BARDENS Dennis

Lord Justice Birkett. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Robert Hale,, [1962]. 8vo., First Edition, with 15 plates on 8, some light age-staining; red tweed cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at head and tail of backstrip. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.

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Boeknummer: 20812

Catalogus: True Crime0

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DILLON Martin

The Shankill Butchers. A Case Study of Mass Murder. [Foreword by Conor Cruise O'Brien]. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hutchinson,, [1989]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Dillon's detailed account inevitably focuses on the atrocities of Murphy and his compatriots, and the painstaking detective work of James Nesbitt who remains the most commended policeman in the history of the United Kingdom. A SPLENDID COPY OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT.

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Boeknummer: 22271

Catalogus: True Crime0

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DILNOT George

The Trial of Professor John White Webster. With an Introduction by George Dilnot. [Famous Trials series]. TENNYSON JESSE'S COPY WITH BOOKPLATE

Geoffrey Bles,, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 2 plates; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF F. TENNYSON JESSE AND BEARS HER DISTINCTIVE 'SEA-HORSES' BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN AND PENCILLED HOLOGRAPH SIGNATURE ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Fryn (properly Friniwyd) Tennyson Jesse (1889-1958), English novelist and dramatist, was also editor of several volumes in Hodges' 'Notable British Trials' series. A great-niece of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, she began her career as a painter but diversified into journalism during WWI, after which she was appointed to Hoover's Relief Commission for Europe. In 1918 she married the dramatist H M Harwood with whom she co-authored a number of light plays. During WWII she wrote two highly successful collections of letters - 'London Front' (1940) and 'While London Burns' (1942) - both now much sought after as appraisals of the early Home Front and the London Blitz; her Cornish novels (among them 'The White Riband' (1921) and 'Moonraker' (1927)) are also collected. Her interest in true crime began with her novel 'A Pin to See a Peepshow' (1934; later a successful play) based on the Thompson-Bywaters case. Her Notable British Trials volumes include the cases of Madeleine Smith, Timothy Evans and John Christie.

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Boeknummer: 6444

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HARRY Gerard

The Peltzer Case. [Famous Trials series]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Geoffrey Bles,, [1928]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 5 plates; original series binding of blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Boeknummer: 6448

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JACKSON William

The New and Complete Newgate Calendar. or, Malefactor's Univerersal Register. Vol. I [THIS VOLUME ONLY; WANTING ONE GATHERING]. FINE COPPER PLATES

Printed for Alex Hogg,, [1818]. 8vo., on laid paper, with copper-engraved frontispiece and 8 fine copper-engraved plates, wanting one gathering (4 leaves) following title; original boards, newly rebacked in calf to style, a very good, bright, clean copy. 'A New Edition, with great Additions. Illustrated with a great Variety of Copper-plates'. VERY SCARCE.

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Boeknummer: 32297

Catalogus: True Crime0

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JONES Tobias

Blood on the Altar. In Search of a Serial Killer. FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Faber,, [2012]. 8vo., First Edition, with 8pp of coloured plates and maps in the text; grey boards, backstrip lettered in white, red endpapers, a fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Boeknummer: 22466

Catalogus: True Crime0

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KNOTT, ed. George H.

Trial of Sir Roger Casement. [Notable British Trials]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

William Hodge, Edinburgh,, [1917]. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title in red and black, and 9 plates; original series binding of red cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on frontispiece verso and title. Published in the series Notable British Trials.

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Boeknummer: 42699

Catalogus: True Crime0

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MITCHELL Ewan

Coping with Crime. The Businessman's Guide to Crime. With Tax, Vehicle and Race Relations Supplements. Illustrations by Nigel Francis. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Business Books,, [1969]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, several full-page illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.

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Boeknummer: 3365

Catalogus: True Crime0

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PHILLIPS Alan

The Living Legend. The Story of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Cassell,, [1957]. 8vo., First Edition, small signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Boeknummer: 34236

Catalogus: True Crime0

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PLATTS-MILLS John

Muck, Silk and Socialism. Recollections of a Left-wing Queen's Counsel. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

[Paper Publishing, Wedmore,, 2002]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Boeknummer: 26703

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SIMON John

Sir John Simon's Speech for the Defence. Sir John Simon's Speech for the Defence. [Privately Printed]. VISCOUNT SIMON'S PRESENTATION COPY WITH A.L. VISCOUNT SIMON'S PRESENTATION COPY WITH A.L.s

Privately Printed for Stevens and Sons by C.F. Roworth,, 1917. 8vo., First Edition, with a full-page plan; strongly bound in contemporary red buckram, backstrip lettered in gilt, uncut, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a near fine copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM SIR JOHN (LATER VISCOUNT) SIMON TO MAJOR A W H JAMES WITH THE FORMER'S SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT WRAPPER. A FINE AND RELEVANT A.L.s FROM SIMON TO JAMES IS MOUNTED ON REAR ENDPAPER. The letter is written from HQ, Royal Flying Corps, where Simon served briefly on Lord Trenchard's staff during WWI. Major James has noted the context in a neat hand on inner wrapper: 'Immediately after the trial John Simon came out to HQ, RFC, France, and was attached under instruction to my squadron, No. 6, at Abeele. I had known Simon when I was at Cambridge, and he and Ernest Burge had a hunting box at Huntingdon. John Simon, whom I got to know very well later, in the same mess at HQ. RFC, and later in the H. of C [House of Commons] was intrigued to meet someone who knew his client, Malcolm, well. John Allsebrook Simon, KC, 1st Viscount Simon (1873-1954) is one of only three British politicians to have served as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary [under Churchill] and Chancellor of the Exchequer. In the sensational trial of Lieutenant [Douglas] Malcolm of the Royal Artillery for the murder of Anton Baumberg [Count de Borch], Simon led the Defence. After the summing-up by the Judge [Justice McCardie] the Jury retired and after twenty-five minutes' absence returned a verdict of 'Not Guilty'. RARE, AND IN THIS CASE CONTEXTUALLY UNIQUE.

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Boeknummer: 23168

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SKYRME Sir Thomas

History of The Justices of the Peace. FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

[Barry Rose and the Justice of the Peace, Chichester],, [1991]. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition; green cloth, gilt backs, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises Vol. I: England to 1689; Vol. II: 1689-1989; Vol. III: Territories Beyond England.

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Boeknummer: 33036

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TAYLOR Bernard

Murder at the Priory. The Mysterious Poisoning of Charles Bravo. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Grafton,, [1988]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper charts; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Boeknummer: 46340

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WALLER George

Kidnap. The Story of the Lindbergh Case. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hamish Hamilton,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; green tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at extremities, and with minor loss at head of backstrip.

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Boeknummer: 26064

Catalogus: True Crime0

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WILLIAMS George E.

The Perfect Shadow. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Self Publishing Association, Upton-on-Severn,, [1990]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Boeknummer: 39786

Catalogus: True Crime0

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