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Robert Graves - They Hanged My Saintly Billy - Victorian Murderer Billy Palmer

Robert Graves - They Hanged My Saintly Billy - Victorian Murderer Billy Palmer

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They Hanged My Saintly Billy

By Robert Graves.

Published by Cassell, London, 1957. First Edition. Hardback book in dust jacket. 8vo. 269 pages. A good clean copy in a good unclipped jacket. Light grubbiness to jacket but overall very good. Pages very good throughout. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper. Overall a good first edition.

Poet and historical novelist Robert Graves gives an insight into the life and times of notorious Victorian murderer William 'Billy' Palmer; the Staffordshire surgeon, racecourse owner and self-confessed forger who may have been subject to a miscarriage of justice.
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