Easing Passing by Devlin Patrick (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 228pp, handful of black and white photographic plates. Black cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine; light cream endpapers. 8vo. Sun-faded bottom edges, rubbed corners and spine ends. Text block edges tanning , affecting page margins. Otherwise, internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket sun-fading, has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Unclipped dw with some discolouration to the inner part of dw, the book has discolouration to top text block, first edition . Patrick Arthur Devlin, Baron Devlin, PC was a British lawyer, judge and jurist. He worked as junior barrister for William Jowitt while Jowitt was Attorney-General, and by the late 1930s he had become a successful commercial lawyer. During the Second World War he worked for various ministries of the UK Government, and in 1948 Jowitt (by then Lord Chancellor) made Devlin (then aged 42) a High Court judge, the second-youngest such appointment in the 20th century. Devlin was knighted later that year. In 1960, Devlin was made a Lord Justice of Appeal, and the following year he became a Law Lord and life peer as Baron Devlin, of West Wick in the County of Wiltshire.

Unclipped dw with some discolouration to the inner part of dw, the book has discolouration to top text block, first edition . Patrick Arthur Devlin, Baron Devlin, PC was a British lawyer, judge and jurist. He worked as junior barrister for William Jowitt while Jowitt was Attorney-General, and by the late 1930s he had become a successful commercial lawyer. During the Second World War he worked for various ministries of the UK Government, and in 1948 Jowitt (by then Lord Chancellor) made Devlin (then aged 42) a High Court judge, the second-youngest such appointment in the 20th century. Devlin was knighted later that year. In 1960, Devlin was made a Lord Justice of Appeal, and the following year he became a Law Lord and life peer as Baron Devlin, of West Wick in the County of Wiltshire.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Amongst many commercial and criminal cases that Devlin tried, perhaps his most famous case was the 1957 trial of John Bodkin Adams, an Eastbourne doctor indicted for murdering two of his patients Edith Alice Morrell an elderly widow and Gertrude Hullett, a middle-aged woman whose husband had died four months before her death. With black&white photos. / This is a 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket in good condition-the dustjacket is marked & a little creased. (228 pages & 9 pages of introduction & 9 pages of photography).

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: A little age-toning to the edges of the text block; Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5¾" (0.8 kg); pp 228; Index; 2nd impression, first published the same year. Includes: List of principal dates; Black & white photographs on individual leaves; References; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #200709 ||.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust jacket. First Edition. Very good indeed in like dust jacket. Lord Devlin was the presiding judge in the landmark case of Dr Adams who eased the passing of one of his patients. Regarding the second book: Hoskins was one of the few crime reporters who supported Adams who has written a grateful foreward. Very good indeed. In very good dust jacket.

in-8, rel. éd. sous jaquette, très bon état, 230p.