Robert Traini (11 results)

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a well preserved dust wrapper. Frontis, 267pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. The Homicide Act of 1957 reformed British law governing capital punishment crimes. One of the changes was that murder in the act of rape or other sexual crimes was no longer subject to the death penalty, but only prison time. This book argues the case that that change could lead to an increase in such crimes. (The death policy was entirely abolished in 1969, regardless.) This copy is good in black orange and white printed paper-covered boards. Ex-library with typical library stamps and labels. The binding is sound. While there is age darkening on the page edges, the text overall is clean and unmarked. No DJ (as issued?). FO22.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 1st Edition. 268pp, black and white illustrations. Brown cloth-covered boards, green titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly bumped spine ends, small tear half way up spine cover at rear board. Free endpapers tanning. Text block edges starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. Looks at the trials of Christie, Heath and Whiteway, the abolition of the death penalty and the effect of the newly introduced defence of diminished responsibility. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. From the personal library of Hale Lamont-Havers, stage actress, author, and amateur criminologist, with her name and date (1967) on the front free endpaper. First British edition. Foxing to endpapers, else very good in a very good (moderate shelf wear with a few small chips, fading along the spine, foxing on verso) dust jacket.…

hardcover. illus. 8vo, cloth, d.w. London: William Kimber, (1960). vg.

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Ten women died at the hands of 3 notorious sex murderers. Heath killed 2 women and Christie's victims were finally known to be 6. Whiteway threw the violated bodies of 2 teenage virgins into the Thames. All 3 men were hanged. In 1957, the Homicide Act was introduced and sex killers were no longer hanged. In 2 trials at the time, for murder, the final verdict in each case was manslaughter. Patrick Byrne who mutilated and beheaded a girl in a hostel in Birmingham, and Michael Dowdall, who killed and mutilated a prostitute in London because he pleaded diminished responibility under Section 2 of the Act. The author, who was the chief crime reporter of a national newspaper, investigated each of the crimes and studied the details of each case and the implications of the Act. Illus. 267pp. 8vo. Tiny insc., o/w Nr. f. in sl. frayed dw. which has a little wear to head/tail of sl. faded sp. …

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardback. Ten women died at the hands of 3 notorious sex murderers. Heath killed 2 women and Christie's victims were finally known to be 6. Whiteway threw the violated bodies of 2 teenage virgins into the Thames. All 3 men were hanged. In 1957, the Homicide Act was introduced and sex killers were no longer hanged. In two trials at the time, for murder, the final verdict in each case was manslaughter. Patrick Byrne who mutilated and beheaded a girl in a hostel in Birmingham, and Michael Dowdall, who killed and mutilated a prostitute in London because he pleaded diminished responsibility under Section 2 of the Act. The author, who was the chief crime reporter of a national newspaper, investigated each of the crimes and studied the details of each case and the implications of the Act. Illus. 267pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. in v. sl. sunned nr. f. dw.…

Hardback. Condition: VG-. G++ DW. 1st Edition. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.DW (25s) has some wear and minor los. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age. In a loose polythene protector.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. VG- DW. 1st Edition. Some spotting (heavy to inner spine of DW) else Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket (25s) are in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Condition: Good. No jacket, minor shelf wear to extremities. No inscriptioons. Gentle tanning and foxing, predominantly to page edges and endpapers.