THE TRIAL OF JOHN THOMAS STRAFFEN.
Pp. xiv+300(last blank), 14 plates, 2 folding plans, the title page printed in red & black, appendices; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, upper board decorated in blind, the boards a trifle bowed, fore-corners lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split; the free endpapers faintly offset; William Hodge & Company, Edinburgh, 1954. First edition. Notable British Trials series, Volume 80. *'In the summer of 1951, within a space of three weeks, there occurred in the city of Bath two apparently motiveless murders of little girls. The dreadful crimes (which are here related fully for the first time) were traced to a mentally deficient youth of 21, named John Thomas Straffen, who had already been in trouble with the police for petty offences' [wrapper blurb]. Item #145227
Price: $150.00