Edited George Dilnot (5 results)

8vo. B/w frontipiece. Original cloth, backstrip faded, previous owner's name stamps, a very good copy. First edition. Bles's Famous Trials Series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Small pen name to fep. Light fading to the very tips of the boards. The scarce jacket has some dulling down and light edge wear. Landru stood trial on 11 counts of murder in November 1921. He was convicted on all counts, sentenced to death, and guillotined three months later in Versailles. During his trial, Landru drew a picture of his kitchen, including the stove in which he was accused of burning his victims, and gave it to one of his lawyers; he had written on the back, Ce n'est pas le mur derrière lequel il se passe quelque chose, mais bien la cuisinière dans laquelle on a brûlé quelque chose ("It is not the wall behind which a thing takes place, but indeed the stove in which a thing has been burned"). This has been interpreted as a confession. (Wikipeadia).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Presumed First Edition. No stated date c1927. Presumed first edition. 367pp., frontispiece and 6 other black and white illustrations. This is a volume in the publisher's 'Famous Trials' series. The general editor was George Dilnot (1883-1951), an English writer and novelist who specialized in crime novels and non-fiction criminology. It is an account of the trial of Norman Thorne (c.1902-1925), an English Sunday school teacher and chicken farmer who was convicted and hanged for what became known as the chicken run murder. Thorne murdered his fiancée Elsie Cameron (born 1898) on 5 December 1924 at his chicken farm in Crowborough, Sussex, and later dismembered and buried her body. The book is bound in the original dark purple cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling to the boards. The spine has faded to a light brown colour and there is lighter fading on the top 2 1/2" of both boards. The spine ends are lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean with some foxing to the first and last few pages, including a few marks on the title-page. There is no inscription.

Geoffrey Bles. 1928. First edition. Hardback, no DW. Beautifully rebound in quarter red morocco, with gilt motifs of Lady Justice to spine, red marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in black and white. Light creasing to spine joints. Pages browned and slightly grubby to edges otherwise a lovely clean copy.

Geoffrey Bles. 1928. First edition. Hardback, NO DW. Illustrated with numerous plates. Beautifully rebound in quarter red morocco, with gilt motifs of Lady Justice to spine, red marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Page edges browned o/w contents clean and sound. A stark, firsthand-style account of a sensational murder case that exposes the mechanics of justice, prejudice, and public fascination at their most unforgiving.