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The American Mafia - Genesis of a Legend

By: Albini, Joseph L.

Price: $28.60

Publisher: New York, Appleton Century Crofts: 1971

Seller ID: Books008550

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

xi, 354 pages. Transpapent laminate peeling from covers. Light foxing to endpapers and edges; half-title mildly soiled. Binding is sound; no inscriptions.
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Henry Moore Smith : The Mysterious Stranger

By: Bates, Walter

Price: $64.35

Publisher: St. John, N.B., John A. Bowes: 1910

Seller ID: Books007593

Binding: wraps

Condition: Good

164 pages, plus two leaves of ads at rear. tanned wraps now crispy with fragility: chipping to front and spine; rear cover lacking a chunk. Interior clean, sturdy and not so fragile. Cover: "A true story of the most remarkable prisoner detained in a jail in New Brunswick, as told by Walter Bates, one time Sheriff of Kings County". Subtitle: "Being an authentic account of the numerous arrests, remarkable doings and wonderful escapes of the most noted road agent who ever pestered the authorities of New Brunswick".
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Henry Moore Smith : The Mysterious Stranger

By: Bates, Walter

Price: $35.75

Publisher: Frederiction, New Brunswick, Centennial Print and Litho: 1979

Seller ID: Books009689

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

164 pages, plus three leaves of ads at rear. Quality facsimile reprint of the 1910 edition issued by John A. Bowes. Light soiling to covers. Binding sound with no spine crease; price in ballpoint top right first leaf, else unmarked.
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Sermons on the Holy Catholic Church and Its Privileges [signed]

By: Bonwell, James

Price: $1,093.13

Publisher: London, Preston, Liverpool, James Burns, Simkin Marshall, Addisons ,, and Bailey: 1843

Seller ID: Books010575

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

xv, 244 pages. Fair condition only, with spine perished and boards all but detached. Foxing to first few and final few leaves, pastedowns grubby. Textblock remains secure. Bookplate of Rev. John Cunningham to front pastedown, with authorial gift inscription to him on verso of front free endpaper. List of subscribers pp xi-xv. An interesting copy of an uncommon work: At time of publication the author was curate of Childwall [Liverpool], in 1845 he was preferred from there to the perpetual curacy of St. Philip's, Stepney - to the library of which he donated this copy [head of title page]. In ear...
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Butterbox Babies

By: Cahill, Bette L.

Price: $60.75

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland - Bantam / Seal: 1994

Seller ID: Books012952

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Good

xii, 244 pages, plus 6 pages of photo plates. Third printing. Spine creased; extremities rubbed. Binding sound; no inscriptions. This book was later expanded and issued by Fernwood in 2007 with subtitle: Baby Sales, Baby Deaths - New Revelations 15 Years Later.
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Image for Raj, Brigand Chief. The true story of an Indian Robin Hood driven by persecution to Dacoity; an account of his life of daring, feats of strength, escapes & tortures, his robbery of the rich & generosity to the poor, his sincere conversion to Christianity

Raj, Brigand Chief. The true story of an Indian Robin Hood driven by persecution to Dacoity; an account of his life of daring, feats of strength, escapes & tortures, his robbery of the rich & generosity to the poor, his sincere conversion to Christianity

By: Carmichael, Amy

Price: $130.63

Publisher: Chicago and New York, Fleming H. Revell: 1926

Seller ID: Books011573

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

312 pages, plus 23 photos on 15 plates. Orange cloth, with titles in green; spine faded. Likely lacking first front free endpaper (one ffep and half-title present). Plate facing p.152 with light creasing, and edgewear re-tipped in. Top edge spotted; binding sound. Printed at Plymouth: Mayflower Press, 1926 [foot of p. 312].
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Behind Canadian Barbed Wire, Alien, Refugee and Prisoner of War Camps in Canada 1914-1946 [signed]

By: Carter, David J.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Calgary, Tumbleweed Press: 1980

Seller ID: Books011254

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

x, 334 pages. Signed by author"with every best wish!" on first leaf. Tideline to top edge of textblock; binding is sound.
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Lunar Rogue

By: Grantmyre, Barbara

Price: $68.75

Publisher: Fredericton, Brunswick Press: 1963

Seller ID: Books011722

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

177 pages. Light wear to jacket, now in a removable archival sleeve. Clean and unmarked in sound binding.
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The Tragedy of Dr. Wilfred E. Harris: The Aylesford-Boston Connection

By: Hampsey, Pat J. and Anne E. McKenna

Price: $40.50

Publisher: Kingston, NS, T & S Printing:

Seller ID: Books012519

Condition: Very Good

v, 74 pages. No stated date of printing. As new.
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The United States Counterfeit Detector, and Teachers' Guide [Heath's Household Edition]

By: Heath, Laban

Price: $12,825.00

Publisher: Boston, Laban Heath: 1870

Seller ID: Books011905

Binding: Quarter Cloth

Condition: Very Good

32 pages. Title continues: The Only Correct Method of Detecting Counterfeit, Spurious, and Altered Bank Notes, Etc., Etc., Applicable to All Banks in the United States and Canadas, with Genuine Designs. Quarter cloth, printed paper over boards. No date on title page; Entered in the year 1870 on colophon, with no alteration. Unrestored binding is sound; all leaves present including blank at front and at rear, six plates including Casilear's patent advertising card [particularly well preserved], and the four micro-telescopic glass figures. Soil and rubbing to covers (advert text on rear panel ob...
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Murder Cases in Pictou County 1811-1950 [signed]

By: Macdonald, Clyde F.

Price: $64.35

Publisher: New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Advocate Printing: 2006

Seller ID: Books009644

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

260 pages. Front cover creased and lower corner of leaves curled. Small spot of soiling to margin of page 11. Warmly inscribed by the author on title page; no other inscriptions; no spine crease.
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A Field of Broken Stones

By: Naeve, Lowell in collaboration with David Weick

Price: $42.90

Publisher: Denver, Alan Swallow: 1959

Seller ID: Books008559

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

231 pages. Spine darkened, covers spotted. Else clean and unmarked in sound binding.
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Newgate of Connecticut; its Origins and Early History. Being a Full Description of the famous and Wonderful Simsbury Mines and caverns, and the Prison Built Over Them.

By: Phelps, Richard H.

Price: $42.90

Publisher: Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company: 1876

Seller ID: Books009377

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

117pp. light wear to boards, corners bumped "to which is added A Relation of all the Incidents, Insurrections, and Massacres, connected with their use as a Prison for the Tories during the Revolution, and otherwise; with interesting Sketches of their Surroundings in (now) East Granby. also, An Illustrated Description of the State Prison at Wethersfield." (from the title page)
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Inside the World's Toughest Prison

By: Ragen, Joseph E. and Finston, Charles

Price: $107.25

Publisher: Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas: 1962

Seller ID: Books008498

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

xii, 927 pages. Light wear overall with indentation to front board, no markings except previous owner's signature to ffep.
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Order Out of Chaos - Elite Sponsored Terrorism and the New World Order

By: Watson, Paul Joseph

Price: $67.50

Publisher: Austin, TX, Alex Jones Productions: 2003

Seller ID: Books012528

ISBN: 0974338109

Binding: Card covers

Condition: Very Good

331 pages. Pencil scoring up to page 32; else unmarked, with no creasing to spine.
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A Treatise on Counterfeit, Altered, and Spurious Bank Notes, with unerring rules for the Detection of Frauds in the Same.

By: Wilber, E. J. & E. P. Eastman

Price: $378.13

Publisher: Poughkeepsie, NY, Published for the authors: 1865

Seller ID: Books011387

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

51 pages plus plates, and pages 3-20 of Making Money from Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Red cloth stamped in blind, with gilt title to front; all edges gilt. Frontispiece and four full page plates. Cloth stained, and rubbed at extremities. Foxing to endpapers, offsetting from plates, and tideline to upper corner of all leaves. Binding is slack, and split at rear. Lacks first leaf of the Harper's article. Old ownership inscription to front free endpaper of one David O. Zook at Eastmans College, Chicago.
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