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fine copy. ¶ The Death Penalty: A Bibliographical Research , Criminal Justice Press, 1988, p. 839. Heye Heyen & Johannes Taschner, Theological Essays in a Postmodern Context , LIT Verlag, 2016. £1,250 [118368]
and head of rear fold; a nice example, unrestored with price intact. ¶ Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423. £12,500 [145517] 86 KOESTLER, Arthur, & Albert Camus. Réflexions sur la peine capitale. Paris: Calman-Lévy, 1957 First edition, number 209 of 260 large paper copies on vélin teinté paper, of which 250 are numbered and 10 are hors commerce. Edited by the French legislator and journalist Jean Bloch- Michel, one of Camus’s friends and a former colleague at Combat , this work includes two polemical essays in opposition to capital punishment – Camus’s Réflexions sur la guillotine and an abridged French translation of Koestler’s Reflections on Hanging , first published in English the same year. They are accompanied by an essay on the history of the death penalty in France by Bloch-Michel. “The British citizen concentrates his opposition to the death penalty on the practical considerations of the many miscarriages of justice and the statistical inefficacy of hanging; the French citizen agrees, but goes on to develop several additional arguments culminating in a fundamental argument in favour of the basic priority of the individual” (Heyen & Taschner, pp. 120–1). Octavo (210 × 138 mm). 20th-century red half morocco by Alix, spine lettered in gilt, patterned paper sides, grey endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Original printed wrappers and backstrip bound in. A
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