Beesley thomas quinn (8 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. black cloth covered boards with light shelfwear to edges, gilt design still bright.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1929. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 299 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth with gilt seal on front cover and title in gilt on spine. Tips, edges and spine rubbed. Light overall wear to cloth. Previous owners inscription inside front cover, otherwise appears unmarked. Gordon L. Hostetter (18921962) was a prominent Chicago business leader and an outspoken crusader against labor racketeering during the early-to-mid 20th century. He served as the president and executive director of the Employers Association of Chicago for nearly two decades. In 1933, he was one of the first to publicly state that Murray "The Camel" Humphreys had succeeded Al Capone as the leader of the Chicago Outfit. This book serves as a report on the "criminal army" of racketeers.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, sunning to the spine with an area of soiling near the tail, rubbing with small spots to the covers, foxing and a touch of white speckling to the edges of the text block, and paper clip scars to the head of some pages. Overall, this is a solid, Good+ copy.…

Hardcover. Stated First Edition, First Printing. 5 x 7.5in. xii. 299pp. Publisher's cloth boards with gilt titling and decoration. NEAR FINE. Shows the extremities marginally shelf rubbed with a few light scuffs, otherwise remains Fine/As New. As pictured.

Condición: Very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Cloth, dj. Octavo. Stated first edition, March 1929. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt decoration on front, gilt title on spine. xii, 299 pp. Frontis. illus. Significant wear to dj, with partial loss at spine ends (approx. one-inch, affecting title and publisher name) and corners (dime-sized at front bottom corner). Moderate shelf wear to boards. Expected age-toning to text block, but text remains clean and bright. A handsome copy in a pictorial dustjacket that presents attractively overall, despite flaws.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. 299 pages. Ex-college library marks, some wear to the edges, slight crack to the front hinge. Pages toned; ink marks to the first ten pages; a good book otherwise. The front flyleaf has a "withdrawn" library stamp but it is inscribed to Hon. Frank J. Loesch and signed by the author, dated 1931. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sociology & Politics; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 231775.…

8°. XII, 299 pp., 13 plates Original dark blue cloth with dust-jacket First edition with 13 illustrations. - Endpaper with old owner s inscription and small cut-out tipped-in, only very minor browning, else clean. The jacket rubbed and with some marginal tears, laid down on protecting paper and in transparent wrapper.…

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); black cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,299,[1]pp, with a photographic frontispiece titled "Racketeer Tools of Trade" and 12 inserted plates. Base of spine gently nudged, faint foxing to text edges and margins, with a tiny spot of biopredation to lower rear pastedown; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), edgeworn, gently spine-sunned, with a touch of dust-soil to rear panel, and biopredation to extremities and rear panel; separation to rear flap has been neatly mended by a previous owner on verso; Very Good. Detailed Depression-era exposé by two Chicago authors on racketeering and mob activity. "Here in this present year of grace not only in "wicked Chicago" but in at least fifteen other major American cities, flourishes a system of blackmail, graft, extortion, terrorism and plunder of business men and employers and of course the public that cost Chicago alone $136,000,000 in 1928 and cost the United States at large a total (including other forms of crime) of 11 Billions!" (from front flap). Of particular interest is the 27pp "Glossary of Hoodlum Language." Elusive in dustjacket. 8631.…