Publicado por -, 1998
ISBN 10: 186105159X ISBN 13: 9781861051592
Librería: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Lord High Executioner: Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen and Their Kind This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.
Publicado por - -, 1998
ISBN 10: 186105159X ISBN 13: 9781861051592
Librería: Bahamut Media, Reading, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.
Publicado por Robson Books Ltd, 1998
ISBN 10: 186105159X ISBN 13: 9781861051592
Librería: Ammareal, Morangis, Francia
Softcover. Condición: Bon. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de ce livre à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.
Publicado por Robson Books, 2000
ISBN 10: 186105159X ISBN 13: 9781861051592
Librería: Jeff 'n' Joys Quality Books, Redcar, Reino Unido
Softback. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No dustjacket. Reprint. This is a trade paperback edition in very good condition for its age. The covers are showing signs of storage. Faint inch-long crease to front cover and a number of small indentations and scratches to rear and front covers. This edition was first published in 1998 but this is a later reprint from 2000. SYNOPSIS: "Throughout the centuries there has been no end to the imaginative methods used to execute those who have committed criminal acts: cutting in two and boiling alive, crucifying and beheading, injection and electrocution, and - in the case of one adulterous woman - being sewn into a sack with poisonous snakes and other animals and thrown into a pond to drown. Howard Engel has written this wise and witty history about the methods and the men who throughout the centuries have been our agents of deeath, from William Calcraft, the quiet, church-going family man who executed more men than anyone in the history of England and picked up extra money doing whipppings and floggings, to Arthur Ellis, who dispatched as many as six hundred people and was known for carrying his own portable gallows to rural hangings." Packed weight 610 gms. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH .
Publicado por Robson Books Ltd, 1998
ISBN 10: 186105159X ISBN 13: 9781861051592
Librería: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. FAST Despatch by First Class Royal Mail.
Publicado por Robson Books, london, 2000
ISBN 10: 186105159X ISBN 13: 9781861051592
Librería: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. Lord High Executioner. An Unashamed Look at Hangmen, Headsmen, and Their Kind. Very slight crease to corner front cover. Preface by Edward L. Greenspan. Internationally acclaimed, award-winning mystery writer Howard Engel has written this wise and witty history about the methods and the men who throughout the centuries have been our agents of death, from William Calecraft, the quiet, church-going family man who executed more men than anyone in the history of England and picked up extra money doing whippings and floggings, to Arthur Ellis, who dispatched as many as six hundred people and was known for carrying his own portable gallows to rural hangings. The author has brought the eye of a novelist and the heart of a gentleman to his subject. Complemented by over 70 illustrations, this is a highly readable and deliciously macabre trip into the world of the executioner.Illustrated. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) All Books Are Sent Tracked and Signed By the Postman who scans on Delivery No Signature required.