Normanton Helena Editor (11 results)

Condition: Good. Toronto 1931 1st Canada Law book Company. Notable British Trials series. Hardcover. Octavo, 316pp., foldout map, red cloth. Good, end papers unevenly spotted, no DJ. Binding secure; text lightly toned. no owner marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 316 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout. Previous owner's signature in pencil on the ffep. Page edges are darkened. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles. Faded on the spine. Boards are lightly stained and scuffed. Worn around the edges with tears on the ends of the spine. VG/- -. Book.…

8vo. pp. xlviii, 316. 10 illus. (1 folding). cloth (worn but sound, cloth discoloured, booksellers' stamps on verso of frontis., lacking rear flyleaf). First Edition. Notable British Trials Series.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Presumed First Edition. No stated date c1927. Presumed first edition. 367pp., frontispiece and 6 other black and white illustrations. This is a volume in the publisher's 'Famous Trials' series. The general editor was George Dilnot (1883-1951), an English writer and novelist who specialized in crime novels and non-fiction criminology. It is an account of the trial of Norman Thorne (c.1902-1925), an English Sunday school teacher and chicken farmer who was convicted and hanged for what became known as the chicken run murder. Thorne murdered his fiancée Elsie Cameron (born 1898) on 5 December 1924 at his chicken farm in Crowborough, Sussex, and later dismembered and buried her body. The book is bound in the original dark purple cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling to the boards. The spine has faded to a light brown colour and there is lighter fading on the top 2 1/2" of both boards. The spine ends are lightly bumped. The contents are tight and clean with some foxing to the first and last few pages, including a few marks on the title-page. There is no inscription.…

Second Edition. Original covers, a little blotched. With a Folding Map. (illustrator).

2nd Ed. xlviii + 316pp. 9 plates and a folding plan. Good in d/w. lightly browned and spotted to spine. Notable British Trials Series. US$37.

First Edition. Trial relating to the 'Blazing Car Murder', the victim of which has still not been identified. Bookplate to front pastedown and some light foxing to pages and text block edges otherwise VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 367 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout. The frontispiece is present but detached from the binding. Previous owner's signature on the ffep in pencil. Page edges are darkened and smudged. Bound in red cloth with black titles. Lightly worn around the edges. Faded on the spine. SCARCE. VG/- -. Book.…

1st edition. Good copy only, in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Cover is somewhat worn. Front free end-paper missing. Scattered foxing. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 367 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. Subjects: Thorne, Norman -1925 ; Trials, litigation, etc. Cameron, Elsie Emily 1898-1924. Trials (Murder) Great Britain. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Good copy only, in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Cover is somewhat worn. Front free end-paper missing. Scattered foxing. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 367 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. Subjects: Thorne, Norman -1925 ; Trials, litigation, etc. Cameron, Elsie Emily 1898-1924. Trials (Murder) Great Britain. 1 Kg.…

Pp. xii+lviii+316, 9 plates, folding plan, the title page printed in red & black, appendices; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly marked, fore-corners slightly bruised; lower fore-corner of leaves lightly bruised; William Hodge & Company, Limited, Edinburgh, 1952. Second edition. Notable British Trials series. *Trial at the Northampton Assizes, for the murder of an unidentified man, 1931. The murder case became known as "the Blazing Car Murder" due to the fact that Rouse, seeking to fabricate his own death, burned to death an unknown hitchhiker whom he had rendered unconscious inside his car. …