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A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing.
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A HANDBOOK ON HANGING
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EP Publishing, 1974
ISBN 10 : 0854099603
ISBN 13 : 9780854099603
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Hardcover / Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 5th or later edition. Hardback. UK reprint from the 1961 edn. (1st pub. 1928). 'Being a short Introduction to the fine Art of Execution, containing much useful Information on Neck-breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; Data and Wrinkles on Hangmanship; with the late Mr. Hangman Berry's Method and his pioneering List of Drops; to which is added an Account of the Great Nuremberg Hangings; a Ready Reckoner for Hangmen; and many other items of interest including the Anatomy of Murder. Finally Definitive Edition Diligently Compared and Revised in Accordance with the most Recent Developments in the Art. All very Proper to be read and kept in every Family'. With Appendix : A Ready Reckoner for Hangmen. 192pp. Red cloth/gilt lettering. V.v. lightly browned edges, o/w Nr. F. in Vg+ pcdw which has faded sp. N° de réf. du vendeur 20571
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A HANDBOOK OF HANGING
Edité par
EP Publishing, United Kingdom, 1974
ISBN 10 : 0854099603
ISBN 13 : 9780854099603
Ancien ou d'occasion
Couverture rigide
Vendeur : Occultique, Northampton, NORTH, Royaume-Uni
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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Being a short Introduction to the fine Art of Execution, and containing much useful Information on Neck-breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; Data and Wrinkles on Hangmanship, with the late Mr. Berry's Method and his pioneering list of Drops; to which is added an Account of the Great Nuremberg Hangings; a Ready Reckoner for Hangmen; and many other items of interest including the Anatomy of Murder. A complete guide to the art and science of hanging. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Reprinted. EP Publishing Ltd, Wakefield, UK 1974. 192pp hb dw faded & discoloured, page edges browned, pict buff dw, gilt red cloth, vg. N° de réf. du vendeur 039074
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