The Murder and the Trial
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.
Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". xi, 340pp. Rather heavy wear to price-clipped dust jacket, with 1 1/2" tears along edges of head of spine, small tears to edges and extremities, edgewear, and light soiling. Black cloth over boards, with spine lettered in white. MIld edgewear to binding, with light scattered rubbing and gentle bumping to extremities. Binding is firm and sound. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Very occasional inked notations to pages. A solid copy of this collection of seventeen celebrated murder cases brilliantly recreated by Edgar Lustgarten, including the cases of Edith Thompson, Steinie Morrison, Neill Cream, Travers vs. Wilde, William Herbert Wallace, Norman Thorne, Frederick Seddon, Lizzie Borden, Richard Pigott, the brothers Staunton, Barney Blitz, Chapman vs. The Winning Post, Adelaide Bartlett, Robbert Wood, Elvira Barney, and Jones and Hulten. Good / fair. Item #4240
Price: $18.00