Hon Roberts (20 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Maurice Fitzgerald; (illustrator). Later Printing. (xiii) 229 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Maurice Fitzgerald. A trunk shipped C.O.D. from Toronto to Argentia turns out to contain a human body. A newspaper editor is ambushed and both his ears are cut off. A ship sinks and seventy-six passengers are believed to be victims of fate - until a diver discovers the grisly truth. The history of Newfoundland is full of chilling tales of murder and mayhem. The Chapters are: The Eighteenth Century: The Murdering Cobhams; A Harbour Main Murder; Murder at Fermeuse; Court Judge Murdered; Hanged for Killing a Cow; Harbour Front Murder; Mutiny at St John's. Early Nineteenth Century: Treason in St. John's; Murder on Southside Rd; Murderer with a Conscience; Whatever Happened to Mary James; Child Murdered at Harbour Grace; Edward Jordan Hanged; Murder in Bonne Bay; The Duel; Mutiny Murder Near St Pierre; Butchered at Harbour Grace; Catherine Snow; Bigotry Leads to Crime; Highway Man Hanged. Later Nineteenth Century: The Commerskie Mass Killings; Politician Murdered; Alfreda Pike; A Harbour Grace Double Murder; The Artist at HMP; Escape from HMP; Guillotine; Scrooge of Water Street; Sadistic Inmate Escapes HMP; Murder on Springdale Street; Triple Murder at Mundy Pond; Murdered in New Gower St Tavern. Early Twentieth Century: The Cape Broyle Murder; Harbour Main Graveyard; Policeman Attacked; Prison Escape; Newfoundlander Murdered in Jamaica; Assyrian Feud on Water Street; Murder Near Buchanan Street; Children Jailed; Who Was Jacques Millere; Newfoundlander Charged in New York; Smart Lawyer; The Killing of John Sears; Moonshiners; Triple Murder on Carter's Hill; Tom Beckett Hanged; New Year's Eve Murder at Corner Brook; Rum Runners; Newfoundland Rangers; Lake Family Murdered; The Bizarre Water St Cafe Killing; Water Street Riot; Alfred Beaton. Later Twentieth Century: Murder at Gander; Mary Allen Strangled; Murder at St Phillip's; Valdmanis; The Escape of Jim Robbins; The Sand Pits Murders; Constable Hooey Shot; Constable William Moss; The C.O.D. Murder; RCMP Officer Shot; Murdered on Prince of Wales Street; Child Kidnapped; The Murder of Mona Johnson. Justice Potpourri: Hangmen and Executioners; The Many Methods of Execution; Lawyers; Origins of the Term 'Admitted to the Bar'; Magistrates; Judgement Recovery; Problems with Witnesses; Penitentiary Conditions 1869 - 1932; and Early Newfoundland Justice. Size: 8vo. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 80 pp. Light rubbing; no interior markings. The front cover features Celebrating Christmas. This issue contains: Christmas with Scrooge by Paul Davis; The Heritage of Christmas Puddings by Trevor Denniss; Christmas in the Cotswolds by Nancy C. Knox; Canterbury's Bespoke Teddy Bears by Richard Elsberry; A Country Christmas, A Medieval Feast, and An Easy Way to Enjoy London's Theatres - anonymous; Alastair Cooke: Discovering America by J. W. Savage; The Royal Gallery by The Hon. Jane Roberts; Harris Tweed by Bryn Frank; The Queen's Pleasure by Karyn Hodgon; and Lessons in Stone by HRH The Duke of Gloucester; along with the usual features. Size: 4to. Book.

Condition: good. This book is in good condition. The cover has minor creases or bends. The binding is tight and pages are intact. Some pages may have writing or highlighting.

Condition: New. This is a Brand-new US Edition. This Item may be shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

8pp., 8vo. Stapled. In fair condition, on aged and worn newspaper stock. Portrait of Roberts on front cover. Headings: 'Demobilisation', 'The State and Industrial Councils', 'The Outlook for British Trade after the War', 'The Need for Better Organisation', 'The Interest of Labour in Industrial Problems', 'Reform, not Revolution', 'The Outlook of Industry and a Living Wage', 'Industry and the Common Ground', 'A New Spirit of Industry'. No copy in the British Library, and the only copies on COPAC at the Imperial War Museum and Leeds.

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Condition: Good. no place no date (pencilled note on half title gives place as Albany, 1879). Battle in American Revolution. Sm.4to., 149p., engraved frontis portrait of Nicholas herkimer, two full page illustrations, original wraps. remounted on later wraps. Includese appendix on the Herkimer Monument. Good, small hole in half title (no loss of text.).

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. pp xxx + 280 Heavy duty binding , label of the Scottish Autompbile & General Insurance Company on the fep. Bright and firm with slight browning. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Covers sunned. Volume 1 (12th Edition/Impression 1916). Prior contemporary (1916) owner signature on ffep of Volume 1. No DJs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1569 pages (complete). A robust book in general fair condition. The cover is marked, chipped and worn about all edges, corners and seams. It is intact, muscular and fit. The papertrims have handling and shelving marks. The front pages have previous owner markings. The guttering along the inside front cover is cracked but secure. The contents are clear, clean, sagacious, firm, very confident. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First Edition. VG, with sunned spine, minor foxing to title page and last page, else clean internally, binding solid. ; Small thin 4to, original burgundy cloth with gilt cover illustration and lettering, decorative endpapers, 31pp. , bookplate on pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Three volume set , Volume l , 1916 , eighth edition cloth hardcover in the dust jacket 258 page book with black & white maps and illustrations . Volume l l , 1917 , first edition cloth hardcover in the scarce dust jacket 258 page book with black & white maps and illustrations . Volume l l l , 1917 first edition cloth hardcover ( no dust jacket ) 144 page book with black and white maps and illustrations with fold out map in rear of book . Condition : Volume one has first blank page missing with edge bumps and light aging , DJ is complete with edge ware and chipping . Volume l l is in very good condition , Volume l l l is faded cloth but complete . A very scarce set with the rare volume three . Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

The Labour Party. Soft covers. Book - Fair, damage to spine.