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ABBOTT, GEOFFREY Rack, Rope and Red-hot Pincers / A History of Torture and Its Instruments
Great Britain, Headline Feature Book Publishing. 1993, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0747239843) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight/Bright and clean copy, light reading wear. A Boobcurdling account of instruments of torture through the ages. Includes : 'Little Ease'. a cell only four feet square and nine feet high, in which it was impossible to lie down. Skull Crusher : a iron skull-cap secured by a metal strap with screws on each side, which were tightened until the strap forced the teeth out of the jaw. 'The Duke of Exeter's Daughter' and 'Skeffington's Gyves": two of the many excruciating versions of the rack. 'The Pendulum': a crescent-shaped, razor-sharp blade suspended from the end of a pendulum, which relentlessly swung ever closer to the victim below. 'The Gridiron': a low bench of parallel metal bars with a fire beneath them, which grilled the flesh. And many more gruesome devices...243 pages with 14 pages of old book drawings of the devices. Very Good+.
Offered for US$ 49.95 by: Desert Sage Books - Book number: 904505
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