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- Author:
- Dombrink, John and William N. Thompson
- Title:
- The Last Resort, Success and Failure in Campaigns for Casinos
- Publisher:
- University of Nevada Press, Reno, 1990.
- Description:
- With a very warm inscription on the front free endpaper from Dombrink to his colleague Gilbert Geis, the noted criminologist and authority on all forms of social deviance
- Condition:
- A good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-90376
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- Gambling
- Author:
- Wade, John
- Title:
- A Treatise on the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis; Especially Juvenile Delinquency, Female Prostitution, Mendicity, Gaming, Forgery . . Also an Account of the Courts of Justice and Prisons of London; And . . . the Causes of the Increase of Crime &c.
- Publisher:
- Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1829.
- Description:
- Only edition of a work written by one of the foremost early 19th century radicals and reformers, John Wade, grouped in importance with William Cobbett and 'Orator' Hunt, and a great admirer of Bentham, who provided funds to establish Wade's newspaper
- Condition:
- Modern green cloth, ex-library, one preliminary leaf loose, else a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77344
- Price:
- $ 650.00
- Category:
- criminal law, Police, women's law, Gambling, Forgery, prisons
- Author:
- Title:
- A Decree Lately made in the High Court of Starre-Chamber, after consultation had among the Iudges . . . And also a Confirmation of that Decree by His Sacred Maiestie; together with His Maiesties Command that the same be Printed [etc.]. S.T.C. 7755
- Publisher:
- Imprinted by Robert Barker . . . And by the Assignes of Iohn Bull, London, 1633.
- Description:
- Only printing of the first of but three Star Chamber decrees to be printed, prohibiting practices among suppliers of food and drink, including bakers, tavern owners and victuallers, regulating horsemeat, and outlawing houses of gaming, inter alia
- Condition:
- ?Original stabbed self wraps with the blank "A", "For the Council Chamber" on the ?supplied rear wrap, now housed in a folding case, the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-79494
- Price:
- $ 1850.00
- Category:
- Star Chamber, Liquor & Drink, Gambling
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