About this title: "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 ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: New. Brand new, high-quality trade pb. No marks. No wear. All items listed as new at Baba's Books are BRAND NEW from our warehouse. read more
Description: Good. Publishers Overstock. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the covers and the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 30 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York Review of Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780940322677ISBN:0940322676
Description: Good. 5 x 8. Corners lightly bumped and creased, xxviii + 197 pp including appendix, originally published in 1934, also covers hanging, electrocution, decapitation and gassing, botched jobs, innocent men, practical considerations such as how to conduct a hanging, calculating the drop needed based on weight and other topics of importance to an executioner. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Nonsuch Publishing
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781845881412ISBN:1845881419
Description: Fine. NEW BOOK WITH MISSING TITLE PAGE-COVER MAY HAVE LIGHT DAMAGE-COMPLETELY UNREAD-PAPERBACK BOOK-EXCELLENT CONDITION-READ ONCE CAREFULLY-TRUSTED DEVON (UK) BASED SELLER-IN STOCK-SENT WITHIN 1 WORKING DAY-AVAILABLE BY EMAIL FOR QUERIES-NO QUIBBLE REFUND IF NOT COMPLETELY SATISFIED- read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Nonsuch Publishing
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781845881412ISBN:1845881419
Description: Fine. Minor bumping to edges and extremities, otherwise brand new & unread. Next working day dispatch from the UK. Please contact us with any queries. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Nonsuch Publishing
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781845881412ISBN:1845881419
Description: Very Good. Creasing to front cover, otherwise brand new & unread. Next working day dispatch from the UK. Please contact us with any queries. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Nonsuch Publishing
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781845881412ISBN:1845881419
Description: Fine. Minor rubbing to edges and extremities, otherwise brand new & unread. Next working day dispatch from the UK. Please contact us with any queries. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Nonsuch Publishing
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781845881412ISBN:1845881419
Description: Fine. Minor rubbing to edges, otherwise brand new & unread. Next working day dispatch from the UK. Please contact us with any queries. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Putnam
Date Published: 1961
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Green cloth boards, bright gilt lettering on spine. Black tape strip mark above publishing history, else no marks. Light foxing top page edge. Some tanning to jacket, mostly on spine, and a few tiny closed tears at edges. Binding sound, corners sharp. Satirical essay on capital punishment, or "the fine art of execution, " which originally appeared in 1928. German edition burned by the Nazis in 1933.; N2080909001; Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall; 191 pages. read more
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. This is an internationally famous satirical essay on capital punishment. No writing in the book-not even an owners name. Jacket is not price-clipped. read more
Edition: New and Enlarged
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: John Lane The Bodley Head, London
Date Published: 1938
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Dust jacket is in Mylar. Very nice clean copy. 188 pages. Being a short introduction to the fine art of Execution, and containing much useful information on Neck breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocutions: 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 ... read more
Edition: FAE
Publisher: Hale, Cushman and Flint, Boston
Date Published: 1929
Description: VG book, no DJ. Black cl. Rubbed, very light shelfwear. 12mo, 129pp. 1st publ in UK in 1928. Tight. VG+ inside. Pencilled notes on half tp. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Cayme Press Limited.
Date Published: 1928
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" Square. 128pp. Quarter bound in black cloth with paper label. Spine a small split at head and tail. Paper covered boards. Foxed. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780940322677ISBN:0940322676
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. tightly bound, slight discoloration on edge of some pages, faint smudge on back. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781845881412ISBN:1845881419
Description: New. A tribute to that most despised public servant, the executioner, and to the author's 'art'. In his treatise on judicial killing, whether it is by electrocution, hanging or gassing, he writes with deceptive levity about botched executions, the bloodlus... read more
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