TALES TOLD TO THE MAGISTRATE

by R. E. Corder, James Dunn

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London & New York: Andrew Melrose Ltd, 1925. Octavo, original red cloth stamped in yellow gold and blind. First edition. Collects twenty-two tales of criminal life in London. In his brief introduction, the author notes, There are gay colours even in the seamy side; and in these day-to-day sketches of life as it passes through the London police and county courts, my aim has been to emphasize the human more than the

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