[CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD] [PHOTOGRAPHY] HOFFMAN, Ethan and John McCOY

Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986. First paperback printing (originally published 1981). Oblong quarto (ca 22cm x 27cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 196pp. Light external wear; one text page with a vertical crease at center; Very Good.

Evocative photo-essay documenting life inside Washington's maximum-security prison. According to the rear cover blurb, the photographs were taken during a period of "...near breakdown in prison security...an atmosphere of riots, murders, and lockdowns..." The text is by John McCoy, then a reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Price: $150.00

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