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Byrnes, Thomas. Professional Criminals of America. New York: Cassell & Co., (1886). First edition. Re-bound in three-quarter black buckram with new endpapers, retaining publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth covers. Thirty-six plates including frontis. of Inspector Byrnes, one of police restraining a criminals, each of the others with mug shots (six per page) of bank sneaks, pickpockets, burglars, con men, swindlers, thieves, and other criminals. 4to. xii, 433pp. Paper delicate with some flaking and chipping to edges, clean plates with a few tissue guards retained.