Stay of Execution, and Other Stories of Legal Practices - Michael Gilbert 1971 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition A fine first edition without foxing, in a fine dust jacket, scarce as such.

Gilbert, a rather self-effacing lawyer with a dry sense of humour, was well known as a natural storyteller, a good examples of which can be seen in two of these short stories in which rascally solicitors "get away with it", ‘
Back on the Shelf’ and ‘Mr Portway's Practice’, they were also written in the first person.
  Reference: The Independent, obituary, 10 Februery 2006.

Octavo (book size 20.4x13.4cm), pp. 224. In publisher’s green cloth spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Dust jacket priced ‘(30s) £1.50 net in UK’ to upper corner of front flap.
  Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.   Ref: 110446   Price: HK$ 3,800