Smith L W Merrow (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Good/Very Good condition. Dust jacket has been price-clipped. Light soiling to edges of text block.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition. 192 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some mild rubbing and marking to surfaces.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Very Good -. First Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 192 pages, plus black-and-white photographs. For a different perspective see also our listing for Robert Chinn's very scarce Dig The Nigger Up - Let's Kill Him Again, or for John Creasey's definitive history The Masters of Bow Street.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback, 1962, with unclipped jacket. In overall good-to-very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dj rubbed to edges with a couple of nicks tiny nicks and chips (now protected); red cloth boards generally clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotations or inscriptions; text and plates bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Ed., Hard cover red cloth bds, light crease down centre of spine otherwise VG+, rear bd a bit bowed, unclipped dust jacket, VG, a little chipping tiny closed tears to tip of spine and rear top edge, contents clean and tight, v. occas. age-mark, with foreword by Sir Basil Blackwell, pp192. Experiences of a prison officer who claims to have encountered every type and degree of criminal. "Murderers, blackmailers, thieves and robbers, cracksmen, charlatans, pilferers and pickpockets all have passed through his hands.".…

Hardcover / Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Hardback. Foreword by Sir Basil Blackwell. An authentic account of the daily life and conditions in prisons at the time, by someone who spent a generation in the Prison service. He covers amongst other things, hanging, whipping, and homosexuality. He had the confidence of the prisoners, who recognised his authority in applying with fairness and full knowledge the rules and conditions of the prison system. Some of the stories are grim, but all those in which the author was concerned reveal his fundamental kindness and his understanding of the sadly imperfect people with whom he spent so much of his life. Illus. 192pp. 8vo. h/back. Sl. faded sp. o/w Vg. …