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
London: Heinemann, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. x, 230pp: illustrated with photographs. Scarce, as withdrawn from publication due to objections by the then-current owners of the properties identified. 'Unpublished' neatly in biro on the copyright page. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Contents clean and in very good order: light foxing to... More
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
Edinburgh and London: William Hodge & Co., 1927. Hardcover. xii, 396pp, with several photographs. Some foxing at the title page, contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original binding of glazed red cloth, spine titled in gilt, front with Hodge insignia and ruling in blind. A bright, sharp copy, with... More
![The Newgate Calendar Improved; being Interesting Memoirs of Notorious Characters, who have been convicted of Offences against the Laws of England... Vol. IV. [Volume 4]. George Theodore Wilkinson.](/pictures/thumb/18204100.jpg?v=1542314657)
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
![The London Police Court, To-day & To-morrow. [Today and Tomorrow]. under the Aegis of the Toynbee Trust Hugh R. P. Gamon, Samuel A. Barnett.](/pictures/thumb/19070710.jpg?v=1542314763)
London: [The Toynbee Trust]: J.M.Dent & Co, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. xviii, 243pp, (i). Partially unopened. Prelims and tail-pages foxed. Text clean, with occasional spotting to untrimmed edges. Top edge gilt. In original navy cloth with emblem in blind to front, spine titled in gilt. Clean, bright and firm, head..... More
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
London: Hutchinson, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 374pp. New unread copy. Contents fresh and clean. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and firm, spine ends slightly blunted. In the unclipped pictorial dust jacket, very bright. Tony Parker's classic portrait of a South London High Rise estate... More
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
![The Portuguese Bank Note Case: the Story and Solution of a Financial Perplexity. [Inscribed Copy]. Sir Cecil H. Kisch.](/pictures/thumb/19328040.jpg?v=1542314831)
London: Macmillan, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. ix, 284pp: with a frontis. Front endpaper bears the author's 1932 gift inscription in green ink, expressing thanks. Contents clean: closed edges lightly peppered with foxing. In the original binding of red cloth, spine titled in gilt, clean, bright and firm, spine slightly paler... More
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
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978. First Penguin printing. Paperback. 429pp, illustrated with photographs. Never-read copy from storage. Contents pristine. Pictorial covers bright, spine flat: pocking to pictorial surface as if from former adhesion to another book. Small smudge mark to spine. Very good square copy. More
![The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The making of a modern witch hunt. [Included is a copy of the 2008 'Sampler' booklet with the same title, which includes a postscript about the Haut de la Garenne inquiry, 'Jounalism, Jersey and the idea of evil'.]. Richard Webster.](/pictures/thumb/20051201.jpg?v=1542315020)
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
