Justice Devlin (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket condition good. Based on the author's Sherrill Lectures at Yale in 1956. Gives an account for an American audience of the pretrial processes of English justice and shows the divergence of the 2 systems and greater protections offered the accused in England. Sections on general principles, interrogation, arrest & detention, and the legal process. 150 pages, index. Some pencil underlining, staining to jacket, 2x1 inch loss to back panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing (true first). Black cloth-covered boards (with a couple of small, minor indentations. Internally neat, clean and tight. In its original dust jacket (very slightly bumped and toned at edges, a couple of small indentations in inner front flap). Beautifully illustrated red endpapers. Dust jacket now protected in Brodart wrapper. A legalistic novel, written with Cecil's sparkling wit and legal insight. 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). First Edition. First edition hardcover without dust jacket, in good condition. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Boards are marked. Corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is cocked. Page block and endpapers are tanned. Inscription to FEP. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition. SIGNED. a Near Fine copy in Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 208 pp. Bound in brown cloth in pinkish, pictorial dust jacket. The dust jacket, priced at 15s, has light edge wear and light soiling. SIGNED under a short inscription on the title page. Top edge of text block dust-soiled. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). Hardcover in very good condition. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Unclipped dust jacket in acceptable condition. Jacket is marked, scuffed and sunned. Edges are creased and torn, including small chips. Board spine ends are slightly bumped. Page block is tanned and foxed. A few light spots of foxing on the pastedowns and endpapers. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover in very good condition. Unclipped dust jacket and endpapers designed by Ardizzone, in good condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Board corners and spine ends are bumped. Page block is lightly tanned and blemished. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 206pp., index, Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First edition. A smart two volume set of first edition works of fiction about the British legal system by Henry Cecil Leon, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. A two volume set.The first editions.In the publisher's original black cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.A set of works by Henry Cecil Leon, who wrote under the pen-namesHenry CecilandClifford Maxwell, and was a British barrister, judge, and a writer of fiction about theBritish legal system.Both with a foreword by the Hon. Mr. Justice.Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, a British painter, printmaker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children.Including:(1958) Brief to Counsel, illustrated in text by Ardizzone, as well as the dust wrapper.(1961) Not Such an Ass, with an illustrated dust wrapper and endpapers by Ardizzone. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.Externally, excellent. Minor shelf wear to extremities. Offsetting to free endpapers of 'Brief to Counsel'. Dust wrappers are very smart. Closed tears with archival tape repairs to head and tail of spine of 'Brief to Counsel' wrap, with light spotting to the reverse. Odd closed tear to 'Not Such an Ass' wrap, with light sunning to rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.