![Item #56611] Live Questions: Including Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims [Presentation Copy]....](/pictures/medium/56611.jpg?v=1641872940)
Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1890. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Original green cloth, titled in gilt on front and spine; plain endpapers; 320pp. Contemporary ink inscription to f.f.e.p.: "Compliments of the Author." Straight and tight, cloth rubbed, textblock detached from case at front hinge, rear hinge half split, else..... More
![Item #28693] Report of an Amnesty International Mission to Argentina, 6-15 November 1976. AMNESTY...](/pictures/medium/28693.jpg?v=1641872249)
London: Amnesty International Publications, 1977. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); original blue staplebound card wrappers; 92p.; printed from typescript. Fine. Issued during Argentina's "Dirty War," contents include chapters on prisoners, disappearances, and torture, as well as Lord Avebury's description of Villa Devoto Prison and its female detainees. More
![Item #56911] Vintage Composite Photograph Commemorating the Chicago Haymarket Riot. ANARCHISM -...](/pictures/medium/56911.jpg?v=1652999409)
N.p. s.i., N.d. [ca 1893]. Original silver-gelatin photographic print, 6-1/2" x 8-1/4", on gray board mount, 10" x 12". Minor rubbing to mount at extremities and verso; print clear and unfaded, Very Good or better. Pencil captions on verso, identifying the five subjects in the photograph. An unusual composite photograph..... More
![Item #51342] There Is Justice. A Summary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case. ANARCHISM - SACCO-VANZETTI,...](/pictures/medium/51342.jpg?v=1641872631)
New York: Sacco-Vanzetti National League, [1927]. First Edition. Only printing. Octavo. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 21pp. Near Fine. Post-mortem examination of the Sacco-Vanzetti case by a mainstream left-wing commentator, citing evidentiary gaps, questionable witnesses, and the ultimate injustice of the imposed death penalty. More
![Item #58576] Case Study of a Riot: the Philadelphia Story. Lenora BERSON, Alex Rosen, Kenneth B....](/pictures/medium/58576.jpg?v=1659391818)
New York: Institute of Human Relations Press / The American Jewish Committee, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 71pp. Brief ink underlining to three passages in text and a small ink notation to front cover, else tight, clean, and Near Fine. Analysis of the 1964 Columbia Avenue..... More
![Item #19778] No Beast So Fierce. Edward BUNKER](/pictures/medium/19778.jpg?v=1641872119)
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1973. First Edition. Novel beginning on a prisoner's last day behind bars. "He has been respected by his friends as a successful criminal, but wants to avoid returning to that lifestyle. This desire, with no job in sight, fuels his pre-release anxiety, which he..... More
![Item #52245] The Lost Get-Back Boogie. James Lee BURKE](/pictures/medium/52245.jpg?v=1641872667)
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm.); teal green boards stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; 241pp.; Fine condition in a (price-clipped) jacket with light rubbing only, else Fine. Novel about a Korean War veteran released in the '60s from a Louisiana prison farm where..... More
![Item #21487] Punishment: A Play in Four Acts. Louise BURLEIGH, Edward Hale Bierstadt, intro...](/pictures/medium/21487.jpg?v=1641872139)
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. First Edition. 12mo (19.25cm.); original red gilt-lettered cloth; vii,[1],127,[7](ads)pp. Minor edge wear, textblock fore-edge a bit foxed, minor soil spots to a couple of early leaves, else a Very Good, attractive and bright copy. Bierstadt's first book, a play set in prison. More
![Item #26349] Prisoners of Apartheid. "BY A. SOUTH AFRICAN"](/pictures/medium/26349.jpg?v=1641872214)
[London: Christian Action Publications, n.d., 1965]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original black and white pictorial staplebound wrappers; 40pp. A Fine, partially unopened copy. "A Christian Action pamphlet" - upper wrapper. More
![Item #24196] It's Never Over. Morley CALLAGHAN](/pictures/medium/24196.jpg?v=1641872181)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial Art Deco dust jacket; [10],225pp. Jacket spine a bit toned, light shelf wear, slightly later ownership bookplate to front pastedown, else Very Good or better. The author's second novel, set on the day before the protagonist's..... More
![Item #24187] More Joy in Heaven. Morley CALLAGHAN](/pictures/medium/24187.jpg?v=1641872181)
New York: Random House, [1937]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by "Lieberman," grey topstain; 278pp. Light shelf wear, spine a bit toned, else Very Good to Near Fine. "The Story of a Reformed Bank Robber," who finds religion in the penitentiary. More
![Item #44369] Alcatraz: The Hard Years, 1934-1938. As Recalled by One of the Prison's First Guards...](/pictures/medium/44369.jpg?v=1641872442)
Orwigsburg, PA: Bacon and Freeman Publishers, 1989. "This is a book about Alcatraz before prisoners controlled their own cell lights - before they had radios and talked as they wished. We write here of the prison's first four years, 1934-1938, when the big names and the hard guys were in..... More
![Item #56255] Punishment by Death: its Authority and Expediency. George CHEEVER, arrell](/pictures/medium/56255.jpg?v=1641872919)
New York: John Wiley, 1849. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (20cm). Green cloth, blindstamped, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; [ii], [119]-332pp. A straight, tight copy, cloth rubbed and faded, water damage to lower corner of front board, browned with occasional heavy foxing: Good only. Sequel to his 1846..... More
![Item #22105] Trial by Ordeal. Caryl CHESSMAN](/pictures/medium/22105.jpg?v=1641872149)
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, [1955]. First Edition. Second of four memoirs by Chessman, a San Quentin inmate whose first book - Cell 2455 Death Row - is one of the classic Death Row narratives. After publishing three books and exhausting a number of appeals, Chessman was finally executed in 1960. SUVAK..... More
![Item #50887] Statistical Series no. 81: Statistics on Public Institutions for Delinquent...](/pictures/medium/50887.jpg?v=1641872618)
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Welfare Administration, Children's Bureau, 1965. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound wrappers (softcover); 39pp. Fine. Summary analysis of findings, followed by statistical tables on "...the 245 public institutions for delinquent children that reported for the fiscal year 1964." More
![Item #49419] Report of an Examination of Poor-Houses, Jails, &c. in the State of New York, and in...](/pictures/medium/49419.jpg?v=1641872568)
Albany: New York State Temperance Society, 1835. Third edition. Octavo (21cm). Sewn, printed self-wrappers; 96pp; untrimmed. External soil and scattered foxing to contents; old damp-stain in gutter throughout; complete and Good. AMER. IMPRINTS 30906. More
![Item #15951] Torn Out By The Roots: The Recollections of a Former Communist. COMMUNISM - GULAGS,...](/pictures/medium/15951.jpg?v=1641872076)
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 273pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed jacket; appears unread. More
![Item #46017] Observations in the North: Eight Months in Prison and on Parole [Joseph Harrison...](/pictures/medium/46017.jpg?v=1641872477)
Richmond: E.W. Ayres, 1865. The Confederate journalist's diary of his time in captivity following his capture while running a blockade aboard the steamer Grayhound. Pollard was first brought to New York and then up to Boston where he was confined at Fort Warren. Prior to being exchanged in January, 1865..... More
![Item #56844] The Dramatick Works...Printed Complete with Dr. Samuel Johnson's Preface and Notes,...](/pictures/medium/56844.jpg?v=1651101726)
Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1807-8. The Second Boston Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). The three volumes bound into later plain cloth-covered boards, with the original front and rear wrappers preserved. The volume bears a printed paper spine label, reading: "Shakespeare / Used by J.F.C. / at / Johnson's Island / 1863-'64." Wrappers..... More
![Item #41397] Set in Authority. Mrs. Everard COTES, a k. a. Sarah [sic] Jeannette Duncan](/pictures/medium/41397.jpg?v=1641872390)
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First American Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in blue and gilt, top edge gilt; [6],287pp. Light shelf wear, corners a bit bumped, else Very Good to Near Fine. Novel by the Canadian author, first serialized in the London Times, examining..... More
![Item #11366] First [through Fourth] Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison...](/pictures/medium/11366.jpg?v=1641872053)
Boston: Various Publishers, 1826-1829. Various Editions. Octavo (22cm.); cloth-backed boards with original paper spine label; 330pp (paginated continuously, but each report with a separate title page); six inserted leaves of woodcut plates. A solid, well-preserved copy with scattered foxing to text; Very Good. First four reports of Timothy Dwight's pioneering..... More
![Item #19739] Stealing Through Life. CRIME, THE UNDERWORLD](/pictures/medium/19739.jpg?v=1641872119)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Narrative account of Ernest Booth, an unreprentant career criminal who by his own admission was an accomplished burglar and forger. "Booth's career as a thief was punctuated by several brief stays in county jails and over half of a five-year sentence at..... More
![Item #28984] Over The Wall. CRIME, THE UNDERWORLD](/pictures/medium/28984.jpg?v=1641872253)
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1936. First Edition. Life story of a career criminal incarcerated in the Oregon State Prison after a career of check forging, hold-ups, safe-blowing, and theft. "Principal incidents are Duncan's escape and recapture; otherwise this is a diary of a criminal's routine prison life"..... More
![Item #15176] Warden Ragen of Joliet. CRIME, THE UNDERWORLD](/pictures/medium/15176.jpg?v=1641872069)
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1957. First Edition. Biography of Joseph E. Ragen, long-time warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Statesville-Joliet (home to Leopold & Loeb, Roger "The Terrible" Touhy, Basil "The Owl" Banghart and, fictionally, Jake & Elwood Blues). Includes an introduction by Ragen and a foreword by Harry..... More
![Item #19599] Life in Sing Sing State Prison, As Seen in a Twelve Years' Chaplaincy. CRIME, THE...](/pictures/medium/19599.jpg?v=1641872118)
New York: N. Tibbals & Co., 1860. First Edition. Scarce pre-Civil War account of American prison life, with descriptions of the prisoners' daily routines and sketches of various criminals' careers. The author was Chaplain of Sing Sing State Prison from 1843-1856, a period during which a number of novel reforms..... More
