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Famous Trials of History
by Earl of Birkenhead
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Poor
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
True First Edition (Doran publication with GHD colophon, not Garden City reprint) with rare original dust jacket.
319 pages.
Red cloth blindstamped hardcover with smyth-sewn binding and gilt lettering to spine exhibits minor edgewear, including slight bumping to tip and heel of spine, and is slightly shaken but has a lovely deckled edge while, internally, there is a previous owner's inscription in pen (dated 1928) to endpaper, some seller notations to corner of ffep, a crease/2mm tear to bottom corner of ffep, and a small 1" closed tear to half title, but appears otherwise in Near Fine condition, clear, bright, and clean. (See images.)
Dust jacket has various markings, wear, and many tears and chips, etc., but is housed in a removeable protective sleeve to prevent further damage.
From the dust jacket:
STORIES of great trials written with clarity and dramatic force by one of the truly great lawyers of all time.
FROM Mary Stuart to Roger Casement the Earl of Birkenhead traces in story form the progress of English jurisprudence. He weaves his true plots with all the verve of a detective story writer and interlaces them with sound legal advice.
NOT the least fascinating are those in which, like that of "Crippen's Histories," he himself was an active factor.
Table of Contents:
319 pages.
Red cloth blindstamped hardcover with smyth-sewn binding and gilt lettering to spine exhibits minor edgewear, including slight bumping to tip and heel of spine, and is slightly shaken but has a lovely deckled edge while, internally, there is a previous owner's inscription in pen (dated 1928) to endpaper, some seller notations to corner of ffep, a crease/2mm tear to bottom corner of ffep, and a small 1" closed tear to half title, but appears otherwise in Near Fine condition, clear, bright, and clean. (See images.)
Dust jacket has various markings, wear, and many tears and chips, etc., but is housed in a removeable protective sleeve to prevent further damage.
From the dust jacket:
STORIES of great trials written with clarity and dramatic force by one of the truly great lawyers of all time.
FROM Mary Stuart to Roger Casement the Earl of Birkenhead traces in story form the progress of English jurisprudence. He weaves his true plots with all the verve of a detective story writer and interlaces them with sound legal advice.
NOT the least fascinating are those in which, like that of "Crippen's Histories," he himself was an active factor.
Table of Contents:
THE TRIAL OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
THE TRIAL OF THOMAS WENTWORTH (EARL OF STRAFFORD)
THE MAN WHO STOLE THE KING'S CROWN
THE TRIAL OF GREEN AND OTHERS FOR THE MURDER OF SIR EDMUNDBURY GODFREY
LORD MOHUN
THE TRIAL OF SPENCER COWPER
THE TRIAL OF CAPTAIN KIDD
THE WARDENS OF THE FLEET
THE TRIAL OF EUGENE ARAM
THE TRIAL OF DR. DODD
THE TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS
THE TRIAL OF DEACON BRODIE
THE TRIAL OF LORD COCHRANE
THE SOUTHERN RHODESIA LAND CASE
THE PLOT TO MURDER MR. LLOYD GEORGE
THE FRAUDS ON THE BANK OF LIVERPOOL
FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE IN JAMAICA
SIR ROGER CASEMENT
THE GERMAN HOSPITAL SHIP
THE "VERONICA" MURDERS
THE MARCONI SCANDAL
ETHEL LE NEVE: CRIPPEN'S MISTRESS
OGDEN'S GUINEA GOLD
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Mortuary Korps
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000191
- Title
- Famous Trials of History
- Author
- Earl of Birkenhead
- Format/Binding
- Smyth-sewn binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George H. Doran
- Place of Publication
- Murray Hill, New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1926
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- historical events; crime; criminals; trials; murder; investigation; police; scandal; corruption; jail; sentencing; judges; monarchy; making of modern law; Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587); Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (1593-1641); Robert Green (167
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime; Politics, Government, & Law; History;
- Size
- 23
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