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Notable Trials Library. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Reprint. (murder, trial, Scotland)

Notable Trials Library. Fine. 1997. Hardcover. 8vo . Bound in quarter leather. . We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. . P21 .

1949. [Trial]. Roughead, William, Editor. Trial of Oscar Slater. Edinburgh: William Hodge and Company, [1929]. xiii, 338 pp. Frontispiece and 17 additional illustrated plates. Fold-out maps. Original red cloth with gilt lettered spine. Ex-library with property stamps and shelf location label at foot of spine. Internally clean. $20. * Third edition, with new introduction and Appendices. A title in the the Notable British Trials series. This murder trial is famous because the convict was found to have been illegally convicted when the case was appealed eighteen years later, within twenty-four hours of his intended execution. He was given a monetary award to compensate for his years in prison. Arthur Conan Doyle was among those who drew public attention to the case and provoked the appeal.

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Edinburgh: William Hodge, 1950. Fourth Edition. hb. SIGNED and inscribed by Roughead, editor, a presentation copy to "Prof. Morton Dauwen Zabel, a souvenir of our meeting at the Festival. from Wm. Roughead: 12 Belgrave Crescent, Edinburgh, 5th September, 1951". Zabel was the noted James and Conrad scholar and literary critic. Red cloth, 8vo, gilt lettering on spine, 338pp. From the series "Notable British Trials". Clean, tight copy, slight edge wear , some spotting edges of text block. Book condition VG, lacking a dust jacket.