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Black octavo, 99 p Very scarce || Protection, Safety, Crime Prevention. True Crime. Law Enforcement
84p. Illustrated. Numerous local Reading advertisements. List of Reading subscribers. Inked ownership of Miss Ella R. Arnold, daughter of one of the subscribers. 16mo. Original pictorial stiff wraps, cloth spine. Covers soiled. First Edition. Counterfeiters (known as "boodlers" in the underground slang of the time) were mostly technically skilled printers who had gone to the bad. Many had once worked printing legitimate currency. Boodlers operated in rings and gangs. Technical experts engraved the bogus plates, then smooth confidence men passed large wads of the high-quality, high- denomination fakes, including the really sophisticated stuff: Scarce. PA PAMPH 19_27 BX1
Book and jacket in as new condition. 168pp. The story about and each episode from Series One of BBC production 'Life on Mars'. Very well illustrated.
248 pages. "The most fascinating true story of power, greed and corruption of our times - the story of Robert L. Vesco and his dirty millions!" - from front cover. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Some external soiling. A worthy reading copy. Book
FL 1984, In-8 cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette illustrée, 252 pages. Parfait état.
In 8° leg. edit. sov. fig. ( non perfetta ) pp. 510, ben tenuto
8vo, 160 pages, not illustrated. Includes articles on violence by Colin Wilson, Roy Fuller, Benny Green, Alan Sillitoe, David Hockney, V.S. Naipaul, Norman Mailer and many others. eng
Cartonn?. 251 pages.
1st edition. Small crease to the front cover, else VG pbk. ISBN 0701159235. Includes crime stories by Ellis Peters, Peter Lovesey, Margaret Yorke, Eric Ambler, Antonia Fraser, Reginald Hill, Jonathan Gash, H.R.F. Keating, Ian Rankin, Sue Grafton and many others. 17510. eng
95 pages, illustrated, index, introduction by Ian Rankin. eng
Fine Turkish Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 383 p. 50 yillik anilarim. Memoirs and poems of an intellectual exiled Crimean-Karaite Jew. A diaspora book. Extremely rare. Not in Bali.
in-16, broché sous couverture illustree. Etat correct. [BL-4]
8vo., First Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The eighth novel in the Women's Murder Club sequence.
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In Crimean Turkish (Cyrillic script). 278, [2] p. [H]ayatimin unutilmaz levhalari. Memoirs of a Crimean-Turkish intellectual.
26 vols., 8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt backs, a near fine run in unclipped dustwrapper. The set comprises: Death at La Fenice (SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE) (Chapmans, 1992); Death in a Strange Country (Chapmans, 1993); The Anonymous Venetian (Macmillan, 1994); A Venetian Reckoning (Macmillan, 1995); Acqua Alta (Macmillan, 1996); The Death of Faith (Macmillan, 1997); A Noble Radiance (Heinemann, 1998); Fatal Remedies (Heinemann, 1999); Friends in High Places (Heinemann, 2000); A Sea of Troubles (Heinemann, 2001); Wilful Behaviour (Heinemann, 2002); Uniform Justice (Heinemann, 2003); Doctored Evidence (Heinemann, 2004); Blood from a Stone (Heinemann, 2005); Through a Glass Darkly (Heinemann, 2006); Suffer the Little Children (Heinemann, 2007); The Girl of his Dreams (Heinemann,2008); About Face (Heinemann, 2009); A Question of Belief (Heinemann, 2010); Drawing Conclusions (Heinemann, 2011); Beastly Things (Heinemann, 2012); The Golden Egg (Heinemann, 2013); By its Cover (Heinemann, 2014); Falling in Love (Heinemann, 2015); The Waters of Eternal Youth (Heinemann, 2016; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE); Earthly Remains (Heinemann, 2017; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE). A SPLENDID RUN, COMPLETE TO DATE, WITH THE FIRST AND MOST ELUSIVE VOLUME (TOGETHER WITH TWO OTHERS) SIGNED BY LEON ON TITLE.
New revised and expanded edition, Large 8vo, xvi, 726pp., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w.
432 p. ; 19 cm. Hardcover Good condition, hinges cracked Contents: Houses and householders -- Loves of the lawyers -- Money -- Costume and toilet -- Music -- Amateur theatricals -- Legal education -- Mirth -- At home: in court: and in society.
With eight illustrations. With publisher's bookmark. Missing front free endpaper. Slight foxing on half-title page.
(1.) On Appeals of Death; Together with a Concise Statement of their Nature, the Laws respecting them, and in what cases and by what relatives of the deceased entitled to be instituted. Compiled, from the best Authorities, by a Professional Gentleman. Birmingham: Printed by R. Jabet and Co., [c. 1810]. 12pp., one line of text shaved but without loss of sense. This appears to be unrecorded, not listed on Copac or OCLC. (2.) [TOPHAM (Edward)] The Remarkable Life of John Elwes, Esq. Member in three successive parliaments for Berkshire. with singular Anecdotes, &c. London: Printed for J. Roe... and Anne Lemoine, [c. 1810]. Engraved frontispiece, 34pp. (3.) Thornton's Trial. The Trial of Abraham Thornton, at the Warwick Summer Assize, on Friday, the 8th day of August, 1817, for the murder of Mary Ashford, in the Lordship of Sutton Coldfield, before the Hon. George Sowley Holroyd, Knight. A new edition... Birmingham: Printed and Sold by Joseph Russell, [c.1820]. 39pp., folding plan frontispiece (misbound at the start of the volume), the title page refers to 'engravings', however, there doesn't appear to be any in other copies located. (4.) An Account of the Appeal of Death, by Wm. Ashford, Against Am. Thornton... Birmingham: J. Russell, [c.1820]. 17pp. (5.) The Mysterious Murder, or, What's the Clock? A Melo Drama, in Three Acts. Founded on a Tale too True. Written by G. L. Birmingham: Printed and Sold by the Author, [c.1810]. Second edition, revised and corrected, [2], 56pp. (6.) The King versus B. Mander and Eight Others. The Trial at large of the Committee of the Flour and Bread Company, of which Benjamin Mander was Chairman, at Stafford Summer Assizes, 1814, etc. Wolverhampton: Printed by J. Smart, 1814. 48pp., fore-edges shaved and touch text. Not recorded by Copac. (7.) The Speech of Charles Phillips, Esq. Counsel for the Plaintiff in the Crim. Con. Cause, tried in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, June 9, 1815, John Guthrie, Esq. versus Peter William Baker Dunstanville Sterne. Birmingham: Printed and sold by J. Ferrall, 1815. 23pp. Not recorded by Copac.
