normanton helena (17 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Fair. 1931. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. Prominent forward lean to text block.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: Good. Toronto 1931 1st Canada Law book Company. Notable British Trials series. Hardcover. Octavo, 316pp., foldout map, red cloth. Good, end papers unevenly spotted, no DJ. Binding secure; text lightly toned. no owner marks.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Edition. A Very Clean And Tidy Copy In A Jacket That Just Has Some Slight Darkening To The Spine. Overall Very Presentable.

New edition. Notable British Trials series, in red cloth; B&W illustrations (all present). Foxing, quite heavy in places; binding tight. The 'man in the burning car' case Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 316 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout. Previous owner's signature in pencil on the ffep. Page edges are darkened. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles. Faded on the spine. Boards are lightly stained and scuffed. Worn around the edges with tears on the ends of the spine. VG/- -. Book.

8vo. pp. xlviii, 316. 10 illus. (1 folding). cloth (worn but sound, cloth discoloured, booksellers' stamps on verso of frontis., lacking rear flyleaf). First Edition. Notable British Trials Series.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Presumed First Edition. No stated date c1927. Presumed first edition. 367pp., frontispiece and 6 other black and white illustrations. This is a volume in the publisher's 'Famous Trials' series. The general editor was George Dilnot (1883-1951), an English writer and novelist who specialized in crime novels and non-fiction criminology. It is an account of the trial of Norman Thorne (c.1902-1925), an English Sunday school teacher and chicken farmer who was convicted and hanged for what became known as the chicken run murder. Thorne murdered his fiancée Elsie Cameron (born 1898) on 5 December 1924 at his chicken farm in Crowborough, Sussex, and later dismembered and buried her body. The book is bound in the original dark purple cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling to the boards. The spine has faded to a light brown colour and there is lighter fading on the top 2 1/2" of both boards. The spine ends are lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean with some foxing to the first and last few pages, including a few marks on the title-page. There is no inscription.

2nd Ed. xlviii + 316pp. 9 plates and a folding plan. Good in d/w. lightly browned and spotted to spine. Notable British Trials Series. US$37.

First Edition. Trial relating to the 'Blazing Car Murder', the victim of which has still not been identified. Bookplate to front pastedown and some light foxing to pages and text block edges otherwise VG.

William Hodge & Company. 1952. Second edition. Hardback, no DW. Beautifully rebound in quarter red morocco, with gilt motifs of Lady Justice to spine, red marbled boards. Slight creasing to joints of spine and very small closed tears to top and bottom margins to where the marbled boards start. Pages slightly browned with edges lightly foxed otherwise a lovely clean copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 367 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout. The frontispiece is present but detached from the binding. Previous owner's signature on the ffep in pencil. Page edges are darkened and smudged. Bound in red cloth with black titles. Lightly worn around the edges. Faded on the spine. SCARCE. VG/- -. Book.

1st edition. Good copy only, in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Cover is somewhat worn. Front free end-paper missing. Scattered foxing. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 367 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. Subjects: Thorne, Norman -1925 ; Trials, litigation, etc. Cameron, Elsie Emily 1898-1924. Trials (Murder) Great Britain. 3 Kg.

Geoffrey Bles. 1927. First Edition. Hardback with no DW. 8vo. Illustrated with numerous plates. Beautifully rebound in quarter red morocco, with gilt motifs of Lady Justice to spine, red marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Pages browned o/w contents clean and sound. An interesting book, covering the trial for what became known as "The Chicken Run Murder".