Cecil Binney (5 results)

Condition: Good. 1949. No Edition Stated. 176 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. viii, 176pp. Red cloth-covered boards with black lettering front and spine. 16mo. Cloth is worn and a little faded, rubbed at ends of a slightly sunned spine. Call number on spine, a few minor indentations on edges. Ex college library with bookplate and two stamps on front endpapers, single stamp on rear paste down (no other library markings) and otherwise internally neat, clean and tight. A discourse on the relationship between criminality and mental health, with chapters on the trial of insane people; insanity as a defence; mental defectives, drunkenness and crime; infanticide and suicide etc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. cloth hard cvoer small 8vo. 176 PP very good copy in very good dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 1949. No Edition Remarks. 176 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions and sticker to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. London, The Nonesuch Press, 1934. Octavo, 41 pages. Pictorial papered boards; all edges uncut (top edge foxed); a near-fine copy with the rare printed cellophane dustwrapper with printed paper flaps (both materials a little cockled, with slight loss to the cellophane near the bottom corners). The front panel of the dustwrapper is printed in white with the words 'and Divorce' in the bottom right-hand corner, with the white outline of a (divorce court) judge on the left. The cover and dustwrapper design are by Leonard Beaumont. Ambrose Hoopington is the pseudonym of English barrister Cecil Binney (1897-1966); Herbert Jenkins published his 'The Divorce Court' in 1957 under his real name.…