![The Hangman's Tale: Memoirs of a Public Executioner. [Signed by both authors]. Syd Dernley, David...](/pictures/thumb/19899050.jpg?v=1557884739)
London: Robert Hale, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 207pp. Contents very clean and unmarked. Title page signed by both authors with Best Wishes. In the original black cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, firm and bright, corners sharp, spine ends blunted. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, top edge slightly..... 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
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
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
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
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 Scarce, as withdrawn from publication due to objections by the then-current owners of the properties identified. 'Unpublished' neatly in biro on the copyright page.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: Stevens and Sons Ltd., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. x, 180 pp, illustrated with photographs. Contents clean and unmarked. In the original dark grey cloth-textured binding titled in silver, clean, bright and firm, with slight blunting to extremities. In the protected unclipped green pictorial dust jacket: bright, slightly rubbed, lower..... More
![The London Police Court, To-day & To-morrow. [Today and Tomorrow]. under the Aegis of the Toynbee...](/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: 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
