GANGSTERS AND MAFIA

Allsop, Kenneth The Bootleggers: The Story of Chicago's Prohibition era Arlington House, 1968. 379 pp., illus., bib., index.1st ed., fine/vg 59 $35.00

Asbury, Herbert The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. 331 pp., illus., bib., index.v.g. 129 $30.00

Barnes, Bruce Machine Gun Kelly: To Right a Wrong Tipper Publications, 1991. softcover. fine 1802 $35.00

Bergreen, Laurence Capone: The Man and the Era Simon & Schuster, 1994. 701 pp., bib., index.fine/fine 302 $20.00

Bhatta, Shrikrishna Datta ... And They Gave Up Dacoity! A. B. Sarva Seva Sangh, 1962. 304 pp., illus., bib.vg 316 $50.00

Block, Max, & Ron Kenner Max the Butcher Lyle Stuart, 1982. 320 pp.1st ed., fine/gd 367 $22.50

Blum, Howard Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob Simon & Schuster, 1993. 349 pp.fine/fine 374 $20.00

Blumenthal, Ralph Last Days of the Sicilians: At War with the Mafia; The FBI Assault on the Pizza Connection Times Books, 1988. 354 pp., illus., bib., index.1st ed., fine/fine 371 $20.00

Carter, Frank, & Tom Tullett The Sharp End: The Fight Against Organized Crime Bodley, 1988. 206 pp., illus., index.1st ed., fine/fine 687 $25.00

Casey, Robert J., & W. A. S. Douglas The Midwesterner: The Story of Dwight H. Green Wilcox & Follett, 1948. 311 pp., illus.1st ed., name on fly, ow fine in worn dj 677 $20.00

Clark, Ramsey Crime in America: Observations on Its Nature, Causes, Prevention and Control Simon and Schuster, 1970. 346 pp.1st ed., fine/vg 749 $15.00

Cook, Fred J. The Secret Rulers: Criminal Syndicates and How They Control the U.S. Underworld Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1966. 373 pp., illus.1st ed., fine/vg 835 $25.00

Kavieff, Paul R. The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit, 1910-1945. Barricade, 2000. 214 pp., illus., bibli., index. A well-researched work on an important gang that had never received attention from crime historians. Includes photos never before published. New, $22.00

Prall, Robert H. & Norton Mockridge This Is Costello. Fawcett Gold Medal, 1951. 190 pp. 1st ed. Paperback original. A few pages starting, back cover a bit wrumpled, otherwise v.g. [First biography of Costello ever published] 1807 $15.00

Volz, Joseph & Peter J. Bridge The Mafia Speaks Fawcett Gold Medal, 1969. 192 pp., illus.1st ed. Paperback original.  Near-fine copy 1806 $20.00

Watson, William P. Union, Justice and Bonnie& Clyde: A Louisiana Legacy! Everett Companies, 1989. 148 pp., ill. 1st ptg., fine in dj. Presents in transcript form a fictitious trial of the Barrow Gang, in which the reader is asked to accept jury duty. The author presumably feared a libel suit, inasmuch as snatches of dialogue naming the sheriff have been overlaid with patches giving him a fictitious name, and a nervous disclaimer is   mounted on the flyleaf. Of interest are photos of documents relating to the coroner's jury, nowhere else, to our knowledge, published. 1802 $35.00