A Handbook on Hanging - Being a short Introduction to the fine Art of Execution, containing much useful Information on Neck-breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; as well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an account of the late Mr. Berry's method of Killing and his working list of Drops; to which is added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and certain other items of interest - All Very Proper to be Read and Kept in Every Family.
by CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. DUFF, Charles
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About This Item
The Bodley Head, London., 1938. New and enlarged edition of a book originally published in 1928. Octavo. 187 pages. Cloth with title-label. ''... perhaps the only example of truly Swiftian satire written in our times'' (from the blurb).Signed by the author on the title-page.Very near fine in near-fine dustwrapper designed by James Arnold.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller
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- Title
- A Handbook on Hanging - Being a short Introduction to the fine Art of Execution, containing much useful Information on Neck-breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; as well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an account of the late Mr. Berry's method of Killing and his working list of Drops; to which is added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and certain other items of interest - All Very Proper to be Read and Kept in Every Family.
- Author
- CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. DUFF, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head, London.
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- capital punishment hanging
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