A Excoffon (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1903. No edition remarks. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Front free endpaper missing. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning, particularly to spine.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. 1st UK Edition. Original green cloth with black titling, light soiling and rubbing to edges, page edges dusty and marked, adapted from the French of A Excoffon translated by Robert Sherard. 317pp.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO40231801: Non daté. In-12. Broché. Etat passable, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Mouillures. 236 pages. Dos fendu, séparant l'ouvrage en 3 parties. Plats très défraîchis. Quelques rousseurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 944.041-Histoire de France de 1789 à 1804.

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Hardback. A famous French criminal case which occurred during the French Revolution. During the night of 27 and 28 April 1796, a mail coach was ambushed outside Paris by several men who stole a large sum of money (7 million livres). The stage coach was supposed to go to Lyons from Paris, carrying money for the Army of Italy. Both the driver and the armed guard were brutally killed. A third man onboard (whose identity was never established) disappeared without a trace.Following investigations, six men (Couriol, Guà not, Richard, Bruer, Bernard and Lesurques) were arrested. After a trial, four of them were guillotined (except Guà not and Richard). Later, Joseph Lesurques was rehabilitated: he always claimed innocence (the other convicts also said he had nothing to do with the robbery). Due to a physical resemblance with one of the suspects, he probably was mistaken by witnesses. Today, this case is remembered in France for being a famous example of miscarriage of justice. 317pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Browned and foxed edges and eps, sunned covers. Vg.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO20210383: NON DATE. In-16. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. VII + 236 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 848-Ecrits divers, citations, journaux intimes, souvenirs, mémoires.

Paris C. Marpon et Flammarion, Collection "Auteurs célèbres", sans date vers 1900, in/16, broché couverture renforcée, 233 pages.