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ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: Post Prison Writings and Speeches.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - 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, essays on Stokeley Carmichael, the death of Martin Luther King and more. 211 pp
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 26638More details Price: $15.00 -
PRISONER FOR POLYGAMY: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (some sunning to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 75897More details Price: $21.50 -
MIRACLE OF THE ROSE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - Genet's second novel, and like the first, written while he was in prison in 1943 and set in the state prison of Fontevrault during the height of the German occupation. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. 344 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some nicks to dj at the top of the spine)
Book ID: 62517More details Price: $21.50 -
LIFE SENTENCES: Rage and Survival Behind Bars.
Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Times Books, (1992). A graphic portrait of life inside one of America's largest prisons - the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, written by the prisoners themselves for The Angolite. the award winning prison magazine. In his NY Times Review, Russell Banks said that this should be ". . .required reading for all fifty United States governors and for all present and future Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates...the most convincing argument I have read against our nationwide desire to deal with lawbreakers by 'locking 'em up and throwing away the key'." Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-812920481.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 83866More details Price: $16.50 -
INSIDE TIME.
Edition: First printing.
London: Harrap, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A ground-breaking book about what life is really like behind bars. In 1985, the poet Ken Smith was invited to spend 2 years as Writer-in-Residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison. His brief was to encourage prisoners to express their condition and their feelings in words. Smith developed a close relationship with several of the prisoners, one of whom 'Dave Wait', emerged as a very talented writer. One section of the book - 'Living in My Head' - is by him. For the most part, the book describes, in a painfully honest and unsentimental way, the life of prisoners from those on remand to those serving life sentences." Glossary. 237 pp Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-245547207.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (bump to upper edge of front board, tear to dj at fold of front flap, otherwise a tight and straight copy).
Book ID: 65075More details Price: $16.50 -
DISGUISED AS A POEM: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - Tannenbaum spent four years teaching poetry to maximum security prison inmates at San Quentin, just north of San Francisco. In this book she details the challenges, rewards and paradoxes of this work - of first giving those who have been silenced the feeling that their voice is worth hearing. A very personal book - one in which she recounts what she has learned herself and about herself during those years - but also one in which the inmates emerge, not as beasts or heroes, but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts and feelings. Notes. 217 pp. Cover praise from Hettie Jones, Luis Rodriguez and others. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 1-55553-452x.
Condition: Fine (a new copy)
Book ID: 31007More details Price: $27.50 -
DISGUISED AS A POEM: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - Tannenbaum spent four years teaching poetry to maximum security prison inmates at San Quentin, just north of San Francisco. In this book she details the challenges, rewards and paradoxes of this work - of first giving those who have been silenced the feeling that their voice is worth hearing. A very personal book - one in which she recounts what she has learned herself and about herself during those years - but also one in which the inmates emerge, not as beasts or heroes, but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts and feelings. INSCRIBED on the title page. Notes. 217 pp.Cover praise from Hettie Jones, Luis Rodriguez and others. ISBN: 1-55553-452x.
Condition: Fine (a new copy)
Book ID: 61065More details Price: $24.50 -
FOR THE SAKE OF MY COUNTRY": The Diary of Col. W.W. Ward, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, Morgan's Brigade, C.S.A.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Laid in is a card with a two-page handwritten note from Gregory to Delbert Mann.
Book ID: 57976More details Price: $75.00 -
IRON HOUSE: Stories from the Yard.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Ft. Bragg, CA: QED Press, 1994. First edition - Winner of the 1994 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. "His manuscripts were destroyed, his typewriter seized, his life threatened, but Jerome Washington wouldn't stop writing." Vietnam veteran (a medic from 1960-62), anti-war activist and writer, Washington was imprisoned in Attica and Green Haven for over 16 years - from 1972 to 1989. 159 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed wrappers. Publisher's material laid in. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 41801More details Price: $25.00 -
IRON HOUSE: Stories from the Yard.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Vintage Books, (1995). SIGNED - Winner of the 1994 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. "His manuscripts were destroyed, his typewriter seized, his life threatened, but Jerome Washington wouldn't stop writing." Vietnam veteran (a medic from 1960-62), anti-war activist and writer, Washington was imprisoned in Attica and Green Haven for over 16 years - from 1972 to 1989. SIGNED on the first page. Index of named places. 166 pp. ISBN: 0-679-764054.
Condition: Fine in printed wrappers.
Book ID: 74900More details Price: $15.00