A Handbook on Hanging
Language: English
Published by New York Review of Books, New York, 2001
- Softcover
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Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, CanadaPurpora Books
AbeBooks seller since August 30, 1997
Condition: Used - Very good
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Spine colour faded, slight spine cock; internally clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Originally published in 1928, this edition has been revised and enlarged from the original and has a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens. Being a short introduction to the fine art of execution, containing much useful information on neck-breaking, throttling, strangling, aphyxiation, decapitation, and electrocution. 196 pages plus a 1-page Appendix.
Seller Inventory # 19278
- Title
- A Handbook on Hanging
- Author
- Duff, Charles (with Introduction By Christopher Hitchens)
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, New York
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good Plus.
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0940322676
- ISBN 13
- 9780940322677
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Seller catalogs
- Miscellaneous
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About the Author
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) was a British-American journalist and social critic. Known for his confrontational style and contrarian views on a range of social issues, Hitchens was a frequent contributor to The Nation, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. Hitchens recounts his struggle with esophageal cancer in Mortality, which was published in 2012.
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Purpora Books
Comox, BC, Canada
AbeBooks seller since August 30, 1997
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