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Elvis collectibles
by Rosalind Cranor
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Overmountain Press (1987)
ISBN: 0932807224
EAN: 9780932807229
Paperback: 400 pages
Edition: 2nd
Condition: Good
Comments: Paperback, 2nd Edition. Book is in Good Condition. Book shows some cover wear/marks. Book is completely intact with inside pages in very good condition with no tears and with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, no highlighting, etc.) EXCEPT: previous owner's name is stated on first page as "Property of (her name). Collector's Companion: Serving the Antiques and Collectibles Market since 1982. Fast Service. Books mailed USPS with Delivery Confirmation.
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Customer Reviews
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Little romance in these smugglers
Rating  (4)
Date: 2000-12-27
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
There are probably much better books on smugglers than this one - or at least much broader ones, but this is pretty competent account of smuggling as it was in the southern counties of England (mostly Sussex and Kent) in the middle of the eighteenth century - and more particularly, the activities of the violent and bloody Hawkhurst gang. These men were not the types of gentlemen one would like to suffer disagreements with and this is borne out in the second half of the book which retells the Hawkhurst Gang's hideous murders of Richard Hawkins and a year later the more infamous ones of Galley and Chater. The account of these murders is extremely graphic, most detail in this book has been drawn from the transcripts of the perpetrators trial. Definitely interesting, but not for the faint hearted. It is illustrated but only in line drawings and there is a short but reasonable bibliography at the end to follow up any of the detail further.
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