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Sat, Mar 28, 2020 12:00PM EDT
Lot 180

Group of Books on Crime, Fraud, Temperance, and Vice.

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Group of Books on Crime, Fraud, Temperance, and Vice. Including Palaces of Sin, or the Devil in Society (St. Louis, 1902); Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime (1929); Social Abominations (1892); Sunlight and Shadow (1883); Adventures of a U.S. Detective (1876); Memoirs of the United States Secret Service (1872; tipped-in ad for Heath?s Counterfeit Detector); Foot-Prints of Satan (1872); How I Lost ?250,000 in Two Years (London, n.d.); Plain Points on Personal Purity (1893); Fifty Years a Detective (1912); How to Be a Detective (1909); and others. Most publisher?s cloth. 8vos/12mos. Generally good condition or better.