New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Signed. First edition, fourth printing. Signed by the author on the front free end paper, inscribed "To my dear W.S.P. / from / John Jack Black / Los Angeles 6-16-26. Very Good. Gilt stamping on spine is sharp and bright. Light edge wear to... More about You Can't Win
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. First edition, first printing. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering; lacking the dust jacket. Good+, with reading creases to spine, light rubbing at spine ends and corners, small spots of discoloration to cloth. Boards dinged along the edges. Previous owner name and price... More about You Can't Win
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1934. First edition, first printing, in apparent second issue jacket. (Jacket price of .75 and front flap states near bottom: "The issuance of this new edition at reduced price is made possible by (a) use of the same plates made for the original edition: (b)... More about Female Convict
New York: Random House, 1965. First edition. Copy #348 of a limited 500 signed by Truman Capote. Publisher's black cloth binding stamped in gilt and red, in original acetate jacket and paper-covered card slipcase. A Fine copy, with just a small bump to top margin of pages. Near Fine acetate... More about In Cold Blood
New York: J. Howard Brown, 1880. First edition. 576 pp. Original yellow cloth lettered in black and gilt, currency-like green and white patterned endpapers. Very Good overall with staining and a few patches of rubbing to front cover, light edge wear, internally near fine with front tissue guard intact, clean... More about Frauds Exposed
New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. First American edition. xiv, 288, [1] pp. Black cloth, front lettered in red, spine in gilt. Fine in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with a little sunning to spine panel, two faint paperclip impressions to top of front panel, little tear near head. A philosophical... More about I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother... A Case of...
New York: Signet, 1962. Signed by author on title page, inscribed to former owner. 224 pp. Wraps. Second printing of the paperback edition. Very Good with newspaper clippings pasted onto last page margin and verso of rear cover, small grease pencil number on back cover, light wear. The 1962 movie... More about Birdman of Alcatraz: The Story of Robert Stroud
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. First edition. ix, 397, [2] pp. Black cloth decorated in blue, red, and gilt, red topstain. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket, edge-worn, rubbed at foot with small dampstain there visible on verso, small creased tear to back panel bottom corner. The... More about The Algiers Motel Incident
Napa City: C.H. Allen and R.E. Wood, 1864. First edition. 56 pp. Woodcut frontispiece and one illustrated plate. Original tan printed wraps. Tiny tear at foot of wrappers, and faint corner crease to outer corner of front wrap with tiny closed tear, else Fine. A very bright copy that looks... More about Life and Confessions of James Gilbert Jenkins: The Murderer of Eighteen Men
New York: Ives Washburn, 1931. First edition. 261 pp. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red, gray patterned endpapers. Fine in Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with small chip in bottom of front panel, a little toning to spine and shelf wear. Jacket is quite attractive. An account of Prohibition-era gangsters... More about Muscling In
Indianapolis & New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1976. First edition. [x], 284 pp. Original half cloth. Near Fine with a little foxing to top edge in unclipped dust jacket with tiny nick in top corner of front panel and another on spine panel, else Fine. An uncommon memoir of international cocaine dealing. More about Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1967. First edition. 317, [1] pp. Wraps. Very Good with foxing to wraps and edges, a little musty, but square with no reading creases to spine. The bestselling autobiography of Robert Beck, covering his days as a pimp. A true-crime classic; the literary equivalent of a.... More about Pimp: The Story of My Life
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1971. First edition. (Stated "First Printing 1971" on copyright page.) 248, (7, ads) pp. Wraps. About Very Good with creased spine, a little foxing to prelims and edges, pen scribble to verso of rear cover, back cover corner crease. A nonfiction collection by the author of Pimp. More about The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
New York: Holloway House, 1973. Inscribed to poet Wanda Coleman on first blank page, "My warmest sentiments to a lovely lady, Wanda Coleman" and signed "R. Beck (Iceberg Slim) 11/19/73." An About Very Good copy with corner crease to front cover, slight staining to wraps, pages toned with age. A.... More about Pimp: The Story of My Life
Montclair: Pegasus Rex Press, 1980. First edition. 277 p. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. Foxing to edges. Dust jacket has light chipping at head and tail, a bit of shelf wear, toning with age, else fine. Original price intact ($12.95). Florida crime author Charles Willeford's contemporary, fictional take... More about Off the Wall: A True Life Novel