Criminal Days by Travers Humphreys, Used (4 results)

Condition: Fair. 1946. First Edition. 227 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Tape marks to paste downs. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Top edge of text block is dust marked. Book has a slight forward lean. Sunning to spine. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Splitting to joint at front.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 228pp. Red cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine. 12mo. Sun-faded bottom board edges, rubbed corners and spine ends. Text block edges tanning. Endpapers tanning. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket tanning, has some small closed tears, significant shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. Sir Richard Somers Travers Christmas Humphreys (1867 ? 1956) was a barrister who,was involved in the cases ofOscar Wildeand the murderersHawley Harvey Crippen,George Joseph SmithandJohn George Haigh, the 'Acid Bath Murderer', and Roger Casement, convicted and sentenced to death for treason.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Black publisher's cloth with red titles on cover and spine. In the original un-clipped dust jacket with a photo of the author on the cover. Top and tail of spine has small chips, but now looks very nice in a Brodart sleeve. Insides clean and unmarked. A memoir of the author's youth and years as a lawyer in England in the first two decades of the last century, including a chapter called "Some Judges" and another, "Two Poisoners." First Printing, in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First. 1946 First Edition, first printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good condition, small inscription to first blank page. Tanned edge paper with light foxing. Dust Jacket present, with big chips to the spine, rubbing and creases to edges. unclipped. U5B7.