[AFRICAN AMERICANS - CAPITAL PUNISHMENT] WEINGLASS, Leonard
Race For Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against the Death Penalty
Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); 272pp. Fine, unread copy, lacking jacket (as issued?). Scarce in cloth.

[COAL MINING] WARD, Robert David and William Warren ROGERS
Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy
Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1987. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm). Original red cloth boards, pictorial dustjacket, x + 159pp, illus. Trivial dusting to upper page edges else near fine in near fine jacket. A detailed account of the Banner Coal Mine, a proponent of the Pratt Consolidated Coal...

[COMMUNISM - KOREAN WAR] Anon
Shall Brothers Be... An account, written by American and British prisoners of war, of their treatment at the hands of the Chinese People's Volunteers and Korean People's Army in P.O.W. camps in Korea
Peking: The Chinese People's Committee for World Peace, 1952. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wraps; 81pp; 4 inserted leaves of plates. Covers slightly worn and soiled, with small losses at corners; text age-tanned, but not brittle; Good. Pro-North Korean propaganda, touting the excellent conditions and humane treatment experience...

[CRIME & UNDERWORLD] POWER-BERREY, R.J.
The Bye-Ways of Crime, with Some Stories From the Black Museum
London: Greening & Co. 1899. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover; title page in black & red; 232pp; 8pp publishers ads at rear; frontispiece; text illus. Mild external rubbing; endpapers and text age-tanned (but not brittle); Very Good. A charming survey...

CRUMP, Paul
Burn, Killer, Burn!
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1962. First edition. Octavo. Original red cloth, 391pp. Very good + in very good dust jacket. Mild dusting to page edges. Extremities of jacket shows some signs of use, with some chipping to edges of spine. Original price intact.

[JUVENILE DELINQUENTS] HART, Hastings H.
Child Welfare in the District of Columbia: A Study of Agencies and Institutions for the Care of Dependent and Delinquent Children
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 150pp; 17 leaves of inserted plates (halftones); 15 statistical tables. Very minor discoloration to cloth at extremities; remainder stamp to bottom edge of text block; else a fine...

LAWES, Lewis E.
Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing
London: Constable & Co. Ltd. 1932. First UK Edition. First Impression. Octavo; purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; 422pp. Fading to board edges and topstain, bumping to corners, some offsetting to preliminary and terminal pages; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped, paper toned, with moderate...

LAWES, Lewis E.
20,000 Years In Sing Sing
New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc. 1932. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm.); black silk-finish cloth stamped in silver and red; dustjacket; 412pp. Spine ends gently nudged, with a few faint spots to upper edge of text and bookplate to front pastedown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, gently...

[MARTIAL ARTS & SELF-DEFENSE] LORD, Harry
Police and "G-Men" Tricks: How American Officers of the Law Handle "Tough Guys"
New York: New Power Publications, 1943. Octavo (14cm). Single folded sheet, opening to one double-sided page with text and illustrations. Mild external soil; Near Fine. The author illustrates techniques for the "Flying Exit", "Foiling a Knife", and the "Combination Gun Trick and Come-Along" which includes the following advice: "...as your...

OCTOBER LEAGUE
The Struggle to Free Gary Tyler
(Chicago): The October League, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial wrappers; 32pp; illus. Light external wear; Near Fine. Plea on behalf of Gary Tyler, a black Louisiana high school student who was sentenced to Death Row for shooting a white attacker during an anti-integration protest. Tyler, who at the...

[PRISON REFORM] ESPOSITO, Barbara and Lee WOOD
Prison Slavery (edited by Kathryn Bardsley)
Washington, D.C. Committee to Abolish Prison Slavery, 1980. First Edition. Octavo. Original pictorial card wrappers; 225pp. Inscribed by the authors on title page, dated 1980. Mild external wear, with small bumps and nicks to wrapper edges; internally clean, tight and unmarked. Extensively documented and footnoted analysis of involuntary servitude in...

[PRISONS] ALLEN, Fred C
Hand Book of the New York State Reformatory at Elmira
[Elmira, NY]: The Summary Press, 1927. Later Printing. Octavo. Original red cloth boards; 92p; ca. 100 leaves of plates; panoramic folding frontis. Gilt on spine and cover slightly dulled, else a tight, clean copy, VG or better. Detailed account of life and labor at this "model" prison, the first in...

[PRISONS] [CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS] SWIFT, Charles R.
Prison Routine
New York: War Resisters League, [1941]. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet (23cm x 10cm). Printed wrappers, 11pp. Mild toning & soil to cover extremities, else Near Fine. Brief description of life in a federal penitentiary, prepared by a convicted C.O. to give others a notion of what to expect. Rather literal...