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Auction No 370, Category: Crime

9 Lots (displaying 1 - 9)

Folio Society publications, all in slipcases; includes Sherlock Holmes set of 4 volumes.

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £36
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Folio Society publications, all in slipcases; includes Sherlock Holmes set of 4 volumes. No internal inscriptions. Good to VF (13)

Henry Mayhew and John Binny "The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life". Griffin, Bohn & Co., 1862,

Lot: 66

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £115
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Henry Mayhew and John Binny The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life. Griffin, Bohn & Co., 1862, tastefully rebound in fine modern half-leather, gilt, marbled boards, sides cleaned; interior shows some faint stamps of the York Subscription Library, mostly applied to the reverse of the plates; light tanning to text due to paper quality; pp.519/520 in facsimile o/w complete. 

Violet Van der Erst "On the Gallows", 1939, in scarce d/jkt; Alfred Marks "Tyburn Tree: its History & Annals", 1908;

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £36
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Violet Van der Erst On the Gallows, 1939, in scarce d/jkt; Alfred Marks Tyburn Tree: its History & Annals, 1908; Lucia Zedner Women, Crime and Custody in Victorian England, 1991, in d/jkt; and others on prisons and punishment. Mainly in d/jkts. Good to VF (18)

Criminal History including many titles by William Roughead; largely original cloth or in d/jkts,

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £38
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Criminal History including many titles by William Roughead; largely original cloth or in d/jkts, a few modern. Includes a Colin Wilson bibliography. Good to VF (21)

Detective memoirs & police history including Frederick Wensley "Detective Days", 1931;

Lot: 69

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £46
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Detective memoirs & police history including Frederick Wensley Detective Days, 1931; William Chadwick Reminiscences of a Chief Constable Manchester, c.1900 (2 copies, orig. gilt cloth); Whitbread The Railway Policeman, 1961, in fine d/jkt; Herbert Fitch Traitors Within, 1933, 3rd Impression; plus later titles in d/jkts. Fair to VF (11)

Gregory Durston "Moll Flanders: An Analysis of an 18th Century Criminal Biography", Barry Rose, 1997,

Lot: 70

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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Gregory Durston Moll Flanders: An Analysis of an 18th Century Criminal Biography, Barry Rose, 1997, h/bk in d/jkt; vii,304pp. VF

Jerome Caminada "Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life", Manchester, 1895-1901, 2 Vols, orig.gilt cloth, foxing to prelims;

Lot: 73

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £42
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Jerome Caminada Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life, Manchester, 1895-1901, 2 Vols, orig.gilt cloth, foxing to prelims; Charles Arrow Rogues and Others, 1926, front endpaper partly torn away; and others on crime. Fair to fine. (13)

Seymour Hicks "Not Guilty, M'Lord", Cassell, 1939, original cloth, gilt, VG; light browning to endpapers;

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Seymour Hicks Not Guilty, M’Lord, Cassell, 1939, original cloth, gilt, VG; light browning to endpapers; photo-plates, 6 wood-cuts by G.L.Thomson; light spotting to fore-edge. 276pp (Sir Edward Seymour Hicks, 1871-1949, the celebrated actor and writer, was a frequent guest at the Old Bailey over a 45 year period).

G.T. Crook "The Complete Newgate Calendar", Navarre Society, 1926, set of 5 volumes, original gilt cloth, VG;

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £58
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G.T. Crook The Complete Newgate Calendar, Navarre Society, 1926, set of 5 volumes, original gilt cloth, VG; some browning to endpapers; uncut, spotting to prelims and edge of text blocks; fine engravings. Together with Gilbert Armitage The History of the Bow Street Runners 1729-1829, Wishart & Co [1932] orig. printed cloth, VG. (6)