Francis E Camps (21 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback. Slight foixng to edge. Red cloth with gilt lettering. With a Preface by Professor Sir Leon Radzinowicz. Contents: Preface by Professor Sir Leon Radzinowicz. Introduction. Crime in Hunter's Time. More About Jack the Ripper. Motives For Murder. The Colchester Taxi Cab Murder. The Mummy of Rhyl. Unexpected Death. Attempted Death by Electrocution. Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Alleged Murder by Household Gas. The Bonnyman Case. Science and Crime Detection. Appendix: Drugs of Dependence. Notes and Acknowledgements. Illustrated. 181 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.).…

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. A fine book in a very good dust jacket. Jacket has light to moderate wear around the extremities. W4B.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Book club edition. About fine in a near fine, price clipped dust jacket.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: A little age-toned at the top edge of the text block; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over red boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5¾" (0.8 kg); pp 181; Preface by Sir Leon Radzinowicz; Includes: Floor plans; Black & white photographs on individual leaves; Diagrams; Tables; Appendix; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #204092 ||.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The jacket is shelf rubbed with light creasing around the edges and foxing on the inside of the jacket. The boards are edge rubbed with knocked corners. The binding is secure. There are no ink inscriptions or annotations. Protected in cellophane. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Hardback. 1 St UK. With a preface by Prof Sir Leon Radzinowicz. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. No dust wrapper, presented in slightly worn black boards. In contrast, the contents are very clean and tight with only sparse foxing at the end papers, front and back.

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. A survey of the scientist's part in murder detection. In the first part of the book the authors look at the triumphs and failures of famous cases of the past including Jack the Ripper (a New Look at the Ripper pp. 15-36 incl.), Maybrick, Christie, Emmett-Dunne and others, laying special stress on the background work done on the cases which has usually been obscured by sensational theorising or overemphasis on the drama of the courtroom itself. The second part continues with an outline of the possibilities for the 'future'. With Appendix and Maps. 144pp. 8vo. h/back. Includes loosely inserted obituary newspaper cutting from 'The Daily Telegraph'. With previous owner's small name/address label to fpd, v. lightly foxed fore-edge, o/w Vg+ in protected Vg. dw.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original burnt orange cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9'' x 5½''. Contains 181 pp with 7 monochrome plates and 7 line in text. Foxing to the closed text block edges, ink message dated 1973 to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper. 1973 newspaper clipping book review loosely inserted. Customs duty applies for orders shipped into the EU from outside the EU, Delivered Duty Paid (DDP), our shipping price includes DDP. Member of the P.B.F.A. TRUE CRIME.…

8.75 x 5.5 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly faded. Slightly rubbed along top edge. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 181 pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations. Graphs and plans in text. The author was formerly Professor of Forensic Medicine, University of London. Here he discusses several famous murders including Jack the Ripper, The Mummy of Rhyl, and looks at the scientific approach to crime.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 235 x 165 mm approx. xxiv + 244 pp. Black and white photo frontis, VI colour plates and 46 other figs being b/w photos, charts, plans etc. Numerous tables. Appendices include Christie's statements to the police, trial exhibits, post mortem reports etc. First Edition 1953. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Fair/ Very Good (Book- the cloth boards were damp stained when bought in by us, some colour restoration and polishing has improved general appearance a little. Discreet printed name and address label of a previous owner to free front end paper. Light offset browning bands and hint of foxing to both free end papers.The text block comprises quality china clay paper and but for the staining the book would be graded as very good. Dust Jacket- mild to moderate general shelf rubbing and soiling, non price clipped - cover 30s. No other notable defects to book or jacket).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated.Please note: This book contains explicit details of the investigation and photographs of crime scenes, body parts and corpses. This book is in good condition but the dust jacket is poor. There is light wear to the ends of the spine and light tanning to the page edges. The dust jacket is worn, chipped at the edges, discoloured and grubby.This book will be sent by Courier. An extra charge will be applied.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. MEDICAL and SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS in the CHRISTIE CASE, by FRANCIS E. CAMPS, M.D. Lecturer in Forensic Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College. Published by Medical Publications Limited, London and New York, 1953. First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author, Francis Camps, on the front free endpaper. Copy of JOHN E. MURDOCK, noted Forensic Science Investigator, with his signature at the top of the front pastedown. Hardcovers, green cloth covered boards, gilt titles to the spine, 6x9 inches, xxiii + 244 pages. ILLUSTRATED "With 47 Diagrams and Photographs and 6 Coloured Plates". GOOD condition: The covers have some small white spots, there is a bit of wear to the spine ends and corner tips, and the spine gilt is faded but legible, otherwise the covers are solid and well bound. Internally the pages are very nice, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. SCARCE book, especially so with the Signature and Inscription of the author and forensic witness Francis Camps, and the association to criminologist John E. Murdock. About FRANCIS CAMPS and the CHRISTIE MURDER CASE (from Wikipedia): ******Francis Edward Camps, b.1905 d.1972, was an English pathologist noted for his work on the cases of serial killers John Christie and John Bodkin Adams. He was professor of Forensic Medicine at the London Hospital Medical College, and President of the International Association of Forensic Scientists. He was the author of many papers on forensic medicine. Camps gave critical evidence during the 1953 trial of John Christie, providing the court with a detailed report on the bodies found at 10 Rillington Place. Camps' report showed a consistent pattern of attack by Christie. His forensic evidence left little doubt that Christie murdered the victims and that Timothy Evans, who had been convicted and hanged for two of the murders, was innocent. The Christie case was the most prominent of a series of miscarriages of justice which ultimately led to the abolition of capital punishment for murder in England, Wales and Scotland in 1965.****** About JOHN E. MURDOCK (from an online obituary): ******John E. Murdock, b.1938 d.2025, was Chief of the Contra Costa County Forensic Services Division (crime laboratory) for many years. He was an expert firearm and toolmark examiner. Though Murdock worked on many high profile criminal cases, he was most proud of his work on two cases for the Innocence Project, where his expertise helped secure the release of Patrick Pursley (who had spent 25 years in prison) and Bryan Foshay (who had spent 9 years in prison) following their wrongful convictions for murder based on misleading forensic evidence. The Pursley case was the first in the United States to allow post conviction firearms testing.****** About JOHN CHRISTIE - Serial Killer (from Wikipedia): ******John Reginald Halliday Christie, b1899 d.1953, was an English serial killer who murdered at least eight people - including his wife Ethel - by strangling them inside his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. The bodies of three of his victims were found in a wallpaper covered kitchen alcove soon after he had moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953. The remains of two more victims were discovered in the garden, and his wife's body was found beneath the floorboards in the front room. Christie was eventually arrested and convicted of murder, for which he was hanged. Two of Christie's victims were Beryl Evans and her baby daughter Geraldine. In 1950 Timothy Evans was charged with those murders, found guilty and hanged. Christie was a key prosecution witness in the Evans trial. When his own crimes were discovered three years later, it became evident that Christie's murders included Beryl Evans and her daughter, and that the police mishandling of the original inquiry allowed an innocent man to be hanged and Christie to escape detection, enabling him to commit a further four murders.******. Inscribed by Author(s).…

181 S. Orig.-Leinen mit Rückengoldtitel und illustr. Schutzumschlag. * Kapitel: "Crime in Hunter's Time (1728-93), More about Jack the Ripper, Motive of Murder, the Mummy of Rhyl, The Cholester Taxi Cab Murder, Unexpected Death, Death by Electrocution, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Murder by Household Gas, Bonnyman Case, Science and Crime Detection, Appendix: Drugs of Dependence". - Francis Camps was forensic pathologist. * ISBN 0-7153-5941-X * (Ein Titel aus unserem Online-Angebot "Recht - Kriminalistik, Polizei, Strafvollzug").…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual markings. Book has significant storage damage: markings to spine and book covers, wear and creasing to front cover, and water or storage damage to pages. Still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First edition. Hardback. Foreword by the Attorney General Sir Lionel Heald QC, MP. Few cases have aroused more interest than that of John Reginald Halliday Christie, who was convicted of the murder of his wife at the Central Criminal court in June 1953. The preliminary investigations before the trial were not limited to the death of Mrs. Christie but included the deaths of 3 other women found murdered in the same house and the identification of 2 female skeletons recovered from the garden. They also included the exhumation, at the request of the defence, of the victim of a previous murder. This book describes in detail the medical and scientific investigations that step by step, assisted in the conviction of the murderer. Illus. with 47 diagrams and Photographs + 6 Coloured Plates, Appendices, Bibliographical References and Index. 244pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. Reading copy. V. lightly sunned edges, damp staining to covers (see image), pp172-173 are damaged and missing some text (see image), in repaired, sunned, stained and worn, Poor pcdw. Scarce even in this condition.…

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback, 1st edn. Foreword by the Attorney General Sir Lionel Heald QC, MP. Few cases have aroused more interest than that of John Reginald Halliday Christie, who was convicted of the murder of his wife at the Central Criminal court in June 1953. The preliminary investigations before the trial were not limited to the death of Mrs. Christie but included the deaths of 3 other women found murdered in the same house and the identification of 2 female skeletons recovered from the garden. They also included the exhumation, at the request of the defence, of the victim of a previous murder. This book describes in detail the medical and scientific investigations that step by step, assisted in the conviction of the murderer. Illus., Appendices, Bibliographical References and Index. 244pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. With v. small bookshop label to fpd o/w F. in Vg. dw. which has light mks. to fr. cover, tiny closed tear to top edge and sl. sunned sp. (see images). A fairly heavy book which may require additional postage if shipped overseas.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Boards have little wear, previous owners stamps to front paste down sutherland division British association. Content is clean with a light even tone throughout. Signed by author to front end page, also includes 2 signed letters from the author. DJ has has some small loss and tears to edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, Pages clean and bright, Binding firm, Light wear to edges, Dust jacket unclipped, Previous owner inscription in pen to flyleaf/ NEW EU 5 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…