Stay of Execution by Michael Gilbert (6 results)

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed along extremities. Nice cover. Pages are clean throughout. Binding solid.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with just a little bumping to the spine tips, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the price-clipped dustwrapper that is otherwise fine, without fading, loss or tears. A collection of 13 short stories written between 1949 and 1971. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

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.