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London: Amnesty International Publications, 1989. pp268. Although published some years ago, this report by Amnesty International remains timely. '..surveys in detail the use of the death pnalty in 180 countries around the world. In analyses the arguments used to justify the penalty and shows how they fail the tests of logic and experience.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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The Consultative Committee for the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, 1990. pp69. Preamble / Law.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Jonathan Cape. pp228. Some very slight wear to wraps. Clean & tight.. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Wellington: PSL Press, 1999. pp206. Avanti's life went off the rails & he found himself in prison for murder at 17. Life in Parry, the shortcomings of the justice system etc.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Auckland Etc: Fontana / Collins, 1980. pp156. *Book has some highlighting, underlining & marked passages, previous owner's name to ffep, exterior page edges yellowed. Scarce copy of book written 'under threat of death' - a contract was put out on the author. Illustrated with photographs.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fair - Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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Auckland Etc: Viking (Penguin), 1997. pp 232 includes index. By author of Mr Asia etc. '...it would be wrong to see Deadline as focusing just on the scoops that brought fame to the author. Much more than this, Pat Booth's book is also the evocative story of an extraordinary New Zealand life., full of anecdote and incident and peopled with names from many fields, including politics and business.' Illustrated with photographs... First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Cassell, 1970. pp357 & foldout map at rear. Exterior page edges of book have minimal foxing, otherwise as new. Uninscribed, unclipped. Writer is the guy who sprung Blake. B/W photographs.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near New-As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Lyttleton: Ploughshares Publications, 1999. .pp168.. First Edition. Wraps. Near New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Auckland: Random House, 1998. pp196. Front corner rubbed & crease to corner of ffep. Otherwise excellent. '...a search for the missing narrative....Through contacts made through her work with her husband, the late Mike Bungay, QC, and after his death, Ronda has selected a number of women who have been convicted of murder to make the journey with her. They tell their own, often painful, stories for the first time, stories that are reinforced by the views of the professionals involved: the legal experts, psychiatric advisors and prison officers who have been freed to speak openly now, by the women themselves.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Auckland: Author, 2003. pp165. 'Not often does the public get the opportunity to learn the inner workings of the mind of a serial criminal, who finally broke throiugh recidivism to live the life of a good citizen.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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St Albans: Paladin, 1974. pp287. Extreme & exterior page edges have some yellowing, there is discrete sparse fox on foredge & a very occasional spot elsewhere; otherwise very clean & tight. The controversial Dreyfus Trials. 'Legal systems like to think of themselves as impartial and fair, dispensing an objective morality of Justice. But, from time to time, a court of law can be as political, prejudiced, and biased as any other arm of the State. In December 1894, a French military tribunal found Alfred Dreyfus guilty of high treason. Dreyfus was a Jew; the War Office was determined that at all costs the honour and good name of the Army must be upheld; and both the left and right in the French parliament used the convulsions of the case for what they believed to be their own advantage, The original verdict affected the Army, the Church, the Judiciary and the State over the following twelve years. Even now the case provokes arguments of fierce intensity.....The questions still remain - how far were the Dreyfus trials the product of a conscious conspiracy, how far an unconscious conspiracy of silence, and how far did 'justice" prevail?' A republication of a book then out of print for many years.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Camden: United Nations Missions of Marshall Islands, Samoa, and Solomon Islands / Foundation for International Environmental Law and development/ Rutgers University School of Law at Camden, 1996. pp354. 'Questions posed by the General Assembly and the World health Organisation..On November 13 and 14, 1995, representatives of Marshall Islands, Samoa, and Solomon Islands ('the Pacific coalition") appeared before the International Court of Justice ("the Court') in the Hague. The occasion was the first time that these Pacific States had been heard by the Court. The proceedings involved questions asked by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations General Assembly on the legality of the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons. This book records that appearance. It brings together the decision of the Court on the General assembly question (the Court declined to respond to the World Health Organisation), written observations submitted by the Pacific coalition, its coordinated oral argument and its joint written answers to a set of questions asked by the judges.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Wisconsin & London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. pp168 includes index. (Rhetoic of the Human Sciences series) 'In a series of stimulating essays.explores the element of ambiguity in politics. He argues that democratic politics in a modern society requires, if it is to flourish, an appreciation of the ambiguous character of the standards and principles we cherish the most. Connolly's work, lucidly presented and intellectually challenging, will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, philosophy, rhetoric and law, and to all whose interests include the connections between contemporary epistemological arguments and politics and, more broadly, between thought and language.'. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Little, Brown & Company, 2002. pp387. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Sickert done it, according to Cornwell, because his DNA has been found on letters written to Scotland Yard at the time.. 1st Edition (British). Cloth. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1980. pp191, 3 or 4 tiny fox spots to ffep. otherwise excellent; unclipped jacket has some fading, not unsightly as tends to 'blend;.More on spine. Corner rub. Based on BBC series, illustrated with b/w photographs. Includes Donald Woods, Kim Philby, Lord Lucan, the Mogadishu Hijack, Alfie Hinds, Jeremy Cartland.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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New York: The Free Press - Macmillan Publihing Co., Inc.s, 1979. pp 288. By the authors of Beyond the Best Interests of the Child. 'Provocatively examines the essential conditions that justify state intervention in family life. By emphasizing minimal state intervention, the authors respect the right of parents to raise their children as they think best, but at the same time exhibit their genuine concern for a child's need for continuity and stability'. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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New York London Toronto Sydney Tokyo Singapore: American Lawyer Books / Simon & Schuster, 1991. pp290. * I have categorised the book as Gd+-VG rather than VG simply because of the marks to the top exterior page edges (those visible when book closed) -otherwise except for some very pale colouring of foredge book itself is in VG condition. Unclipped jacket has a little sticker residuelight edgewear to top edge & some fading - the jacket was either white or cream originally; now it is difficult to tell which. A lot better than it probably sounds. 'Groner shows why Hilary's trial is important for every parent to understand. We see how the case brings into play some of the most complicated issues of the day: the rights of parents, the rights of children, the responsibility of the ste, and the destructive capacity of the press..an important, thought-provoking work.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good Plus - Very Good8/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Auckland: Howling at the Moon Press, 2002. pp268. '...takes you behind the scenes of some of the most fascinating prominent legal cases in recent New Zealand history.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970. pp266 includes index, plus pub.'s ads. Edgeworn, with sparse pale fox to inside of front cover & cocking of spine. Otherwise clean & tight. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 'Of all the powers that a policeman is in a position to exercise the power to kill is the greatest. R. W. Harding describes and analyses a number of recent actual cases where police have killed citizens in this country, and reveals a pattern of systematic abuse of the rules relating to deaths caused in arrest situations.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good Plus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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pp211. Tiny mark on foredges, otherwise excellent. Driving after drinking, the author, a young, successful professional golfer, collided with & killed a cyclist. Until he went there he considered prisons holuiday camps. Hi experience taught him otherwise.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Pacific Grove: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1987. pp200 includes index & credits. Crease to bottom cornerof jacket & first few pages, rub to top corner; o/wise very clean & tight. 'HJard time is preeminent as a prison primer. No othjer volume draws more heavily and faithfully on the available literature, and summarises so much as well and in such readable form. But HARD TIME is also a coherent prescription for prison reform which is credible, makes sense and is nonutopian but could lead to immeasurable improvements in the lives of prison inmates and staff..'. Reprint. Wraps. Very Good*. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. more information

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Reading Etc: Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1995. pp292 includes index. Some pale marking to bottom foredge & corner, otherwise clean & tight. "From our decrying of "the abuse excuse' to our cheers of "Free the Juice," our reactions to violent crime fluctuate wildly. Expanding on her well-know ideas about self-help and the American psyche,...shows how pop-psychology and religious fervor vie with law and rationality in our courtrooms and in our minds. She doesn't offer up any easy solutions, rather, with her trademark epigrammatic brilliance, she gives us an alarming picture of the emotional needs and cultural forces behind our righteous proclaimations about crime and punishment.'. First Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Vintage, 2005. pp333 includes index. 'Here she roundly challenges the record of modern governments - even, or especially "benign" democracies - with regard to essential democratic rights, and insists that we return to the fundamental values of equality, fairness and respect for human dignity. She argues that in the last twenty years we have seen a steady erosion of human liberties, culminating today in extraordinary legislation which undermines long established freedoms. Are these moves a crude political response to demands for law and order? Or is the relationship between citizens and the state being covertly reframed and redefined?'. First Vintage Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Sydney Etc: Butterworths, 1989. pp252. 'Law exams are different. Students often have trouble preparing for them and realising what impact their study techniques will have on their exam performance. This book is dexigned to show students how to learn law and organise their study habits towards exam oriented techniques.'. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Auckland: HarperCollins Publishers , 2003. pp228. Yellowing of extreme & exterior page edges, otherwise very good. 'Treading carefully through a psychological minefield, Nigel works to reduce offending by helping his clients confront both the tragic consequences of their crimes, and ultimately themselves as well. He expalins why he does this work, sets out his no-nonsense approach and the reasons behind it, and offers his views on why terrible crimes continue to happen, and what we can all do to make a difference.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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New York, Evenston and London: Harper & Row (Australasia) Pty. Ltd, 1967. pp378. *Reprint of the 1957 Harvard University Press publication. Rubbed spine ends & corners, a crease across the back cover. A small dark circular spot at bottom of front cover, where a price sticker has been removed. O/wise very clean. The evolution of American law, 1830-1860. A critical study of the work of Shaw, who as Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts for thirty years, wrote over 2000 opinions: his unrivalled influence, through his opinions, on the course of American law. Frontis portrait.. Reprint*. Card. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Auckland: Howling at the Moon Press , 1997. pp352. Handcovered neatly with plastic, otherwise clean & tight. 'Awaiting trial on murder and kidnapping charges, one of New Zealand's most notorious criminals made a phone call to New Zealand's hardest-hitting publishing company. Christpher John Lewis and his lawyers told Howling at the Moon Productions that he had a story to tell, a story that we wouldn't belief, but a story that was true.He told us he had written a manuscript confessing to every crime he had ever committed, but he insisted he'd been framed for the murder of Auckland mother Tania Furlan, by a police force desperate to hang the crime on someone and a convicted felon who he claimed had set him up....'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London Etc: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1968. pp201. * Jacket is price-clipped, with edgewear & browned on inside extreme top edge. * Book boards very good; pale tanning strip to first & last free ep, with a few fox spots within the front strip. Otherwise very neat & tight. The author's method is to summarise each case '.showing the chain of events that led up to conviction, and then to highlight the key events of the trial with exerpts from the evidence and cross-examination.' All six to to murder as '.a habiytual occupation.no sympathy is invited for my team.'.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good*/Very Good*. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Wellington: Victoria University of Auckland Law Revue in Conjunction with Voctoria University Press, 1993. pp178 plus list of contributors. Each corner has a crease & some rubbing; nevertheless the condition of the book is better than it probably sounds. Clean & tight. "What issues for women are raised by New Zealand's new accident compensation scheme? Is the reasonable person a "gendered" construct? How have female victims of crime been treated by the New Zealand criminal justice system? What role do women lawyers play in legal policy development? How do women fare in a retrenched welfare state? What place is there for women in major commercial law firms? Is feminist teaching possible in law school? These are among the issues analysed by leading women lawyers. In 15 essays, especially commissined for this volume, practitioners, academics, judges and lawyers in government discuss key issues impacting on the place of women within the legal system and within society.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. more information

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North Ryde: The Law Book Company Ltd, 1991. pp 338 includes index. '.analyses the legal issues of co-existence in Australia of two very different societies - the indigenous peoples and the settler communities.'. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Auckland & London: Collins, 1966. pp213. '..Memorable tales..famous cases.. Maori land ownership.. Samoan affairs ..management of two All Black tours.'.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near New/Near New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Chancer Publishing Co. Ltd, 1975. pp309 plus pub.'s ads. Book has pale fox to foredges & an inkmark on side foredge, reverse side of jacket foxed, I have designated it 'very good' because it is otherwise very clean & tight. 'This book presents the findings of research undertaken for the Home Office and Department of Health and Social Security into the training given to boys in approved schools.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Auckland Etc: Oxford University Press, 1992. pp158. Previous owner's name on pretitle, 2 very small pale marks to foredges; otherwise in clean tight condition. Traces major changes in crime, behaviour patterns, deviance etc.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2000. pp279. *The front cover has a large crease & the front corners are rubbed, the spine is faded; otherwise the book clean & tight. '.the social and legal contexts in which crime & crime control measures have evolved since the 1960s. deals unapoligetically with such sensitive issues as gender bias in criminal justice, false sexual abuse allegations, Maori and Pacific islanders crime rates, the classification of illegal drugs and evidence tampering by the police.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good*. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London & New York: Longman, 1995. pp259. '..comprehensive introduction to the history and current debates surrounding criminal justice and penal policy in Britain.'. First Edition. Wraps. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Virago Press, 1988. pp202. Light creases to 2 cornerspale yellowing of exterior page edges; o/wise very good - clean & tight. '..they share a common experience of humiliation, anger and alienation, the effects of which remain long after their release. They speak movingly of their lives before prison, of the circumstances leading to their arrestof their first depersonalising encounter with the prison system..'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Ver Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. more information

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San Francisco: Golden Gate National Park Association, 1991. pp164. Small crease in front corner, several small creases bottom of a few back corners. Light edgewear. Otherwise clean & tight.Illustrated with photographs. Signed & inscribed 'To Monique Greetings Jim Quillen # 586 Alcatraz 2-1-97'.The author was in Alcatraz during the riot & escape attempt of 1986 . The story of his life, including life inside.. Signed & Inscribed By Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large. more information

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Smithfield: Floradale Productions, 1991. pp212. Small crease to back corner, small mark to top foredge. Illustrated with photographs. 'From streetfighter to standover man, gunman to underworld executioner, he has been earmarked for death a dozen times but has lived to tell the tale. This is it.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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New York: Prometheus Books, 1998. pp357. 'This unique anthology provides what the war on drugs most needs: an examination of the premises on which the "war" is waged. Given the failures and great expense of the suppression movement both finacially and in human costs, it is important reading.The debate over drugs continues both to enlighten and exasperate the public, "drug warriors" and "reformers" alike. Many americans take at face value the assumption that druge cause addiction, which leads to crime, and that addiction is an illness. Yet abundant evidence exists to support the view that illegal drug use has more to do with choice, values, and expectations than with addiction, compulsion and disease.'. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Auckland: Legal Research Foundation Inc. , 1985. pp217. 8 papers given on aspects of the proposed Bill of Rights - history / philosophy; judicial revue versus democracy; operational aspects; woman's perspective; as fundamental law re the canadian experience; part 2 & clause 26 of the draft; is the Treaty of Waitangi a bill of rights/; rights and Te Tiriti.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near - As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Smithfield: Floradale Productions and Sly Ink, 2006. pp352. 'bandall debs was a floor tler who became a cop killer. He didn't have much in common with the bored housewife who poisoned her husband, the international hitman who kidnapped a rich woman's son for ransom, or the gay clerk who killed his boss. except for one thing: they all shared a delusion that they would never be caught. Right up to the day when the police turned up and said..."Gotcha"'. Reprint. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Hamilton: Waikato University School of Law, 1993. pp180. Crease to top corner, otherwise clean & tight. Contents include: Law education in NZ, Waikato Law School-Margaret Willson; Surrogacy; Five Perspectives on Maori Rights and pakeha Duties-Paul Havemann; The NZ Cout of Appeal-Spiller; Domestic Violence-Ruth Busch & Neville Robertson; Reclaiming Economic, Social and Cultural Right-Paul Hunt, etcetera.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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LondoN: John Murray, 2005. pp506. Unclipped jacket has a slight, shallow flare of top back edge, otherwise excellent. Book has review copy sticker to pretitle page & yellowing of exterior page edges, otherwise also excellent. Illustrated. 'A powerful new social history of the 1950s and 1960s - through the potent lens of that eras seemingly ubiquitous crime....With the narrative sweep and eye for telling detail that was a hallmark of The Victorian Underworld and An Underworld at War, Donald Thomas once again chronicles a history we might rather forget, through compelling stories we can't live without.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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London: Christopher Johnson, 1961. pp160. *Jacket clipped. There is foxing to the exterior page edges of the last pages of the book. some of which intrudes slightly to the extreme page edges. Slight, very pale discolouration to pre & title page. 'He combats the view of society "that a minority of trained, humane and able men knows what is good for the citizen, that this minority should be as free as possible to carry out its wishes, and that every obstacle to the swift and efficient exercise of its benevolence shouls be removed." As he rightly reminds us, this is a view wholly inconsistent with our political and legal heritage.'. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Plus*. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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New York: Rawson, Wade Publishers, Inc., 1981. pp 309. story of the theft of $US70,000,000 worth of confiscated herion fron New york city police department headquarters,'..the investigation of that theft caused several violent deaths, sent dozens of policemen and mob figures to jail ..'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near New/Near New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Eyre Methuen, 1979. pp256. Boards faded but clean & square, last (blank) page has insect depredation to edges. Small pale mark om side foredges. Some pale discolouration to front ep. Unclipped jacket with light edgewear. Illustrated with b/w line drawings. 'that school of Snobbery with Viokence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.'. Second Ed.: First Thus Revised. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. more information

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Auckland: Random House, 2008. pp216. '.New Zealanders ended up with a welter of rules, regulations, edicts, recommendations and advisorie, including: Never work on the land or in the woods on a Sunday, Never eat fish with a steel knife. Never abuse the bath by bathing too long. Never play the National Anthem at less than M. M. 60 crotchets. This lively romp through the regulatory arcana of our past shows our social history in a new light.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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