Six Ventures in Villainy by Smith-Hughes, Jack - 1955

Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1955. First Edition. 227 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth. Black and white illustrated plates. Light thumb marking, foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

Cassell & Company Ltd, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. List of illustrations. The text is illustrated with seven black-and-white illustrations. Back coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper with yellow, red and black coloured titles to the front panel and yellow and white coloured titles to the backstrip. "This collection of criminals has been selected from the robust days of George III, and comprises two ventures in kidnapping, two pursuits of lechery and two examples of the results of cupidity. The first group includes the case of an ex-member of Parliament who had his wife seized in the middle of Oxford Street and carried off to the Pennines; the second group provides an account of Lord Baltimore's alleged rape of a puritan millineress in his efforts to stock the harem he had built in his ancestral home at Epsom; the third tells of a… Read More

GB: Cassell, 1955. Illustrated.. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/VG- DW.

London:: Cassell & Company Limted,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. B0000CJ39D . First British edition. Slight spine slant, foxing on edges, previous owner's blind-stamp on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket. .

London, Cassell & Company, (1955).. First Edition; 8vo; pp. xii, 227; frontispiece, 4 pages of b/w illustrations; original cloth, chipped dustjacket, price clipped, flecking to head of page edges, otherwise a very good copy.

First Edition (UK). 227 p.; ill. Black cloth hardcover shows minor edgewear and slight bumping, a small mark to foredge, and slightly shaken, but otherwise tightly bound in Fine condition with clear illustrations (see list of illustrations). Price-clipped dust jacket shows moderate wear, including closed tears and some minor chipping, but is housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further wear. From dust jacket: "The eight studies in his new volume are frequently gruesome. Ghouls will have their fill of the macabre. Nevertheless, horror has not been the aim. Every case Mr. Smith-Hughes selects—with an exploration of the surrounding human circumstances —has some special interest from the point of view of justice. His chief interest is for minds not depraved, but enlightened" —Liverpool Daily Post. Mr. Smith-Hughes has proved his ability to wear the mantle of the late William Roughead with his previous books Unfair Comment and Eight Studies in Justice. His new collection of criminals is… Read More

New York: Cassell & Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. HARDCOVER.

London: Cassell and Company, 1955. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 227pp. + b/w plates, frontis. good, owner's inscription on fep, cover edges a litytle insect damaged. / good d/w. .

London: Cassell [1955], 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 227pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map, notes. Edgewear and chipping to dust jacket, spine of dust jacket faded, previous owner's label. Locale:. (Law, Criminal Justice, Trials).

Cassell. good. . with slight tear to dustjacket,1955 clean copy . 1955. Hardcover.