Lux Mentis, Booksellers

A Complete Collection of State-Trials and Proceedings for High-Treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanours; From The Reign of King Richard II. To the End of the Reign of King George I.:. The Fourth Volume. With Two Alphabetical Tables to the Whole. The Second Edition, with great Additions [Volume Four Only].

London: 1730. Second Edition. Hardcover. Volume Four of a six volume set (plus two supplementary volumes). Includes the notorious Judge Jeffreys trial of Titus Oates. "Proto-Grangerized"; seven 18th and 19th century engravings laid in at various places to illustrate defendants in various cases. This volume stands alone, in a lovely.....

Price: $1,250.00

Anon.

The Life and Character of the Late Lord Chancellor Jefferys [sic].

London: J Pottinger and J Seymour, 1764 [1725]. Second Edition. Hardcover. A wonderfully unflattering short biography of the notorious Judge Jeffreys. Jeffreys infamously presided over the trial of Titus Oates and numerous other significant cases...bringing his unusual blend of apathy, arrogance and brutality to the bench. It is said that.....

Price: $325.00

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

The Case of Oscar Slater.

New York: George H. Doran Co., 1912. First American Edition. Hardcover. Oscar Slater, a German Jew, was wrongfully accused, convicted and imprisoned for a murder that he did not commit. Doyle investigated the case for over three years and ultimately published this volume. The resulting clamor lead to Slater being.....

Price: $145.00

Fraenkel, Osmond K; Klaus, Samuel (eds).

The Sacco-Vanzetti Case. [American Trials].

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A thorough telling of this famed 1920's murder case. Includes trial transcripts, evidentiary material and an expiration of Judge Thayer's prejudice as described by Vanzetti and others. Light shelf/edge wear, gilt toned, minor toning at text block edges, else tight.....

Price: $45.00

Fuller, Horace W.

Noted French Trials: Imposters and Adventurers.

Boston: Soule & Bugbee, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, discrete small stain at front board, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering. 12mo. 264pp.

Price: $145.00

Guy Holt [ed].

Jurgen and the Law.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1923. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A well crafted exploration of the obscenity trial involving James Branch Cabell's 1919 novel "Jurgen." Rather uncommong in DJ. Minimal shelf/edge wear, gilt lightly toned, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/egde wear, light toning at.....

Price: $65.00

H L Stephen [ed].

State Trials: Political and Social: Vol. 1.

London: Duckworth, 1899. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Includes the trials of The Regicides, Walter Raleigh; Charles 1st; Colonel Turner; Alice Lisle; and the Suffolk Witches. A lovely little tome. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of toning at spine, bookplate at front pastedown, owner inscription at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred.....

Price: $25.00

Jeffreys, George.

The Tryal and Conviction of Sr Sam Bernardiston Bart for High-Misdemeanor at the Session of Nisi Prius:. Holden at Guild-Hall, London for his Majesties Court of Kingsbench before the Right Honourable Sir George Jeffreys.

London: Benjamin Tooke, 1684. First Edition. Hardcover. Barnardiston (spelled incorrectly by the printer) was a Whig and a director of the East India Company. Jeffreys was, of course, the notorious English judge. Here the defendant was accused of libel within a private letter and, shockingly, conviced by Jeffreys...just as shockingly.....

Price: $1,400.00

Kinney, Hannah.

A Review of the Principal Events of the Last Ten Years in the Life of Hannah Kinney:. Together with Some Comments Upon the Late Trial. Written by Herself.

Boston: J.N. Bradley & Co., 1841. First Edition. Stiff Boards. Minor classic murder acquittal. McDade, The Annals of Murder 561. Bookplate shows man in gallows in a deco style, "Borrower Beware - From the Crime Library of John Kobler". Noted issues with the binding notwithstanding, a very clean tight copy.....

Price: $325.00

Klaus, Samuel [ed].

The Milligan Case. [American Trials].

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A handsome copy of this increasingly uncommon, quite scarce in DJ. Very minor shelf/edge wear, discrete owner signature at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, several small closed tears, light toning at spine. Brown cloth.....

Price: $125.00

Mac Farlane, C.

The Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers in all Parts of the World:. Volume 1 and 2 Finely Bound as One. [Complete].

New York: J. & J. Harper, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Seldom found complete and/or in acceptable condition. A very handsome copy of this minor classic. Minor shelf/edge wear, very minor sporadic foxing, tidemarks at head near spine, else tight and bright. Halfbound, burgundy leather spine and tips, burgundy cloth boards.....

Price: $450.00

Wallace, Edgar [ed].

The Trial of Herbert John Bennett:. (The Yarmouth Beach Murder).

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Overall, a handsome copy of this rather scarce trial piece. Minor shelf/edge wear, sunning at spine, tiny split at head, discrete booksellers stamp at ffep, gilt lightly toned, else tight, bright and unmarred. Navy cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, in blind.....

Price: $75.00

Waters, Thomas [William Russell].

Recollections of a Policeman.

New York: Cornish, Lamport & Co., 1852. First Edition/Pirate Edition. Hardcover. Unusual little tome of early crime fiction and one of only 5 or 6 known copies bound in red boards [typically found in brown boards]. "Waters" was the pseudonym for William Russell, one of the earliest crafters of detective.....

Price: $1,500.00