Duke winifred editor (4 resultados)

First Edition. [Trial]. Greenwood, Harold, Defendant. Duke, Winifred, Editor. Trial of Harold Greenwood. Edinburgh: William Hodge & Company, [1930]. xi, 347 pp. Frontispiece and nine additional illustrations with fold-out map. Hardcover. Original red cloth with gilt lettered spine. Ex-library with property stamps and shelf location label at foot of spine. Spine faded. Good. $25. * First edition. A title in the Notable British Trials series. In the early morning of June 16th, 1919, Mrs. Greenwood died suddenly after a few hours' illness. Her doctor granted a certificate to the effect that death was due to valvular disease of the heart, and she was buried in Kidwelly churchyard. Following village gossip aroused by Greenwood's second marriage, her body was exhumed, and an expert's examination revealed the presence of a small quantity of arsenic in the organs.…

First Edition. Trial for matricide. Mark of label removal from front cover, bookplate to front pastedown otherwise VG.

Pp. viii+302, frontispiece portrait, 7 plates, folding plan, the title page printed in red & black, appendices; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; ownership stamp and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, endpapers offset and browned, some light foxing, mainly to edges of leaves; Butterworth & Co. (Australia), Limited, Sydney, n.d.[1939?] . Australian edition. Notable British Trials series. *Trial in the County Hall, Lewes (Sussex autumn assizes), 1920 for the murder of Irene Violet Munro. …

Pp. [xii]+348, frontispiece, 8 plates, folding plan at end, the title page printed in red & black, appendices; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in black, boards lightly marked, fore-corners slightly bruised; dust wrapper, soiled and lightly foxed, backstrip browned and brittle, edges worn and lightly creased and chipped, tears from head and foot of spine along folds, with tape marks on reverse; hinge tender at centre, some light foxing, mainly to edges of leaves; William Hodge & Company, Limited, Edinburgh, 1930[?]. Notable British Trials series. *Trial of Harold Greenwood for the murder of his wife, Mabel Greenwood.…