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A collection of the several statutes, and parts of statutes, now in force, relating to high treason, and misprision of high treason.
London: Printed by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, decens’d; Printers to the Queens most Excellent Majesty, 1710. Second printing (first was in 1709). 113,[15],44,[4]p "A form and method of trial of commoners, in cases of high treason" has a separate titlepage; the register is continuous - With an initial imprimatur leaf. ESTC T136808 Old calf, spine with raised bands, titling piece, gilt decoration, edges decorated in gilt. Mild spine rubbing, inner hinges cracked but quite firm; else fine. Parliament ordered the statutes published in order to harmonize the laws of England and Scotland, following the union of 1707 and the Treason Act of 1708.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49681More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
A JUST MEASURE OF PAIN: The penetentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850
Edition: First UK printing
London: Penguin, 1989. Octavo, card covers. Peregrin trade paperback. Diagonal corner crease to first 44 pages, text paper yellowed as always, Canadian price sticker on rear cover, VG+ clean & tight otherwise. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a Canadian author & impresario who brought him to Toronto for a reading, with the inscribee's tidy ink name and date at front. First published in the USA in 1978, it is his first book.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 37896More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
A LITTLE PATTERN OF FRENCH CRIME
Edition: First printing
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1969. Blue boards, pp 177, index. Ink name at front, else fine. Jacket has large price clip, sunning to red portion of spine, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47800More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
A TREATISE ON THE POLICE OF LONDON; Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention....
Edition: First US edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46745More details Price: USD $495.00 USD $445.50 -
CASUAL SLAUGHTERS AND ACCIDENTAL JUDGMENTS: Canadian war crimes prosecutions, 1944-1948
Edition: First edition
Osgoode Society / University of Toronto Press, 1997. Maroon cloth. pp 292. Index. Library discard: rubber stamp to top page edges, small ink annotation of title page, remains of labels on rear free endpaper, rear cover just a little bowed, else a VG clean and unworn copy. Jacket has small remains of a label at foot of spine, VG+ otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48472More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
CELEBRATED TRIALS and remarkable cases of criminal jurisprudence from the earliest records to the year 1825. First complied & edited by George Borrow and now newly revised & edited by Edward Hale Bierstadt
Edition: First UK issue
London: Cape, 1928. Two volumes, red cloth. pp (xl), 480; (6), 481-(990), [2] + 18 plates. Spines lightly sunned; armorial bookplate at front of Vol. I; yellowing to free endpapers; small dark spots to upper fore edges of Vol. I; else a VG clean, tight and unworn pair. 2.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47685More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
CLAUDE MELNOTTE AND THE DETECTIVE with other detective stories. Twenty-first thousand
New York: Dillingham, c1903. Reprint (uniform edition). Octavo, light green cloth stamped in brown. pp 282, (2, ads). Spine a bit darkened, yellowing to page edges, slight toning to text paper, cracked inner hinge neatly repaird, else a VG+ clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 39612More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
CRIME AND INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Edition: First Edition
London: Batsford, 1967. Black cloth. pp 288. Bibliography, index. Ink owner name at front, else a VG+ copy. Dust jacket has some edge wear, corner creases to front flap, internal tape reinforcements; good.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44226More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
CRIMINOLOGY. With a new preface by Carl Wiedemann
New York: AMS Press, 1973. Facsimile reprint of the NY, 1893, edition, with new introduction. Black cloth without jacket, as issued. pp (12), 416. Long bibliography, index. "Withdrawn" rubber stamped at rear, else fine, no other marks. Foundations of Criminal Justice series.
Condition: Book: Near Fine, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44841More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
DESPERATE MEN: revelations from the sealed Pinkerton files
New York: Bonanza Books, no date, 1949. Octavo, tan cloth. pp xviii, 294 + photos. Fine in VG jacket, no owner names. Reprint of the 1949 edition. The true story of the wild west, Jesse and Franks James, the Younger Brothers, Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch, and more, the real outlaws much more brutal than popularly thought.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41849More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
ENTER MURDERERS ! : eight studies in murder
Edition: First Edition
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. Octavo, red cloth. 302 pp. Sticker stain at front, else a VG+ clean and unworn jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41850More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE 1894-1899
Edition: First US printing
New York: McClure, Phillips, 1901. Tan and dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. pp (xvi), 310. Includes an introductory essay by the unnamed editor, and a map, diagram, and facsimile. Spine browned but gilt stamping bright; light rubbing to dark blue panel on front cover; yellowing to page edges, text paper lightly toned; front inner hinge neatly repaired with rice paper, ink owner name and used book store rubber stamp on front endpapers; else a VG unworn copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43659More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
FOUR RECORDERS OF RUPERT’S LAND: A brief survey of the Hudson’s Bay Company Courts of Rupert’s Land
Edition: First edition.
Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers, 1967. Reddish-brown cloth, endpaper maps. Pp (xvi), 192 + 4 plates; indexed. Fine copy. Dust jacket has tears to lower front panel, VG otherwise. Adam Thom, Sir Francis Godschall Johnson, Dr. John Bunn, and John Black.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29723More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
GREENSPAN: the case for the defence
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Macmillan, 1987. Grey boards. pp xii, 468. Index. Fine in fine jacket. Autobiography of Canada's premier criminal lawyer. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45159More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
JACK SHEPPARD: With an Epilogue on Jack Sheppard in Literature and Drama , a Bibliography , a Note on Jonathan Wild , and a Memoir of Horace Bleackley
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Canada Law Book Company, 1933. Octavo, red cloth. pp xiv, 260 + 23 plates. Index. Covers a little bowed, else a VG clean and unworn copy. Made from British (Hodge) sheets. Notable British Trials series.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46592More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
JUDICIAL DRAMAS. Some Society Causes Célèbres.
Edition: First Edition
London: Unwin, 1927. Black cloth. (3)-323, (1) pp + 16 plates. Ink inscription to front free endpaper; rear inner hinge partially cracked but firm; VG clean & unworn copy otherwise. Twelve historic legal trials of the British aristocracy - Queen Caroline, Colonel Blood, the Earl of Cardigan, Admiral Codrington, Hon. John Colborne, Countess of Elgin, Lady Ellenborough, Lady Honyman, Viscount Palmerston, Baron de Vidil, Governor Wall, and Sir Robert Wilson.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 5234More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
JUVENILE OFFENDERS
Edition: First printing
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50182More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
KEY WRITINGS ON SUBCULTURES 1535-1727. Classics from the underworld volume I. The Elizabethan underworld: a collection of Tudor and early Stuart tracts and ballads
Book ID: 34618More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50
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LEGACIES OF FEAR: Law and Politics in Quebec in the Era of the French Revolution.
Toronto: The Osgoode Society, 1993. Octavo, maroon cloth gilt, maroon endpapers. (xxxii), 359 pp. Photos and maps at front in text. Fine copy, no previous owner marks. Dust jacket has a crease to front flap, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 32558More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
LIBEL, DEFAMATION, CONTEMPT OF COURT AND THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO BE INFORMED: legal seminar of Thomson Newspapers Limited held at the Royal York Hotel, Toronto on March 27, 1962. Guest Speaker: J.J. Robinette, Q.C.
Toronto: Thomson Newspapers, 1962. Quarto, blue cloth. pp (8), 43. Paperclip mark to front free endpaper, else fine. Legal seminar in questionnaire format featuring responses by guest speaker, J.J. Robinette, Q.C., to queries from 91 newspapermen interested in the balance between freedom of the press and the obligations imposed upon a responsible press.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45889More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46