PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS OF AMERICA. BY THOMAS BYRNES INSPECTOR OF POLICE AND CHIEF OF DETECTIVES NEW YORK CITY. "PRO BONO PUBLICO."
New York: Cassell & Company, [1886]. Large 4to. 36 plates containing 204 numbered photo illustration portraits. [12], 433 pp. Frontis portrait of Byrnes, with original tissue guard. Bound in contemporary half calf [worn, crudely rebacked and separating]. Blank gutters with wear and discoloration. Good+. The Introduction to this first edition..... More
