[Item #27223] The Prison Breakers: A Book of Escapes from Captivity. CRIME, THE UNDERWORLD.

The Prison Breakers: A Book of Escapes from Captivity

New York: Henry Holt and Company, [n.d. but 1927-28]. First American Edition. Octavo (22.25cm); indigo cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 282, [2]pp; illus.frontispiece and seven plates of illustrations. Bound from British sheets, with title page a cancel on a stub. Mild wear to extremities, else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, lightly spine-sunned, with some dustiness to panels and 1.5cm chip to crown.

An accounting of "some of the most hazardous and thrilling escapes and attempts at escape" ever recorded, with chapters devoted to John Nevinson, Jack Sheppard, David Haggart, Louis Cartouche, Louis Napoleon, George Kelly, and Frederick Trenck - the latter-named tagged by the author as "the arch-escaper of all history." Originally published by Philip Allan & Co. in London in 1927; the present edition undated, but was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times in April 1928.

Price: $150.00

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