1987, ISBN: 9780297791362

GUERNSEY,CHANNEL ISLES.SEAGULL S.A.,1976.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj. Bottom edges dw/dj slightly creased/shelf-worn with top edge less so.Gre… Mehr…

GUERNSEY,CHANNEL ISLES.SEAGULL S.A.,1976.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj. Bottom edges dw/dj slightly creased/shelf-worn with top edge less so.Green paper-covered bds with gilt seagull to bottom right corner of upper bd with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and repeated seagull to foot of same and plain white eps.Both top+fore-edges are slightly dust-soiled with some foxing and ageing.Contents bright, tight and clean.8vo,191pp. As a mallard on the Serpentine is born to water,so Jimmy O'Connor was born in the back-streets of Paddington to an early life of crime. His Irish father was a layabout,wife-beater and small-time conman. His mother was a Bond Street prostitute.He loved them,none the less,but the pattern of his life was set by his very background; from thieving bread during the depression to early experiences with fences,smash-and-grab experts and experienced burglars was a rapid progression.Even while page-boy for the Swallow Club, young O'Connor managed to help himself to a valuable jewel haul from Claridge's hotel."You're a right little tea-leaf," said his father to this,and promptly disappeared for months on the proceeds.His first wedding was a hurried affair in more senses than one: he was on bail,and the following day went to prison.Then came September 1939, and Corporal O'Connor of the NAAFI went to work in the bonded warehouses in France.He fiddled more than GBP20,000, and salted it away.But easy come,easy go.When the real war came,and the British left France,most of the now-promoted Sergeant O'Connor's fortune floated away with the wreckage of the s.s. Lancastria which was bombed and sunk on 17 June 1940.After discharge from the Army,O'Connor returned to crime,which led indirectly to his arrest and wrongful conviction for murder. In April 1941,a man called George Alfred Ambridge was found battered to death in his Kilburn,London home.On circumstantial evidence,and at the moment he was being released from prison for another offence,James O'Connor in his twenties was arrested for the murder,tried at the Old Bailey,and sentenced to be hanged.He spent eight weeks in the barbaric and degrading conditions of the condemned cell at Pentonville: his appeal failed,and his execution was fixed,with grim irony,for his birthday.But there was a last minute reprieve.There followed ten years of a life-sentence for a crime he did not commit,in the reeking cells of Dartmoor,and later Parkhurst, before being released on the orders of the Home Secretary in March 1952.He became a used-car dealer,a journalist, and is now a successful TV playwright.But the fight to prove his innocence beyond all doubt continues.This is the story of that fight,the story of a man who faced the seeming certainty of being executed on the hangman's trap.But it is not only that.It is an uninhibited, rumbustious autobiography with eye-opening details of a world of villains,and told with a cockney humour that has miraculously survived the shadows of prison. AT THE SAME TIME IT MAKES A CLASSIC CASE FOR ALL WHO BELIEVE THAT, EVEN IN THESE DAYS OF OUTCRY AGAINST VIOLENCE AND THE WIDE DEMAND FOR A RETURN TO HANGING,ENGLAND MUST NEVER AGAIN HAVE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, GUERNSEY,CHANNEL ISLES.SEAGULL S.A.,1976., 3, UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,dw/dj unclipped - absence of publisher's price - an export copy - as these preceded the UK trade edns? Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour photographic upper wrap,b/w Punch cartoon illustrated rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges aged/toned - as usual/ normal,particularly this title because of the quality of paper used - contents clean apart from inevitable page-edge toning - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate bright,plain white endpapers. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+3-241pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,victims list,Pts 1-4 comprising 20 chapters,5 b/w maps,sources,appendix,an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, contents list/table,and double-page b/w O/S map Whitechapel. Who was Jack the Ripper,secret killer of five Whitechapel prostitutes in 1888? New source material suggests an entirely new identification of England's most notorious murderer,and a possible sixth victim.This book re-examines all the sensational details of the murders ascribed to Jack the Ripper.It investigates the roles and reliability of the various policemen involved in the massive murder inquiry.It analyses the evidence against all the suspects - checking them against personality patterns evinced by other sexual serial murderers - and discounts the many fanciful identifications of the fiend.From an exhaustive search of original documents,coupled with his intimate knowledge of the Whitechapel streets and their layout in 1888,Martin Fido has provided a convincing identification of Jack the Ripper. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1987., 4<

1987, ISBN: 0297791362

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