mitchell editor edwin valentine (5 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Garden City, 1926. Brown cloth covered boards with black title blocks and gold titles; mild edge wear; jacket is worn with small chips and tears along edges; top 1 1/2" of rear jacket flap is missing; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; illustrations in black and white; interior is clean and unmarked; 265 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. viii, 266pp, five black and white plates. Green cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine; top text block edge sprayed green. 8vo. Signature bound. Sun-faded spine and joints of covers, lightly bumped spine ends; lightly cocked. White paint drops on rear cover; small dent towards top of rear fore-edge. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan; untrimmed. Endpapers tanning. Prelim pages foxing. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Further twenty eight in-text, black and white plates throughout. Some of the uncut pages were previously poorly detached; some damage to page margins.

2112 Seiten Großformat, ohne Schutzumschlag, Ecken/Kanten bestossen, Einband fleckig, Buchkörper verfärbt, Seiten leicht vergilbt und teilw. fleckig, Buchschnitt mit Lagerpuren, eher mittel bis gut für das Alter Altersfreigabe FSK ab 0 Jahre Sprache: Englisch Hardcover/Pappeinband, gebundene Ausgabe 20th edition, Thoroughly Revised at Each New Printing.

Mitchell, Edwin Valentine, [1890-1960], Editor. Savage, Henry, [1879-1965?], Introduction. The Newgate Calendar. Comprising Interesting Memoirs of the Most Notorious Characters who have been convicted of Outrages on the Laws of England. With Speeches, Confessions, and Last Exclamations of Sufferers. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Pub. Co., [1926]. Frontispiece. Illustrations. 265 pp. Publisher's original cloth, with gilt lettering pieces to spine and front board. Moderate shelfwear. Bookplate of Sidney L. Peiser to front pastedown. Internally clean. A very good copy. $45. * This book contains 43 selected cases detailing the lives and executions of notorious figures like Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild and Dick Turpin. It serves as a primary source for studying the 18th and 19th-century British legal system, social conditions and the public's historic fascination with "true crime".

Zustand: Good. 8vo. Dust Jacket. Signs of shelf wear. Minor discolorations. Very Good.