Frederick Cherrill (10 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Jacket edges a bit rubbed with light creases along base of front panel and shallow chip from base of rear panel. 1954 Hard Cover. 260 pp. In addition to being a history of the comparatively modern science of fingerprinting, this book also reveals how an impressive number of apparently baffling murders, robberies and crimes of passion have been solved by fingerprint detection. Though the modern possibilites of fingerprint detection are quite new, the Chinese employed them a thousand years ago as an aid to criminal investigation. It was not until Scotland Yard successfully made use of a system of fingerprint identification that it began to play an important role in the annals of crime. The authors have assembled an impressive array of cases from English, French and American criminal records which yield a rich harvest of fascinating problems that were solved by fingerprint experts. There is even a chapter on notable fiction stories about fingerprinting in which a portion of Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi is cited as anticipating the methods used by police today in their detection work.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Tight and unmarked but lacks jacket and light stain to fore edge. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Hardback. Foreword by Sir John Nott-Bower. A practical treatise on finger print identification for the use of students and experts and a guide for the use of investigators when dealing with imprints left at the scenes of crime. Part I - The Henry System; Part II - Single Finger Print and Scenes of Crime Collection; Part III - Finger Prints and Palm Prints Left at Scenes of Crime with Suggestions as to Their Detection and Preservation; Part IV - Photography of Scenes of Crime Prints; Part V - Methods of Taking Finger, Palm and Sole Prints; Part VI - Radio Transmission of Finger Prints. Profusely Illus. + Charts. 173pp. 4to. h/back. Small mks. to covers (see images) o/w Vg+ with bright gilt lettering and finger print to fr. cover. A fairly heavy book which will require additional postage if shipped overseas. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Finger Print System at Scotland Yard. By Frederick R. Cherrill. Hard cover edition in good condition and ex BBC Library copy.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5¼''. Contains 187 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and archive photographs throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with two short closed tears to the top front and rear gutter, not price clipped, 15s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. SCOTLAND YARD.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo (imperial). Orig. navy cloth. v, 173 pp. B&W illustration in text. Business card of Edward Campbell, Forensic Analyst, Ontario Provincial Police laid in at ffep, along with his bookplate. Some minor bruising to extremities, light cockling to rear board. Dust jacket is price clipped, rubbed to extremities, some light creasing, lightly soiled to rear cover. DJ is in a mylar cover that is cracked and repaired to rear cover. In custom paper-backed slipcase.…

Original-.Leinenband, 4°, 173 Seiten. Stempel auf Vorsatz, Ecken und Rücken bestossen, an obere Kante links vom Einband an vorderer und hint.Deckel mit Delle, sonst guter Zustand.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Large 4to. in gilt embossed dark blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 173pp, numerous illustrations in text, index etc. PLUS loosely inserted an original Scotland Yard blank fingerprint registration form from the 1950s (C3 15 MP) printed both sides on foolscap size yellow paper . [CONDITION: A well preserved about FINE clean and tight unmarked copy (pages slightly tanned) in a dusty and slightly edge-rubbed but otherwise VERY GOOD complete Dust Jacket but for 3 very small holes in the plain rear panel (looks very presentable in its removable transparent protector) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Condition: Near Fine Copy. Pictorial Dustwrapper. First Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All dustwrappers are fim protected. Paypal accepted. With a foreword by Sir John Mott Bower. Dustwrapper is complete with original price. Inserted loosely is a pamphlet " Instructions in the method of taking finger and palm prints HMSO 1960, 8 pages with fold out. Illustrated (illustrator).…

Commissioner of Police. London: H.M.S.O., 1954. 4to. Orig. cloth. (vi, 174pp.). With portr., and numerous illusts. Printed in double-column. Bookplate inside front cover. Slightly foxed. A good copy. Added: Assoc. ephemera loosely inserted.