Strange Death of Private White Tapa dura - 1977

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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Very Good/Very Good. 1977. Hard Cover. 8vo 0297772937 Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright titling on spine. Blank label on ffep. Photographs on 8 pages of plates. 273 pages clean and tight. 7th Hussars, die of 'inflammation of the heart', as the army insisted - or of 150 lashes from the cat o'nine tails, inflicted by order of a court-martial a few weeks earlier? All but forgotten today, the protracted inquest on this obscure soldier's body in the long, hot summer of x 846 attracted unprecedented publicity. Through three successive post-mortems, five doctors argued over the evidence - on which the career of at least one of them depended. Determined to uncover the truth, the Coroner, Dr Thomas Wakley, Radical MI' and crusading editor of The Lancet, fought a bitter, three-week long verbal duel with Staff Surgeon Hall, later the army's medical chief in the Crimea. Roundly condemning the 'revolting… Leer más

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1977 Copy in orange cloth on boards in unclipped D/J. Free of inscriptions. Clean text and b/w plates.

GB: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977. Minor dust marks on covers. DW has small closed tear to bottom edge near spine, else VG+.. 1st Edition. Hardback. nrFine/VG DW.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1977. First Edition. . Cloth. Vg/Vg. 273pp. Plates. Ink no. on fr. fly.' A Victorian Scandal That Made History'. Size: 8vo

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1977. Firmly bound and carefully read. Both book & unclipped jacket are in VG clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. Spine of jacket lightly faded. .

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (orange boards with black titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (0.9 kg); 273pp; Index; Cover art by Grant Bradford; Includes: Black & white photographs on individual leaves; List of sources; ISBN: 0-2977-7293-7 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197649|| Condition:

Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, London, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. 276 pages, with acknowledgements and sources, index, notes, and 15 black-and-white illustrations in a central section. Photographic illustrated dustjacket. Court-martialed, sentenced to 150 strokes of the lash, died of "inflammation of the heart" several weeks later. Private Frederick John White's body underwent 3 successive post-mortems, forced the retreat of the Duke of Wellington, and was a landmark in the long struggle to win basic human rights of the common soldier -- a neglected yet critical area of sociopolitical history that is charter for the 1st time here. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very clean secondhand copy, with no damage apart from age toning of the page edges. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1… Leer más