&W frontis. 400pp.