Of Murder and Madness
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 463, edges soiled. Inscribed by the author. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 463, edges soiled. Inscribed by the author. More
Charleston: Advantage, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 351, [9] pages. Decorative front cover. No DJ. Footnotes. Map. Illustrations. Inscribed by the authors on the fep. Inscription reads 9-17-2013 To Elizabeth Bancroft Executive Director, AFIO and Patriot. I, Barbara and Bill Winn appreciate your efforts. Thank you and Best Wishes!. Del & Barbara. [Note: Del appears to have signed for Barbara as well and AFIO is the Association of Former Intelligence Officers]. Elizabeth Bancroft, a graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe, was a Director Emeritus of the AFIO. She served on staff and as Executive Director from 2000 thru 2016. She was on the Board of the National Intelligence Study Center, and at the National Historical Intelligence Museum. Foreword by Michael McGovern. Delmar (Del) Spier has served in the US Air Force on active duty and the US Navy Reserves. Del's professional career started with the Aurora Colorado Police Department where he obtained the rank of lieutenant. He held a number of positions there and was named Police Office of the Year by the Colorado Police Officers Association. He then served with the US Department of State, USAID, Office of Public Safety. His assignments in Vietnam included Provincial Police Advisor, Regional Training Officer and Regional Chief of Public Safety in Vietnam. Del went to Afghanistan in 2002 and established a security operation using the Afghan Ministry of Interior Personnel. His security operation grew to be the largest in the country and, the presence of his 5,000-man security force stationed throughout Afghanistan, provided Afghani citizens protection that the Afghan Government could not provide. More
Stanford University, CA: Stanford University Press, 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Cover very worn, with edges worn and corners bumped. Spine worn and torn. Some pages chipped and have tears repaired with tape. Some marks to text noted. 500 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. Contains three monographs. No. 1. The Reform Movement in China, 1898-1912 By Meribeth E. Cameron, Ph.D. (Stanford); No. 2. George D. Herron and the European Settlement by Mitchell Pirie Briggs, Ph.D. (*Stanford); and No. 3. Oriental Crime in California: A Study of Offenses Committed by Orientals in That State, 1900-1927 by Walter G. Beach. George D. Herron (January 21, 1862 – November 9, 1925) was an American clergyman, lecturer, writer and socialist activist. During World War I, Herron broke with the anti-militarist Socialist Party of America, became a self-assigned diplomat and filed regular intelligence reports on German public opinion to the American and British governments in support of the Allied war effort. In 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson campaigned successfully for re-election under the slogan "He Kept Us Out of War", Herron contended that Wilson was far from neutral towards the European conflict and inferred that he was waiting for the appropriate juncture to enter the United States into the conflict Herron was considered in Europe as among the most reliable interpreters of the intentions of the Wilson administration, an assessment that was only enhanced when Herron's pronouncements came true in April 1917, only the second month of Wilson's second term as President, with American entry into the war. More
New York: Warner Books, 2002. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxviii, 320 p. Index. More
Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing Company, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 418, illus., endpaper map, slight wear and soiling to DJ. More
New York: Pocket Books, 1990. First Edition. First Printing. 291, illus., minor wear and soiling to DJ The community of Midlothian, Texas, was shattered by the cold-blooded murder of a young undercover policeman, committed by some of Midlothian's own teens. More
Place_Pub: New York: The Viking Press, 1976. First? Edition. First? Printing. 339, some wear and soiling to DJ, a few page corners creased The life of America's most famous bank robber who never injured a soul as he took on almost a hundred banks and who also escaped three of America's most escape-proof penitentiaries. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1989. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 375, illus., ink name on front endpaper, damp stain inside DJ, front endpaper somewhat warped. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1989. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 375, illus., black mark on bottom edge. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1989. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 375, illus., some sticker residue on DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York, NY: The Economist Newspaper Limited, Jan. 4th, 2020. First Printing Thus. Magazine. 66, ]2] pages, counting covers. Page 29 creased. Cover story is "Poles apart; China, America and the planet's biggest break-up". Also contains stories on America, Iran,and Iraq; Brazil; Criminal justice; Chinese students in America; U.S. Suburbs and the election; Australia's inferno; How America looks from Beijing; and Middle East & Africa. In an article on Predicting 2020, the Economist's graphic shows forecasts for the year ahead based on markets and models, from Donald Trump's chances of re-election (46%) to whether Sweden will win the Eurovision Song Contest (9%). More
New York: Pocket Books, c1990. First Printing. 25 cm, 430, illus., DJ torn at bottom of rear flap, black and white photographs of Roberta Lee and Bradley Page laid in. More
Fiddletown, CA: Leon W. Thompson, 1995. Hardcover First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. [8], 332 pages. Illustrations. Inscribed by the author on fep. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The autobiography of Leon (Whitey) Thompson, a former Alcatraz inmate. The author recounts his experiences in prison, and later working with young offenders at the California Youth Authority. Forward by John Martin, Park Historian, Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The United States Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz was acquired by the United States Department of Justice on October 12, 1933, and the island became a federal prison in August 1934. Alcatraz was designed to hold prisoners who continuously caused trouble at other federal prisons. At 9:40 am on August 11, 1934, the first batch of 137 prisoners arrived at Alcatraz, arriving by railroad from the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas at Santa Venetia, California, before being escorted to Alcatraz, handcuffed in high security coaches and guarded by some 60 special FBI agents, U.S. Marshals and railway security officials. Most of the prisoners were notorious bank robbers and murderers. The prison initially had a staff of 155, including the first warden James A. Johnston and associate warden J. E. Shuttleworth, both considered to be "iron men". The staff were highly trained in security, but not rehabilitation. More
Fiddletown, CA: Winterbook Publisher, 1991. Reprint Edition. Ninth Printing. 22 cm, 415, wraps, illus., covers somewhat worn, soiled, and corner creased. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: The Free Press, 2002. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 306 p. Select Bibliography. More
New York: Macmillan, c1987. First Printing. 25 cm, 401, some wear and soiling to DJ, minor wear to boards and edges. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, [1974]. First Printing. 24 cm, 424, bibliography, index, ink circle at table of contents, DJ worn, torn, and soiled. More
New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987. Reprint. Sixth printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [12], 431, [5] pages. Signed by author. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ. Signed on half-title. DJ has some wear and soiling. Presumed Innocent, published in August 1987, is Scott Turow's first novel, which tells the story of a prosecutor charged with the murder of his colleague, an attractive and intelligent prosecutor, Carolyn Polhemus. It is told in the first person by the accused, Rožat "Rusty" Sabich. A motion picture adaptation starring Harrison Ford was released in 1990. The novel begins with the discovery of Polhemus dead in her apartment, the victim of what appears to be a sexual bondage encounter gone wrong, killed outright by a fatal blow to the skull with an unknown object. Rusty Sabich is a prosecutor and co-worker of Carolyn and is assigned her case by the district attorney. Everything is complicated by the fact that Rusty is an ex-lover of Carolyn's. The novel follows the eventual discovery of their affair and Rusty's trial for her murder. Many of the minor characters in Presumed Innocent also appear in Turow's later novels, which are all set in the fictional, Midwestern Kindle County. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 1998? 27, wraps, illus., glossary. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 1999. 62, wraps, illus. More
Washington, DC: Department of the Treasury, 1996. 66, wraps, illus., diagrams, glossary, slight wear and soiling to covers. P3312.2 (9/96). More
Washington, DC: FBI, 1995. 28 cm, 87, wraps, illus. More
Washington, DC: FBI, 1995. 27 cm, 32, wraps, illus., two staples removed from cover, mailing label removed from rear cover. More
Washington, DC: FBI, 1997. 27 cm, 32, wraps, illus., two staples removed from front cover, mailing label removed from rear cover. More