London: J.S. Pratt, 1844. Early reprint. Hardcover. 318pp +[2] index; with a frontis. Tales of the (generally unpleasant) doings of Dick Turpin and 26 others. Contents firm and in very good order: unmarked, with some toning of the pages, and a little light soiling, mostly at the title page and... More about The Lives of Notorious and Daring Highwaymen and Robbers. aka (spine title): Lives of the...

London: IPPR, Institute of Public Policy Research, 2000. First edition. Paperback. [x], 312pp, plus a section of 10 glossy coloured maps showing crime and urban layout. Appears unread, contents very fresh. 23.5x15.5cms, in blue pictorial covers: bright and fresh, with a faint crease down centre of spine and upper corner... More about Secure Foundations. Key Issues in Crime Prevention, Crime Reduction and Community Safety

London: Thomas Kelly, n.d. (c.1820). First or early edition. Hardcover. [ii], 516, [2] (index): with 8 plates. Contents clean (margin of p.441 soiled, and a few pages are slightly tanned or have some slight soiling). Firm, in a later half binding of diagonally-grained brown calf using the original marbled boards... More about The Newgate Calendar Improved; being Interesting Memoirs of Notorious Characters, who have been...

London: Harrap, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 319pp, illustrated with photographs. 1964 ownership name on front free endpaper. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original green cloth-textured binding, spine titled in gilt on black: clean, bright and firm, with base of spine and front bottom corner slightly blunted. Slight sunning... More about Coroner: The Biography of Sir Bentley Purchase

London: Stevens and Sons Ltd., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. x, 180 pp, illustrated with photographs. Trace of pencilled price to front free endpaper: contents otherwise clean and unmarked. A little faint foxing to closed fore-edge. In the original dark grey cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and firm, with... More about The Murder of Lord Erroll. In the 'Crime Documentaries' series

London: Methuen, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. [x], 319pp, illustrated. Some tanning to pages, otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in white, clean, bright and firm, upper corners bumped. In the protected unclipped purple pictorial dust jacket: top edge knocked, and sunned at the spine. A.... More about Child Pornography

Oxford: The Orwell Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. xx, 722pp: with maps and a few pages of illustrations. New copy: contents completely fresh and unmarked, in the original black cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, and with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket. *** A landmark study, rigorous, brave, and compassionate, which brought... More about The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The making of a modern witch hunt. [Included is a copy of the 2008...