Filson Young Editor (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. Copy # 555. Navy leather with gold decor and gilded edges. Book has never been opened. A nice copy. ***PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***.

Condition: As New. . The Legal Classics Library. Limited edition copy 138. Genuine top-grain cowhide with raised spine bands, gilt lettering, decoration and edges, marbled endleaves. Includes "Notes From The Editor" pamphlet. Personalized publisher bookplate with limitation statement on front pastedown. (Trials, Murder, England).…

Leatherbound. Condition: Near Fine. Book shows very little use. A nice copy. ***PROMPT, PROMPT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE!***.

Young, Filson, (Editor). The Trial of Hawley Harvey Crippen. Edinburgh and London: William Hodge & Company, [1920]. Reprint. The Legal Classics Library, 1985]. [vi], xxxv, 211, [1] pp. Publisher's full calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $15. * This volume was a key installment in the early 20th century Notable British Trials series, providing exhaustive transcripts of one of the twentieth century's most sensational criminal cases. Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, an American homeopath, was executed in London in 1910 for the murder and mutilation of his wife, Cora Turner, whose remains he concealed in their cellar. Beyond its gruesome nature, the case holds immense historical significance as the first instance of wireless telegraphy being used to apprehend a fleeing criminal. Following the murder, Crippen and his lover fled across the Atlantic on the SS Montrose, but the ship's captain used the newly invented Marconi wireless system to alert Scotland Yard. Inspectors boarded a faster vessel, intercepted the fugitives in Canada, and brought Crippen back to England to face trial. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Book in near fine condition indeed. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Book in near fine condition indeed. Book.

Young, Filson, Editor. The Trial of Hawley Harvey Crippen. Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, [1920]. Reprint. [Birmingham: The Notable Trials Library, 1991]. [vi], xxxv, 211, [1] pp. Quarter calf over cloth, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Internally clean. A fine copy. $20. * The definitive legal and historical record of the infamous 1910 murder trial of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, one of the most famous cases in British criminal history. Part of the landmark Notable British Trials series, this volume details the forensic and circumstantial evidence, the dramatic transatlantic flight, and the historic first use of wireless telegraphy to apprehend a fleeing suspect. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Notable British Trials Series, good tight condition, splash marks/stain to top page edges, bottom corners rubbed, owners details and label on first blank page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Notable British Trials Series, good tight condition, some marks to boards & page edges, owners details inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 420 pages in good condition; yellowed. Outer edges and endpapers a little yellowed and stained. Red cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Spine faded and a little worn. Corners bumped and frayed. Covers scuffed. GOOD. Book.

Hardcover. 8 b&w illustrations. This is the more expensive issue of Notable British Trials series in a more substantial binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Very good indeed.

First Edition. Later republished in the Notable British Trials series. Rebacked cloth is a little marked and worn but binding is tight. Bookplate to front pastedown. A Good copy.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Notable British Trials series. Textblock sound with slight browning and some dustiness to the edges, binding firm, cover has moderate wear wih some marks . Scans available Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. Second. Notable British Trials series. A bright firm copy with slight browning and a little spotting to the edges of the textblock. Scans available Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. 396 pages in good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout. Some plates are detached. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Worn around the edges. Torn up the sides of the spine. A ring stain as well as some smaller stains on the lower cover. 1ST EDITION. SCARCE. G+. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 420 pages in very good condition. n.d. (1914?). Pages are clean and unmarked. Black and white frontispiece. Previous owner's signature in pencil on the ffep. Page edges are lightly darkened. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges with some tears on the ends of the spine. VG/- -. Book.…

First Edition. Pp. xxxii+262(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 8 plates, title page printed in red & black, publisher's note slip tipped-in after the Introduction, appendices; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, publisher's device in blind at centre of upper board, the boards a trifle sprung and slightly damp stained, edges lightly faded and rubbed; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, earlier owner's inked signature on upper free endpaper, the free endpapers offset, a couple of tiny edge chips, the final plate reinserted, scattered light foxing; William Hodge & Company, Limited, Edinburgh, 1923. First edition. Notable British Trials series. *Trial at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London, December 6-11, 1922, for the murder of Percy Thompson.…

8vo. pp. xxxv, 211. 7 illus. cloth (faded, stained, stitching loose). First Edition. Notable British Trials Series.

1951, 2nd edition. (Hardcover) Near fine, no dust jacket. 261pp. Photographs, chronology, appendices. The spine is faded. Trial of Frederick Bywaters & Edith Thompson. Murder of Percy Thompson. Publisher series: Notable British Trials. (Law).

8vo. pp. xxx, 420. 8 illus. cloth (spine faded, extremities frayed, slightly shaken). First Edition. Notable British Trials Series.