The Best We Can Do: An Account of the Trial of John Bodkin Adams

London: Collins, 1958. Very Good/Very Good. London: Collins, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. 254 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows moderate to heavy patchy dark staining to recto and verso; worn along edges with some chipping and toning. Boards shelfworn; very faint staining along fore-edge and front board slightly bowed. Binding is sound. Similar staining to endpapers and edges of text block, slightly bleeding to pages though text unaffected. Still a Very Good copy of Bedford's account of the famous trial of the fraudster and suspected serial killer.