Published by Edinburgh & London: William Hodge & Company, Limited, [1933]., 1933
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
8vo. pp. 6 p.l., 215. 4 illus. cloth (discoloured, lacking front flyleaf). First Edition. Notable British Trials Series.
Published by Butterworth & Co. (Australia), Limited, Edinburgh, 1933
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Pp. [xii]+216(last blank), frontispiece, plus 3 plates, the title page printed in red & black, appendices; demy 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; ownership stamp and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, endpapers lightly offset and browned, some light foxing; Butterworth & Co. (Australia), Limited, Edinburgh, n.d.[1933?]. Australian edition. Notable British Trials series. *Knowles was tried and sentenced for the murder of his wife in the Chief Commissioner's Court of Ashanti, Ghana, in 1928. His conviction caused an outcry, because he was tried under the local system, without defence counsel, without a jury, and without right of appeal.