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THE CELL.
Edition: First US printing.
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press. 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Experimental novel by this Polish writer, the story of a prisoner alone in his cell - Bienek was himself a political prisoner, sentenced to a Siberian labor camp. Introduction by Daniel Berrigan S. J. Translated from the German by Ursula Mahlendorf. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-771014031.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped).
Book ID: 65034More details Price: $16.50 -
YOU CAN'T WIN.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine (offsetting to the endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, corners somewhat bumped), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 81836More details Price: $800.00 -
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: Post Prison Writings and Speeches.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Random House, 1969. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Edited and with an introduction by Robert Scheer. Includes the Playboy Interview, an open letter to Ronald Reagan, a letter describing Cleaver's first encounter with the Black Panthers and more. Laid in is a newspaper clipping dated 12/7/75 by Kathryn Cleaver on "Why Eldridge Cleaver has come home." SIGNED on the title page by editor Robert Scheer. 211 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (toning to endpaper from clipping, price-clipped dj.)
Book ID: 14429More details Price: $35.00 -
WILL YOU DIE WITH ME? My Life and the Black Panther Party.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Atria Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - An inside account of the Black Panther party by one of the organization's central committee members, and a personal account of a young man, angered by the racism he saw everywhere in his native San Diego, who became a revolutionary and an activist. SIGNED on the title page by Elaine Brown, who wrote the foreword. Brown became Chairman of the Black Panthers in 1974. the first woman to hold such a position, and she remains an activist. Photographs. Chronology, index.xi, 302 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-82662.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 48896More details Price: $35.00 -
BLUES FROM CANNIBALS: The Notes from Underground.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: North Point Press / Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, (2002). First edition - A book which "continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid - to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might mean to come fully alive in a time of exalted consumption, global pillage, gated communities, and wholesale destruction of the environment." 293 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74928More details Price: $18.50 -
GHOSTS AND LEGENDS OF ALCATRAZ
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Charleston, SC: The History Press, (2019). SIGNED first edition - A title in the Haunted America series - stories of the infamous island prison of Alcatraz, in the San Francisco Bay."Rufus McCain, who died a brutal death at the hands of a fellow inmate, is said to roam the grounds, and the basement cells used for solitary confinement were rumored to be so frightening that inmates who endured one stint never wanted to go back. Multiple escape attempts were thwarted, including two attempts by Sam Shockley, who was later executed with fellow inmate Miran Thomson." SIGNED by both authors on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Foreword by Janice Oberding. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Bibliography. 144 pp. ISBN: 978-1467143875.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 78918More details Price: $28.50 -
HALF BROKE: A Memoir.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83760More details Price: $20.00 -
FLESH AND BLOOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, a story of boxing and sexual obsession. From the dust jacket: "They were mother and son. Kate and Bobby Fallon. He was to become the best white heavyweight of his generation, a rough, handsome contender from the streets and bars of Brooklyn." Basis for the 1979 television film of the same name. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-394494377.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (a bit of creasing and wear to the top edge of the dj, price-clipped).
Book ID: 84419More details Price: $16.50 -
THE YELLOW ANGELS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1940) dj. Hardcover first edition - The scarce first novel by this author and screenwriter, best known for "The Chair for Martin Rome," which was the basis for Robert Siodmak's 1948 film noir classic "Cry of the City" with Victor Mature and Richard Conte. This is set entirely within the walls of a prison. 216 pp.
Condition: From a lending library with discoloration from tape on the boards and the endpapers, one stamp, some pages carelessly opened but overall a good sturdy copy in a dust jacket with several chips and edgewear, but still rather striking.
Book ID: 65893More details Price: $150.00 -
THE GOD FILE: A Novel.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco & Denver: MacAdam/Cage Publishing, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual and very highly praised, tautly written, novel - notes from the file kept by a man, sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder he did not commit, but confessed to, who is searching for evidence of God in the most unlikely place..prison. Went quickly into later printings. 147 pp. ISBN: 1-931561044.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37941More details Price: $25.00 -
THE END OF ALICE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner's, 1996. dj. First edition - The author's controversial fourth book (third novel), the story of a pedophile in his 23rd year of imprisonment in a maximum security penitentiary - told from his point of view. 270 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with a wrap-around promotional band joined with a band-aid.
Book ID: 80600More details Price: $17.50 -
NO ORDINARY HEROES: 8 Doctors, 30 Nurses, 7,000 Prisoners and a Category 5 Hurricane.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 40294More details Price: $20.00 -
SOLEDAD BROTHER: The Prison Letters of George Jackson.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the most influential books in the Black Power movement, a book which is a condemnation of both the racism of white America and of the injustices of the prison system. Introduction by Jean Genet, translated by Richard Howard. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-224005383.
Condition: Very good in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dust jacket (some foxing to the edges of the textblock, and a bit of creasing and wear to the bottom edge of the front cover of the dj, but overall a tight and straight copy.)
Book ID: 80724More details Price: $225.00 -
SOLEDAD BROTHER: The Prison Letters of George Jackson.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the most influential books in the Black Power movement, a book which is a condemnation of both the racism of white America and of the injustices of the prison system. It remains to this day essential reading; the injustices continue. Introduction by Jean Genet, translated by Richard Howard. 320 pp. Photographic endpapers.
Condition: Very good in black cloth with silver lettering in a good dust jacket. Some edgewear to the dj, creasing to the bottom edge and at the top of the dj spine, but overall a clean, tight and sturdy copy, and a book which is becoming difficult to find in the first edition..
Book ID: 81467More details Price: $500.00 -
THE OFFICER'S DAUGHTER: A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 85806More details Price: $17.50 -
THE MARS ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 83613More details Price: $45.00 -
THE MARS ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86522More details Price: $60.00 -
MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER: A Young Black Man in America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a "shattering and unflinchingly honest autobiography" by this Washington Post reporter. McCall did not fit the stereotypes: he was a smart kid from a caring family in a suburban black working-class neighborhood, but still wound up involved with drugs and gangs, and eventually in prison for armed robbery. This is not just an account of his troubled youth and how he turned his life around, but a look at how young black men feel in a society that does not value them. 404 pp. ISBN: 0-679412689.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56220More details Price: $20.00 -
ISLAND OF THE PELICANS: A photographic essay of the Island of Alcatraz.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Sonoma: Creative Eye Press, (1976). First edition - Striking black and white photographs of the notorious former prison by John D. Mercer - including many focusing on details of the decay it had undergone. Introduction by Patricia Mercer. Square format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-916480011.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85249More details Price: $16.50 -
SCOTTSBORO BOY.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - Patterson, one of the nine Scottsboro Boys, told his story to Earl Conrad, scholar and journalist of black America, after his escape from prison and while he was still being hunted for a crime he did not commit. The book begins with the fight in the train and the trial, but focuses on PattersonÕs experience in numerous Alabama prisons. 309pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very good- dust jacket with several closed tears.
Book ID: 23837More details Price: $75.00 -
GRACE AFTER MIDNIGHT: A Memoir.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2007). First edition - Felicia Pearson, star of the acclaimed TV series The Wire, reveals her incredible life story, one that dramatically parallels her tv character -born a crack baby and raised in a foster home, she thrived as a baby gangsta until she wound in prison for killing a woman in self-defense, and decided to turn her life around when her mentor was murdered. 233 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 66277More details Price: $18.00 -
THE MAN WITH SEVEN NAMES.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - A later novel by this award-winning Portuguese writer. A Portuguese prisoner imprisoned in Occupied France for underground activity decides to tell the story of one of his fellow prisoners who had been convicted of a brutal murder. Translated from the Portuguese by Linton Lomas Barrett. 382 pp.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 83042More details Price: $21.50 -
FEAR NO EVIL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1988). In the mid-seventies, Sharansky became a spokesman for Moscow's dissidents - the Jews amd the human rights advocates. This begins with his arrest in 1977, tells of the 16 months of interrogation, and his conviction as "American Spy." He was threatened with execution, put in solitary, but this ends as he wins his freedom after nine years as a prisoner, and rejoins his wife, who worked tirelessly on his behalf, as they fly to Israel. Translated by Stefani Hoffman. Photographs, index. xxi, 437 pp. ISBN: 0-394558782.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86783More details Price: $20.00 -
EDGE CITY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a story of murder, passion and betrayal. "Reno is her name. Thieving is her game. Or at least it was." She's trying to go straight now. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-525-0953207.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58101More details Price: $18.00 -
WILLOW IN A STORM: A Memoir.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85656More details Price: $17.50 -
WEEP NO MORE MY BROTHER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Delta, (1989). The author's first novel, the story of a young man who waits for ten years to exact revenge on the man who killed his older brother. Nominated for the Rosenthal Award. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-440550254.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (toning to pages, but otherwise a tight and apparently unread copy).
Book ID: 83130More details Price: $12.50