NEW HANDBOOK ON HANGING - Duff, 1954 CRIME PUNISHMENT HANGMEN ART OF HANGING HERBALS Thayer constructed an enormous Gothic-style

Thayer constructed an enormous Gothic-style castle for his new college

Knight Templar Druids

The work is considered a cornerstone of post-Civil War literature and racial life in the "old South

rare dust jacket has some chipping but still holds the book firmly

Discoloration to the front and back boards

NEW HANDBOOK ON HANGING - Duff, 1954 CRIME PUNISHMENT HANGMEN ART OF HANGING HERBALS Thayer constructed an enormous Gothic-styleA NEW HANDBOOK ON HANGING Book Details + Condition: Andrew Bruce (London), 1954. Hardcover with dust jacket. 180 pages. More title: Being a short Introduction to the fine Art of Execution, Containing much useful information on Neck breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; Data and Wrinkles of Hangmanship; with the late Mr. Hangman Berry's Method and his pioneering List of Drops; to which is added an Account of