About this title: Mr Justice Carstairs is a High Court Judge. He is completely incompetent and a chronic worrier to boot. This is perfectly illustrated when he sentences a man to ten years' imprisonment and then immediately doubts his verdict. Taking the unprecedented step of trying to overrule his own judgement he encounters resistance on all sides. Matters get ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Price clipped dust jacket. Second Impression, May 1960 state on Copyright Page. Later printing. 206 p. ; read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin
Date Published: 1963
Description: Mass Market Paperback. Reprint edition. Tight sound copy in good condition with white label price sticker on front cover, slight browning to edges of interior pages, edge wear. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. One of a number of `50s and `60s mysteries penned by this author, who in real life was a County Court Judge named Henry Cecil Leon. No dust jacket. Hardcover has the odd minor mark but no damage or wear. Contents clean and tidy. Slight discolouration to endpapers/prelims. Overall, in very good condition. Spine and one prelim have attractive drawings of judges wig. Pictures available on request.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 206 pages. read more
Edition: Penguin First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, UK
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very Good. Penguin Fiction Orange Paperback Book No 1992. This Book Is In Very Good Condition But Has A Reading Crease To The Spine & The Spine Has A Couple Of Tiny Chips There Is A Couple Of Light Tiny Corner Creases To The Front Cover & A Corner Crease To The Back Cover The Page Edges & Pages Are Very Very Lightly Tanned. The Cover Artist Is Kenneth Mahood. read more
Description: Cecil, Henry. Alibi for a Judge. London: Michael Joseph, [1960]. 206 pp. Original black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Ex-library with bookplate, spine label and stamped edges, else very good. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 8vo. 206 pp. Black boards with gilt and white on the spine. Very light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket with a short closed tear on the lower front panel and a small nick on the upper left front panel; light soil on the lower rear panel; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; price intact. Scans are available for all books. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Black hardback cloth cover
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London
Date Published: 1960
ISBN-13:9780718100049ISBN:0718100042
Description: G: in Good condition with tattered dustwrapper. Pages browning. Ink inscription on fep. Light foxing. 206pp: 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6") read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London:
Date Published: (1960).
Description: First edition. Near fine with light foxing on page edges, in a price clipped dustwrapper with tips lightly nicked, light chipping on spine ends and back panel slightly soiled. read more
Description: VeryGood in VERY GOOD jacket. Michael Joseph, London, 1960, First Edition, 8 tall, hard cover, ***VG/NF***, covers soiled, edges bumped and rubbed, tape residue, some tearing on edges, o/w in very good condition, tape repair on back hinge, o/w binding is tight, text sl. sunned, o/w cSatisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good in Good to Fair jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 4¾"-9¾" tall. 206 pgs.; dj. scuffed w. wear at edges & corners; pgs. yellowed; read more
Description: Acceptable. The Books are shipped from Bodmin, Cornwall, UK. Any book can be returned for full credit, for any reason within 10 days of receipt. Cover worn, but a complete book with pages tight. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd, London
Date Published: 1960
Description: Riviere. Good in Fair jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book Description: Michael Joseph, London, 1960. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 8vo. Hardcover. Moderate edgewear. Jacket has a number of tears, rubbing. Foxing along edges. Not price clipped. read more
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