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Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC

Title: INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF MILTON W. STREETER, THE JEALOUS AND INFATUATED MURDERER, WHO MURDERED HIS BEAUTIFUL AND YOUNG WIFE, ELVIRA W. STREETER, AT SOUTHBRIDGE, MASS., A FEW MONTHS SINCE: CONTAINING ALL THE INTERESTING INCIDENTS OF HIS LIFE- ALL THE PARTICULARS OF THE MURDER- HIS TRIAL, WHICH OCCURRED RECENTLY, SENTENCE, &C
Author: Tingley, H.F.
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Pawtucket, R.I.: A.W. Pearce, Printer, 1850. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 96pp. Full-page illustration of the murder scene. The rear wrapper advertises, "Agents Wanted to sell this book in all parts of the United States and the British Provinces, and in all parts of Europe where the English language is spoken." Very Good plus. "Streeter's wife decided to leave him because of his insane threats and suspicions. When she started a suit to do so, he cut her throat as well as his own, though he survived. His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment" [McDade]. Phrenological information is provided. "The disordered mind of Milton W. Streeter" is described in detail. As Cohen points out, the book is "An early psychological approach to a domestic murder, in which the reader's sympathy is developed for both the victim and the murderer, the latter having been deprived of a Christian upbringing" [Cohen]. McDade 945. Cohen 13053. Sabin 95848.

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Title: A Stretch of the River
Author: Richard Bissell
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); [6], 242pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($2.75). Boards full bound in peachy-beige cloth with maroon stamping on spine. Dust jacket lightly soiled and toned with minor scuffs, one minor tear to joint, and bumping to all margins. Verso lightly toned, mostly on spine. Board corners and spine ends lightly bumped with minor soiling to covers and top edge. Spine hinge shows some foxing that is also present at the endsheet gutters. Endsheets show some offsetting but otherwise pages clean. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. A crew on a coal ship sail up and down the Mississippi River, captained by Jim Sargent, described as a good man and a homesick steamboat captain.

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Seller: Royal Books

Title: Willy Weber: Metal Reliefs / Metallreliefs (First Edition)
Author: [Willy Weber]
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: London, Zurich, and New York: Gimpel Fils, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Sextodecimo. First Edition. Text in German and English. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. Produced in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of Willy Weber's work which ran from May 2, 1973, through January 5, 1974. 4.25 x 6 inches. Spine lightly faded, else about Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers.