Criminal Days

228pp. Red cloth-covered boards; black titles on front and spine. 12mo. Sun-faded bottom board edges, rubbed corners and spine ends. Text block edges tanning. Endpapers tanning. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket tanning, has some small closed tears, significant shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped.

Sir Richard Somers Travers Christmas Humphreys (1867 – 1956) was a barrister who,was involved in the cases of Oscar Wilde and the murderers Hawley Harvey Crippen, George Joseph Smith and John George Haigh, the ‘Acid Bath Murderer’, and Roger Casement, convicted and sentenced to death for treason.