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Dorset Press, 1979 First Dorset Edition in As New conditon with an As New unclipped Dust Jacket protected by a Mylar Brodart. . First Thus. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Hardcover.

Panther. Used - Good. Good condition. Mass Market Paperback edition. (Biography, Forensic) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

David McKay. Trade Paperback. Good/Good. ex-library copy with usual faults and markings

New York: David McKay Company, 1959. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition - Nap (No Additional Printing Stated, Thus First). Edge Wear To The Board Edges. The Jacket Has A Few Tiny Chips And Short Tears. Light Soiling To The Jacket. Foreword By Erle Stanley Gardner.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1959. Black boards have minor edgewear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Prior owner name on beb. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Ex Libris.

David McKay, 1959. David McKay, 1959, 8vo, 318 pages. Book and jacket in very good+ condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1960. Hardcover. Good. 1960. Reprint. 318 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

NY:: David McKay Company,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. B001UI81A2 . Foreword by Erle Stanley Gardner. First edition. Slight spine slant, light foxing on edges, else very good in a very good dust jacket. .

London.: Harrap., 1982. 318pp, photographs, owner's inscription. DW has a couple of minor edge tears.. Reprint.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: David McKay Company. Hardcover. 1959. 1st Edition. 8vo 318pp . Fine with no DJ. B&W Photographs. Foreword by Earl Stanley Gardner. Binding is black boards.Photo from DJ was cut out and glued neatly onto the front free endpaper. Sydney Smith (1883-1969) was a famous forensic scientist. This is his autobiography which gives fascinating details of the murder cases he worked on .

NY: David McKay. owner's name to ffep. foreword by erle stanley gardner. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1959.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1959 Book. Very Good + +. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. 318 pp, b&w frontis, forward by Erle Stanley Gardner, preface, 1. Three Small Bones; 2. Dr. Bell and Sherlock Holmes; 3. The Hopetoun Quarry Murder; 4. Adventures in Egypt; 5. Murder as a Business; 6. Mobs and Riots; 7. The Murder of the Sirdar; 8. Bullets, Bones and Fingerprints; 9. Return to Edinburgh; 10. The Case of Sidney Fox; 11. The Case of Annie Hearn; 12. The Strangling of Chrissie Gall; 13. The Jersey Abortion Case; 14. Child-Murder in Aberdeen; 15. The Sydney Shark Case; 16. The Ruxton Case; 17. Clues in Clothes; 18. Accident, Sucide, or Murder?; 19. War and Ballistics; 20. A Murder in Ceylon; 21. The Auckland Arsenic Mystery; index with b&w illustrations throughout. First American Edition, 1959. "This classic autobiographical masterpiece describes the early day in New Zealand, and the author's student days at Edinburgh, where after… Read More

London: The Companion Book Club, 1961. Book Club Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First printing from The Companion Book Club. In very good red cloth boards, black title field to back strip with gilt titles. The covers are firm and clean; spine is slightly sunned with vertical crease down centre. Unmarked end papers. Tinted black top cut edge; the fore and tail edges are lightly tanned. The text block is tightly bound, straight and clean - very good condition. With illustrations and b/w photos. No inscriptions etc.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: David McKay Company, Inc., 1959. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Autobiography of Britain's noted forensic examiner, highlighting his work in Egypt before & after WWI, work as professor of forensic medicine at Edinburgh University, & court battles with the renowned Sir Bernard Spilsbury. Foreword by Erle Stanley Gardner (Perry Mason author). In 318 pgs + Index, with lots of black & white crime scene photos. Orig. published in Britain, this is the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, same year (1959). Hardcover with black cloth-covered boards is Near Fine: completely clean & tightly bound, minor page tanning commensurate with age. Endpapers more heavily tanned. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

NY: David Mackay. 1959. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. A very good book with light edge wear, light foxing to endpapers in Dust Jacket with edge wear light creasing tiny chips and small closed tears along top edges. See Photos clph.

George G.Harrap & Co Ltd, 05/04/1982 00:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. 3.3974 cent in x 21.7834 cent in x 14.5889 cent in. 1959 first edition on black cloth wiyth clipped end paper

New York: David McKay Company, Inc. (1959) 318 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear to edges. Price clipped. Illust. w/ b/w plates.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.