Easing Passing by Devlin Patrick: First Edition (5 results)
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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 Jo…witt 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.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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 Jo…witt 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.
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1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 228pp, pages brwoning and foxing on page edges, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, Good condition in Very Good dustwrapper. ISBN: 0370306279.
Language: English
Published by Bodley Head 1985
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.
More imagesPublished by Bodley Head, London, 1985 & Secker, London, 1984. 1984
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Seller: Dennys, Sanders & Greene, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United KingdomDennys, Sanders & Greene
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Hardcover. 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 i…ndeed. In very good dust jacket.
