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Published by Strawberry-Hill Press, inc., 1933
Seller: Joes Books, Lombard, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. B/W Photography, Two Staples in the Spine, Rubbings to the cover edges and spine.
Published by Privately Printed, U.S.A., 1934
Seller: Joes Books, Lombard, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. B/W Photos with B/W Illustrations, 3 Page Introduction, 2 Staples in the Spine, Light Damp Staining to the Very Page Edges, No Soiling No Foxing No Smells, light shelf rubbings to the corner tips.
Published by Sing Sing, U.S.A., 1934
Seller: Joes Books, Lombard, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2 Staples in the Spine, B/W Illustrations & B/W Photography.
Published by Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, 1932
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 412 pages. Ex-university library book, stains and wear to the covers; taped spine. Broken and repaired hinges; the pages are yellowed, some tears; a reading copy only. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 207241.
Published by Dr. Earl S. Sloan, Inc., 1935
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good+. Staplebound pamphlet. Tanning, rubbing and edgewear. ; 27 pages.
Published by Self-Published By the Author, [Ossining], 1934
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is NOT the copy of the book depicted in the stock photo. First edition (no additional printings listed). Original covers (4 die cut prison bars) , 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, 35 pp, illustrated with black and white drawings and photographs. Softcover booklet, very good. Corners bumped, 2 of the bars broken (escape attempt? ) , otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. True crime; Sing Sing Prison; history (shelved in mystery section).
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NJ, 1928
Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Adolph Treidler, J. S. Woolf (illustrator). Slightly cocked, sound binding. Pages clean, slightly tanned. Wrappers have edge wear with overall shelf wear, some tattering at spine. Full-page color ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back of wrappers. ; Contents: Pringle, Barbecues in Politics. Wilkins, "No Foxes Seen" (log of Arctic flying adventures). Maitland, Knights of the Air. Crowther, Henry Ford Talks about Edsel (and Edsel talks about his father). Lawes, Who Is a Criminal - and Why? Beaverbrook, Political Battles of the World War. Wilhelm, Working with Hoover. MacAdam, Where White Men Travel Alone. Harris, New Styles in Lumberjacks. A British Aviator, With the British Air Patrol in Irak. Thoams, Raiders of the Deep. Reviews. Many black and white advertisements for railroad equipment, automobiles and other items. ; Cover art, frontispiece; 9.5" tall; 231 pages.
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1928
Seller: Cat's Cradle Books, Archdale, NC, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Wraps have general light wear, light overall soiling. ; Contents: Frontispiece, Henry L. Stimson. The March of Events. Kent, Maryland - A Perfect State? Thomas, Raiders of the Deep: The Beginning of the War on Allied Commerce. Sullivan, The Presidential Race. Lawes, Life and Death in Sing Sing. Fishbein, Alcohol in the Practice of Medicine. Simons, Christ in the Movies. Hall, New Styles in Paper Money. Tittle, A Champion of Evolution. Wiggam, Science Measures Morals. Taft, So This Is Justice: See What Newspapers and Juries Have Done to It! Graves, The Making of a Conqueror: Lawrence's Preparation for the Leadership of the Desert Hosts. The Workshop. Books. Lawrence Chamberlain, Diversification, the Alchemy of Investment. In addition to the 112 pages of text, there are many pages of advertisements, most in black and white but some in color. ; 10.25" tall; 112 pages.
Published by Strawberry Hill Press, 1933
Seller: Fred M. Wacholz, Elkhart, IN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good booklet, No D.J., Stiff paper cover, green, dark green title. # staple spine binding, no loose pages or previous owner's marks found. Test is clean and bright unmarked with B+W photos throughout 27 pages.
Reprint edition, as Star Books. The author was warden of the prison. Illustrated with photos. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (corners and spine tips bumped; faint stains rear-cover; no jacket).
Published by Self-published by the author, [Ossining], 1934
First Edition
Paperback. 35p., 4.5x6.5 inches, illustrated with drawings and b&w photos, front wrap stained else very good first edition in stapled wraps with die-cut design of prison bars. A collection of true stories from the infamous prison.
Skoglunds Bokförlag, Stockholm 1933. 304 sidor. Häftad. Gott skick.
Published by Lewis E. Lawer, 1934
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Wraps. Condition: very good. Stapled wrappers.16mo (6 1/2" x 4 1/2") 35pp. with drawings and photographs. Some chipping at bottom edges of front cover.
Published by Sun Dial Press, 1937
Seller: Spike706, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition! No dust jacket. Some read/shelf wear and aging.
Published by Sun Dial Press, 1937
Seller: Bank of Books, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. no dust jacket liquid stains on front of book Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!.
Published by Harper And Brothers, New York, 1938
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Single Issue In Original Wrappers. Light Wear, Bright, Foxing On Edges Of Page Block.
Published by Self-published, [Ossining, New York], 1934
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very good +. First Edition. 12mo, 31pp., illustrated. A very good or better copy in the original black wraps with cut-outs to imitate prison bars. Trivial creasing and one 1/4-inch closed tear to the middle of the front wrap, else a bright, clean copy.
Published by Self-published by the author, [Ossining], 1934
First Edition
Paperback. 35p., 4.5x6.5 inches, illustrated with drawings and b&w photos, staples rusted else very good first edition in stapled wraps with die-cut design of prison bars. A collection of true stories from the infamous prison.
Published by BLUE RIBBON BOOKS, N.Y., 1932
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SOLID & CLEAN, NO MARKINGS. THE TRUE INSIDE STORY. LOTS ON PUNISHMENT. SOME UNIQUE ILLUSTRATIONS. FRONT FREE ENDPAPER IS TORN AT TOP. FURTHER SCANS ON REQUEST, THANKS.
Published by Lewis E. Lawes, Ossining, NY, 1933
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Pamphlet. Condition: Good. [2], 27, [1] pages. Illustrations. Cover worn and soiled. Scarce. The author was the prison's warden. Lewis Edward Lawes (September 13, 1883 - April 23, 1947) was a prison warden and a proponent of prison reform. During his 21-year tenure at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, he supervised the executions of 303 prisoners. He worked at first Auburn Prison, then Elmira Reformatory. In March 1915 he was named Superintendent of the City Reformatory on Hart Island in New York City. Lawes became warden of the Massachusetts State Prison in 1918. New York Governor Al Smith asked him to take over as Warden of Sing Sing. Lawes took charge on January 1, 1920. He was featured on the cover and in an article of Time magazine issue of November 18, 1929. Lawes wrote several books. Several of his works were made into films. His most famous book, Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, was made into a 1932 movie under the same title, starring Spencer Tracy, and again in 1940 as Castle on the Hudson, featuring John Garfield. Invisible Stripes in 1939, with George Raft, was based on his novel of the same name, while Humphrey Bogart starred in You Can't Get Away with Murder in 1939, an adaptation of Chalked Out, a play Lawes co-wrote. His papers are archived in the Special Collections of the Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, in the U.S. state of New York. It is located about 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City on the east bank of the Hudson River. In 1970, the name of the facility was changed to "Ossining Correctional Facility" but, in 1985, it reverted to its original name. "Sing Sing" was derived from the name of a Native American Nation, "Sinck Sinck" (or "Sint Sinck"), from whom the land was purchased in 1685. Sing Sing prison confines about 1,700 prisoners. There are plans to convert the original 1825 cell block into a time specific museum. The prison property is bisected by the Metro-North Railroad's four-track Hudson Line. Sing Sing was the fifth prison built by New York State. In 1824, the New York Legislature gave Elam Lynds, warden of Auburn Prison and a former Army captain, the task of constructing a new prison. Lynds decided to build a prison on Mount Pleasant, near (and thus named after) a small village in Westchester County named Sing Sing, whose name came from the Native American words "Sinck Sinck" which translates to "stone upon stone".[9] The legislature appropriated $20,100 to purchase the 130-acre (0.53 km2) site, and the project received the official stamp of approval. Lynds hand-selected 100 inmates from the Auburn prison for transfer and had them transported by barge via the Erie Canal and down the Hudson River to freighters. When it was opened in 1826, Sing Sing was considered a model prison, because it turned a profit for the state, and by October 1828, was finally completed. A notable warden was Lewis Lawes. He was offered the position of warden in 1919, accepted in January 1920, and remained for 20 years as Sing Sing's warden. While warden, Lawes brought about reforms and turned what was described as an "old hellhole" into a modern prison with sports teams, educational programs, new methods of discipline and more. Several new buildings were also constructed during the years Lawes was warden. Lawes retired in 1941 after 21 years as warden and died six years later. The original 1825 cellblock is no longer used and in 2002 plans were announced to turn this into a museum. In total, 614 men and women-including four inmates under federal death sentences-were executed by electric chair in the death row house with "Old Sparky", at Sing Sing. High-profile executions include Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on June 19, 1953, for espionage for the Soviet Union on nuclear weapon research; and Gerhard A. Puff on August 12, 1954, for murder of an FB.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Fine in original wrappers. Front-page essay.
Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good copy in hardcover with good jacket. Shelf-wear and rubbing. Jacket has large chips missing from top edge and base of spine and fore-edge corner. 267pp 8vo.
Published by Strawberry-Hill Press, Inc., New York, 1933
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original publisher's light green paper wrappers with staple binding. 4 3/4" x 6 3/4." Twenty-seven pages, complete. A few black-and-white illustrations, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for the occasional small mark. Covers are clean and intact overall but have age toning along the edges, slight offsetting on back, a few minuscule foxing spots at top edge on front, and rust stains from the staples on the spine. A Very Good copy. A unique publication about life at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York by Lewis Edward Lawes (1883-1947), who worked at Sing Sing as a prison warden for twenty-one years. Lawes oversaw the executions of 303 prisoners but was also an advocate of prison reform. In this pamphlet, Lawes makes his case for the importance of prison reform and proceeds to summarize what life is like at Sing Sing.
Published by Garden City Publishing Company
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1.
Published by Garden City Publishing Company
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1.
Published by Ray Long & Richard Smiht Inc., New York, 1932
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Association Member: ILAB
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. none. x, 412p., top and bottom of spine fraying, corners bumped and fraying.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. the boards are edge worn and shelf rubbed. a bit marked. some tanning. previous owner's inscription. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.O.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by RAY LONG & RICHARD R. SMITH. NY 1932, 1932
Seller: Dean Family Enterprise, Hopkinsville, KY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Third Printing. Book is in acceptable condition with some edge wear, staining on the inside front and back covers and some minor yellowing of the pages. Please See Photographs; 3rd Printing - 1943; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 412 pages.
Published by John Long, United Kingdom, 1929
Seller: Carmarthenshire Rare Books, Carmarthen, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. original cloth hardcover, illustrated, 286 pages, pages edges browned, title page spotted, cloth a little marked otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf 275.
Published by The New Home Library, 1942
Seller: De Pee Books, Lindsay, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1942 reprint. Hardcover w/dust jacket. NF/VG. Book has only minor shelf rubbing and some age toning marks on endpapers. Jacket has edge rubbing wear, short tears, reverse side tape repairs on some parts of the edges, but is basically whole. 412 pages.