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No Second Place Winner

By: Jordan, William H. “Bill”

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Shreveport, LA, W.H. Jordan: 1977

Seller ID: 3907

Binding: hardcover

Condition: near fine

Hardcover with dust jacket, blue cloth with gilt titles, 15.8 by 23.4 cm, 114 pp., well-illustrated with black and white photographs. The hardcover is near fine; the jacket is good with the jacket is good with minor rubbing and light edge wear and tears. Written after thirty years of federal service in the U.S. Border Patrol, “Be first or be dead … there is no second place winner in a gun fight! And the subject of this book is the way and means to stay alive when using guns in mortal combat. Primarily written as the law-enforcement officer’s combat text book, it is also fascinating re...
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Life and Death in Sing Sing

By: Lawes, Lewis E.; Adolph Lewisohn, foreword

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Star Books (Garden City Publishing Co.): 1928

Seller ID: 3904

Binding: hardcover

Condition: fair

Black cloth with red titles, lacks dust jacket, 14.5 by 21 cm, xvii 267 pp., illus. Fair with soiling to the boards and light wear at the extremities. An in depth look at life within New York’s Sing Sing prison by its then warden. With chapters on crime – what is it?; the criminal – who and why?; Sing Sing prisoners – past and present; within Sing Sing walls; honor among thieves; getting the gate; why I changed my mind; face to face with death; and Sing Sing’s early history.
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Walking the Beat: A New York Policeman Tells What It’s Like on His Side of the Law [Inscribed]

By: Radano, Gene

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cleveland/New York, The World Publishing Company: 1968

Seller ID: 3905

Binding: hardcover

Condition: very good

Hardcover with dust jacket, grey cloth with dark grey spine titles, 14.3 by 21.4 cm, 192 pp. The hardcover is very good with only faint wear at the head and tail of the spine; the jacket is good with light edge wear and a few tiny tears and some light rubbing. Inscribed and signed by the author on the ffep: “6/6/69 To --- With best wishes / Gene Radano.” A look inside the New York police by a twenty-year veteran of the force. From the front flap: “Every man must adjust to the realities of life, but for the cop on the beat those realities are vastly different from those faced by the o...
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The Police Journal: A Quarterly Review for the Police Forces of the Empire, Volume XXIII, 1950 [Acid Bath Murders]

By: The Police Journal

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, The Police Journal: [1950]

Seller ID: 3900

Binding: hardcover

Condition: very good

Blue cloth with silver spine titles, 14 by 21.2 cm, vii 320 pp., illus. Very good with light bumping and wear at the extremities. A bound volume of all four issues of The Police Journal from 1950. Each issue contains interesting arrests and case reports, judicial verdicts, and articles on handling evidence, human resource-type discussions, accidents, investigation techniques, the latest equipment, articles on the burgeoning field of scientific investigation, fingerprinting, and well-written murder reposts that true crime junkies will love – sometimes with photos. This volume includes a d...
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The Police Journal: A Quarterly Review for the Police Forces of the Empire, Volume XXIV, 1951

By: The Police Journal

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, The Police Journal: [1951]

Seller ID: 3901

Binding: hardcover

Condition: very good

Blue cloth with silver spine titles, 14 by 21.2 cm, vii 320 pp., illus. Very good with bumping and wear at the extremities and some small splits at the head of the spine. A bound volume of all four issues of The Police Journal from 1951. Each issue contains interesting arrests and case reports, judicial verdicts, and articles on handling evidence, human resource-type discussions, accidents, investigation techniques, the latest equipment, articles on the burgeoning field of scientific investigation, fingerprinting, and well-written murder reposts that true crime junkies will love – sometim...
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The Police Journal: A Quarterly Review for the Police Forces of the Commonwealth, Volume XXV, 1952

By: The Police Journal

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, The Police Journal: [1952]

Seller ID: 3902

Binding: hardcover

Condition: very good

Blue cloth with silver spine titles, 14 by 21.2 cm, vii 304 pp., illus. Very good with light bumping and wear at the extremities and a stamp on the ffep. A bound volume of all four issues of The Police Journal from 1952. Each issue contains interesting arrests and case reports, judicial verdicts, and articles on handling evidence, human resource-type discussions, accidents, investigation techniques, the latest equipment, articles on the burgeoning field of scientific investigation, fingerprinting, and well-written murder reposts that true crime junkies will love – sometimes with photos. ...
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Massachusetts Police Procedures [Signed]

By: White, Albert B.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New Bedford, MA, Reynolds Printing Co. for Albert White: 1931

Seller ID: 3903

Binding: hardcover

Condition: good

Grey cloth with blue titles, 16 by 23.4 cm, 492 [1] pp. Light wear to the spine titles, a few small stains on the covers, and a light punk dampstain on the inside of the fore-edge of the back cover and fore-edge of the textblock (see image). Inscribed and signed by the author: “A souvineer [sic] of New Bedford. May 7, 1935. Compliments of Mass Police Ass’n., Albert B. White treas.” A rather in depth, though plainly written manual on police procedures, including an interesting glossary of terms incase you wanted to know the difference between fornication and seduction or a tramp and va...
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Category: Law & Order

No Second Place Winner

Life and Death in Sing Sing

Walking the Beat: A New York Policeman Tells What It’s Like on His Side of the Law [Inscribed]

The Police Journal: A Quarterly Review for the Police Forces of the Empire, Volume XXIII, 1950 [Acid Bath Murders]

The Police Journal: A Quarterly Review for the Police Forces of the Empire, Volume XXIV, 1951

The Police Journal: A Quarterly Review for the Police Forces of the Commonwealth, Volume XXV, 1952

Massachusetts Police Procedures [Signed]