From Zamboni & Huntington, Bangor, ME, U.S.A.
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San Francisco: James H. Barry Company, 1910. 9 x 6". xii, 657pp. 13 of 14 plates (LACKING plate facing p. 395, "Haymarket riot conspirators"). Original cloth, binding detached but present. First six leaves detached and worn at edges. Poor copy, but text complete. Cowan, A bibliography of the history of California, 1510-1930, p. 187. The first part covers San Francisco cases, including the Broderick-Terry duel; Denis Kearney riots; Laura D. Fair; Theodore Durrant; and "History of the Great Earthquake and Fire from Police and Municipal Records." The second part covers the Pacific coast, including Joaquin Murrieta and Charles Earl Boles ("Black Bart"). Part III, "Celebrated cases east of the Pacific coast," includes the Dalton brothers; Albert Edward Horsley / "Harry Orchard"; William Quantrill, Jesses James, and the Younger brothers; the Haymarket Riot; the murder of Patrick Henry Cronin; Belle Gunness; Herman Webster Mudgett / "H. H. Holmes"; the murders of George Parkman, Helen Jewett, Jim Fisk, and Stanford White; Albert W. Hicks / "Pirate" Hicks; Nathaniel Gordon; and the other usual suspects of 19th and early 20th century sensational crime in the United States. Seller Inventory # 002683
Bibliographic Details
Title: Celebrated criminal cases of America
Publication Date: 1910
Binding: Original cloth
Condition: Poor
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