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MASTERPIECES OF MURDER - The Best True Crime Writing from the Greatest Chroniclers of Murder
Goodman, Jonathan (editor) (Edmund Pearson; William Cooper; Frederick Lewis Allen; Jonathan Goodman; Walt Whitman; David Bowen; Jeffrey Bloomfield; Alexander Woolcott; Albert Borowitz; William Roughead; Damon Runyon; A. E. Housman; Webb Miller; Judd Gray)
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Da: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, CanadaWF Sandercombe
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Later Printing. 525 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a single crease on the spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: Rules for Murderesses by Edmund Pearson; Scenes from a Murder Trial by William Cooper; The Business Methods of Alphonse Capone by Frederick Lewis Allen; Robert a…nd Ruby by Jonathan Goodman; Death Scene by Walt Whitman; A Prevalence of Victims by David Bowen; The Killer in the Rye by Jeffrey Bloomfield; A Liverpool Tryptych by Richard Whittington-Egan; The Case of the Ragged Stranger by Alexander Woolcott; The Eternal Suspect by Albert Borowitz; Death by Laser Beam by Rayner Heppenstall; Warner's Warning by William Roughead; Arnold Rothstein's Final Playoff by Damon Runyon; Going to See a Man Hanged by William Makepeace Thackery; Farewell Performances by Jonathan Goodman; A Baking at Sing Sing - Anonymous; The Beheading of Bluebeard by Webb Miller; The Culprit by A. E. Housman; Blood Carnival - Anonymous; The Late Mr Ellis by Charles Duff; Three Lifers by Horatio Bottomley; The Affair at Villa Madeira by F. Tennyson Jesse; Judd's Story by Judd Gray; Remarks on Ripperology by Jonathan Goodman; Charles the Ripper by Ivan Butler; The Bloodthirsty Butler by H. B. Irving; Major Armstrong Master of Arts by Robin Odell; The Lizzie Borden Song by Michael Brown; A Spin Across London Bridge by Richard D. Altick; The Death of a Desperado - Anonymous; The Fatal Barney by Peter Cotes; Harvard and Homicide by Thomas M. McDade; Circuit Murders by Lord Cockburn; 41313 NY by Jared L. Manley; The Secret of Moat Farm by Edgar Wallace; Old Man Bender's Orchard by William Bolitho; and The Wallace Case by Jonathan Goodman. Size: 8vo. Book.
Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay [in] Woolcott's Second Reader I [Edition Limited to 50 numbered copies]
Pottle, Frederick A; (James Boswell); [Alexander Woolcott, editor]
Editore: The Viking Press, New York, 1937
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- Prima edizione
Da: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.About Books
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good condition. No jacket. First Edition, Number 20 of 50 copies. New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Lacks spine label else Very Good condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Number 20 of 50 copies, "Especially prepared for the use of those about whom (at the moment of going to press) the editor… is enthusiastic." BOSWELL AND THE GIRL FROM BOTANY BAY, by F. A. Pottle was first published as a separate book [The Viking Press, 1937] and limited to 500 copies. A less expensive alternative is this anthology, where it is included with the addition of new commentary (4 pages) by Alexander Woollcott. This printing of BOSWELL AND THE GIRL FROM BOTANY BAY has the complete text of the original, except for Pottle's preface, end notes, and three illustrations. Also in this anthology [Woolcott's Second Reader] are the following: PREFACE TO "ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS" by Shih Nai-an; THE LADY'S MAID'S BELL by Edith Wharton; JOE by Gustav Eckstein; A CHRISTMAS GARLAND by Max Beerbohm; THE PORTRAIT OF M. M. by D. H. Lawrence; TWO FRIENDS by Willa Cather; CAKES AND ALE, OR, THE SKELETON IN THE CUPBOARD by W. S. Maugham; THE GOLDEN AGE by Kenneth Grahame. Original green cloth. First Edition, Number 20 of 50 copies. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. 558pp.
