(CRIME) Defenders and Offenders

Sale 2287 - Lot 206

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(CRIME.) Defenders and Offenders. Numerous color illustrations. [124] pages. 4to, publisher's gold cloth, minimal wear. New York: D. Buchner & Co., [1888]

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Full-page biographies of New York-area police officers, followed by 200 shorter treatments of the period's representative scoundrels, each with their own facing color illustrations. Buchner had initially issued these as tobacco cards. Murderers, embezzlers, bank robbers, and pickpockets from around the country are represented--men and women of every race and ethnicity, including some western outlaws. Adams, Six-Guns 578.