Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Friday, 09 February 2001 - 02:08 pm |        |
Hi guys -
Since the web-advertising industry has recently bottomed out in the past month and ad-revenue is down to 20/25% of what it used to be, we're going to be putting up Ripper items on eBay to make up for the difference in funding the Casebook. All auctions will take place on www.ebay.com (new customers may register at www.ebay.com) All profits go towards funding the Casebook!
This week.....
A rare first-edition hardcover of Robin Odell's JACK THE RIPPER IN FACT AND FICTION (1965). The book is highly collectable and quite difficult to find. Bidding starts at $1.00 at: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1409093978
Good luck! |
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Friday, 09 February 2001 - 03:03 pm | |
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Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Sunday, 18 February 2001 - 06:30 pm | |
Just a heads up - this auction ends in four hours!! Again, a Robin Odell first edition, vg condition. On eBay at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1409093978 |
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Tuesday, 20 February 2001 - 11:37 pm | |
Auctioning of this week..... a first edition of Francis Tumblety's autobiographical The Kidnapping of Dr. Tumblety, published in 1866. Up for auction on eBay at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1411725583
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Author: Christopher T George
Wednesday, 21 February 2001 - 06:39 pm | |
Wow, Spry. That was a fast sale!!! Congratulations. I see a French buyer is interested in "Docteur" T. Might this be the "French Connection"? 
Chris |
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Thursday, 22 February 2001 - 10:48 am | |
It was indeed a fast sale, Chris! I do have another copy of Tumblety's book I'll be placing on eBay this weekend for anyone who missed out on the first auction. If anyone is interested in purchasing it before it goes to auction, this one will have a "Buy it now" price of $199 (it is in considerably better condition than the one shown above, which went for $149). Anyone offering $199 before Saturday gets it.
Email spryder@casebook.org |
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Sunday, 25 February 2001 - 10:39 pm | |
The second Tumblety book is on auction at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1412926577 |
Author: Judith Stock
Monday, 05 March 2001 - 02:14 am | |
There is a copy of Bill Beadle's JTR: ANATOMY OF A MYTH up for auction on ebay right now. Item # is 1414604248.
Regards to all,
Judy Stock |
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Monday, 05 March 2001 - 01:13 pm | |
A copy of the hard-to-find and highly-acclaimed Ripper fiction, By Flower and Dean Street is on eBay right now - ending in ONE DAY! You can view this auction at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1413385236
Thanks for your bids! |
Author: Christopher T George
Monday, 05 March 2001 - 02:48 pm | |
Hi all:
Flower and Dean Street always sounds to me as if it should be two streets, but it's actually one street, which in 1888 stood at the center of the most notorious section of Whitechapel renowned for prostitution and crime. Does anyone know how this unusual street name came about?
Best regards
Chris George |
Author: Martin Fido
Monday, 05 March 2001 - 04:08 pm | |
Yes, Chris. In 1655 John Flower and Gowen Dean bought adjacent sites for speculative development, and laid them out in one continuous street.
It really does have superb criminal connections, figuring in the Daniel Good (1842), Sachs and Walters (1902) and Harry Dobkin (1941) murder cases. When it was torn down and replaced by the brief Lolesworth Close and wonderfully named 'Clement Attlee Adventure Playground' (Clement Attlee being a most quiet and unplayful Prime Minister whose political career started as an East End mayor), a thief I met in a Limehouse pub signed on to work with the demolition crew, and borrowed a lorry to filch the area railings for scrap at night, much to the annoyance of the foreman who'd had his own eye on them as the only marketable remains.
Martin Fido |
Author: Christopher T George
Monday, 05 March 2001 - 09:08 pm | |
Hi, Martin:
Thanks for your interesting answer. Although not exactly akin, the evocative name "Flower and Dean Street" rather reminds me of the colorful names given to land grants in colonial America: "Reister's Desire," "Darnall's Chance," "Bosley's Adventure," "Father’s Gift," and so on. One of these colonial names led to a bit of jocularity among the British soldiers who invaded Washington, D.C., in 1814 when they learned that a local creek was named the Tiber Creek (now entombed by the city, it ran along the area of the present Washington Mall). They thought it showed the pretensions of the Americans, but in fact an early landowner in the area was named Francis Pope and the creek derived its name from his 400-acre land grant, "Rome," given to him by Lord Baltimore in 1663, 130 years before the area was chosen to be capital of the United States. Pope's land grant was just north of another with a name that has an echo in the Whitechapel murders: Lt. Robert Troope's land grant (also of 1663) was known as "Scotland Yard."
Best regards
Chris George |
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Sunday, 06 May 2001 - 07:42 pm | |
Ripper items now available for purchase - all proceeds go towards funding the Casebook:
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Jack the Ripper: One Hundred Years of Mystery
Peter Underwood
Hardcover, vg/vg. 1st ed. $50
Jack the Ripper: One Hundred Years of Mystery
Peter Underwood
Softcover, vg. $30
Hvem var Jack the Ripper
Carl Muusmann
1998 Reprint of 1908 book, with English translation. vg. $65
Jack the Ripper: One Hundred Years of Investigation
Terence Sharkey
2nd edition, hardcover. vg/vg. $10
The Ripper File
Melvin Harris.
1st ed. Hardcover, vg/vg. Best offer
Identity of Jack the Ripper
Donald McCormick
1st edition. Hardcover. vg/g (dustjacket has tear). Best offer
Will the Real Jack the Ripper
Arthur Douglas
1st ed., softcover. vg. $65
Jack the Ripper: The Mystery Solved
Paul Harrison
Softcover. vg. $65
East End 1888
William Fishman
Softcover. vg. $80
Jack the Knife
Michael Parry
Paperback. vg. $45
The Kidnapping of Dr. Tumblety
Francis Tumblety, 1866.
Original 1st edition, good in archival plastic. $190
Punch, or the London Charivari: July - December 1888
Hardcover, bound magazines containing Ripper-related illustrations.
Some pages missing. Present and in vg condition are: "Nemesis of Neglect", "Blind Man's Buff", "Is Detection a Failure", other non-illustrative articles. Best offer
The Whitechapel Murders; or, An American Detective in London
A.F. Pinkerton
Reprint of 1889 fiction. Includes factual appendices. 189pps. $25
The First Fifty Years of Jack the Ripper: Volumes I & II
R.P.S.
Reprints of numerous extracts from police and journalist memoirs, and various other literature up to 1938 by Macnaghten, Anderson, Sims, Smith, Forbes Winslow, and many others. Includes explanatory introductions. Both volumes: $25
Shipping quoted on case-by-case basis. I do accept want-lists, please send email to spryder@casebook.org. All proceeds go towards funding the Casebook. |
Author: Stephen P. Ryder
Saturday, 02 June 2001 - 12:08 am | |
Hi again everyone -
Our "Casebook auctions" have been going quite well these past few months, and I'd like to everyone who placed their bids! Since inception we've auctioned off numerous rare and hard-to-find Ripper items such as Francis Tumblety's autobiography, contemporary illustrations of Whitechapel and social conditions from Punch, portraits of Charles Warren and other police officials, and many other scarce items. Thanks to everyone who bid, we have been able to raise enough money to make up for our severely faltering banner advertisement revenue.
Many readers and interested parties have requested e-mail notification of our upcoming Ripper-related auctions, and response has been so great that we've begun making most of our sales off-eBay, privately, through our new subscription-only mailing list. If you are interested in purchasing rare and hard-to-find Ripperana and related items and would like to subscribe to the list, please send your subscription request to: auctions@casebook.org. Also please feel free to send your want-lists to that address as well.
Our next subscriber's mailing will be in late June, and will include a number of extremely scarce titles not to be found anywhere else. Our subscribers will get first-shot at all items *before* they go up for auction on eBay. |
Author: Spryder
Monday, 11 November 2002 - 09:37 pm | |
A rare 1st edition of Lacassagne's Vacher l'Eventreur is about to go on auction on eBay, to raise funds for the Casebook. For those who don't know, it was published in 1899, and is the first instance in which photographs of the Ripper victims were published.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1581270542
All proceeds go to the Casebook, thanks for your bids! :-) |
Author: Spryder
Monday, 18 November 2002 - 09:09 am | |
Just a notice that the above auction - Vacher l'Eventreur, 1899 - is closing this evening on eBay. If you're interested in bidding on this item, you can find it at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1581270542
Thanks to all you bidders! Proceeds go directly towards funding this little spot on the web. |
Author: Spryder
Friday, 06 December 2002 - 04:16 pm | |
To any interested parties, I'm placing another rare Ripper item on eBay to raise a bit of funds for the Casebook. Just in time for Christmas. 
This one is a copy of Melville Macnaghten's memoirs, Days of My Years (1914). Macnaghten was the source for the Macnaghten Memoranda which named Druitt, Kosminski and Ostrog as three likely suspects in the Ripper murders. An entire chapter, titled "Laying the Ghost of Jack the Ripper" is found in this book, describing Macnaghten's reminiscences on the crimes. Other famous cases, including Crippen, are discussed as well.
Copies of this book are extremely hard to find these days, and are rarely seen on the open market.
You can find it at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1979000580
Thank you, and happy bidding! Proceeds directly benefit Casebook: Jack the Ripper... we've got to pay the bills somehow! :-) |
Author: Dan Norder
Friday, 06 December 2002 - 07:06 pm | |
I start the bidding again, whoohoo! But I am sad for me and also happy for you that I always get significantly outbid.
Dan |
Author: Vicki
Friday, 06 December 2002 - 08:46 pm | |
I checked all the sites I know including bookfinder.com and it isn't anywhere, not even the 1989 paperback edition. It seems to be truly a rare book. Good luck on the auction.
Vicki |
