Search Results: Their Majesties the Mob by John W Caughey

university of chicago press, 1960. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Light edgewear to jacket..

The Universe of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. ex Library/No Dust Jacket. 400 g; XII, 214 pages, includes bibliography, index, library pocket on rear paste down, "Police College" rubberstamp to rear end page, front end page, half title page. Dewey decimal number on rear end page and written in white on the spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine section, and to the top corners of the boards. Original bookseller's sticker on front paste down. Top edge of text block tinted red. Quite a presentable copy, the study which began with the purpose of analyse vigilante process as it had operated in the course of an American century. The introduction has that framework, and the documentary section, though assembled chronologically and with its Alnwick dates intact, is a cross-section of the evidence analysed. The method of the book thus is simple. Its findings are equally transparent. They are that, whatever temptation to escape the… Read More

The University of Chicago Press, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The University of Chicago Press, 1960. hbk 213pp lacks dj boards rubbed at spine now in custom acetate jacket otherwise a very good clean tight unmarked copy

(Chicago): The University of Chicago Press, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. xi, 214pp. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with the extremities lightly worn. An examination of the 'special flowering of vigilantism on the American frontier'. Including: "The Hanging of Juanita" by David P. Barstow, "The Execution of Dave Brown" by Harris Newmark, and much more.

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1960, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This Western Americana historian writes about "the vigilante impulse in America," this is an Author Presentation/Association Copy being inscribed to Western writer and publisher, J. Wilson McKenney, noting that if he had known of McKenney's own work on vigilantes that "it would have stood very well at pages 132-135". Minor wear to jacket extremities, else fine.

[Chicago] University Of Chicago Press [1960], 1960. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a very good, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 213 pages; Complete with a comprehensive bibliography. Description: 214 p. 23 cm. Subjects: Lynching --United States. Mobs --United States.

1960. CAUGHEY, John W. THEIR MAJESTIES THE MOB. [Chicago]: University of Chicago Press, [1960]. 8vo., cloth in dust jacket; 214 pages. First Edition. A study of the vigilante process past and present, with more than 50 documents comprising a living record of vigilantism. Signed presentation from Caughey on the front endpaper, to the chancellor of his university: "To Vern Knudsen with warmest regards, here's a bit of revisionist history, harvested during your chancellorship. John Caughey." Knudsen was the Chancellor of UCLA from 1959 to 1960, while Caughey was a professor there and when this book was published. A nice association copy! Near fine; little edgewear d/j. $85.00.