THE TRIAL OF AUGUST SANGRET.
Pp. [xii]+xxxiv+234(last blank), 12 plates (including a folding map), title page printed in red & black, chronological table, appendix; demy 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, the boards a trifle bowed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges rubbed and split, with a few small tears; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the endpapers lightly offset, a little light foxing; William Hodge & Company, Limited, London, 1959. First edition. Notable British Trials series. *French-Canadian solider August Sangret (1913-1943) was tried in the County Hall, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, in 1943, for the murder of Joan Pearl Wolfe. He was convicted and subsequently hanged. Item #183966
Price: $125.00