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[CRIME AND CRIMINALS]. Group of 6 Titles. Including: ALLINGHAM, Philip. Cheapjack. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. 8vo. 301 pp. Publisher’s full orange cloth, front board and spine stamped in black, unclipped dust jacket (price on rear jacket flap; cloth spine sunned, binding rubbed, jacket spine sunned and chipped, front jacket joint torn, jacket generally torn, soiled, creased). Fair. FIRST EDITION. — GRANNAN, Joseph. Grannan’s Warning Against Fraud and Valuable Information. Akron: The Werner Ptg. & Litho. Co., 1890. 8vo. Illustrated. 512 pp. Publisher’s embossed brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt (some rubbing toning). Near fine. FIRST EDITION. — MACDONALD, John C. R. “Crime Is a Business”. Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1939]. Illustrated. 263 pp. Publisher’s full orange cloth, boards and spine stamped in black, unclipped dust jacket (light rubbing to cloth, jacket toned, front and rear jacket panels creased, mild chipping to jacket spine). Very good. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON P. OPPOSITE TITLE-PAGE. — WILLS, Henry O. Twice Born; or, the Two Lives of… Cincinnati: The Author, 1894. 8vo. Illustrated. [225] pp. Publisher’s illustrated wrappers (toned, worn, creased, some marginal chipping, occasional wear to text). Very good. FIRST EDITION. — UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE. Know Your Money. Washington, D. C.: Treasury Department, [July 1948]. 8vo. Illustrated. 32 pp. Publisher’s wrappers (minor rubbing). Fine. — [Art Crime]. Adam Worth, Alias “Little Adam.” Theft and Recovery of Gainsborough’s “Duchess of Devonshire.” New York, January, 1904. 8vo. Illustrated. 23 pp. Original wrappers (some toning to wrappers). Fine. THIRD EDITION.