[Rarebooks] fs--Criminal Law [XXXVIII]

[Joe Luttrell]

A selection of works which we have in stock on criminal law and
related matters; for others, please feel free to browse our web
site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word or
phrase:  www.meyerbos.com

1.  A Study of Prevention and Control of Crime and Delinquency,
Final Report.  Youth and Adult Corrections Agency, State of
California, 1965.  Cloth-backed wraps, slightly darkened, but
sound; 258 pages. [90039]                                 $ 35.00

2.  The Swedish Penal Code.  National Council for Crime Prevention,
Stockholm, 1984.  Printed wraps; 109 pages. [90209]       $ 25.00

4.  [TERRY AND FIELD].  Terry Contempt.  N.p., San Francisco, 1888.
Gray sewn wraps, some dustiness, some margins torn; sound. [67803
L72L75] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=67803
                                                         $ 750.00

The rare pamphlet detailing the sensational courtroom brawl in
which Terry and his wife were held in contempt and jailed by
Stephen J. Field, leading ultimately to Terry's tragic death a year
later; with a last leaf not specified in OCLC or RLIN.

5.  [TICHBORNE CASE].  Arthur Sketchly [pseud.] [George Rose].
Mrs. Brown on the Tichborne Case.  George Routledge and Sons, The
Broadway, Ludgate, London, [1872?].  Original printed illustrated
boards, defective; a fragile survivor. [63641] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63641     $ 350.00

Rose's most famous creation, the character of "Mrs. Brown", said to
be "an obvious adaptation of Dickens's Mrs. Gamp" and reminiscent
of (and predating) Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley in this country;
in the publisher's "fancy boards".

6.  TOCH, Hans.  Police, Prisons, and the Problem of Violence.
National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, 1977.  Wraps, a bit
soiled, but quite sound; 142 pages. [90119]               $ 35.00

7.  TOMPKINS, Dorothy Campbell (comp.).  Administration of Criminal
Justice, 1949-1956, A Selected Bibliography.  California State
Board of Corrections, 1956.  Stapled, cloth-backed wraps, a sound
copy; 351 pages. [90270]                                  $ 30.00

8.  TOMPKINS, Dorothy Campbell (ed.).  The Offender -- A
Bibliography.  Institute of Governmental Studies, University of C,
Berkeley, 1963.  Red cloth, much faded, the fore-edge stained; but
a sound copy. [90527]                                     $ 65.00

Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Gilbert Geis, noted
criminologist and authority on all aspects of social deviance.

9.  TOMPKINS, Dorothy Campbell (prep.).  Sources for the Study of
the Administration of Criminal Justice.  California State Board of
Corrections, Sacramento, 1949.  Cloth-backed stapled wraps, showing
wear, but still a sound copy. [90482]                     $ 30.00

10.  TONRY, Michael and Norval Morris.  Crime and Justice, An
Annual Review of Research. Volume 3.  University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, 1981.  Gray cloth, a good copy. [90225]          $ 35.00

Seven essays, including Michael Ignatieff's "State, Civil Society,
and Total Institutions: A Critique of Recent Social Histories of
Punishment".

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