Lavigne, Yves

Hells Angels; Into the Abyss

Toronto, Harper Collins Publishers, 1996. Hardcover. pp. 302. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear, remainder mark to bottom edge; very good+ in very good dustjacket with small chip to front. .

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N° du livre: 089064

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Lavigne, Yves

Hells Angels at War

Toronto, Harpercollins, 1999. Hardcover. pp. 466. 8vo. Quarterbound in black cloth with red lettering to spine. Light shelfwear; very good in very good dustjacket. .

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N° du livre: 089279

Catalogue: Law & Crime

LEE, John

The Man They Could Not Hang the Life Story of John Lee ('Babbacombe Lee') / Told by Himself

Cleveland, OH, Arthur Westbrook Company, 1908. 1st edition. Wraps. pp. 94. Small 8vo. Bound in original illustrated paper wrappers. Our copy was published shortly after Lee's release, and is supposedly written by Lee himself. It is well-worn, with chipping to the covers and some soiling. The rear cover is detached but present. It was a very cheaply-produced book, the text printed on newsprint, which has now age-toned, but is still perfectly readable. The first printing, with the date of publication shown at the bottom of the contents page. Reprinted in 1925 and 1930. John Henry George Lee (1864-1945), better known as John 'Babbacombe', was an Englishman famous for surviving three attempts to hang him for murder. In 1885, he was convicted of the brutal murder of his employer, Emma Keyse, at her home in Baddacombe Bay, near Torquay, on November 15, 1884. The evidence was weak, and circumstantial, amounting to little more than Lee having been the only male in the house at the time of the murder, his prior criminal record, and being found with an unexplained cut on his arm. Despite this, and his claim of innocence, he was sentenced to hang. The execution was attempted on February 23, 1885 at Exeter Prison. Three attempts were made, and all were unsuccessful, as the trapdoor failed to open (despite having been carefully tested beforehand, as was the customary precaution). As a result, the Home Secretary commuted Lee's sentence to life imprisonment. Lee was finally released from prison in 1907, after which he exploited his notoriety by giving lectures, until he gradually disappeared from the public consciousness. His date and place of death are uncertain. The authors of a much later book on Lee, than our offering, suggest he died in Milwaukee and that he is buried there at the Forest Home Cemetary. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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N° du livre: 9900042698

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Mots-clés: Capital punishment;Murder trial;Executions;;;;;; black-&-white illustrations

Levine, Allan

Details Are Unprintable; Wayne Longeran and the Sensational Cafe Society Murder

Guilford, Conneticut, Lyon Press, 2020. Hardcover. pp. 257. 8vo. Light shelfwear; near fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED bu author on title page. .

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N° du livre: 077646

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Levine, Allan

Evil of the Age; the Charles St. Clair Chronicles

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Heartland, 2008. Paperback. pp. 304. 8vo. B&w maps. Negligible shelfwear; near fine. Account of a 1871 political murder mystery in New York. SIGNED by author with inscription to title page. .

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N° du livre: 017560

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Mots-clés: Charles St. Clair; Tammany Hall; Murder; Journalism

Lewis, Anthony

Gideon's Trumpet

New York, Notable Trials Library | Gryphon Editions, 1990. Hardcover. pp. 262. 8vo. Quarter-bound in deep taupe leather. All edges gilt, with gilt lettering and decoration to spine and boards. Ribbon page marker, marbled endpapers. Publisher's bookplate numbered 12572 with previous owner's name affixed to front free endpaper. Lightest shelfwear; else very good+. 'This special edition has been privately printed for the members of The Notable Trials Library'. .

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N° du livre: 070431

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Mots-clés: Legal proceedings;Trials;Crime;

Littlewood, Thomas B.

Coals of Fire; the Alton Telegraph Libel Case

Delanco, NJ, The Notable Trials Library, 2002. Hardcover. pp. xviii, 224. 8vo. Bound in brown quarter leather over brown cloth, with gilt lettering to spine and decoration to boards. Ribbon page marker, gilded edges. Publisher's bookplate numbered 12572 with owner's name affixed to front free endpaper. Light general shelfwear; very good. 'This special edition has been privately printed for the members of The Notable Trials Library'. .

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N° du livre: 072941

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Mots-clés: Notable Trials; History of Law; American Law; Illinois

Llewellyn, K. N. [Karl Nickerson]

The Bramble Bush; on Our Law and Its Study

New York, Oceana Publications, 1951. 2nd printing. Hardcover. pp. 160. 8vo. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Light shelfwear; very good. Lectures which grew out of an attempt to introduce students to the study of law. .

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N° du livre: 061585

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Mots-clés: Legal studies; Law school; Lectures; Speeches

Macharia, Rawson

The Truth About the Trial of Jomo Kenyatta

Nairobi, Longman Kenya, 1991. Paperback. pp.316. 8vo. Light scuffing; very good+. .

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N° du livre: 084983

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Mots-clés: Mau Mau; Colonialism; Kenya; Africa; Abortion of Justice; perjury; police deception

Marsden, William; Julian Sher

Angels of Death; Inside the Bikers' Global Crime Empire

Toronto, Knopf Canada, 2006. Hardcover. pp. 464. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket with stubborn price sticker to front. .

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N° du livre: 089063

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Martin, Robert Ivan

The Most Dangerous Branch; How the Supreme Court of Canada Has Undermined Our Law and Our Democracy

Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. Hardcover. pp. 285. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine in near fine dustjacket. .

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N° du livre: 085825

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Matas, David; Susan Charendoff

Justice Delayed: Nazi War Criminals in Canada

Toronto, Summerhill Press Ltd, 1987. Hardcover. pp. 275. 8vo. Bound in full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Very good in very good dustjacket. .

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N° du livre: 052401

Catalogue: Law & Crime

McGlynn, Margaret

The Rights and Liberties of the English Church; Readings from the Pre-Reformation Inns of Court

London, Selden Society, 2015. Hardcover. pp. li, 203. 4to. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear; very good+ in good, plain white dustjacket with scuffs, tears to edges. .

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N° du livre: 080100

Catalogue: Law & Crime

McIntyre, Mike

Nowhere to Run; the Killing of Constable Dennis Strongquill

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Great Plains Publications, 2003. Paperback. pp. 223. 8vo. Black & white photos and illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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N° du livre: 077658

Catalogue: Law & Crime

McIntyre, Mike

The Yuletide Bandit

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Great Plains Publications, 2004. Paperback. pp. 319. Small 8vo. General shelfwear, some rippling, author's ink inscription to half title page; very good. SIGNED by McIntyre. .

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N° du livre: 089294

Catalogue: Law & Crime