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Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff yellow wrappers. 85pp. Very good. Tight, clean and nice issue of this compilation of controversial articles "from recent (since 1947) issue of Harper's Magazine, chose for their durability and variety of interest." Includes John Dickson Carr's "When Conan Doyle Was Sherlock Holmes," Henry Steele Commager's "Who Is Loyal to America?," Lincoln Kirstein's "The State of Modern Painting" and Isaac Rosenfeld's "The Misfortunes of the Flapjacks," among others.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. 525 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a single crease on the spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: Rules for Murderesses by Edmund Pearson; Scenes from a Murder Trial by William Cooper; The Business Methods of Alphonse Capone by Frederick Lewis Allen; Robert and Ruby by Jonathan Goodman; Death Scene by Walt Whitman; A Prevalence of Victims by David Bowen; The Killer in the Rye by Jeffrey Bloomfield; A Liverpool Tryptych by Richard Whittington-Egan; The Case of the Ragged Stranger by Alexander Woolcott; The Eternal Suspect by Albert Borowitz; Death by Laser Beam by Rayner Heppenstall; Warner's Warning by William Roughead; Arnold Rothstein's Final Playoff by Damon Runyon; Going to See a Man Hanged by William Makepeace Thackery; Farewell Performances by Jonathan Goodman; A Baking at Sing Sing - Anonymous; The Beheading of Bluebeard by Webb Miller; The Culprit by A. E. Housman; Blood Carnival - Anonymous; The Late Mr Ellis by Charles Duff; Three Lifers by Horatio Bottomley; The Affair at Villa Madeira by F. Tennyson Jesse; Judd's Story by Judd Gray; Remarks on Ripperology by Jonathan Goodman; Charles the Ripper by Ivan Butler; The Bloodthirsty Butler by H. B. Irving; Major Armstrong Master of Arts by Robin Odell; The Lizzie Borden Song by Michael Brown; A Spin Across London Bridge by Richard D. Altick; The Death of a Desperado - Anonymous; The Fatal Barney by Peter Cotes; Harvard and Homicide by Thomas M. McDade; Circuit Murders by Lord Cockburn; 41313 NY by Jared L. Manley; The Secret of Moat Farm by Edgar Wallace; Old Man Bender's Orchard by William Bolitho; and The Wallace Case by Jonathan Goodman. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 492 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Volume 130, Numbers DCCLXXV - DCCLXXVII. Three issues of Harper's Magazine in a later leather binding, with gilt titles and decoration at spine. Leather has only light shelf-wear and edgewear. Spine square. Binding cracked to mull following FFEP; else intact, and sound through text. Bookplate at front paste down, with prior owner's information also rubber-stamped to FFEP. Interior else clean, text unmarked. Including (in the December issue) 'How to Make History Dates Stick,' written and illustrated by Mark Twain.…