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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 -
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. 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. Foreword by Elaine Brown, who 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: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77185More details Price: $16.50 -
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 -
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. SIGNED hardcover 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 -
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 -
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 -
BLOOD IN THE FIELDS: Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 66931More details Price: $35.00 -
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 fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58101More details Price: $18.00