Philadelphia: Barclay & Company, 1878. Original printed and illustrated front wrapper [lightly spotted and worn; rear wrapper absent]. Stitched. [2], 19-91, [3- publ. advts] pp. Stitched. Illustrations. Good+. A typically lurid Barclay production. "Hunter had lost $7,000 when he invested in Armstrong's music-publishing company. Thinking to turn his loss into..... More

Middleborough, (County of Plymouth): Printed and Sold by N. Coverly, 1788. 38, [1- publ. advt], [1 blank] pp. Stitched. Lightly foxed and toned. Very Good. Contemporary ownership signatures of Stephen W. Clark and [more elaborately and frequently] Philip Curtis. Beadle, of Wethersfield, "killed his wife and four children, and then..... More

New York: M.J. Ivers & Co., [1881]. 64pp, stitched. Illustrated pink wrappers. Wrap worn at edges and spine. Illustrations. Clean text. Very Good. The wrapper calls this the "2d edition. Complete." McDade says, "This is a New Haven, Connecticut, case in which Jennie Cramer was found dead, face down in..... More

Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., 1870. Original printed and illustrated wrappers [extremity wear, spine reinforced]. Triple folding frontis [Richardson's death-bed marriage, performed by Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, short fold chip]; plus frontis illustration, "First Attempt to Take the Life of Mr. Richardson"; [2], [19]-111, [1]. Full-page illustrations throughout. Very Good. "McFarland..... More

London: Printed for J.S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet-street. . . [1797?]. 30, [2 advt] pp. Disbound, else Very Good. The trial before Lord Kenyon occurred in June 1797. Williams published and sold Paine's 'Age of Reason,' which was deemed seditious and heretical. He was indicted for blasphemy. Erskine, of all..... More