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BOOK CATEGORY: True Crime Cochran, Louis FBI Man: A Personal History Description: xiv, 208 pp. Black cloth, spine title stamped in silver. Dustjacket has wear at spine edges. Inscribed by the author on ffep to Charles Bell. Charles Bell, writer, poet, and scholar, grew up in Greenville, Mississippi, with Walker Percy and Shelby Foote. His first novel, The Married Land, Houghton Mifflin, 1962, was praised by William Carlos Williams. His works include three volumes of poetry, two novels, and an audio-visual opus, "Symbolic History". Crichton, Robert The Great Imposter Description: 220 pp. Yellow cloth with gilt and black title on pink stamped spine, top edges black. Spine lightly sunned, book plate on front pastedown. The stories of Ferdinand Waldo Demara's many masquerades. Norfleet, J. Frank with Wm. Franklin White, Editor Norfleet: The Actual Experiences of a Texas Rancher's 30,000 MileTranscontinental Chase After Five Confidence Men Description: 340 pp. True first edition. White Publishing eventually assigned their rights to Norfleet, and on later copies, a label to that effect was pasted on the title page. Black & white frontis and 8 plates. Publisher's advertising/order sheet from White publishing laid in. The 'book of the century' is described in the florid language of the 1920's; the blurb also notes that, "profits from the sale of this extraordinary book go to help replenish Mr. Norfleets life savings." Rear hinge starting. Whitlock, Brand On the Enforcement of Law in Cities Description: [viii], 96 pp. Green cloth backed paper-covered boards. A little wear to corners and spine; would be very good but for a small hole through the cloth. An open letter written by then mayor of Toledo, Ohio, to the representatives of the Federation of Churches, Toledo. |
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