First Edition. A dictionary of 430 terms, compiled by Portland's Chief of Police with the assistance of C. R. Hellyer of the City Detective Department of the Portland police. Concludes with an essay about reducing retail theft and other crimes of opportunity. An unusual Oregon imprint. "John Hancock: noun, current.....

This is the book designer's personal copy given to Michael Russem by Paul Suntup in acknowledgement of his work on the edition. The Numbered edition of 350 copies is a quarter goatskin binding with printed sides from a design by Claire Guillot. Endsheets are Hahnemühle Bugra and the edition is.....

First Edition. A substantial biography of the outlaw who met his end from a Texas Ranger's bullet in Round Rock, Texas, just north of Austin. "One of the most authentic of all outlaw biographies, this is by far the best account of any Texas badman. Walter Prescott Webb said it.....

Second Printing. An English-language translation of the second volume of Niisato's cautionary series "portraying the hardships and tragedies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants." This second volume "touches upon Nisei delinquency and runaways" (A Buried Past, 520). Among the stories told are of Umekichi Tanaka, a Nisei Christian sentenced to.....

First Edition. Biographical sketches of Western American gunfighters. "This book has become a standard work and is reliable on most points"—Adams, Six-guns, 530. xx, 441, [1: blank] pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy with a bit of spotting and shelfwear to the publisher's coarse blue cloth stamped.....

First Edition. 599 pages. An anthology of writings and publications by the leaders of the Red Army Faction, the violent, radical leftist group that bombed government targets in Germany in the 1970s. The organization, often known as the Baader-Meinhof Group after the surnames of its founders, was banned in West.....