Blackstone's Criminal Practice buyer
Sell Blackstone's Criminal Practice
Archbold's closest rival, and just as welcome on our shelf.
We buy annual editions, current or past years, with or without supplements.
About the set
The standard alternative to Archbold.
Blackstone's Criminal Practice is, alongside Archbold, one of the two standard annual references for criminal law in England and Wales, first published in 1991 and now published each year by Oxford University Press. Many criminal sets hold one or the other — or both — along with a run of supplements published through the year.
Current & recent years
The most recent one or two editions carry the most value, published annually by Oxford University Press.
A run of years
Several consecutive years, complete with supplements, are genuinely useful to us and to the next buyer.
Single volumes
Even one year on its own is worth an enquiry — older years are considered case by case.
Part sets and missing supplements
Supplements go astray and runs develop gaps. We buy incomplete sets and value them on the volumes actually present, not the ones that should be there.
Every new edition
Trade in last year’s edition when the new one lands.
Blackstone’s Criminal Practice has been published annually since 1991, so every criminal set generates a superseded edition each year. Most get shelved just in case and cleared years later in one go — by which time the recent editions that were worth the most have quietly become old ones that are worth the least.
Sell it while it is still current
Last year’s Blackstone’s Criminal Practice is still a working book for someone. Two editions later it is competing with everything published since. Clearing the superseded edition as it is replaced is worth more than clearing a decade of them together.
Tell us when yours is due
Mention which month your new edition arrives when you enquire, and we will come back to you then rather than leaving you to remember. Start an enquiry →
Who this is usually for
Most Blackstone’s sets reach us one of three ways.
Chambers clearing shelf space
A criminal set moving building, taking less floor space, or reclaiming a library room for desks. Selling a chambers library →
Practitioners retiring
Years of annual editions in a home study or a room at the Inn, cleared on leaving practice. Retiring from practice →
Executors and families
A library inherited with an estate, where nobody is certain what is worth keeping and what is not. Executors and probate →
While you're here
We buy the rest of the shelf too.
Blackstone's Criminal Practice rarely sits alone. If you're clearing a library, we're also interested in the titles that usually sit alongside it.
Encyclopaedias & statutes
Law reports
Practitioner texts
Common questions
About selling your Blackstone's Criminal Practice set
Should I sell each edition as it is superseded, or wait and clear several years at once?
Sell as you go if you can. A one or two year old edition is still a working book for someone; a ten year old one is competing with every edition published since. We will happily buy a long run in one go — it just tends to be worth more spread out.
Is this the same as Archbold?
No — they're rival annual texts covering similar ground. We buy both, together or separately.
Do you only want the current edition?
We're happy to buy the current year and recent past years, or a run of several years.
Do supplements matter?
They add to the value when current, but their absence doesn't rule your set out.
Ready when you are
Submit an enquiry and get a valuation for your Blackstone's Criminal Practice set.
Four details and we’ll come back with a valuation, usually within 24 hours. Nothing to catalogue or sort first, and no obligation either way.
We’ve got your enquiry.
Your reference is your enquiry. Worth a note — quoting it saves you explaining everything again if you call.
We’ll review what you’ve sent and come back with a valuation, normally within 24 hours. If anything’s unclear we’ll ask — usually just one question.
Got photographs? Send them to info@SellLawBooks.co.uk quoting your reference and we’ll add them to the file.