Alan Garfitt The Book for Police 5 vols.
Caxton, 1958 First Edition. Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth). Book Condition: Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: no Dust Jackets. '..a comprehensive library for the instruction and guidance of the police officer throughout his whole career'. 5 volumes in dark blue cloth-covered boards. Better than 'good' condition Size: 9.5" x 7" approx. 5-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Inventory No: 0032624. (Book ref. 0032624) £45.00
Foulkes, Stephen A HUNDRED YEARS IN THE SADDLE the Avon and Somerset Mounted Police 1899-1999
Broadcast Books, 1998 First Edition. Book Condition: Very Good. In stock, for immediate despatch. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 750 grams. Category: Bristol; ISBN: 1874092850. Inventory No: 0026981. (Book ref. 0026981) £5.00
Foulkes, Stephen Hundred Years in the Saddle, A: Avon and Somerset Mounted Police, 1899-1999
Broadcast Books Ltd, 1998 First Edition. Book Condition: Very Good. All books held by me, for immediate despatch. Packed weight 570g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1.25 kilos. Category: Countries & Travel ; Bristol; ISBN: 1874092850. Inventory No: 0022375. (Book ref. 0022375) £5.50
Uviller, H. Richard TEMPERED ZEAL a Columbia Law Professor's Year on the Streets with the New York City Police
Contemporary Books, 1988 First Edition. Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth). Book Condition: Very Good + Book. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1.25 kilos. Category: Miscellaneous; Inventory No: 0007903. (Book ref. 0007903) £5.00
Jones, Trevor & newburn, Tim POLICING AFTER THE ACT Police Governance after the Police and Magistrate's Courts Act 1994
PSI, 1997 First Edition. Binding: Softcover. Book Condition: Very Good + Book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1.25 kilos. Category: Sociology & Politics ; Inventory No: 0007719. (Book ref. 0007719) £8.00
Leonard de Vries: 'Orrible Murder; Victorian Crime and Passion, selections from the Illustrated Police News.
London: Book Club Associates, 1974. New edition (hardback). 8vo, 160pp. Illustarted throughout in b&w. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Some light spotting to the edges of the text block, else the book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. (Book ref. 27282) £9.50
Tyler, R.A.J. BLOODY PROVOST. An account of the Provost Service of the British Army and the early years of the Corps of Royal Military Police.
Phillimore 1980. 1st Ed. [x] + 245pp. + [i] subscribers. 15 ills. including several from photos. Good in d/w. US$31 (Book ref. 196558) £20.00
Hardy, Edward. HOW TO REPEL INVASION. The Rural Police of England and Auxiliary to Rifle Corps, in two Letters to Arthur Kinglake, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Somerset.
Robert Hardwicke N.d. c.[1859]. 2nd Ed. Thin 8vo. 20pp. Several prelim. leaves with minor vertical crease, some light browning, rebound in gilt lettered buckram. US$101 (Book ref. 189789) £65.00
Rendall, I: BLUES AND TWOS
(Little, Brown 1995) 4to laminated boards. 218pp col & bw ills. Fine (Book ref. 2548) £7.50
Svend Fleuron and illustrations Cecil Aldin: FLAX: POLICE DOG
Eyre and Spottiswoode London undated c1930s G (dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, spine and edges of front board lightly sunned, one small white mark front board and scattering of small faded patches back board, a good sound copy with firm binding and pages clean and crisp, faint browning free endpapers and scattered brown spotting outside edges not encroaching on margins) octavo 233pp. Translated from the Danish by E. Gee Nash. 10 line drawing illustrations by Cecil Aldin. (Book ref. 34923) £9.00
POSTLETHWAYT Malachy Britain’s Commercial Interest Explained and Improved: 2 vols, In a Series of Dissertations on Several Important Branches of Her Trade and Police
Augustus M. Kelley, 1968 2 vols, 548+551p, hardbacks, a fine set (no dust-jackets) First published thus in 1757 (Because of the weight of this set, the default postal charge will not suffice and we will request an additional charge for the items.) (Book ref. 106081) £23.00
Griffiths, Sir Percival To Guard My People. The History of the Indian Police
UK: Ernest Benn / Bombay Allied Publishers Private Limited, 1971. First. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0510269427 Allied Publishers Private Limited 1971 Octavo, boards, Hard Cover. first edition Binding firm. Text clean. good/good dustwrapper lightly rubbed at extremes. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. previously read. xii, 444pp, 40 Illustrations, Folding Map, Brown Cloth. This book is mainly concerned with the period from 1861 to 1947 when the Indian Police Service, at first recruited mainly from the British army, but by the turn of the century including Indians, was responsible for maintaining law and order over a vast and at times turbulent country. 1 kg. (Book ref. 002198) £24.00
GLEN, W. Cunningham Snowden's Police Officers and Constables' Guide and Magistrates' Assistant Also the Law Relating to Summary Convictions, Juvenile Offenders, Reformatory and Industrial Schools, and the Extradition of Criminals.
London, Shaw & Sons 1875 Seventh Edition 12mo. Hardback in original green cloth boards, gilt spine titles and blind-stamped design to front. lv, 516pp +xxxiv (index). Missing ffep and possibly half-title page. Occasional foxing. Cloth binding rubbed at edges and split in a couple of places. Ink inscription to inside front cover. A Sound Reading Copy. (Shelf 6/105) (Book ref. 34207) £30.00
RIDDLESTON Bernard: HOFFY - An autobiography spanning 85 years.
Lowestoft. Published by the author. 1995. Paperback. 200 pages. B.w. illustrations. Fine in a v.g. papercover. No markings or inscriptions. Loosely inserted is the obituary from a local paper. ISBN: 0952529408. (Book ref. 7963) £5.95
LITTLE Jim: MEMORIES OF THE FLEET AIR ARM - Recollections of Petty Officer Jim Little.
Published by the author. June 1992. Paperback. 93 pages. B.w. illustrations. Fine in a near-fine slightly scuffed papercover (shelfwear). Unread book from new stock. Born in Barrow-in-Furness the author joined Kendal Borough Police in 1936 and served in the Fleet Air Arm from 1942-45. He rejoined the police force in 1946 becoming a member of the Cumberland and Westmorland Constabulary, retiring after 30 years service. These are his memoirs. (Book ref. 6184) £15.00
EMSLEY Clive: THE ENGLISH POLICE - A Political and Social History.
Harlow. Longman. 2nd edn. 1996. Paperback. 287 pages. Fine in near-fine paper covers. ISBN: 0582257689. (Book ref. 1155) £19.95
Gregson, J. M. The Lancashire Leopard
London / New York: Severn House, 2001. First Edition. Laminated Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 0727856383 1st edition, 8vo, laminated pictorial boards, Very Good in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket. pp 214. A Detective Inspector Peach Mystery. (Book ref. 14795) £10.00
Anon: ''The Diced Cap. The Story of Aberdeen City Police''. With an Introduction by Fenton Wyness.
Corporation of the City of Aberdeen 1972. xv + 146pp; 33 illustrations; 6 line drawings; 8 appendices. Blue cloth. VG in dustwrapper. [a history of law enforcement in Aberdeen from the 12th century onwards, with details of major crimes and disasters]. (Book ref. 1176) £9.00
[Colquohoun, P.]: [ A treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River thames, Containing an Historical View of the Trade of the Port of London .]..
[London: Joseph Mawman, 1800] 8vo Half Lthr. . 1st Edn. Fldg. Charts 676 pp [Index. Joints cracked; backstrip abraded; ; library label verso f. cover; dustv staining and some foxing. Section of fldg chart loose. [ Lacks title page]. Working copy. (Book ref. 38850) £45.00
Plate, Thomas; Darvi, Andrea Secret Police: The Inside Story of an International Network
London: Robert Hale, 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0709005598 VG+, no previous owner marks, bright unclipped dustjacket, xvi & 448 pages, extensive bibliography. Secret and semi-secret police organizations are shown with their various styles of arrest, surveillance, physical and psychological terror, and torture. Offers first-hand testimony from informed sources. (Book ref. 6293) £4.00