First edition in this format, sumptuously illustrated, of Johnson's celebrated biographical encyclopedia of infamous criminals.
Scarce American edition of the bookseller's Confessions, with one of the earliest Brooklyn imprints.
First edition of the final African journals of Scottish missionary, abolitionist, and explorer David Livingstone, including his own account of the famous meeting with Stanley.
Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.
Rare Victorian guide to the principles of detection, as practiced in British-administrated India by an investigator of the Calcutta Police Detective Department.
Association copy first printing of this collection of essays on murderers and others, from the personal library of fellow true-crime pioneer Jonathan Goodman.
First edition of this meandering memoir of the English outdoors, with charmingly naive illustrations by White.
