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Auction No 401, Category: Crime

7 Lots (displaying 1 - 7)

William Sandford Phillips "Considerations on the Increase and Progress of Crime......"

Lot: 51

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £350
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William Sandford Phillips Considerations on the Increase and  Progress of Crime, accompanied by documentary evidence as to the propriety and necessity of a revision and amendments of the existing penal statutes. With a View to the Abolition of corporeal punishments; and more particularly The Awful Penalty of Death. Liverpool, 1839. Octavo. Fine 20th Century rebind in gilt quarter-calf, marbled boards; viii, 83pp, but lacking prelimary pages v & vi otherwise fine internally. 

Charles G. Wilber "Medicolegal Investigation of the President John F. Kennedy Murder" Charles C. Thomas, 1978, 1st Edn;

Lot: 52

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £10
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Charles G. Wilber Medicolegal Investigation of the President John F. Kennedy Murder, Charles C. Thomas, 1978, 1st Edn; cloth-bound, gilt, in a VG complete d/jkt; fine internally without inscriptions; xv,318pp

Jack Doughty "Come at Once - Annie is Dying" (The ‘Oldham Poisoning Case’) Pentaman Press, 1987, cloth bound, fine, in slightly edgeworn d/jkt;

Lot: 58

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
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Jack Doughty Come at Once – Annie is Dying (The ‘Oldham Poisoning Case') Pentaman Press, 1987, cloth bound, fine, in slightly edgeworn d/jkt; an account of the trial of Elizabeth Berry accused of poisoning her daughter at the Oldham Union Workhouse. 299pp

Eveline Godley (Ed.) "The Trial of Count Konigsmarck", Peter Davies, 1929, 1st Edn; orig. gilt cloth, VG; neat gift inscription to front endpaper;

Lot: 59

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
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Eveline Godley (Ed.) The Trial of Count Konigsmarck, Peter Davies, 1929, 1st Edn; orig. gilt cloth, VG; neat gift inscription to front endpaper; b/w portrait & three other plates; fine inernally. 204pp. Concerns the murder of Thomas Thynne of Longleat and the scandalous acquittal of Konigsmarck in 1682 by a jury influenced by Charles II.

John Burton "Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland", 1852, 2 vols (in one); Dilnot "The Bank of England Forgery" 1929;

Lot: 64

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £52
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John Burton Narratives from Criminal Trials in Scotland, 1852, 2 vols (in one); Dilnot The Bank of England Forgery, 1929; Ellis Prisoner at the Bar, 1934; Cadbury Young Offenders yesterday & to-day, 1938; and six others, all crime related. Fair to fine. (10)     

"The Detective Library", Amalgamated Press, 1919-1920, issue nos. 1 to 50 complete in two fine bound volumes, gilt cloth;

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £52
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The Detective Library, Amalgamated Press, 1919-1920, issue nos. 1 to 50 complete in two fine bound volumes, gilt cloth; the pictorial wraps and colour illustrations intact. Small ownership blindstamp in top margin of front cover of each issue. Previous owner's bookplates. VG (2)

Loren D. Estleman collection of First Edition Crime Fiction and some Westerns, all in mylar-protected complete dustjackets, 1980-2005, with 15 signed

Lot: 77

  • Auction Date: Wed 2nd Jun 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
SOLD £120
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Loren D. Estleman collection of First Edition Crime Fiction and some Westerns, all in mylar-protected complete dustjackets, 1980-2005, with 15 signed by the author including Port Hazard, This Old Bill, Gun Man, The Glass Highway, and Mister St. John; all jackets fine/VF except Motor City Blue which is chipped in places. No ownership inscriptions etc. (37)