Stay Execution by Gilbert Michael (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. new edition edition. 194 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.47 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Fair. 1971. First Edition. 224 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Paper worn away to pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped trimmed jacket has light edgewear with chips and creasing.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The boards have a light bump to the top right corner of the front panel and a spine lean but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Light browning to the page edges but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Light edge chipping to the jacket with a one inch closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel and two half-inch closed tears at the bottom of the rear panel. Browning to the rear panel and to the flaps. First printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket (30S £1.50 net in UK) in new removable protective clear sleeve. 224pp. Included is a 2006 newspaper cutting of the death of Michael Gilbert. Not library copy, no inscriptions. A collection of thirteen stories over a period of twenty-one years, which was almost exactly the span of Michael Gilbert's own legal practise. (76/4).…

h/c + d/j, 20.5x13.5cm, 224 pages, green papered boards and tinted top edges. Small tears to d/j edges, light edge scuffs to d/j , shop sticker, foxing to end papers and side and top ledge, stains to d/j inner folds. Not price clipped. These thirteen stories cover a period of twenty-one years, which is almost exactly the span of Michael Gilbert's own legal practice.…

Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. -- Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. -- Details: A fine first edition without foxing, in a fine dust jacket, scarce as such. Gilbert, a rather self-effacing lawyer with a dry sense of humour, was well known as a natural storyteller, a good examples of which can be seen in two of these short stories in which rascally solicitors "get away with it", 'Back on the Shelf' and 'Mr Portway's Practice', they were also written in the first person. -- Reference: The Independent, obituary, 10 Februery 2006. -- Octavo (book size 20.4x13.4cm), pp. 224. In publisher's green cloth spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Dust jacket priced '(30s) £1.50 net in UK' to upper corner of front flap. --.…

A first edition, first printing of Stay of Execution, And Other Stories of Legal Practice by Michael Gilbert, published by Hodder and Staughton, London in 1971. A near fine book free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in publisher's original green cloth with gilt titling to the spine, slight bumping to head of the spine, the text block bright and crisp with green top stain. The near fine unclipped wrapper with light handling wear and some minor chipping to the head of the spine, knuckles of front and rear flap folds and upper edge of rear panel. Stay of Execution by Michael Gilbert is a gripping legal thriller centred around a man named Peter, wrongly convicted of murder. As his execution date approaches, a defence lawyer named Piers Ransome works tirelessly to uncover the truth. The novel explores the moral complexities of the justice system, with themes of guilt, innocence and the race against time. With sharp prose and intricate plotting, Gilbert delves into the tension between legal procedure and human fallibility.…