executioner von pierrepoint albert (18 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 7th impression, 1980, of a 1974 title. Softback. Original pictorial wrappers a little creased and rubbed at the edges. Pages foxed at the edges. Reader's first hand notes in pen and pencil throughout. Illustrated. 255 pages. Also included is an original 1948 photograph from The Oldham Evening Chronicle, (not a Press cutting) showing the Author with a large group of his regular customers outside his public house 'Help the Poor Struggler'. [Acquired from the son of the next publican up the road who was christened Albert after his Dad's best friend A P. Some names annotated on the back].

Paperback. Zustand: Good. For the first 56 years of the last century, the name of Pierrepoint appeared on the Home Office list of qualified executioners for Great Britain and Ireland. This autobiography offers a documentary record of his experience.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3.

Zustand: vg. vg Coronet 1977 edition paperback as Amazon picture In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear and sun faded spine. Owner name to end paper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. The jacket is shelf rubbed with tanning along the edges and tanning on the spine of the jacket. The boards are edge rubbed with knocked corners. The binding is secure. Light browning along the edges of the pages. No ink inscriptions or annotations. Protected in cellophane. r*21/11/2024 JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. The jacket is shelf worn with creasing and tanning around the edges. The boards are tidy overall with little wear. The binding is secure. Tanning and marks on the end pages. No ink inscriptions or annotations. Protected in cellophane. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

HB. Zustand: VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG. First Edition. Black cloth on boards with gilt titles; light smudges and marks. Edges: light foxings. Eps: couple of small stain spots. Clean contents. B/w glossy illustrations. Binding is VG albeit only very slightly cocked. 211p Dj: clean jacket. Moderate rubbing and scratches. Spine: head & foot with a chip.

reprint softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy small octavo 208pp., b/w plates, Pierrepoint offers a documentary record of his experiences, which in retrospect he sums up as follows : "I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murders. Capital Punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.".

reprint hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 211pp., b/w plates, Pierrepoint offers a documentary record of his experiences, which in retrospect he sums up as follows : "I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murders. Capital Punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.".

reprint hardback with dust jacket New book octavo 211pp., b/w plates, Pierrepoint offers a documentary record of his experiences, which in retrospect he sums up as follows : "I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murders. Capital Punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.".

Hard Cover. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK Edition. 1st edition. The book itself is VG+ without any obvious defects, the dustwrapper is quite creased with some edgewear and heavy sun-fading to the spine (as usually found). NB: basis for the 2005 British drama: Pierrepoint. Photographs/scans available upon request.

First Ed.- 1st Printing Hardcover autobiography of the former official British executioner, very good in very good dust jacket; minor stain on bottom of textblock, dj spine faded.