Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner by Henry Goddard - 1956

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1956. HC. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) LIBRARY BOOKPLATE. B&W frontis. This book is unique and probably always will be. It is the first autobiography of a Bow Street Runner ever to be published; and it is unlikely there will be another now. The Runners were disbanded in 1839, and if any of Goddard's colleagues wrote their memoirs they are hardly likely to have survived. This book goes some way to restoring them to life...The full story of the Bow Street Runners is lost for ever, because the main materials no longer exist. Almost all the official records were destroyed - not by accident or policy, but simply because they were not thought worth keeping - when the Bow Street Police Office moved across the road in 1881." 253pp.

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Museum Press Limited, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1956. First Edition. 253 pages. Cream dust jacket over orange cloth. Black and white photographic frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions and tape marking to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.