Fred cherrill (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Reprint . Complete with all plates. Reprint, 2nd edition 1954. Publication of 248 pages. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor marks. There is foxing around the block of the book, little within the body of the book. The text is legible. The Spine has neatly been repaired. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. unmarked.

Etat : Good. 1954. Reprint. 248 pages. Blue pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are slightly bowed. Slight forward lean to text block. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Considerable loss to spine ends.…

Etat : Good. 1954. Reprinted. 248 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Water marking to rear free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water marking to spine.…

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First edition. A first-edition autobiography of Fred Cherrill, New Scotland Yard's significant former Chief Superintendent of the Fingerprint Bureau, smartly encased in the scarce original dust wrapper. First edition. In the publisher's original cloth binding, accompanied by the increasingly scarce unclipped dust wrapper. Featuring a frontispiece, fourteen further pages of plates and further line drawings in the text. Collated, complete. The autobiography of Fred Cherrill, the highly regarded former detective superintendent at New Scotland Yard. Cherrill worked on a number of memorable cases throughout his illustrious career and is best remembered for shaping the fingerprint system, earning him the nickname "The Fingerprint Man". Not only does this work celebrate Cherrill's life and career but it also provides an insightful glimpse into important advancements in forensic science. In the publisher's original cloth binding, accompanied by the increasingly scarce unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing, resulting in minor loss of cloth, mainly at the spine head and tail, stronger fading to the top and bottom edge, and a couple of marks to the boards. Dust wrapper also a nice copy, with subtly heavier shelf wear, culminating in several small tears to the edges, most notably to the spine edge and rear cover. With a few further spots and marks. Internally, firmly bound. A little age toned, more so to the endpapers, otherwise a very bright and clean edition with the odd spot only. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). book.…