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8vo., First Edition thus, tape marks on endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
12mo (150 x 85 mm) 37, [1]pp., several leaves mounted on stubs, new boards. Henry Sanderson, Adam Adie and Robert Bamford, were for murder, on Friday, March 22, 1822. Sanderson was out shooting pheasants, when he was apprehended by William Carr, gamekeeper to Sir Thomas Wollaston White. While wrestling with the gun Carr was shot, but he lived just long enough to identify his assailant. Adie and Bamford underwent the penalty of the law for the murder of John Timms, aged 17. The three, along with William Knight, were out on the town, after they decided to go poaching but only just got passed Trent Bridge before it began to rain. They then abandoned their plan and went to the Three Horse Shoes public house. Here they argued who was to pay for the drink consumed, Timms, having treated them all in the afternoon, refused to pay more than his share. On the way home the three robbed Timms of his watch and three shillings in silver. Knight then knocked him down, and Adie threw him over the battlements of the bridge into the river Trent. Adie and Bamford were executed after Bamford confessed, but Knight could not be identified, and was consequently acquitted. NOT found on JISC or OCLC.
1935011672London: Rich & Cowan 1935 black cloth light wear and handling soiling ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE to fep a cockle above the helm crest shield has 4 rows of cockles and a star with a circle in the centre in the top left of the shield main shield is flanked by two others on the left a quartered shield with flower star and heart designs on the right top quarters are fleur de lys and lion rampant bottom half looks like three stemmed plants excuse my laymans heraldry bookplate for G E Fitzhardinge Kingscote Captain New Zealand Expeditionary Force Officer of the 5th Party of the Dunsterforce Baghdad Iraq 1918 book has foxing to end papers and closed edges prelims 280pp frontis port. some scattered foxing to margins. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Rich & Cowan hardcover
pp. iv, xcv, 378, [xvi] + Frontis Portrait. Uncut. Original paper backed boards; spine almost perished, but most of the original printed paper label remains. 8vo. 230 mm. A great contemporary account of the last English impeachment trial conducted in the House of Lords. The accused was Henry Dundas, Lord Melville, considered to be the foremost Scotsman of the Eighteenth Century. The report of a Parliamentary Commission gave rise to considerable suspicions against him, as it was conclusively shown that large sums of public money during his tenure of office as Treasurer of the Navy (1782-1783 and 1784-1800) had been applied to other uses than those of the navy. It is interesting to note that Dundas could have avoided these proceedings, had he submitted to criminal charges, but he chose to face impeachment, anticipating that his chances were better before his fellow Lords. After a trial lasting fifteen days he was acquitted on all charges by his peers. Marke 1016; Goldsmiths' 19262-63. Includes an informative DNB article on Lord Melville. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W151
First edition, 8vo, xxiv, 92pp., previous owner's name and address on soiled half-title, engraved portrait of Sir Robert Thomas Wilson, wrappers browned, some light soiling, stitched as issued, uncut. General Lavalette, who having been condemned to death, escaped from prison by changing into in his wife's dress. Wilson, Bruce and Hutchinson, were tried for being instrumental in the escape from Paris, of Lavalette. Wilson passed the barriers in a cabriolet with Lavalette disguised as a British officer, and escorted him safely to Mons. He sent an account of the adventure to Earl Grey which was intercepted and he was arrested in Paris. The three men were tried in Paris and sentenced to three months imprisonment. JISC locates a single copy at University of Cambridge.
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.
91 pages, (Penguin 60s). eng
240 pages including index, notes, bibliography and black and white plates. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr for the defense in the first recorded murder trial in U.S. history, New York, 1800. Gift inscription inside front cover. Former price atop first leaf. Nice clean copy with light wear. Book
First edition, [4], 288, 149, [1]pp., folding engraved map, Birmingham Law Society stamp on title, recent half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco title label. The Appin Murder occurred on 14 May 1752 near Appin in the west of Scotland, and it resulted in what is often held to be a notorious miscarriage of justice. It occurred in the tumultuous aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The murder inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped.
19372123456Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. First edition. Hinges starting split down fold of front jacket flap jacket spine faded Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover books
182787802Albany: D. M'Glashan 1827. First and Only Edition. Octavo in 4's. 24cm. Stab bound pages with the title page serving as the front cover and no trace that the pamphlet was ever bound. 35pp. Some mild chipping to edges and extremities most notably the upper right corner toning and soiling to wraps; internally clean but uniformly toned with offsetting from the type throughout edges untrimmed luxuriously wide margins some traces of careless opening in places. Very good by dint of survival and solidity rather than beauty the paper is cheap and the pamphlet was printed to leverage opportunity rather than posterity.<br /> <br /> A notable and at the time highly controversial trial dealing with what was later referred to as "The Murder at Cherry Hill." The prominent New York Van Rensselaer family owned and lived at Cherry Hill Farm in Albany the daughter Elsie was married somewhat unhappily to John Whipple and fell for a younger man she met in a bar by the name of Jesse Strang. The couple fell in love Elsie expressed her deep unhappiness with Whipple; Strang masquerading under the name of Jesse Orton took on a job at the farm and began an affair with Elsie which was maintained by the house staff many of whom were enslaved people of color whose testimonies were heard at the trial passing notes between the two. Elsie chafing somewhat at having to endure her legal husband resolved that he must die to make way for Strang and they would run away together to Canada. <br /> <br /> The first plan was arsenic poisoning which failed. What Elsie lacked in poisoning ability she made up for with murderous intent and she purchased a rifle removed the ammunition from her now somewhat suspicious husband's gun and induced Strang who does not come across as the sharpest tool in the shed to shoot Whipple dead. Strang then attempted to fabricate an alibi which did not hold up and he was arrested. What followed was a widely publicised trial in which both defendants turned on each other Elsie's status as the daughter of prominent landowners was leveraged as protection from any serious punishment and Strang bore the brunt of the law. He had of course further doomed himself by attempting to plant evidence lying under several oaths and generally being one of the less gifted murderers of the early 19th century; he was hanged Elsie went home to Cherry Hill the Van Rensselaer's invested heavily in local collective amnesia and the rest of the US stared somewhat incredulously and gossiped over their breakfast grits. <br /> It was a carnival of awfulness that posed many questions about the societal rights and freedoms of women the privileges of wealth and the integrity of the judicial system. Fairly represented in institutions with 20 examples in US libraries but scarce in commerce and usually in later binding. D. M'Glashan unknown
1954006291London: William Hodge 1954 red cloth with blind design to upper board light bumping to corners unclipped dust jacket with minor handling wear very minor short edge splits fep has small patch of browning xiii 299 deplorable case of a mental deficient who strangled three young girls the last one while escaped from Broadmoor interesting case of the use of the McNaughton Rule. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. William Hodge hardcover
1912013449Glasgow: William Hodge 1912 red cloth with blind design to upper board top edge gilt gilt to spine states 'Notable English Trials' light bumping to corners light rubbing or fading to spine light foxing to prelims xlvi 364pp frontis port 5 plates quite tidy internally accused of poisoning her husband Florence Maybrick was found guilty ands ordered to be hanged but was imprisoned and later released whence she travelled to the USA where she lived the rest of her life of note is that the recent 'Ripper Diary' has been claimed as belonging to her husband and that he was the Ripper and possibly she killed him knowing this . First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. William Hodge hardcover
Minor shelfwear. Light wear to upper corner of wrap. Very light foxing to textblock. ; Contents: David Lorton: the treatment of criminals in Ancient Egypt through the New Kingdom; Johannes Renger: Wrongdoing and its Sanctions. On "criminal" and "civil" law in the Old Babylonian Period; Tikva Simone Frymer: The Nungal-hymn and the Ekur-prison; Jack M. Sasson: Treatment of criminals at Mari. A Survey; Kaspar Riemschneider: Prison and Punishment in Early Anatolia. ; 126 pages
1st edition, hardback in a protected dust jacket. VG/VG. ISBN 0297777718. 22826. eng
pp. 432 + Plus photo frontis. Marginal illustrations. Title page printed in red and black. Flyleaves brittle with some slight loss. Private shelf label [F. N. Kneas, C.E.]. 8vo. Original full brown gold stamped cloth binding, spine head and tail slightly worn. Nice copy. All early editions of this bear substantial prices, probably because it is well known for its description of fingerprinting, and because this technique is used by Twain to solve a crime. *PRICE JUST REDUCED! HUMOR 7
196921759New York: Signet Books 1969. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Pocket paperbound book. Stated first printing. Includes Kick It or Kill The Seven Year Kill and The Bastard Bannerman. 190 pp. Published as Signet T4141. A clean very good example. Square and tight. This copy SIGNED by Spillane and quite uncommon thus. <br/><br/> Signet Books paperback books
8vo., First Edition thus, tape marks on endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with small indent to front and very slight creasing to top of spine. 304pp. The sensational crime that scandalized Regency England in 1823.
Signed 'Edgar Newman' to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. 135pp. Set in Hitchin, Hertfordshire and based on fact, this work provides another six short crime cases for Inspector Barnabas Tripp to solve.
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to fore page edges, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing to spine ends and slight creasing/nick to upper rear edge. 316pp. Dramatic thriller set on the New York subway when hijackers kidnap a train. First UK Edition, Second Impression.
2005500246496Bantam 2005 416 pages 10 6x2 8x17 6cm. 2005. Broché. 416 pages.
Spine darkened. Rear hinge started. Top spine fraying; 8vo; 297 pages
359p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Shelf wear to DJ, particularly to extremities. Marks from paper clips and occasional notes in text ; The story of NYPD's Greenberg and Hantz, called 'Batman and Robin' for their technique of swinging on ropes from rooftops to make busts. SIGNED by both, as well and Author Whittemore. Made into an acclaimed film by director Gordon Parks, whose production notes grace a couple of pages. Obtained directly from Parks. Absolutely a one of a kind item. B&W photos on rear of DJ; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 359 pages
