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Here you will find a list of Ripper and Ripper-related books and collectibles that we are currently offering for purchase to our readers, as a means of raising funding for the web site. All profits from these sales directly benefit Casebook: Jack the Ripper. All prices are in U.S. dollars. Shipping is extra. We actively search want lists as well, please send your wants to inquiries_rarebookscasebook.org.

  
(Magazine). Bloodhound - March 1987.
Includes article on Jack the Ripper. VG. Rare.. $10.00

  
--. The Ballad of Jack the Ripper and other Great Cockney Songs.
Sheet music. 1974. VG+. Rare song.. $10.00

  
--. True Detective - May 2001.
Includes section: JACK THE RIPPER: IS THE ANSWER IN THE OCCULT. Large illustrated magazine.. $5.00

  
--. Master Detective: WAS THIS MAN JACK THE RIPPER?.
Magazine. Maybrick Diary coverage. Fully illustrated. VG.. $5.00

  
--. Life Magazine - Nov. 1970.
Contains fully illustrated article on the then NEW "Royal Conspiracy" theory. VG.. $5.00

  
--. Punch, or the London Charivari - June to December 1888.
Bound volume of illustrated magazine Punch, which published numerous well-known Ripper-related illustrations in September/October 1888, including Nemesis of Neglect, Whitechapel 1888, Horrible London and more. See this link for examples. Very rare and very collectible. In VG binding with slight fading at edges.. $350.00

  
--. Picture Post - October 1938.
Magazine. Includes fully illustrated article "WHITECHAPEL". Very rare. G.. $10.00

  
---. Murder in Mind: The Whitechapel Murders.
Magazine. 1997. VG. Fully on Jack the Ripper, lavishly illustrated.. $10.00

  
---. Murder Most Foul No. 22 - Autumn of Terror, Six Chapters of Evil.
Large magazine dealing almost entirely with JTR. VG+.. $5.00

  
---. Murder Most Foul No. 22 - Autumn of Terror, Six Chapters of Evil.
Large magazine dealing almost entirely with JTR. VG+.. $5.00

  
----. Ripperologist #12 (August 1997).
vg. $15.00

  
Adam, Hargrave L.. Police Work From Within.
Holden and Hardingam, n.d. [1910?]. First edition hardcover. Very rare. Contains long, early chapter on Jack the Ripper. . $125.00

  
Athkins, D.E.. The Ripper.
Paperback, G.. $5.00

  
Barnard, A.. The Harlot Killer.
1st paperback. VG.. $35.00

  
Barnard, Alan. The Harlot Killer.
1st edition Hardcover, 1953. VG in a slightly chipped dustjacket. Rare edition in a hard-to-find dustjacket. . $115.00

  
Bazan, Emilia Pardo. Un Destripador de antano.
Spanish softcover, VG. No date (1969?). Fictional Ripper-ish story in spanish.. $5.00

  
BBC. Radio Times: After the Ripper.
Full color magazine, July 1973. Part of the Barlow and Watt series that was released that year. VERY RARE.. $10.00

  
Begg, Fido and Skinner. Jack the Ripper A to Z, The.
1st edition hardcover. VG in VG dustjacket. . $50.00

  
Begg, Paul. Jack the Ripper: The Uncensored Facts.
1st softcover edition. VG.. $25.00

  
Besant, Walter. All Sorts and Conditions of Men.
Chatto and Windus, 1883. Hardcover. Spine slightly shaken, o/w VG. Rare.. $80.00

  
Bloch, Robert. Blood of the Innocent: Dracula v. Jack the Ripper.
Comic book. VG.. $5.00

  
Bourgoin, Stephane. Jack L'Eventreur.
Fleuve Noir. Paperback. Exceedingly rare. VG. $55.00

  
Bowen-Rowlands, Ernest. Seventy-Two Years at the Bar.
Hardcover, 1924. No direct Ripper linkage. Contains a great deal of coverage of infamous crimes during the 19th century - Irish dynamitards, Wainwright murder, etc. Rare book.. $5.00

  
Brewer. The Curse of Mitre Square 1550-1888.
1st reprint edition (1990s) of 1888 original. Hard to find copy of an esoteric contemporary piece.. $50.00

  
C. R. Ashbee. From Whitechapel to Camelot.
Hardcover, 1892. Water spots on cover, o/w G+. Strange fictional piece published by "Guild of Handicraft", Mile End London. No direct Ripper linkage - something of a children's story. Bizarre piece. Signed by Mrs. Ashbee.. $25.00

  
Coville. Jack the Ripper in Popular Entertainment.
Hardcover, VG+. Coverage of the Ripper in film and fiction.. $25.00

  
Cullen, Tom. Autumn of Terror.
1st edition hardcover, very much sought after. VG in VG dustjacket.. $85.00

  
Douglas, A.. Will the Real Jack the Ripper?.
1st softcover edition of a scarce and well-regarded title.. $40.00

  
Ellery Queen. A Study in Terror.
Lancer Books. Paperback. 1966. G+.. $5.00

  
Evans, Stewart and Keith Skinner. Jack the Ripper: Letters From Hell. Photo available
1st edition hardcover, 2001. VG in VG dustjacket. Richly illustrated book contains dozens of never-before-published photographs, many in color. A must have.. $35.00

  
Fletcher, Geoffrey S.. Pearly Kingdom.
Hutchinson, 1965. 1st edition. Hardcover w/dj, VG/VG. Large-format illustrative coffee-table book. Illustrations of several East End locales including Whitechapel.. $8.00

  
Gardner, Michael. An Old Drama: Three Encounters with Jack the Ripper.
Black Knight Press, 1969. Exceedingly rare fictional treatment, only 100 numbered copies printed. This is copy #33, and is signed by the printer (who made each of these books by hand). A delightful piece, both in terms of style and substance, printed on deep purple paper. Original boards, illustrations. Highly collectible.. $95.00

  
Harris, Melvin. Jack the Ripper: The Bloody Truth.
1st edition HC, VG in VG dustjacket. Hard to find.. $75.00

  
Hibbert, Christopher. The Road to Tyburn: The Story of Jack Sheppard and the Eighteenth Century London Underword.
1957, first edition Hardcover in G dustjacket. Ex-lib with usual markings.. $10.00

  
Hodgson, Peter. Jack the RIpper Through the Mists of Time.
1st edition, softcover. Signed by author. As new. Incredibly small print run, sure to become collectible.. $75.00

  
Illustrated Police News. Complete Set of Illustrated Police Newspapers Reprints.
Five (5) reprints make up this exceedingly rare collection printed in the 1970s. Each is a reprint of a complete issue of the Illustrated Police News from 1888 - with each paper containing numerous illustrations and contemporary articles on all five canonical Ripper victims. A delight for the researcher and collector alike - would look lovely framed. Each paper is in VG condition.. $279.00

  
James, P.D. & T.A. Critchley. The Maul and the Pear Tree.
VG 1971 paperback about the Ratcliffe Highway murders, which "were to nineteenth-century London what the Jack the Ripper killings are to us today: the very symbol of murderous and unthinking brutality.". $4.00

  
Kelly, Alexander. Jack the Ripper: A Bibliography and Review of the Literature.
Rare 1st edition, in boards. VG, slight wear.. $50.00

  
Leapman, Michael. The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation.
Hardcover w/dustjacket VG/VG. $10.00

  
M.E.P.O.. Metropolitan Police Guide, 1896.
1200+ pages in handsome binding. These books contain all the civil and criminal codes/laws for the Metropolitan London area, from prostitution to murder to witchcraft! Every bobby in Scotland Yard held one of these close-at-hand as a reference for their daily work. An invaluable reference for serious Ripper scholars, and an extremely rare early edition. Later editions (1920s) are more common, but this one was printed less than a decade from the Ripper murders. Excellent condition.. $550.00

  
MacDonald, Philip. Vampire (Murder Gone Mad).
French paperback, n.d. (1940s/50s?). Fiction inspired by the Ripper case. Rare french version.. $10.00

  
Maples, William R.. Dead Men Do Tell Tales.
Softcover, Good only. Excellent book on forensic science. . $5.00

  
Middleton, James. Jack O Estripador.
PHOTOCOPIES of the entire 2,000+ pages of this enormous work published in 1889. A few pages missing or out of order. This book was published in five volumes and was entirely a Ripper fiction. See this link for examples.. $10.00

  
Moore-Anderson, A. P.. Sir Robert Anderson and Lady Agnes Anderson.
Marshall, Morgan and Scott. 1947. First edition, hardcover. Slight fading at extremities of cloth, o/w VG. Rare biography of Sir Robert by his son. Contains some Ripper commentary.. $125.00

  
Morrison, John. Jimmy Kelly's Year of Ripper Murders, 1888.
1st edition, boards. n.d. (1980s). VG. John Morrison lays out his evidence for John Kelly being Jack the Ripper. A small booklet, but a strange and highly collectible bit of Ripperana.. $45.00

  
Odell, Robin. Jack the Ripper in Fact and Fiction (Dutch edition).
Softcover. G+.. $30.00

  
Parlour, Andy and Sue. The Jack the Ripper Whitechapel Murders.
1st edition hardcover. VG in VG dustjacket.. $20.00

  
Pasquet, D.. Londres et les Ouvriers de Londres (London and the Working Class of London).
French Softcover, 1914. Mammoth and important work of 760+ pages covering the social conditions of London's working class poor. Entire chapters on the East End, Sweating System, etc. including a chapter on Whitechapel and the Jewish Workers. Includes fold out maps. Good only condition. Important and scarce work.. $15.00

  
Pinkerton, A. Frank. The Whitechapel Murders: An American Detective in London.
1998 reprint of the 1889 original dime novel. 200+ pages, illustrated. Includes three "factual" appendices on the murders.. $25.00

  
Purkiss. Whitechapel Murders: Or, the Mysteries of the East End.
PHOTOCOPIES ONLY of this rare 1888 non-fiction published even before the murder of Mary Kelly. Large format photocopies.. $5.00

  
Sharkey, Terence. Jack the Riper: 100 Years of Investigation.
1st edition hardcover. VG in VG dustjacket.. $45.00

  
Sharkey, Terence. Jack the Ripper: 100 Years of Investigation.
2nd hardcover edition. VG in VG dj.. $20.00

  
Soltikow, Michael Graf. Der Teufel von Whitechapel.
1st reprint edition (2001) of the 1944 original. Includes original German text, as well as a new English introduction and translation of the text. Illustrated. This piece was penned in Nazi-occupied Paris - the author claims the Whitechapel murders were the result of a Jewish conspiracy.. $15.00

  
Sugden, Philip. The Complete History of Jack the Ripper. Photo available
Carroll & Graf, 1994. Hardcover, 1st ed. stated. Highly desirable hardcover edition of the book most consider to be the best ever written on the Ripper murders as a whole.. $65.00

  
Sugden, Philip. The Complete History of Jack the Ripper.
1st American edition, Carrol & Graf. Hardcover. VG/VG.. $85.00

  
Underwood, Peter. Jack the Ripper: 100 Years of Mystery.
1st edition HC, VG in VG dustjacket. Hard to find. . $45.00

  
Underwood, Peter. Jack the Ripper: 100 Years of Mystery.
1st softcover. VG. $30.00

  
Various. Scoops and Headlines: Twelve Great South African Stories.
Hardcover w/dj. VG/G. Contains chapter "Jack the Ripper" Strikes Again, about a Ripperish murder in South Africa. Scarce.. $5.00

  
von Stutterheim, Kurt. The Press in England.
1934 hardcover w/dj, VG/VG. Scarce.. $20.00

  
Warren, Nick. Ripperana #22 (October 1997).
VG. $5.00

  
West, Paul. The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper.
Hardcover w/dj. G, ex-lib.. $5.00