Lawes Lewis E (80 results)

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.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2 Staples in the Spine, B/W Illustrations & B/W Photography.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Staplebound pamphlet. Tanning, rubbing and edgewear. ; 27 pages.

Condition: New.

Softcover. 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. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.

Two pamphlets written and presumably self-published by the long-term warden of Sing Sing prison in New York. These followed Lawes' bestselling book Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, which was made into a 1932 movie. Sing Sing is a sketch of the history, personnel and prisoners and Strange Stories consists of anecdotes from the prison's history. Both in stapled wrappers, Strange Stories has a die-cut front wrapper; 27 pp.; 35 pp., both illustrated with illustrations or photographs. Sing Sing's stapled are oxidized and the text block is loose from the wrapper; rear wrapper with a very faint moisture spot along the bottom edge; Strange Stories is near fine.

Softcover. 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. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.

Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Stapled wraps, has bumps with creasing to the spine ends and corners, uneven toning with foxing to the covers, wear to the edges, cross creasing along the spine, foxing with smudging to the pages, a snag torn to the fore edge of p. 7-8, and rusting to the binding staples that affects the pages. Overall, this is a solid, Fair only copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Single Issue In Original Wrappers. Light Wear, Bright, Foxing On Edges Of Page Block.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. (true crime, criminal justice, prisons, new york, NY) A reading only copy. Boards/spine/hinges may be broken, detached, or missing. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes/highlighting, be heavily stained, or detached. May be missing non-text pages (e.g. end pages, half title, title, frontispiece.).

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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. pp: 412. Bound in pictorial dust jacket over red cloth boards trimmed in black, all in trimmed red. The book is noteworthy for a number of reasons. It was the basis of a movie by the same name starring Spencer Tracy and Bette Davis. It was the only film in which these two appeared together. The author was the warden of Sing Sing for more than twenty years. He began the book with a description of the operation of the electric chair. It was intended as an argument against capital punishment, not a common opinion at the time of publication, particularly in the United States. And, the author had some influence on the script, at least during the early days. The book is very good, or a bit better. The jacket is complete but has a number of chips and tears along the edges, and at the spine ends. Laid in is a newspaper clipping of the obituary of Lewis. This has left a light brownish stain on part of the title page. The jacket is now protected with a Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1932. 1st Edition. Very Good hardback book. No dust jacket. A square, tight and clean copy in original blue cloth covers. Spine ends just lightly bumped. 412pp. Sm 8vo. (E).

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.

Condition: New.

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.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First blank page removed. Has hinge crack. Acceptable Condition. Five star seller - Buy with confidence!

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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Assumed first edition. Ex-library with the usual markings. No jacket. Covers and spine are quite battered and worn. Some pages slightly wrinkled from moisture but all pages are in good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Good inn original wrappers. 267 + xxvi pages. Wrappers soiled, dampstain, some edgewear. Uncommon in any condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

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.

First Edition. Fine in original wrappers. Front-page essay.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing dust jacket, box, or discs. Damaged item.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12 mo. 17 by 11.5 cm. 31, [5] pp. Five pages of photo illustrations of prison. Pamphlet with stories of prison life. Wraps with rectangular die-cut cut-out windows simulating the appearance of prison bars. Only three institutional holdings listed on OCLC First Search. Light wear.