Commit murder von ahearn danny (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 164 pages. 7.00x4.25x0.37 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - HOW TO COMMIT A MURDER.

Zustand: New.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Presumed First UK Edition. 1930. Presumed first UK edition, with a preface by Richard Church. [v], 254pp. and a frontispiece portrait. Danny Ahearn (1901-1960) was the oldest of nine children. In 1926 he was wounded in a gun battle in Brooklyn where two men were killed, and in 1934 he received 2 ½ years in New York's notorious Sing Sing Prison for fraud—his second term there also for fraud came in 1937. Though not a writer of any sort—he was, in fact, a career criminal at this time. Later on he would be a reporter for The Daily Worker and several newspapers, as well as script writer for Warner Brothers in Hollywood in 1932-33. At 45 years of age, he was sentenced to 20 years to life for robbery. This book, narrated by Danny Ahearn, was first published in the USA under the title 'How to Commit a Murder'. It is a career criminal's "how to" guide for the uninitiated, crimes certainly not limited to murder. Chapter titles include: How to Rob a Jewelry Store, How to Stick Up a Fur Joint, Straight Stickups, How to Run a Crap Game, Pulling a Phony Pinch, Beating a Frameup, and How to Commit a Murder. The book is bound in the original black cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling to the boards and fading along the top 1 1/4" of the front board. There is wear with a little bit of damage to the cloth on the corner tips and about 1/4" of damage to the cloth on the fore edge of the front board. Both spine ends are bumped with some damage and a little loss to the cloth. The contents are tight and clean with slight age-browning to the page margins and a name and address has been written in pencil on the front free endpaper. The front fixed endpaper bears the attractive "seahorses" bookplate of F. [Fryniwyd] Tennyson Jesse, an English journalist, author and criminologist. …

dj. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Danny Ahearn, inscribed on the bottom half of the title page to Hollywood columnist Jimmy Starr, "Best of Good-Luck in[?] anything you ever [?] take to. May our friendship go on for decades to come, from one Human guy to another. Sincerest regards [signed] Danny Ahearn." Hollywood bookstore (The Satyr Book Shop) ticket on rear endpaper. 254 pp. with photo frontispiece. Bound in publisher's red cloth with yellow lettering. Fine in Good pictorial dust jacket with chip to bottom of front panel, interior chip to spine panel, head chipped as well, tape mends to verso, unclipped ($2.50). Back in print in 2022, scarce signed.One career criminal's how to guide for the uninitiated, crimes certainly not limited to murder. The chapter titles tell it all: "How to Rob a Jewelry Store" (classic), "How to Stick Up a Fur Joint" (nowadays not so easy to do), "Straight Stickups," "How to Run a Crap Game" paired with its logical rejoinder "Taking a Crap Game" (heads I win, tails you lose), "Pulling a Phony Pinch," "Easy Money," "The Political Racket" (another timeless classic), "The Automobile Racket," "Beating a Frameup," and lastly the titular "How to Commit a Murder--" with the all-important next chapter "-- And Get Away with It." All told in '20s hoodlum slang. This is one Ahearns guide with an appeal to a much broader audience than book collectors and sellers, basically to anyone with an id. Signed. …