sangret august (2 resultados)

First Edition. Pp. [xii]+xxxiv+234(last blank), 12 plates (including a folding map), title page printed in red & black, chronological table, appendix; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, the boards a trifle bowed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with a few small tears; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the endpapers lightly offset, a little light foxing; William Hodge & Company, Limited, London, 1959. First edition. Notable British Trials series. *French-Canadian solider August Sangret (1913-1943) was tried in the County Hall, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, in 1943, for the murder of Joan Pearl Wolfe. He was convicted and subsequently hanged.

First Edition. Pp. [xii]+xxxiv+234(last blank), 12 plates (including a folding map), title page printed in red & black, chronological table, appendix; red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly rubbed, edges lightly chipped and split; free endpapers faintly offset; William Hodge & Company, Limited, London, 1959. First edition. Notable British Trials series, volume 83. *Trial for the murder of Joan Pearl Wolfe, held in the County Hall, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey winter assizes, Feb. 24-26, Mar. 1-2, 1943. This volume was the last in the original series, which ran from 1905 until 1959. A new series was launched in 1917.