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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Illustrated by Peskin, Hy; Pachner, William; Wolsky, Milton L.; Manning,Jack; Chiriaka, Ernest; Kuhn, Walt; Bugg, Robert; Karger, George; Vebell,Edward; Brown, Elmore (illustrator). First Edition. 94 pages. Articles:.The House at Hyde Park - the home FDR loved; Spare-Time Statesman - President of General Electric, Charles E. Wilson; Does the Army Want the Reserves? - its brass hats view civilian soldiers with mixed feelings; Sketches in Sawdust - Paintings of Circus folk; Why Atoms Don't Fly - obstacles to atomic-powered aircraft; The Fat of the Land - a new theory of obesity and its cure. Fiction: I'm a Stronger in Town Myself (part 1 of 3); The Half-Shot Hereford; A Very Funny Guy; Bride and Room; A Sure Thing; Madam President (conclusion). Includes ads for: Parker pens 1951; Pepsodent - featuring Marjorie Groats; Lifebuoy soap; RCA Victor radios and phonographs; Milky Way Chocolate Bars; Diamond Trucks - great color photo; Willys-Overland Motors "Jeep"; Drewry's Old Stock Ale - featuring Mountie; Argus cameras (twin lens); Pontiac - centerfold; Stewart-Warner radios; Oldsmobile; Foot Pals; Walt Disney's "Melody Time" movie; Templeform hats; DeSoto cars; GM Electro-motive division; Solovox; Dutch Boy Paint; Frazer cars; Santa Fe Railroad; National Guard; United Jewish Appeal - full page showing hoards behind barbed wire; Back cover Coke ad shows young lady who has stopped for a break from driving. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine, April 10, 1948 House at Hyde Park - the home FDR loved; Spare-Time Statesman - President of General Electric, Charles E. Wilson; Does the Army Want the Reserves? - its brass hats view civilian soldiers with mixed feelings; Sketches in.

London: W.M. Clark, 1849. (illustrator). London: W.M. Clark, 1849. Thomas McDade's Copy [Trial]. Manning, Frederick George [1820-1849], Defendant. Manning, Maria [1821-1849], Defendant. The Bermondsey Murder. A Full Report of the Trial of Frederick George Manning and Maria Manning, For the Murder of Patrick O'Connor, At Minver-Place, Bermondsey, On the 9th of August, 1849. Including Memoirs of Patrick O'Connor, Frederick George Manning, And Maria Manning. With their Portraits, And Several Other Engravings. At head of title: Clark's Edition. London: Printed and Published by W.M. Clark, 1849. 64 pp. Illustrated. [Bound with] The Only Correct Account of the Confession and Execution of Frederick George Manning and Maria Manning, For the Murder of Patrick O'Connor. At head of title: Appendix to Clark's Edition. [London: Printed and Published by William Mark Clark, (1849)]. 16 pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Stab-stitched pamphlets bound in later three-quarter sheep over marbled boards, gilt fillets and lettering piece to spine, edges rouged, marbled endpapers, later bookplate of Thomas M. McDade to front pastedown. Light rubbing to extremities, front joint and hinges starting, brief annotation to verso of front free endpaper. Blank leaves added before and after text block, 48 pp. of contemporary newspaper clippings about the trial, one with brief annotations, pasted onto blank leaves at rear. Light toning to interior, occasional light foxing, soiling and faint staining to top-edge of rear blank leaves, small tears to bottom-edge of leaf D5 (pp. 57-58) of Trial. $1,250. * Only (stated) editions, each one of two 1849 issues. O'Connor, a wealthy gauger (customs official) and moneylender, was the former lover of Marie De Roux, later Manning. He was murdered by Marie and her husband, Frederick George Manning. The motivation was greed. The case attracted a good deal of public attention and became known as the "Bermondsey Horror." Eventually apprehended, the husband and wife were hanged on November 13, 1849. This execution was the first time a husband and wife had been executed together in England since 1700. Dickens witnessed the execution and wrote an account of it that was published in the Times. The behavior of the crowd repulsed him, and he became a leading advocate for ending public executions. (The campaign was eventually successful in 1868.

A Murder Trial that Inspired Dickens [Trial]. Manning, Frederick George [1820-1849], Defendant. Manning, Maria [1821-1849], Defendant. The Bermondsey Murder. A Full Report of the Trial of Frederick George Manning and Maria Manning, For the Murder of Patrick O'Connor, At Minver-Place, Bermondsey, On the 9th of August, 1849. Including Memoirs of Patrick O'Connor, Frederick George Manning, And Maria Manning. With their Portraits, And Several Other Engravings. At head of title: Clark's Edition. London: Printed and Published by W.M. Clark, 1849. 64 pp. Illustrated. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in recent plain wrappers, edges rouged, housed in plain folder with printed label to front. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing and soiling to a few leaves, a few slight cracks to text block, all leaves secure, very faint offsetting from illustrations in places. [With] Manning, Frederick George. Manning, Maria. The Only Correct Account of the Confession and Execution of Frederick George Manning and Maria Manning, For the Murder of Patrick O'Connor. [London]: Now Publishing, By W.M. Clark, [1849]. 16 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in recent plain wrappers, printed label to front wrapper, endleaves added. Moderate toning to interior, negligible light foxing and soiling in places. Together two items. $1,250. * Only (stated) editions; Trial: one of two 1849 issues. O'Connor, a wealthy gauger (customs official) and moneylender, was the former lover of Marie De Roux, later Manning. He was murdered by Marie and her husband, Frederick George Manning. The motivation was greed. The case attracted a good deal of public attention and became known as the "Bermondsey Horror." Eventually apprehended, the husband and wife were hanged on November 13, 1849. This execution was the first time a husband and wife had been executed together in England since 1700. Dickens witnessed the execution and wrote an account of it that was published in the Times. The behavior of the crowd repulsed him, and he became a leading advocate for ending public executions. (The campaign was eventually successful in 1868.) He later based a character on Marie Manning: Mademoiselle Hortense, Lady Dedlock's maid in Bleak House. Our account of the trial had two 1849 issues with different pag.