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MCLENDON, James. Deathwork

£30.00

MCLENDON, James. Deathwork. London: Hamish Hamilton. 1978. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Mon Mohan with a photograph to front panel by R. P. McLendon. A near fine copy. The boards clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The top edge spotted, other edges much less so. The contents generally fine without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped, clean, bright, with a few mild spots to flaps.

‘The first book to anatomise the death penalty as a physical and emotional reality, not as a moral question or a social issue’. Based on a real-life multiple execution case in Florida, McLendon is fascinated with the militaristic precision and rigidity of the process as much as anything else, and focuses on the reality of the process for the prisoner, the prison guard staff, the electrician, the warden, and others. McLendon was exposed to this reality from a young age—his father was a senior prison official.

MCLENDON, James. Deathwork. London: Hamish Hamilton. 1978. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Mon Mohan with a photograph to front panel by R. P. McLendon. A near fine copy. The boards clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The top edge spotted, other edges much less so. The contents generally fine without stamps or inscriptions. The dust jacket unclipped, clean, bright, with a few mild spots to flaps.

‘The first book to anatomise the death penalty as a physical and emotional reality, not as a moral question or a social issue’. Based on a real-life multiple execution case in Florida, McLendon is fascinated with the militaristic precision and rigidity of the process as much as anything else, and focuses on the reality of the process for the prisoner, the prison guard staff, the electrician, the warden, and others. McLendon was exposed to this reality from a young age—his father was a senior prison official.