Search Results: True Crime from David Ford Books

Newton Abbot: David & Charles 1974 Celebrated Trials series. An examination of the evidence. HB, 186pp, 6 plates, 1 illustration in text. From the library of Sir David Napley, solicitor (1915-1994) whose clients included the M.P. Jeremy Thorpe, Maria Aitken and the family of Roberto Calvi. With name and address label of Sir David Napley to front pastedown. Minor bumping to spine ends. Dust jacket sunned to spine. A Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket.

New York, Dorset Press, 1988 Hardcover with dustjacket, 422 pages with many illustrations . Famous murder cases of the great pathologist. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. Previous owners name and New jersey bookshop stamp to fep otherwise a clean copy with only very minor handling wear. Pictures available.

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd 1942 The story of a career. HB, xiii, 218pp, frontis of the author. From the library of Sir David Napley, solicitor (1915-1994) whose clients included the M.P. Jeremy Thorpe, Maria Aitken and the family of Roberto Calvi. Signed by Sir David Napley to front pastedown. Green cloth covers, some light browning to edges, minor bumping. Dust jacket rubbed and browned to spine, 1cm loss to spine ends, some age marks to rear. A Good+ copy in Good+ dust jacket.

Dunstable: The Book Castle, 1998 First edition.Signed by the author to named recipeint on title page. Paperback: red laminated card wrappers with line illustration to front, and photo to rear, 151pp, glued binding. Well illustrated with b&w photos and illustrations in the text throughout. Seventeen murder cases in Buckinghamshire from the early 19th century to the 1980s. The author was a police officer in the county. A Fine copy.

London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1996. First Edition Book which documents the way women are encouraged to report rape, only to be stereotyped as sexually provocative and to be blamed by the judiciary and the press. This book proposes a package of reforms to reverse the imbalances of the judicial process and create a system that will provide justice for victims without jeopardising the rights of defendants. HB, xxvii, 292pp. Fep has 4 tiny penguin stamps to top. V minor chips to dust jacket. A fine copy and near fine DJ.

London: William Heinemann Ltd 1928 Small HB, 1st ED, ix, 204pp, frontis. Tan cloth, spine ends lightly chipped, minor wear. Fep tanned and with inscription and signature of author. A VG copy.

London: George Allen 1898 HB, 1st ED, xvi, 318pp, 12 illustrations and facsimiles of the Bordereau etc. Black cloth, red lettering to front, red, white and blue title to spine. Spine ends lightly bumped. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Frontis and tissue guard are detached. Still a VG copy.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd n.d. Drawn from the criminal records of the world. Hb, xiv, 242pp, 7 illustrations. Boards rubbed with creasing to spine ends. Endpapers browned with previous owner's signature at top, foxing to half title and title with foxing to margins throughout. A G+ copy.

London: Butterworth & Co, 1926-32 Second impression of first title, the other three being first editions. These four books have been sturdily bound into one volume, done for the original owner (who was known to the author) in brown cloth with gilt title to spine on leather label, and gilt title to front cover. These witty moral tales of British law were written by the barrister Theo Matthew (d.1939), and illustrated by him with pen caricature drawings- each of these 4 volumes has over 20 of these illustrations as full page plates. This copy has also two extra works by O taped in at front and back endpapers: at the back is The Story of an Ancient Line, a booklet with red paper wrappers published by Watson , London, consisting of 12 cartoons lampooning an aristocratic family history. At the front taped in is a 4 page pamphlet on The Peers and the Budget, with 4 cartoons by the same hand. This is inscribed 'AL. With the author's compliments, March 1905'. The booklet at the back is also… Read More

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1960 First edition.HB. Cloth, and pictorial dustjacket. Grey tinted top edges. 246pp. With b&w photos in plates, and map as frontispiece. New investigation of the siege of Sidney Street and the murder of a Russian on Clapham Common at the same time, and, the author concludes, links between the crimes. A Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket.. A few minor bumps to covers. Jacket has a few light marks & light browning to back and small tear with crease to top edge, otherwise bright and attractive.

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1899 First edition. HB. Maroon cloth with gilt title & motif to spine, and short title to front. 480pp. Subtitled: From the Arrest of Captain Dreyfus in October 1894 to the Flight of Esterhazy in September 1898. Good+: covers rather worn with bumped edges, rubbed spine ends, small marks, some fade to spine. Pages edges darkened, most pages clean, a few handling marks, one or two foxed, and browned endpapers.

London: Butterworths 1970 HB, 1st ED, xi, 92pp. Dk green cloth, gilt lettering, original clear plastic dust jacket. Slight yellowing along top of page edges. A near Fine copy.

London: Robert Hale & Co 1937 Great Detectives and Their Achievements. Hb, 1st ED, 287pp, 16 illustrations. Dk red cloth boards. Spine sunned, rubbed to all edges with creasing to ends. A VG copy.

London: Michael Joseph, 1971 First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket reproducing Hogarth's caricature of Judges of Common Plea to front. 254pp. With 27 b&w illustrations in plates. History of judges in Britain. A Fine book in a Very Good jacket, which has light wear to edges and slight colour fade to spine. No inscriptions and not price clipped. Photos available.

London: Milner and Company Ltd Containing Full Particulars of most of the Great Criminals that have been Tried in this Country during the Present Century. Small HB, 9x13cms, frontis, 384pp followed by 32pp catalogue of novels in the Cottage Library. Volume is undated but preface is dated 1868. Green cloth covers, gilt lettering and black and gilt decoration to spine, blind stamping to cover edges. General tanning to pages, previous owner's pencilled signature to front pastedown. Tiny nick to first page of catalogue at rear. Covers slightly dulled, minor bumping to corners and creasing/light bumping to spine ends. A Very Good copy.

London: Robert Hale, 1958 First edition. HB. Cloth and pictorial dustjacket by Adam Biro. 224p, h: 22 cms. B/w photos & illustrations. A study of the criminology and psychology of multiple murderers (now known as serial killers), including Edmund Burke, Landru, Haigh and Christie. Book clean, lightly browned, neat and small previous owner's label to flyleaf. Jjacket has light edge rubbing, sunned to spine and rear. A Very Good copy in Good+ dust jacket.

Bodmin: Bossiney Books, 1975 First edition. Paperback: white and mauve pictorial card wrappers, glue binding. 143pp. With 16 b&w photos in plates. Introduction (12pp) and the last chapter by Colin Wilson, and chapters by 8 other writers on true murders committed in the west country in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes the case of John 'Babbacombe' Lee, and a double death sentence in 1963, just before the abolition of capital punishment. A Fair reading only copy. Text intact and well-bound, no inscriptions, but lower margins of pages and wrappers have browned stains; browned spine and some light wear to wrappers. Decent reading copy.

London: Knight & Lacey 1824 The last public hanging in Hertfordshire. With an appendix, disclosing some extraordinary facts, exclusively in the possession of the editor. With portraits, and many other illustrative engravings. HB, 105pp, 44pp, 6 full page plates. Rebound in brown cloth, gilt to spine. Some tanning to endpapers, final page heavily tanned. Minor rubbing to boards. A VG copy.

Cambridge: at the University Press 1942 The Old Bailey Trial Series. 2 volume set. With an introduction by Sir John Pollock Bart. HB with dust jacket. Vol 1 xxiii, 275pp, frontis and 3 illustrations; vol 2 359pp, frontis and 3 illustrations. Red cloth covers, light bumping to ends, faint scuff mark to front of vol 1. Some light tanning to endpapers and margins. Dust jackets heavily darkened to spines, chipping with small losses to ends (less than 1cm). Minor edge wear. Now in protective sleeves. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956 First edition. HB. Green cloth with silver titles, and pictorial dustjacket by Fritz Wegner. 328pp. With b&w photos in plates. A fresh look at the career of Roger Casement, his work exposing atrocities in the Congo and South America, and his support for Irish Nationalism in the First World War, which led to his execution by the British government for treason. Very Good in Very Good jacket, now in clear sleeve. Jacket clean and bright, but edges rubbed with creasing and tiny losses; price-clipped.