Edward Roberts Foreword (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, xiv + 218pp. Hardcover, bound in original green black cloth with gilt title to spine. An ex-library copy, in very good condition. Firm binding and clean, unmarked, text. Expected library markings. Minor shelf-wear or rubbing to extremities.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Later Printing. (xiii) 229 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Maurice Fitzgerald. A trunk shipped C.O.D. from Toronto to Argentia turns out to contain a human body. A newspaper editor is ambushed and both his ears are cut off. A ship sinks and seventy-six passengers are believed to be victims of fate - until a diver discovers the grisly truth. The history of Newfoundland is full of chilling tales of murder and mayhem. The Chapters are: The Eighteenth Century: The Murdering Cobhams; A Harbour Main Murder; Murder at Fermeuse; Court Judge Murdered; Hanged for Killing a Cow; Harbour Front Murder; Mutiny at St John's. Early Nineteenth Century: Treason in St. John's; Murder on Southside Rd; Murderer with a Conscience; Whatever Happened to Mary James; Child Murdered at Harbour Grace; Edward Jordan Hanged; Murder in Bonne Bay; The Duel; Mutiny Murder Near St Pierre; Butchered at Harbour Grace; Catherine Snow; Bigotry Leads to Crime; Highway Man Hanged. Later Nineteenth Century: The Commerskie Mass Killings; Politician Murdered; Alfreda Pike; A Harbour Grace Double Murder; The Artist at HMP; Escape from HMP; Guillotine; Scrooge of Water Street; Sadistic Inmate Escapes HMP; Murder on Springdale Street; Triple Murder at Mundy Pond; Murdered in New Gower St Tavern. Early Twentieth Century: The Cape Broyle Murder; Harbour Main Graveyard; Policeman Attacked; Prison Escape; Newfoundlander Murdered in Jamaica; Assyrian Feud on Water Street; Murder Near Buchanan Street; Children Jailed; Who Was Jacques Millere; Newfoundlander Charged in New York; Smart Lawyer; The Killing of John Sears; Moonshiners; Triple Murder on Carter's Hill; Tom Beckett Hanged; New Year's Eve Murder at Corner Brook; Rum Runners; Newfoundland Rangers; Lake Family Murdered; The Bizarre Water St Cafe Killing; Water Street Riot; Alfred Beaton. Later Twentieth Century: Murder at Gander; Mary Allen Strangled; Murder at St Phillip's; Valdmanis; The Escape of Jim Robbins; The Sand Pits Murders; Constable Hooey Shot; Constable William Moss; The C.O.D. Murder; RCMP Officer Shot; Murdered on Prince of Wales Street; Child Kidnapped; The Murder of Mona Johnson. Justice Potpourri: Hangmen and Executioners; The Many Methods of Execution; Lawyers; Origins of the Term 'Admitted to the Bar'; Magistrates; Judgement Recovery; Problems with Witnesses; Penitentiary Conditions 1869 - 1932; and Early Newfoundland Justice. Size: 8vo. Maurice Fitzgerald; (illustrator). Book.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Stiff unmarked book in glossy covers.; 342 pages.

Hardback. Condition: G++. No DW. Sunday School prize label on front end paper. Blue cloth with gold and black lettering to spine, and gold illustration. Very good colour illustration and gold lettering to front cover. Very good clean tight copy BUT text edges a bit browned and edges are bumped and a bit frayed. Spine faded. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1150g.…

Condition: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original decorated and over-printed blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains (viii), 380 + iv pp with 7 (of 8) monochrome full-page single-sided illustrations throughout. Front free end paper absent, spine slant, ink name dated 1914 to the front paste down and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR BOYS.…