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Boston: Little, Brown 1927 First Edition 273pp, 5 3/4 x 8 3/4, orange cloth, black lettered titles on spine & cover, hardcover CONDITION: VERY GOOD, very light wear at extremities & a little general age toning o/w an excellent copy, tight & square, near fine condition NOTES - 8 B&W photos. Detailed history of 8 contemporary murder cases.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (viii) 273 pp. Black cloth lettered in red on the front panel and spine; red upper edge; illustrated with black and white plates. Light wear on the corners with a bend at the spine and some minor rubbing on the panels; no dustjacket; previous owner's name in pencil on the front free endpaper; hinges tight; gutters intact. The Contents are: The Poor Rich Boys: Chicago; The Murder of Bobbie Franks; The Confession of Nathan Leopold; The Motive; The Trial Opens; The Psychiatrists Testify; The Magic of Clarence Darrow. The Fakir Who Wrecked a Throne: The Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna; Jekyll and Hyde; The Power Behind the Throne; The Murder of Rasputin; After the Murder. The Murder of the Czar: From Tsarskoe Selo to Tobolsk; Prisoners of the Ural Council; The Death Cellar at Ekaterinburg. The Stockholm Dynamite Murder. The Tragic Melodrama of Steinie Morrison: The Prelude in Sidney Street; The Gentleman… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Photographs. Includes a lengthy chapter providing an important contemporary account of the Leopold and Loeb murder. A clean, unmarked copy in a thick Mylar jacket.

Boston, Little, Brown, And Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling with some minor edgewear. Contains a privately printed library label to front fixed endpaper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 273 pages; Description: viii p. , 1 l. , [3]-273 p. Front. , ports. 23 cm. Impressively illustrated from phoptographs, including a portrait frontispiece. Subjects: Crime and criminals.

Boston, Little, Brown, And Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 273 pages; Description: viii p. , 1 l. , [3]-273 p. Front. , ports. 23 cm. Subjects: Crime and criminals.