Inspector Thomas Byrnes (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Dj a little chipped at tips.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine in glossy wraps; 4to., 433 pp. 1988 Reprint, originally published in 1886. Preface. Photographs of all criminals described, 11 categories of crime, notable forgers, bank robberies, etc. , Introduction by S.J. Perelman.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with no markings, 433pp with B&W portraits. Good clipped DJ with some edge wear and creasing, spine sunned. NB: Copyright 1969 but LoCongress # 77-97780.

Decorated hard cover. Facsimile edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (very light shelf wear) in edge chipped dust jacket (in mylar).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Yellow cloth on boards with black lettering to front board and spine. Light bumping to extremities. The pictorial dust jacket is unclipped, but a little grubby, Two small margin notes in preliminary introduction by Arthur M Schlesinger. Otherwise very clean and tidy throughout. Illustrated with 'mug-shots' of many of the characters featured.1969 reproduction of Inspector Byrnes collection of biographical sketches of 1886 American criminals. A heavy book, that will incur additional carriage charges for non UK customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bound in unmarked clean yellow cloth with clear black titles to spine, this 1988 Reprint, originally published in 1886, is VG in VG Jacket(unclipped). 433pp with Preface, 25 Chapters, Photographs of all Criminals described, 11 Categories of Crime, Notable Forgers, Bank Robberies, Murders, Executions in Tombs Prison, Drugs etc Introduction by S.J. Perelman. Jacket has several tiny closed tears, otherwise VG in VG Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cassell & Company Limited (1886), New York. First printing. Quarto. Publisher's pebbled cloth binding; gilt titles; [viii], 433pp; frontispiece. 35 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates. A tight copy in the original binding; spine and corners exhibiting mild wear; internally clean, complete and unmarked with hinges tight. Very Good. A late-nineteenth century rogues gallery of America's foremost murderers, bank robbers, con men, forgers, embezzlers, and pickpockets. Newspaper cuts relating to a pictured criminal or an event tipped in throughout, together with accompanying marginal ink notes. Written in 1886, Professional Criminals of America contains biographical sketches, including photographs, of some four hundred of the nation's leading criminals. Each profile details the crimes committed and the circumstances leading up to arrest and conviction. Also included are short, informative chapters on criminal methods, executions, opium addiction, fugitives from justice, and prison commutation laws, along with intriguing chapters on mysterious unsolved murders, adventurers and adventuresses, and a list of every prison and state penitentiary in America at the time.

hardcover, Condition: poor, Dillingham & Co., c.1895, (title page has Cassell & Co., c.1896, but spine has Dillingham). 8-1/4"x11-1/4", green decorated cloth, 433pp., + many photos. rear cover & spine are water-damaged, & spine is almost detached along rear hinge. front cover is neat. pages are slightly yellowed, inner hinges cracked, covers poor, contents ow G $.