Hoskins, Percy (26 results)

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Condition: Very Good. 1984. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has minor wear and tear to edges, but remains very good in mylar. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: Very Good. 1984. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has minor wear and tear to edges, but remains very good in mylar. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good for year hardcover. Slight marks but otherwise in good condition. Dustjacket good. 221 pages.

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 191 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographs throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and photographs have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Wear marks overall.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Condition: Good. 1950. Hardcover. Clean copy with some shelf wear. Lacking dustjacket. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, previous owner signature to inside page, tanning to pages, foxing to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG- DW. 1st Edition. Inscription of owner at start of book. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by author (1904-1989) "For John McCormick, my virile Scottish colleague. From his aged friend, Percy Hoskins." 221 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rust-coloured boards with gilt lettering on spine. Free of tears, the DJ show some wear at edges and corners, sunning at upper edge and with a minor crease of the glossy wrap at spine (probably due to manufacturing error.). ***Inscribed by Author***.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. wear to covers and cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. Due to weight extra may apply to any quoted international postage Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Good. 1950. Hardcover. Clean copy with some shelf wear. Lacking dustjacket. . . . .

8vo. ix[i], 221pp, 4 double-sided plates. Original brown cloth gilt, slightly soiled d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Sydney, WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE IF POSSIBLE-MESSAGE FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE-HARD COVER MID SIZE-WITH DUST JACKET-SOME FOXING DUE TO AGE AND DUST JACKET HAS SOME FRAYS IN EDGES-FIRST EDITION AND CAN PROVIDE EDITION PAGE PICTURES IF REQUIRED-NSW: John Long Ltd 1973. Used. The author's memoir of some of the murder cases he has covered since becoming a crime journalist in London in the 1920s. Includes some well-known cases like John George Haigh, and lesser-known ones like the case of Elsie Cameron.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Condition Notes: Matt paper dust wrapper has significant edgewear and is a touch faded with a puncture mid-way the spine and a little loss to the spine ends and corners. Dust wrapper price clipped. Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners of the binding. Minor age-toning to the edges of the text block; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with silver titles to the spine; Measures 9¾" x 6¾" (1 kg); pp 191; Publishing date unstated, dated from references. Includes: Black & white photographs, within the text with some full page; Maps; Glossary; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #204223 ||.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition ? Story of Scotland Yard by the Daily Express crime reporter. Annual-sized, with many b/w photos, both of police work and staged "hypothetical cases"; 192 pages. Covers Haigh and other well known cases. Includes glossary of underworld slang. Some wear to edges of binding, otherwise very good condition.

First Edition. 1st edition, 1951; B&W illustrations. End papers lightly foxed; binding tight; some loss of colour to blue cloth on boards; minor damage at foot of spine. Dust jacket very tatty, with tears & loss Used - Good. Good hardback in dust jacket.

[no date]. (Small 4to) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 192pp. Black and white photographs, glossary. Large chips and creases to dust jacket, rubbing to top and bottom of spine. "In this dramatic book Daily Express Chief Crime Reporter Percy Hoskins discloses new details of many sensational crimes of recent years in a vivid portrayal of the achievements of London's C.I.D. This gripping insight is heightened by more than one hundred authoritative photographs never before published". Locale: London. (True Crime, Investigation, Journalism, Police, Scotland Yard, True Crime).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. ISBN 0091156807. Contains 157 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Small ink name to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with 20 mm closed tear to the foot of the lower panel, spine colours not faded, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. TRUE CRIME.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust jacket. First Edition. Very good indeed in like dust jacket. Lord Devlin was the presiding judge in the landmark case of Dr Adams who eased the passing of one of his patients. Regarding the second book: Hoskins was one of the few crime reporters who supported Adams who has written a grateful foreward. Very good indeed. In very good dust jacket.

Small 4to. pp.192 with black & white photographs. previous owners name on pastedown.Blue cloth hardcover in chipped, price clipped dust wrapper. "In this dramatic book Daily Express Chief Crime Reporter Percy Hoskins discloses new details of many sensational crimes of recent years in a vivid portrayal of the achievements of London's C.I.D. This gripping insight is heightened by more than one hundred authoritative photographs never before published".

Black Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 254, 24(ads.) pp. Frontispiece and 14 illustrations as called for. No wrapper. Original publisher's cloth - blindstamped in yellow to the spine. A collection of murder cases (true), but with each case there is one fatal slip by the murderer which leads to self-betrayal. A very well preserved copy.

1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice copy large octavo 191pp., frontis., b/w plsates, Nice copy in a rather chipped dust jacket.

First Edition. A study of 'perfect crimes' which went wrong - the mistakes that led to murderers being caught. Covers many cause celebres such as Buck Rixton, Allaway etc. Many contemporary illustrations. Lacks front free endpaper and a few light spots to covers otherwise VG.

Foreword by the late Doctor John Bodkin Adams written in 1978. Pp. x+222(last blank), 8 plates, appendices; med. 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on flaps and reverse, edges a trifle creased, backstrip lightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Secker & Warburg, London, 1984. First edition. *'On 19th December 1956 a fashionable Eastbourne doctor, a pillar of the Church and a respected member of local society, was arrested and charged with the murder of an eighty-year-old lady wo had been one of his patients. On 9th April 1957, in the space of forty minutes, Doctor John Bodkin Adams was found not guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey' [wrapper blurb].