Executioner Pierrepoint by Albert Pierrepoint (24 results)

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Soft cover. Condition: 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].

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

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

Hardcover. Condition: 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. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

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. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.