Haswell Wilson (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First. Buck Ruxton (born Bukhtyar Chompa Rustomji Ratanji Hakim; 1899 -1936) was an Indian-born physician convicted and subsequently hanged for the September 1935 murders of his common-law wife, Isabella Ruxton (née Kerr), and the family housemaid, Mary Jane Rogerson, at his home in Lancaster, England. These murders are informally known as the Bodies Under the Bridge and the Jigsaw Murders, while Ruxton himself became known as The Savage Surgeon. This copy is good in red cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Ex-library with typical library labels and stamps. The binding is quite sound, having been rebound in sturdy library cloth. There is very little wear on the covers, and the volume appears very little used. Other than the library indications, the text is clean and unmarked. FO22.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Red binding with gold lettering on spine. British Notable Trials Series. 17 B/W illustrations. Some wear to binding. Some soiling to endpapers. Photos of book on request.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. 2nd Edition. 457 pages in very good condition; edges a little yellowed. 16 photographs. Previous owner's name on the fep and title page. Red hardcovers with gilt spine titles. Spine a little faded and worn, light wear on corners. VG. Book.

Red Cloth. Condition: Good. "For private circulation only". 55 articles by the following scientists: Hugo Flecker; Bernard Joseph Coen; Hugh Raymond Guy Poate; Stewart Arthur Smith; James Thomas Wilson; Edward francis Hallman; Launcelot Harrison; William Aitcheson Haswell; Stephen J. Johnston; H. Leighton Kesteven; George I. Playfair; Robin John Tillyard. Each article with separate pagination, ca. 1000 pages, many paltes and text illustrations. Cover detached from book, can be easily re-attached. …

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 6028 pp. All volumes very well preserved 253 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 18969.

Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condition: Gut. ca. 7.500 pages. Good. Ex-Library with usual markings. Otherwise inside clean. Covers shows mild wear. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 20000.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition. 10 volume set, complete. A Near Fine set. 4tos., each volume approximately 650 pages, illustrated with color plate, and B&w photographs, charts, graph, and diagrams. Uniformly bound in burgundy cloth with silver titles on a blue field. Just a hint of shelf wear. Volumes 1-9 are A-Z, volume 10 is the index.…

Condition: gut. 1995. Encyclopedia of Analytical Science Vol. 1-10 (cpl.) In englischer Sprache. pages.

William Hodge & Company, Limited. 1937. First Edition. Hardback with no DW. 8vo. Illustrated with numerous plates. Beautifully rebound in quarter red morocco, with gilt motifs of Lady Justice to spine, red marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Pages browned o/w contents clean and sound. A superb item, covering the trial of the "Jigsaw Murders" case, which was revolutionary in the history of forensic science. …

Pp. lxxxviii+458(last blank), frontispiece, plus 18 plates, title page printed in red & black, appendices; red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, light bruise at foot of spine; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges lightly rubbed and split, with small chip at bottom fore-corner of front panel; small chip to top edge pp. lxvii/lxviii, a little light foxing; William Hodge & Company, Limited, London, 1950. Second edition. Notable British Trials series. *First published in 1937. Dr. Buck Ruxton was tried at Manchester assizes, March 1936 for the murder of his wife, Isabella.…

orig.cloth. 2nd Edition. 22x14cm, (87),457,(16)p, Rubberstamp to flyleaf. Series: Notable British Trials. Ruxton was tried at the Manchester assizes,March, 1936, for the murder of his wife, Isabella Ruxton. Some rubbing. Rear cover corner bump. Good. 16pp photoplates. (illustrator).