2022, ISBN: 9780471283690

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New York: Birch Lane Press Book/Carol Publishing Group, 1995. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Dust Jacket not price clipped ($21.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. No o… More...

New York: Birch Lane Press Book/Carol Publishing Group, 1995. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Dust Jacket not price clipped ($21.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably unread. Bound in the original black cloth spine and black boards, lettered in red on the spine. Illustrated with 16 pages of photos. Sources/bibliography. Index. First printing with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "The Boston stranglings, in which eleven women in eastern Massachusetts were horribly murdered between June 1962 and January 1964, made front-page headlines around the world. 'It was,' says a woman who lived through the terror, 'as if Jack the Ripper had come back from the dead to stalk Boston.' And indeed, the Phantom Fiend, as the newspapers christened him, would go down in crime history as one of the world's most notorious and feared killers. Thanks to the release of once-sealed documents and the discovery of new evidence and witnesses, the most infamous slayings in American history can now be solved. The Boston murders have long been thought to be the work of one man, a construction worker named Albert Henry DeSalvo, who was represented by high-profile defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey. This belief, the author now reveals, is not true. The slayings were, in fact, the work of at least eight -- and possibly as many as eleven -- individuals, none of whom was the luckless DeSalvo. THE BOSTON STRANGLERS examines the entire case, demonstrating convincingly that DeSalvo was manipulated into confessing. The book describes the motives of those who convinced DeSalvo to confess. And they found a willing victim in DeSalvo, who had a desperate, perhaps even pathological, lust for celebrity. The book does not simply exonerate DeSalvo and expose those who put into gear the machinery of this giant hoax. It sets out to solve the murders to which he so willingly, if falsely, confessed. Sources for this book include court records, trial transcripts, police reports, crime-scene photos, and numerous interviews with the surviving principals in the case, many of whom speak for the record here for the first time. Also included is the never-before-published 'confession' of Albert DeSalvo.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Fine dust jacket.. 8vo. xv, 366pp.., Birch Lane Press Book/Carol Publishing Group, 1995, 5, The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant, The Eagles, and more.Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the second half of the 20th Century and into the first two decades of the next, during which he released an extraordinary 63 albums, 38 that made it on to Billboard's Country Top Ten, 13 that went to #1, and 37 #1 hit singles. With his ample songbook, unique singing voice and brilliant phrasing that illuminated his uncompromising commitment to individual freedom, cut with the monkey of personal despair on his back and a chip the size of Monument Valley on his shoulder, Merle's music and his extraordinary charisma helped change the look, the sound, and the fury of American music.The Hag tells, without compromise, the extraordinary life of Merle Haggard, augmented by deep secondary research, sharp detail and ample anecdotal material that biographer Marc Eliot is known for, and enriched and deepened by over 100 new and far-ranging interviews. It explores the uniquely American life of an angry rebellious boy from the wrong side of the tracks bound for a life of crime and a permanent home in a penitentiary, who found redemption through the music of "the common man."Merle Haggard's story is a great American saga of a man who lifted himself out of poverty, oppression, loss and wanderlust, to catapult himself into the pantheon of American artists admired around the world. Eliot has interviewed more than 100 people who knew Haggard, worked with him, were influenced by him, loved him or hated him. The book celebrates the accomplishments and explore the singer's infamous dark side: the self-created turmoil that expressed itself through drugs, women, booze, and betrayal. The Hag offers a richly anecdotal narrative that will elevate the life and work of Merle Haggard to where both properly belong, in the pantheon of American music and letters.The Hag is the definitive account of this unique American original, and will speak to readers of country music and rock biographies alike., Hachette Books, 2022, 6, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,montage'd monochrome+colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white+red lettering to front and spine/backstrip,b/w lettering to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-xpp+4-310pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,Parts 1-7 comprising 35 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w+colour photographs in 1 block,between unpaginated pp150/51,a postscript,a timeline,acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table and Pts separator pages. Award-winning writer and filmmaker Laurence Rees has spent nearly 20 years meeting people who were tested to the extreme during World War II.He has come face-to-face with rapists,mass murderers,even cannibals,but he has also met courageous individuals who are an inspiration to us all.His quest has taken him from the Baltic States to Japan,from Poland to America,and from Germany to China.Here he presents 35 of his most electrifying encounters.Meet Estera Frenkiel,a young Jewish woman given the chance to save ten fellow Jews from deportation and death; Peter Lee,a British officer brutally treated by his Japanese captors; Zinaida Pytkina,a female member of the Soviet Union's infamous SMERSH organization,who took pleasure in killing a German prisoner; Hiroo Onoda,a Japanese soldier so fanatical that he refused to surrender until 29 years after the end of the war; and Petras Zelionka,a Lithuanian who shot Jewish men,women and children for the Nazis. The devastating first-hand testimony in 'Their Darkest Hour' is both a lasting contribution to our understanding of the war and a powerful insight into the behaviour of human beings in crisis. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.EBURY PRESS,2007., 5, New York: John Wiley & Sons [0-471-28369-X] 1996. (Trade paperback) 310pp. Near fine. Photographs, appendix, index. "What evidence led investigators to Ted Bundy, America's most infamous serial killer? How was the mystery of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas and Alexandra, solved after decades of speculation? How did authorities prove the notorious Hitler Diaries were a fraud?". (True Crime, Case Histories, Forensic Science, Mysteries, Science, True Crime)., John Wiley & Sons, 0<

ISBN: 9780471283690

Wiley. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy… More...

Wiley. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included., Wiley, 2.5<