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  • The autobiography of a thief. Recorded by Hutchins Hapgood. New York, Fox, Duffield, 1903.

    • Text
    • New York, Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970.
    • 1970-1903
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JLC 72-191Offsite
  • Rogues, vagabonds, & sturdy beggars. Edited, with notes, from quartos of the first editions, by Arthur F. Kinney. Illus. by John Lawrence.

    • Text
    • Barre, Mass., Imprint Society, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text *KP (Imprint, Barre) 74-71Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • English caricatures and cartoons depicting smoking and other subjects [graphic]

    • Still image
    • [ca. 1600?-1836]
    • 1600-1836
    • 1 Resource

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    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/68eb7cd0-c6ce-012f-3632-58d385a7bc34
  • Lilliputian humorists : drawn as big as life.

    • Still image
    • London : Printed and sold at the White Horse without Newgate, 1730.
    • 1730
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/3d837ac0-c622-012f-d436-58d385a7bc34
  • Madrikh la-ganav / me-et Shelomoh Ben-Amnon ; tsiyurim ṿa-ʻaṭifah, Paʼul Fuḳs.

    • Text
    • [Haifa?] : Hotsaʼat ʻAm gonev, [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text *PSK 75-151Offsite
  • The autobiography of a thief, recorded by Hutchins Hapgood.

    • Text
    • New York, Fox, Duffield, 1903.
    • 1903
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text SLG (Hapgood, H. Autobiography of a thief)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The great pearl robbery of 1913; a record of fact, by Christmas Humphreys.

    • Text
    • London, Heinemann [1929]
    • 1929
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text SLE (Humphreys, C. Great pearl robbery)Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text SLE (Humphreys, C. Great pearl robbery)Offsite
  • Le monde des prisons / par l'abé Georges Moreau.

    • Text
    • Paris ; Librairie Illustreé, 1887.
    • 1887
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text SLE (Moreau, G. Monde des prisons)Offsite
  • Die diebe in Berlin; order, Darstellung ihres entstehens, ihrer organisation, ihrer verbindungen, ihres taktik, ihrer gewohneiten und ihrer sprache. Zur belehrung für polizeibeamte und zur warnung für das publikum. Nach praktischen erfahrungen von C.W. Zimmermann ...

    • Text
    • Berlin, F. Reichardt u. Co., 1847.
    • 1847
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text SLE (Zimmerman, C. W. Diebe in Berlin)Offsite
  • You can't win, by Jack Black; with a foreword by Robert Herrick.

    • Text
    • New York, The Macmillan company, 1927.
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text SLG (Black, J. You can't win)Offsite
  • Centerfolds from El gráfico (Buenos Aries) [graphic]

    • Still image
    • 1935-1936
    • 1935-1936
  • Publikum und Verbrechen; praktische Ratschläge für den Selbstschutz, mit einem Vorwort von Dr. Weiss ...

    • Text
    • Berlin, R. Mosse, 1928.
    • 1928
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text SLE (Nelken, S. Publikum und Verbrechen)Offsite
  • L'histoire du bonhomme Misère. / avec six eaux-fortes par Alphonse Legros.

    • Still image
    • Londres : R. Gueraut, éditeur, 1877.
    • 1877
  • The rogues and vagabonds of Shakespeare's youth: Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's ʻCaveat': ed. with an introd. by Edward Viles and F. J. Furnivall.

    • Text
    • London, Chatto and Windus, 1907.
    • 1907
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text *NCLD (Viles, E. Rogues and vagabonds of Shakespeare's youth)Offsite
  • Bank "sneak" thieves / paper read by William A. Pinkerton.

    • Text
    • [United States : s.n., 1906].
    • 1906
  • Histoire generale des larrons. Divisee en trois livres. I. Contenant les cruautez & meschancetez des voleurs. II. Des ruses & subtilitez des couppeurs de bourses. III. Les finesses, tromperies, & stratagemes des filous. Par F.D.C. Lyonnois.

    • Text
    • A Roven, Chez R. Vellentin, 1639.
    • 1639
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text *KB 1639 (Calvi, F. de. Histoire generale des larrons)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • Essai psychologique sur les bandes de jeunes voleurs.

    • Text
    • Clermont-Ferrand, Imprimerie générale, 1944.
    • 1944
  • Drawings for Modiano cigarette paper and cigarette tube advertisements [graphic] / Marcowitz.

    • Still image
    • 1931.
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Picture Arents 97-81Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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  • Crooks of the Waldorf [microform], being the story of Joe Smith, master detective, by Horace Smith.

    • Text
    • New York : Macaulay Co., 1929.
    • 1929
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Microform *Z-1079 Offsite
  • A Bronx story [videorecording] / DCTV Video Production presents ; Downtown Community TV Center ; produced by Keimi Rojas.

    • Moving image
    • New York : DCTV, [199-?]
    • 199
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS VTH 5418 BPerforming Arts Research Collections - Reserve Film and Video

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • A compleat history of the lives and robberies of the most notorious highway-men, [electronic resource] : foot-pads, shop-lifts, and cheats, of both sexes, in and about London and Westminster, and all Parts of Great Britain, for above an Hundred Years past, continu'd to the present Time. Wherein their most Secret and Barbarous Murders, Unparalell'd Robberies, Notorious Thefts, and Unheard of Cheats, are set in a true Light, and expos'd to publick View, for the common Benefit of Mankind. To, which is prefix'd, the thieves new canting-dictionary, Explaining the most mysterious Words, New Terms, Significant Phrases, and Proper Idioms, used at this present Time by our Modern Thieves. By Capt. Alex. Smith.

    • Text
    • London : printed for Sam. Briscoe, and sold by A. Dodd at the Peacock without Temple-Bar, 1719.
    • 1719
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0261300601&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • The third volume of the compleat history of the lives, robberies, piracies, and murders committed by the most notorious rogues, &c. From the Time of Edward the Confessor. With the Famous Sermon Preach'd by Bernard Sympson a Monk, to a Gang of High way-men in a Wood near Maidenhead-Thicket. Printed from the Original M. S. out of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Together with The Continuation of the wicked Lives of highway-men, murderers, foot-pads, house-breakers, shoplipts, water-pads, kid-lays, hook-pole-lays, molly-lays, bumming-lays, and the surprizing Adventures of several famous pirates, down to the present Time. With the Thieves grammar whereby the Art of Thieving, is fully detected. A Key to the Art of Thieving; newly discovered, whereby several secret Mysteries are unlocked, for the good of the Publick. Never before Printed. Written by Capt. Alex. Smith. Adorn'd with cuts [electronic resource].

    • Text
    • London : printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill; T. Warner in Pater-Noster Row, and A. Dodd without Temple-Bar, 1720.
    • 1720
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0616700503&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • A Particular account of the execution of Joshua Ranson, aged 22 years, William Hilyard, aged 33 Years, Henry Laws, aged 31 years, who suffered at Ipswitch, on Saturday, April 17th, 1819, for having broken into and robbed the dwelling house of Mrs. Sophia Pemble, of Whitton, Suffolk, in the night of the 3rd of October, 1818.

    • Text
    • [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1819]
    • 1819
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/openurl/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&res_id=info:sid/gale:CPPC&ctx_enc=info:ofi:enc:UTF-8&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:unknown&rft.artnum=THCGTY124087957&req_dat=info:sid/gale:ugnid:nypl
  • A True and correct account of the robery, discovery, trial and execution, of Samuel Grimwood, who was executed at Ipswich, on Saturday, the 28th day of April, 1821.

    • Text
    • [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1821]
    • 1821
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/openurl/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&res_id=info:sid/gale:CPPC&ctx_enc=info:ofi:enc:UTF-8&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:unknown&rft.artnum=THEHHF843242576&req_dat=info:sid/gale:ugnid:nypl
  • Execution! : a full, true, and particular account of James Whiteford, who was executed at Edinburgh, on Wednesday morning, the 18th of August, 1819, for breaking into the toll-bar at Hopetoun Wood, Linlithgowshire, and robbing the tacksman of eleven pounds, a bottle of whisky, and some bread : together with his last dying declaration, and behaviour at the place of execution, &c.

    • Text
    • [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1819]
    • 1819
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/openurl/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&res_id=info:sid/gale:CPPC&ctx_enc=info:ofi:enc:UTF-8&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:unknown&rft.artnum=TETNCR754042374&req_dat=info:sid/gale:ugnid:nypl
  • Living off crime / Kenneth D. Tunnell.

    • Text
    • Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item

    Available Online

    http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0514/2005017288.html
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFE 06-4432Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • The Shakespeare thefts : in search of the first folios / Eric Rasmussen.

    • Text
    • New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFD 11-3014Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • Crooks of the Waldorf, being the story of Joe Smith, master detective, by Horace Smith.

    • Text
    • New York, Macaulay Co., 1929.
    • 1929
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HV7914 .S5Off-site
  • al-Luṣūṣ wa-al-qarāṣinah fī ʻaṣr al-ḥurūb al-Ṣalībīyah, 1095-1291 M/489-690 H : ziyārah ilá tārīkh al-salb wa-al-nahb / al-Ustādh al-Duktūr Imām al-Shāfiʻī Muḥammad Ḥammūdī ; Duktūr Ashraf Ṣāliḥ Muḥammad.

    • Text
    • Bayrūt : Muʼassasat al-Intishār al-ʻArabī, 2019.
    • 2019
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HV6648 .H36 2019gOff-site
  • Ludzie marginesu w średniowiecznym Paryz̊u : XIV-XV wiek.

    • Text
    • Wrocław : Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HV6970.P3 G45Off-site
  • Madrikh la-ganav / me-et Shelomoh Ben-Amnon ; tsiyurim ṿa-ʻaṭifah, Paʼul Fuḳs.

    • Text
    • [Haifa?] : Hotsaʼat ʻAm gonev, [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text HV6665.I8 B46Off-site
  • Stealing through life / [by] Ernest Booth.

    • Text
    • New York and London : A.A. Knopf, 1929.
    • 1929
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 339.5 B644Off-site
  • Le monde des prisons / par l\u0027abé Georges Moreau.

    • Text
    • Paris : Librairie Illustreé, 1887.
    • 1887
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text 339.5 M813Off-site
  • Arte de furtar / Manuel da Costa.

    • Text
    • Lisboa : Editorial Estampa, 2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HV6650 .C67 2001gOff-site
  • Forty-four juvenile thieves : their characters and home-life.

    • Text
    • London : Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1946.
    • 1946
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text RJ499 B682 1946Off-site
  • The rogues and vagabonds of Shakespeare's youth : describd by Jn. Awdeley in his Fraternitye of Vacabondes, 1561-73, Thos. Harman in his Caueat for Common Cursetors, 1567-73, and in The Groundworke of Conny-catching, 1592 / edited by Edward Viles & F.J. Furnivall in 1869 for the Early English Text Society, and now reprinted.

    • Text
    • London : Trübner, 1880.
    • 1880
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text 823SG N Ser.6:7Off-site
  • The professional thief : by a professional thief / Annotated and interpreted by Edwin H. Sutherland.

    • Text
    • [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, 1956.
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HV6248.C66 A3 1956Off-site
  • The fraternitye of vacabondes, by John Awdeley ... from the edition of 1575 in the Bodleian Library. A caueat or warening for commen cursetors vulgarely called vagabones, by Thomas Harman esquiere, from the 3rd edition of 1567 ... A sermon in praise of thieves and thievery, by Parson Haben or Hyberdyne, from the Landsdowne ms. 98, and Cotton Vesp. A. 25. Those parts of the groundworke of conny-catching (ed. 1592) that differ from Harman's Caueat. Ed. by Edward Viles & F.J. Furnivall.

    • Text
    • London, Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1869.
    • 1869
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text PR1119 .E5 Trans. from Lamont, due to quality of text duplicates will be sent per faculty request, 8/16Off-site
  • Arte de Furtar / Manuel da Costa ; ed. crítica, com introdução e notas de Roger Bismut.

    • Text
    • [Lisbon] : Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HV6650 .A77 1991Off-site
  • Criminal receivers in the United States; (social and economic problems of the "fence"--the source of organized crime and creator of criminals.) Submitted to the New York state crime commission, National crime commission, National commissioners on uniform state laws, National trade relations committee of the Chamber of commerce of the United States of America and Association of casualty and surety executives, by the Prison committee of the Association of grand jurors of New York County.

    • Text
    • [New York], 1927.
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text US 983 GRAOff-site
  • The professional thief, by a Professional thief; annotated and interpreted by Edwin H. Sutherland.

    • Text
    • Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1972, c1937]
    • 1972-1937
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text US 986 CONOff-site
  • Larceny by embezzlement ... By Carl D. Stickle.

    • Text
    • [Portland, Or., Research publications, 1947-
    • 1947-present
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text US 986.4 STIOff-site
  • Le citoyen victime de vol qualifié : sa place dans le processus judiciaire / auteurs, Giroux, Jocelyn, Huot, Louis ; sous la direction de Baril, Micheline.

    • Text
    • [Montréal] : Centre international de criminologie comparée, Université de Montréal, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text CAN 993Q GIROff-site
  • You can't win, by Jack Black; with a foreward by Robert Berrick.

    • Text
    • New York, Burt, c1926.
    • 1926
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text KD 9098Off-site
  • Essai psychologique sur les bandes de jeunes voleurs.

    • Text
    • Clermont-Ferrand, Imprimerie générale, 1944.
    • 1944
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text KF 6519Off-site
  • Dorobō zukushi / Mitamura Engyo [cho]

    • Text
    • [Tōkyō] : Seiabō, [1959]
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text J 4140.6 1644.2 (6)Off-site
  • Die Räuber : ein Schauspiel und andere Räubergeschichten / hrsg. von Johannes Diekhans ; erarb. von Barbara Schubert-Felmy.

    • Text
    • Paderborn : Schöningh, 1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text PT2468.R5 F739 1999Off-site
  • The Shakespeare thefts : in search of the first folios / Eric Rasmussen.

    • Text
    • Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text PR3071 .R37 2011Off-site
  • Jȩzyk złodziejski = La langue des voleurs / Henryk Ułaszyn.

    • Text
    • Łódź : Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe, 1951.
    • 1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text HV7015.7.U437 1951Off-site
  • Arte de furtar : espelho de enganos, teatro de verdades, mostrador de horas minguadas . . . / anônimo (século XVIII) ; apresentação, João Ubaldo Ribeiro.

    • Text
    • Rio de Janeiro : Editora Nova Fronteira, [1992]
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text HV6650 .A773 1992Off-site

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